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  1. I went in a different direction from corned beef for St. Patrick's Day since I don't eat red meat.  At my husband's request, I made a full Irish breakfast.  My Mom heard about my plans and baked a loaf of soda bread and dropped it off in our kitchen while we were at work

     

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    And here is the breakfast.  I did make the traditional beans also but forgot to put them on the plate until after I took the picture and I did not want to take the time to do another photo.

     

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  2. On March 9, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Ann_T said:

    Liamsaunt, would you please consider sharing your recipe for the sausage?

     

     

    Sorry, I just saw this now.  The recipe is not my own.  It is Andrea Nguyen's garlicky silky sausage from the Banh Mi Handbook.  The recipe is available on google books.  I can't link it here for some reason.  The only change I made is that I could not find the tapioca starch called for, so I had to use the cornstarch she recommends as a substitute.

     

     

  3.  A couple of recent meals. A salad with grilled steak and haloumi, creamy cucumber dill dressing and some grilled pita bread.  I grilled some chicken too since I dislike red meat but I guess I did not get a picture.

     

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    And my fish share started up again yesterday, so last night we had monkfish roasted with mushrooms on mashed potatoes with spinach

     

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  4. Egg sandwich with homemade garlic-black pepper chicken sausage.  I actually made the sausage yesterday for banh mis that I am making for dinner tonight, but wanted to give it a test drive.  Very good.  In fact, I think I will make my own chicken sausage from now on instead of buying it.

     

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  5.  I did a soup bar for family dinner last night.  Three kinds of soup.  Corn and cheddar cheese chowder

     

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    Black bean soup

     

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    Vegetable tortellini soup

     

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    Cornbread

     

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    and soft pretzel sticks for dipping

     

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    My favorite is the corn chowder, but the vegetable tortellini ended up being the most requested.  

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  6. 14 hours ago, ElsieD said:

    Tonight I made a recipe that I got from the NY Times Called "Mario Batali's Spicy Shrimp Sauté".   I made one change to the recipe in that I decreased the fish sauce by half.  It was very good.  

     

    I have been meaning to try that recipe.  I have it save in my NYTimes Cooking app.  Glad to hear it was tasty. Maybe this week...

     

    Thursday I made pasta primavera, subbing in half zoodles for some of the pasta.  Other veggies were broccoli and mushrooms.   I should have added carrots too.

     

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  7. Still on vacation and have mostly been eating out but here is one dinner I made at the rental villa the other night.  Grilled Caribbean lobster tail and mahi mahi with a mango salsa and some local salad greens. 

     

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  8. My meals have been extremely disrupted this week thanks to commuter train problems.  Tuesday our train stalled for over an hour.  A mixed veggie stir fry became only bok choy with shrimp because I was so hungry when I got home.  Brother in law started the rice cooker for me or we would not have had rice!

     

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    Tonight was terrible.  Could not even fit into the station.  I ended up walking to my husband's office and we took a taxi home.  One hour and 15 minutes later thanks to gridlock, and many dollars poorer, we were home.  I live 12 miles from the city.  Mass transit is so annoying when it goes wrong.  I was mad.  I made bucatini puttanesca with extra garlic and anchovies to reflect my mood

     

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    On vacation as of tomorrow so my mind is already in a better place :-)

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  9. Had family over for dinner last night.  I roasted three chickens.  Here is one
     

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    I did not have time to get photos of the rest of the meal, but there were potatoes mousseline, roasted carrots, green beans with almonds, and herbed gravy.  I made stock from the carcasses, and the leftover chicken and gravy will be made into a soup for lunches this week.

     

    I did get a photo of dessert, blueberry pie a la mode:

     

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  10. Pizza and movie night.  Alas, my name was not drawn from the jar, so I had to sit through another Batman movie.  Revenge will be mine eventually.  It's just a matter of which Merchant and Ivory film to choose...  

     

    Pizzas were the usual flavors.  Carbonara

     

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    White clam

     

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    Pepperoni

     

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    vegetable

     

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  11. 16 hours ago, Anna N said:

     

     

    Marvelous. Thank you. That seems like an awful lot of salt for 31/2 cups of flour even if it is kosher salt!   Could it perhaps be 2 teaspoons? 

     

    I double checked the recipe and it did call for 2 tbsp.  But then I looked in my other Batali cookbooks and found two other versions, one with 1 tbsp. sugar and 1 tbsp. salt, and the other only called for one tsp. salt!  The bread was not overly salty, but it is possible I used less salt too.  2 tbsp. does seem like a lot.

  12. 8 minutes ago, Anna N said:

    @liamsaunt

     

    Your flatbread looks delicious so I'm just wondering if you made it yourself and if so would you share the recipe?

     

    Yes, I did make it.  It's actually a Mario Batali recipe for pizza dough.  He suggests that you cook the doughs on a cast iron griddle on both sides and then put on the toppings and run the pizza under the broiler to finish.  This was a leftover precooked dough from the last time I made pizza.  He says you can precook them and freeze, which is what I did with the one.  His dough recipe is:

     

    1 1/4 c. warm water

    2 tsp. yeast

    1.5 tsp sugar

    3.5 c. flour

    2 tbsp. kosher salt

    1/4 cup olive oil

     

    combine water, sugar and yeast and let stand until foamy.  Combine flour and salt in a stand mixer and add the liquid and the oil, and mix until smooth and elastic.  Let rise until doubled in size and then punch it down and divide into eight pieces.  Stretch out and cook both sides on a very hot cast iron griddle until dry and browned in spots, about 4 minutes total per dough.

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  13. here are the wings I made for the game.  I added some Archie Moore's buffalo sauce to the glaze because that was my husband's favorite restaurant when he was in school.

     

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    I don't eat wings and also jettisoned all other snacks due to the fact that my cold/whatever it is has completely robbed me of a sense of smell. I actually burned part of dinner this afternoon because I had something under the broiler and did not smell when it was ready! 

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  14. We were supposed to have fondue Friday night but I have a bad cold and did not think that dipping into a communal pot was a good idea, so I turned all of the ingredients into a soup instead.  Onions, garlic, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, and celery cooked in chicken stock and white wine, blitzed with a stick blender and then cheddar and cream stirred in, topped with bacon and hot sauce.

     

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