Kim Shook

For dinner last night, I unearthed some steak and cheese sauce from the freezer to top some baked potatoes. Also salad with MF dressing: The “steak” in the cheese sauce is chuck-eye. It is amazing how tender that cut stays.

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We get the petite all the time and I've never found it to be excessively salty. I don't rinse or soak or anything. We just use it as is. I can't imagine that it would be a problem for you.

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After church on Sunday was stopped in the middle of errands to have lunch at an old favorite, Mary Angela's. Just a classic, old-style pizza and subs joint. Good salads and decent pasta, but we usually go when we want pizza. Steak and cheese sub and a slice to share:

Dinner out the other night at Heritage in Richmond. We've been a few times and we like it a lot. The menu suits our taste. We started with smoked fish dip with house pickles and malt vinegar pita chips: I had the roasted half chicken with greens, Edward’s country ham, shallot, and Byrd Mill Cheddar grits: So good – the chicken was perfectly cooked and that sauce around the grits was fabulous. Mr. Kim had the pappardelle with Bolognese: Good meaty, creamy sauce.

I really think it's the pickled onions. They are intensely acidic.

Does the MF Ranch dressing give anyone else indigestion? I love the stuff, but within a few minutes of eating it, I feel like I'm having a heart attack!

You mean these?

Navy bean and kielbasa soup for dinner tonight: It was fantastic and just about an hour and a half from saute to dishing up. Even Jessica liked it (not normally a fan of beany soups).

Made those silly pretzel pecan turtle things that everyone just inhales: Also made some cookies that were recommended by @jedovaty awhile back - Salted Butter and Chocolate Chunk Shortbread - before baking: The dough is made into rolls and allowed to firm up in the fridge (I let it hang out for 3 days). It is then brushed with an egg wash and rolled in demerara sugar, sliced, and finally sprinkled with sea salt. Baked: These were wonderful. Very buttery and chunks are always superior to chips. Now I need Mr. Kim to decide if I should make another batch of these or a couple of batches of the Jacques Torres ones. Thank you so much for bringing these to my attention, @jedovaty!

My daughter was sitting across the room when I was looking at your cake, @shain and said, "You're going to make that, right?". 😁 Thanks for posting the recipe!

Welcome! Your photography is wonderful! I'm looking forward to your contributions here! And I love seeing folks from my favorite place I've ever been (England) here at eG!

That was fascinating! Thank you for posting it!

Goodness! It looks almost like a Dutch baby. Would you share the recipe?

I'm thinking that this thread is going to close to comments soon. You should probably move this question/topic over to the regular boards.

Yep! This is exactly what @JohnT calls for in his recipe. Three slices of bread to one pound of sausage.

Welcome, @Seva! I'm with @kayb - really eager to see some Russian home cooking! I'm very much looking forward to your posts!

I realized that in describing the weirdness that was our experience at my MIL's Thanksgiving, I neglected to say how nice my Thanksgiving lunch with my mom was. I ended up ordering a meal from a place we go to a lot. They specialize in Greek/Italian and the Thanksgiving meal was just ok, but my mom loved it and appreciated every bite. I lied through my teeth and told her I cooked it (I somehow knew that would be important to her). We shared turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, green beans, dressing, cranberry sauce, gravy, and fabulous yeast rolls. She was calm and stable and happy and it was a lovely time for us to have together. So it was the perfect Kim family day - a lunch time convoluted and confused conversation with my mother with dementia, a weird and uncomfortable time with my MIL and hilarious shenanigans with the whackaloon I married and the one I gave birth to. 😁❤️😄

I honestly don't remember whether this was a problem with mine last year. @Shelby makes them a lot more often, so maybe she has an answer. But I'm thinking that something along the lines of brushing a little egg wash, like you would do with a pie shell or maybe a sprinkling of Parm or Romano?

Bought some new (to me) English muffins at Wegman’s. They are nice and tall – almost 2 inches thick: They were certainly craggy – I had great hopes that they would take the place of the Wolfermans that I used to be able to get at our now defunct local grocery store, Ukrops: But they didn’t taste very interesting – just kind of stodgy and bready. Guess I’ll leave the Wolferman’s gift card on my wishlist. The above popped up when I went to post today's breakfast, so I'm guessing I never posted it anywhere. I can't find that I did. Sigh. Today was more toasted stuff with stuff: Strawberry jam on wheat and butter on sourdough.

Here's my version of his recipe.

@kayb - I think Chex mix is such a great thing to make. Everyone loves it, but no one ever makes it anymore. Kind of like Rice Krispy treats - the store bought just isn't as good. I am so freaking late doing everything this year. I seriously don't know if it is going to get done. My #1 priority is getting gifts and cards in the mail before it is too late. Then food. Sigh. Some things I'm doing while I deal with wrapping and addressing. @JohnT's sausage rolls (ready for the freezer) and baby quiche for Christmas breakfast: They are a little pale because I bake them just short of done since I bake them to get them hot when they are served. Lemon chess tarts:

Today - tuna salad and egg salad on toasted naan:

@shain – I’ve never had sunchokes and that gratin looks so good. How would you describe the flavor? @Anna N and @liuzhou – I am quite sure that this anglophile would quite like stovies. @JoNorvelleWalker – no canned tuna shaming from me. Mr. Kim was mooning over some tuna in the fish case at the store Saturday. I opined that my favorite tuna was the round kind😄. And I’ll top you – I like plain old Starkist chunk light packed in water. (I actually like it packed in oil, but Mr. Kim and Costco insist on water). @gfweb – jumping on the bandwagon to say how much I love your house. I’d love to see more of it. There is nothing I like better than a stone house. Our very first owned home was an almost 100 year old stone farmhouse. Very casual and country, but I loved the history. @chromedome – I believe I will have to try that duck recipe. I am one of those folks who detests poultry cooked any lower than medium well. I just can’t make myself swallow it. I’m not cooking much lately, but we did have a lovely dinner with some dear friends who came back to town for a visit. We all love Greek, so we met at one of our old favorites, Demi's. Started with flamed saganaki: Maybe my favorite food in the entire world. Also, spanakopita: Some of the best I ever remember eating. We ordered something interesting sounding: Dried apricots stuffed with ricotta cheese, Spanish almonds, and a drizzle of balsamic reduction. All five of us agreed that these were very good, but a little bland. We thought that substituting goat cheese for the ricotta would be good. I’m going to give it a try with goat cheese, marcona almonds, and saba. Our entrees - sundried tomato, capers, and artichoke hearts on linguini: Paella – Spanish chorizo, mussels, shrimp, cod and calamari and topped with fried oysters: Spanish chorizo and ham soup with white beans, tomato, onions, garlic, and peppers and the spinach, kale, & arugula salad with apricots, red onion, cucumbers, tomatoes, and walnuts in a creamy feta dressing: Chicken souvlaki: One of the specials – monkfish with crabmeat and shrimp: Desserts were baklava: Sweet cheese empanada with vanilla ice cream: And egg nog crème brulee: Everything was absolutely delicious – better than any other time we’ve been. I was especially impressed with the paella. So many places where you can go wrong and each element was cooked so well.