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[Marie-Ora]

When it comes to mealtimes, I follow my great uncle Carmelo who was famous (at least in our family) for checking in with his stomach every day and asking it 'Stomach! What you wanna eat??'. (You have to read it with an Italian accent or it doesn't sound right).

"Stomaco! Cosa vuoi da mangiare?"

Hmm, i'm not getting it :)

No I think it's almost there, My Italian is not great. I'd add in 'che' - che cosa vuoi mangiare...with the right accent, 'Stomach' will understand you :)

[deensiebat]

Everything looks so good — that seafood! That soup!

I made a riff on an Ottolenghi recipe — salad with beets, rhubarb and blue cheese. Great combination. I was going to have it as a first course, but ended up pairing it with a crusty baguette and making it dinner.

[avaserfi]

avaserfi - great looking dish as always but I am curious about the plate you were using for the dish. Do you have a photo of the plate and where did you buy it ? It might look like one I am trying to find for some time

I picked up the dish at an Asian restaurant supply in San Francisco. I cant remember the name. When I have a little more time, ill try to look it up and find a better picture for you.

[dcarch]

C. sapidus – that’s the way I like my seared tuna steaks done. Beautiful!

rarerollingobject – We can’t get samphire here in NYC. I guess I will have to go to your house to try some. :-)

Kim – Very impressed by variety of dishes that you can come up with. Nice perffectly done prime rib.

Scottyboy – you have shown there is art in chicken soup making.

Avaserfi – Very elegant Geoduck risotto

FrogPrincesse – lovely roasted chicken.

deensiebat – I will have to try your salad with beets, rhubarb and blue cheese. Sounds like a nice recipe.

SobaAddict – You are a master in using nature’s greens.

Kayb – Very respectable sous vide ribs and chicken tenders.

EnriqueB – You got some fancy seafood dishes there.
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Nothing fancy; Come on, it’s only Mother’s Day. :-)

Puffed wild rice soup

Deep fried pork tenderloin with puffed wild rice

Gulf shrimps with ramps on black garlic risotto

dcarch

Edited by dcarch, 17 May 2012 - 09:12 PM.

[ScottyBoy]

Whoa black garlic risotto, cool!

[Kim Shook]

Scotty – gorgeous soup! My chicken noodle is delicious, but looks nowhere near that lovely. Yours is beautiful and delicious looking!

Elise – I printed out that chicken recipe as soon as I saw it on the blog. It looks fantastic and I can’t wait to try it.

dcarch – lovely meal! I love wild rice soup and I think it would be so great with the added texture of the puffed rice.

Mr. Kim wanted a big salad for dinner last night:


I had a ham and provolone sandwich on some really good raisin and walnut bread that we got with our CSA basket this week and fried potatoes:

[ScottyBoy]

Thanks, I've wanted to make a bit more refined chicken noodle for a while, sick roommate gives me an excuse.

[FrogPrincesse]

deensiebat - your salad looks incredible. Rhubarb, beets, and blue cheese, I would never have thought of that.
dcarch - beautiful as always.
Kim Shook - great looking sandwich - I cannot resist a good crusty baguette!

Last night's dinner was cooked on the grill. We had locally-caught black gill rockcod fillets with salsa di Giovanna (olive oil with garlic, mint, and marjoram - based on a recipe in Jamie Oliver's Jamie's Italy), and rainbow chard with home-cured tesa/pancetta.




Grilling the chard was nice (I had to blanch it first though), it gave it a nice smoky flavor. It was based on this recipe from Food and Wine, with some tweaks.

Edited by FrogPrincesse, 18 May 2012 - 10:38 AM.

[jmolinari]

Kim, wonderful meal. That cake looks so light..mouthwatering.

I made morcilla-stuffed squid with a spicy tomato and chilli sauce. No joke, people - this has to be one of the best things I've made in ages. I couldn't get over how delicious this was, though it helped that I started with VERY good morcilla.

And a simple green salad of mache.

This interests me muchly.... how did you get the morcilla cooked through before the squid turned to rubber?

