{"id":4692,"date":"2014-10-19T11:57:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T19:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/?p=4692"},"modified":"2015-06-17T10:05:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T18:05:09","slug":"butter-poached-lobster-with-leeks-pommes-maxim-and-a-beet-essence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/butter-poached-lobster-with-leeks-pommes-maxim-and-a-beet-essence\/","title":{"rendered":"Butter Poached Lobster with Leeks, Pommes Maxim, and a Beet Essence"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4693\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4693\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_2405.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_2405.jpg\" alt=\"Butter Poached Lobster with Leeks, Pommes Maxim, and a Beet Essence\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_2405.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_2405-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_2405-174x131.jpg 174w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_2405-70x53.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butter Poached Lobster with Leeks, Pommes Maxim, and a Beet Essence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thanksgiving Dinner 2014 Part 2<\/p>\n<p>Lobster for thanksgiving. Why not?<\/p>\n<p>I know it\u2019s important to adapt to the local culture as an immigrant. But for years I did not celebrate Thanksgiving or Christmas. Those are the holidays for family gathering, and in the past many years all my family and relatives  were across the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Last year I had Vietnamese hot pot with my friend Jenny, Justine, and Graham for thanksgiving and it was a lot of fun. We certainly don\u2019t have to cook a whole turkey to be thankful! And it was my mom\u2019s very first Canadian Thanksgiving, so I wanted to cook her something that\u2019s beautiful and more refined.<\/p>\n<p>When I picked this recipe out of the The French Laundry Cookbook, I thought it looked pretty simple. But boy was I wrong. It was easily the most elaborate dish I had ever cooked! And I wish I had a couple extra hours to prepare.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thefrenchlaundry.pickydiners.com\/butter-poached-lobster-pommes-maxim-and-a-beet-essence\/\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thefrenchlaundry.pickydiners.com\/butter-poached-lobster-pommes-maxim-and-a-beet-essence\/\" target=\"_blank\">Please visit the page on Cooking the French Laundry\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving Dinner 2014 Part 2 Lobster for thanksgiving. Why not? I know it\u2019s important to adapt to the local culture as an immigrant. But for years I did not celebrate Thanksgiving or Christmas. Those are the holidays for family gathering, and in the past many years all my family and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[7,218,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_2405.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4699,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692\/revisions\/4699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}