We are starting our New Year on a spicy note, specifically with Chicken Curry with Sweet Potatoes that I made for dinner last night. We forget how tasty some of the recipes are on my blog and this one is a favorite. On New Year's Eve, we invited my friend to dinner who lives in the neighborhood and I made my Chinese Chicken Salad and Won Tons . Knowing my menu, she brought some Vegetable Egg Rolls with Peanut Sauce that was like a rolled up salad with the most delicious peanut sauce that was finger-licking good. I especially had fun using my new dinner plates on New Year's Eve that Lauren gave me for Christmas from my favorite Seattle shop called Watson Kennedy . These dinner plates are their beige cabbage plates and I love them. Setting the table brings such simple pleasure and joy when I get to use my new dinner plates. It was a lovely, quaint evening sitting by the fire talking and getting caught up, eating tasty food and wine and nibbli