[ScottyBoy]

Dcarch - Always such a unique style (in a beautiful way).

[Kim Shook]

Mr. Kim’s dinner:

Eggs on ham and yellow squash with red onions. I wasn’t hungry and ended up with frozen pizza at 11pm!

[ScottyBoy]

I wasn’t hungry and ended up with frozen pizza at 11pm!

Sounds like me but at 2am after work...

[dcarch]

<sub>Thanks FrogPrincesse. That home cured pancetta looks amazing.

Thanks Scottyboy. That makes me feel very good, coming from you, a true professional.

Kim, Thanks. Interesting, I never had frozen pizza. I alway re-heat them first.

dcarch</sub>

Edited by dcarch, 19 May 2012 - 10:29 AM.

[Kim Shook]

<sub>Kim, Thanks. Interesting, I never had frozen pizza. I alway re-heat them first.

dcarch</sub>

Actually, it wasn't far from frozen when I ate it again for breakfast this morning! It didn't even get a ride in the microwave - I ate a slice straight from the fridge!

[C. sapidus]

Heidi – Thank you, I hope your tuna turned out well.

dcarch – Thanks, and beautiful Mother’s Day meal.

Slipper burgers with onion, garlic, ginger, chiles, cilantro, coriander, cumin, black pepper, and cayenne, grilled over charcoal. Served with potato rolls and Sriracha mayo. Younger son made the unpictured salad.

[ChrisTaylor]

The 'seven vegetable soup' from A Girl and Her Pig. The seven vegetables (count them) are onions, fennel, potatoes, celeriac, carrots, Jerusalem artichokes and turnip. I guess maybe Bloomfield doesn't count onion as one of the holy septity. Maybe. But whatever: this soup, which is really just made from those vegetables plus chicken stock, a squeeze of lemon juice, a couple 'glugs' of olive oil and some ground up Pequin chillies is very good. Assaulting it with a stick blender wasn't something Bloomfield said I should do, but I felt it was a good idea. I left some bits and pieces whole, tho'.

The boneless lamb shoulder was seasoned then put in the smoker for a couple of hours. I then wrapped it in foil and moved it into a slow oven, where it stayed for the duration of the afternoon.

[ScottyBoy]

New one. Sous vide pork belly, fried skin, lentils, garden artichokes, pork and port sauce.

[Kim Shook]

Bruce – I’ve already got chicken thawed, but now I want burgers for dinner tonight. Those look really good.

Dinner last night was really just a snack:

Bleu cheese and honey on a crusty baguette with fruit. We went to a Lebanese food festival yesterday afternoon and stuffed ourselves, so this was all we wanted. Mr. Kim has the week off and we are painting our family room, so my cooking with be a bit sketchy, at best, this week.

[mm84321]

Bass dressed in green

[ScottyBoy]

Hope people aren't tired of seeing this salad but I've finalized it! Switched to a puree of celery root, parsnip, mushroom oil (from frying shrooms for soup) and champagne vinegar. A la Manresa and Noma I make the "soil". I've dumbed it down big time. Toast almond flour, cocoa powder, salt, sugar and brown butter into the food pro. "nutty, bitter, sweet, salty and rich from butter. People are big fans and all sous vide veggies from my garden.

[Marie-Ora]

@Kim - that blue cheese with honey and fruit - my kind of supper
@mm84231 that bass dressed in green is exquisite!!!
@ScottyBoy - I don't think anyone is tired of any of your photos, or dinners, or likely to be - ever - just spectacular!
@ everyone else - I'm humbled. There are some amazing food ideas and photos here. A real education.
My dinner last night was from a River Café cookbook I've had quite a while, and it's one I repeat often - pasta with a sauce of lemon juice, grated pamesan, and an award winning olive oil which I just bought, and wanted to get the full impact of. You can't really get it wrong with good ingredients

[Norm Matthews]

I am all set for outside cooking now. I just added a propane grill to the new smoker. I broke it in with a spatchcocked chicken with an adobo rub and a orange serrano glaze. It was served with a poblano lime aioli and grilled zucchini. It looked better on the table than it did in the picture.

