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Thai Red Curry, jasmine rice...the flavours are soooo good:

Its that time of year, slow cooker! This morning I layered my pot with onions, carrots and parsnips. Laid a turkey thigh on top and liberally covered with spices. I find the slow cooker dulls the seasoning. Added chicken stock and bayleaves. Turned on low and slow for ten hours. Served with stuffing and the consomme was incredible thats for lunch tomorrow! PS Shelby I don't mind cleaning the Ronco at all...oh wait the Man does it

My BF is the Ronco King...we do a whole chicken once a week. Tonight I had him add Swiss Chalet Sauce mix as a dry rub....this could be Canadian? I made skinny, spicy oven fries and Swiss Chalet dipping sauce:

Sunday is prep day for the week of lunches. I made a chicken stock for a lentil, veggie soup. I am making a second stock to see how that goes (part two of the same carcass) Dinner was sous vide steak. The high light of this was the garlic we sous vide'd with the steak. Just an incredibly, delicious, intense garlic flavour. Smashed PEI potatoes. I was lacking a veggie....the soup will make up for it!

My BF makes incredible meat sauce. He shares with his co-workers, a few who happen to be Hunters! Tonites dinner is a barter: sauce for elk steak. We did them sous vide. They came out a little over done but its a very offal taste of liver. Could be the onions that were added with it. But it is just incredible tasting. I made spicy, very spicy, roasted potatoes with onions and spinach. I love this kind of cooking. Edited to add an f where needed.

Its a weeknight and I need to go to the gym...I made doctored up Paul Newman Spaghetti Sauce.....It actually was pretty OK + ...this is not my forte but it was good, flavorful, I added mushrooms halal ground beef and my spices:

OMG Norm...I have no words....*applaud*

I like to use my Ronco Rotissery (Garage Sale find!) at least once a week. Dinner tonight is roast chicken, smashed potatoes and gravy, greek salad. Mine is the leg and wing, BF's is the breast. The skin just comes out crispy and so good:

We normally don't eat steak two nights in a row but we are having a blast with the Anova! I made minted basmati rice with peas for the side: The meat flavour is so intense, the meat is incredible tender. We are having a blast with the Anova:

Snow started falling tonight in Calgary. I started stock before the snow hit but the timing is perfect. I like to keep veggie scraps in the freezer to add to my stock. This stock had a chicken carcass, dried okra that had been boiled in water,lemon and onion *all added to stock pot*, a whole lemon cut in half, I'm really digging lemon right now. Carrot and onion skins, black pepper corns, whole garlic bulb: Once the stock was done I used it for a Portuguese Sausage,Bean and Cabbage Soup, this will be lunches this week:

Scrambled eggs, elk sausage and oven 'fries':

Now I'm going to have to try one dried. I really liked them cooked with onion and lemon.

I'm not sure how to link to another thread c oliver, but I started one called 'Dried Okra' and took pictures. Its a bag of dried okra that are picked fresh no longer then a lady's pinky finger then threaded and dried. My BF found them interesting and they smell like tea, like really good tea. I could not find many recipes online for them but I did find one from a woman in Alaska so I prepped them as she did for a beef stew: add to water, chunks of onion, lemon juice and salt. I boiled for about 20 minutes until tender. They taste familiar like fiddleheads, slightly like asparagus but stronger flavour. Almost a cross between the two but distinct to itself. Edited to add: after I took a bite of another piece of okra they are also similar to an artichoke!

Experimental dinner tonight. I started a dried okra thread to get ideas. For my BF I got him the Anova sous vide. Tonight he made rib eyes. Holy they are incredible. I finished it with flake salt. I did a side of baked potatoes and just dried okra with onions, lemon and salt boiled. I was going to add more veggies but decided I just wanted the taste of the okra.Dinner for two with Dark Apothic Red wine: Resting:

I did a search on dried okra to find out what to do with it. I found nothing in Egullet. Maybe my searching skillz suck on here! Online I didn't find many either, tomorrow I'm going to try a lemony beef and dried okra stew. Tonight I'm boiling it with chunks of onion and lots of lemon and salt and plan to make a corn, okra, tomato side dish. This is the live action: If anyone has recipes or experience with this I'd love to know more. I was gifted mine from a neighbourhood store, my Halal butcher's shop. My BF thought it looked interesting.

Your dinner looks great Norm! I love to come here to get dinner ideas

A friend gifted us with Elk Sausage. I sauteed onions and picked up a loaf of focaccia from SAIT our Cooking School. The bread was bacon, cheese and onion went great on the sausage with French's Mustard:

I had one soft taco that I ate over the salad, then ate the salad. So the answer is both Chicken would be great.

Taco Night, I don't do this very often, but I should. Mixed up my own taco spice mix, extra spicy! I like mine over salad:

A few dinners from the last month: Spicy Sausage Minestrone Soup (cleaning out the fridge) Grilled Steak and Oven fries with SpicyAioli Ronco Rotissery Chicken , Salad with Strawberry vinegrette This could be added to Regrettable Foods or for Halloween dinner. But it was delish! Crispy Duck Breast with Cranberry sauce (blood spatter seems to be my speciality) and Scalloped potatoes

Lamb Shanks slow roasted until the meat was falling off the bone. Had my Butcher cut the shanks in half for easier access to the marrow.

I have a few more dinners sous vide steak , bone in. Done in a zip lock bag...I may be experiencing beginners luck but this steak was incredible! Last night I had a leg of lamb halal butchered ( I live in next to a road called International Avenue, I am in Heaven) I would have liked the lamb a bit more medium rare but my guests were very happy with it.

First dinner post. My Anova precision cooker arrived. We are having a blast playing with it! Yesterday we made sous vide steak, medium rare. Asparagus with butter and sous vide eggs to die for. Oven Roasted potatoes.

Alley Burger...incredible burgers and the fries cooked in duck fat.

Our first one is coming in August! Very excited!