{"id":2998,"date":"2014-01-01T12:10:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T20:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2014-01-01T14:22:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:22:03","slug":"nye-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/archives\/2998","title":{"rendered":"NYE Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">First, our <a title=\"Amuse-bouche\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amuse-bouche\" target=\"_blank\">bouches were amused<\/a> by bleu cheese stuffed, deep-fried olives&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/blog\/images\/2014\/January\/amuseBouche.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"578\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230; then, for the appetizer, I enjoyed lamb &#8216;n rice filled tomato (toh-mah-toh?) in basil cream sauce&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/blog\/images\/2014\/January\/hisApp.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"578\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230; while she (Happy Wife) savored the shrimp keftedes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/blog\/images\/2014\/January\/herApp.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"578\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230; followed by a playful &#8220;CaBeetse&#8221; salad &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/blog\/images\/2014\/January\/salad.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"578\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230; each course thoroughly rinsed by silky tannins (first decanted) &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/blog\/images\/2014\/January\/vino.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"578\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230; and the eventual entree course, New york strip steaks with compound butter, potato (poh-tah-toh?) and asparagus&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/blog\/images\/2014\/January\/entree.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"578\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230; finished with a festive choco- dessert for him &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/blog\/images\/2014\/January\/hisDessert.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"578\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230; and an elegant Tiramisu for her&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/blog\/images\/2014\/January\/herDessert.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"578\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stopped at a local watering hole on the way home to show off my arm candy, but also to wish a familiar face or two a happy new year. However, evidently because we were too early (~10 pm) we were disappointed to find a mostly empty bar and a live act on stage whose guitar and voice together was about as ear-pleasing as a (broken) Dremel tool on aluminum sheeting. Finally, came home to two dogs in full panic mode because the city of Anchorage strictly forbids private fireworks of any kind on New Year&#8217;s Eve!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, our bouches were amused by bleu cheese stuffed, deep-fried olives&#8230; &#8230; then, for the appetizer, I enjoyed lamb &#8216;n rice filled tomato (toh-mah-toh?) in basil cream sauce&#8230; &#8230; while she (Happy Wife) savored the shrimp keftedes&#8230; &#8230; followed by a playful &#8220;CaBeetse&#8221; salad &#8230; &#8230; each course thoroughly rinsed by silky tannins (first decanted) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3012,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}