Instead of a romantic dinner for 2, we had a family dinner – another couple, old friends, also empty nesters with grown children, and our Japanese exchange student. We ate Costco salmon with the maple syrup, soy sauce, and butter glaze that I first made by scrounging through the cabinets at our airbnb lodgings for TIFF, and leftover hoppin’ John and greens gratin from New Year’s Day.
For dessert I made pomegranate juice gels, cut into hearts, and chocolate pie. Heike said the best thing about the pie was that it’s the type of pie that you can get in a completely ersatz version – cool whip and instant chocolate pudding – or much more homemade, like this one.
