Tonight I cooked an asian stirfry...lots of veg and rice noodles, with (seperately) a small amount of sliced chicken breast, breaded with panko and fried in rapeseed oil. Tomorrow we're going to a Brazilian churrascaria for lunch and then leftovers and 4 year old sparkling mead champagne to ring in the new year, and NY Day I'll make some sort of schnitzel, maybe with a jaegerschnitzel sauce and french fries, with a glass or two of slivovitz. Now that is a well kept secret of the Balkans...it has everything I like in a good eaux de vie (like poires williams or kirschwasser, etc), even though it has a reputation as a harsh east european firewater. Great stuff! I got the widely available Maraska brand. I meant to save it for an outdoor cook of gulyas but right now the firepit is under a foot or so of well packed snow (as is most of the prospective kindling in my yard), so maybe come spring...