[Tri2Cook]

T-Bones on the grill. Foil wrapper filled with sliced potatoes and onions with butter and smoked salt on the grill. Fresh fiddleheads boiled and tossed with salt, butter and a bit of lemon juice. Inspired by Kerry and Anna in the currently running blog, I made some scones but left out the dried fruit and worked in some crumbled blue cheese. Completed it all with a cooler of assorted beers. I won't try to pretend I plated it up pretty or anything, everybody just grabbed what they wanted and tore into it, so I didn't bother with pictures.

[avaserfi]

Mangalitsa collar steaks for dinner. It really doesn't get any better.

[ScottyBoy]

Awe damn! I need to get my hands on some Mangalitsa...

Edit: Side note you might like that I used the pork belly recipe from your site when a client requested pork. Have tried so many methods but you're is right on my friend.

Edited by ScottyBoy, 22 May 2012 - 09:07 AM.

[Mr Holloway]

Amazing meals and pics everyone

First long weekend to kick off the summer,
Beer and a pork shoulder


22 hours later


Worth the restless night


Shane

[Ashen]

@MrHolloway- Awesome looking bark on that Shane. .. I did Carolina style plulled pork . Just salt ,pepper on the pork and a thin north Carolina vinegar sauce. I planned to bring you in a sample but hopefully you aren't porked out. Do I sense a BBQ exchange at work tonight? lol

[Kim Shook]

mm- the contrast of the white fish and the green whatever it is!! Gorgeous!

Scotty – that may be one of the most stylish looking dishes you’ve ever shown here. Bravo!!! And, man, I’d love to taste that ‘soil’.

Marie-Ora – I’ll return the compliment and say that that pasta dish sounds like MY kind of supper. I also need to say that I could get LOST in your website ! As a word lover and Anglophile, I was in love in about 20 seconds. It’s already bookmarked. I loved that you had Cirencester, because we stayed near there last May and I researched before we went to make sure we were saying it right. Got hung up on Bibury and Avebury, though!

Tri2Cook – I’m trying out that same scone recipe soon, too! I like the idea of a savoury scone.

Norm – spatchcocked chicken always looks a little awkward. It’s the ‘knock-kneed’ stance, I think. But it is SO good. And yours looks delicious. I love the idea of a poblano-lime aioli. Poblanos are one of the few peppers I can tolerate.

I got a lot more done today than I thought I would. Mr. Kim has the week off and we are painting our family room. We got the second coat of paint on today (using one coat paint and primer paint – third and last coat tomorrow ) and I actually served dinner. I even made some muffins! We got zucchini in our CSA box last week and neither of us likes it very much, so I did muffins and Michael Ruhlman's ‘Ratio’ fritters.
Dinner:

Salad


Very boring looking and horribly named chicken dish – “Man-Pleasing Chicken” (ugh) that was amazingly good. Just chicken, Dijon mustard, maple syrup and rice wine vinegar. All tossed together and baked at 450 until done. It is much, much better than it should be with just those ingredients. You are supposed to add fresh chopped rosemary at the end, but mine had gone fuzzy, so we did without and it was still delicious. Chicken was served with Cheddar gougères, zucchini fritters and squash:

The fritter looks enormous, but it is just the perspective.

Dessert was a muffin:

[rod rock]

Heidi – Thank you, I hope your tuna turned out well.

dcarch – Thanks, and beautiful Mother’s Day meal.

Slipper burgers with onion, garlic, ginger, chiles, cilantro, coriander, cumin, black pepper, and cayenne, grilled over charcoal. Served with potato rolls and Sriracha mayo. Younger son made the unpictured salad.

This looks fantastic! How about some sauce in combination?

[Norm Matthews]

Grilled rib-eye steak with scratch made Adobo rub, potato, salad with dressing made with mango vinegar, honey, grainy Dijon and Spanish olive oil. A couple other dressings were on the table but no one wanted them.

Edited by Norm Matthews, 23 May 2012 - 09:05 PM.