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Kim Shook

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  1. Kim Shook

    Dinner! 2010

    dcarch - ok, now you're just messing with me ! For dinner tonight, I did an version of a chicken and ham cannelloni that I used to make years ago. I had kind of forgotten about it. It was a bit labor intensive – not a weeknight meal. This version was. I used egg roll wrappers and an simple filling of chicken (cooked last night while I was doing other stuff), deli ham, spinach, ricotta, garlic, Parmesan cheese and Italian seasoning: All rolled up: Instead of making my own sauce, I used Bertolli Alfredo sauce (that’s the real cheat here) and baked until bubbly: These were awfully good: Served with a salad which NO ONE needs to see another picture of .
  2. Genkinaonna – I love the sound of all of your cupcakes! I made an unusual cake for a coworker’s birthday today. It was called a “Golden Angel Food Cake” – a good way to use up eggs leftover from making regular angel food cake, I thought. Out of the oven: This baked up really pretty and was a lot lighter than I expected it to be. The recipe called for whole wheat flour and no flavoring other than some orange zest. I used regular flour, some Penzey’s dried orange peel and orange extract. I used the extract in the 7-Minute frosting, too: Slice: Nice, tight crumb. This was a good cake.
  3. Kim Shook

    Dinner! 2010

    dcarch – I am completely intrigued by the idea of your BLT! And that is some wild bacon! Was it flattened between sheet pans and baked? Found some green tomatoes at the farmstand yesterday, so I made some fried ones: Served as fried green tomato BLTs w/ fries: (w/ Benton’s bacon) And some ripe tomatoes from a coworker’s farm: Tomato night!
  4. Kim Shook

    Dinner! 2010

    That looks fantastic. I love grouper and hadn't even heard of it until my parents moved to Florida a few years ago and fell in love with it.
  5. Kim Shook

    Dinner! 2010

    Another simple dinner here tonight: Grilled marinated chicken breasts (I need to get Mr. Kim to work on his grill marks), garlic toast and fixed up canned baked beans. And, of course, more salad: And, NO, I don’t just post the same picture of salad every night . It’s just an easy, no-brainer of a side dish. We always have a drawer full of the makings and Mr. Kim would eat a salad with every meal. I confess I’m getting a little tired of them, though. I really need to put a little more effort and thought into my sides, especially since so much fresh stuff is available right now. But in order to take advantage of it, I’d have to actually have the time to go GET it !
  6. Thanks so much for the replies and the PMs that I've gotten! Cotswolds is for sure, so I'll need lots of info there.
  7. We are in the first stages of planning a trip to England for next May. At the end of that trip, we’ll be coming to Paris for a couple of nights. Food and sightseeing are, of course, top priorities for us. One of my resources will be Clotilde’s Edible Adventures in Paris. Once we have the dates and number of days nailed down, I’ll ask for and search for more specific recommendations. What I’d love to have right now is an email penpal to ask non-food related questions of. Logistics, planning, dressing, etc. type questions. If you’d be willing to do that, just PM me and then I won’t be straying off topic here at eG.
  8. We are in the first stages of planning a trip to England for next May. Nothing is written in stone yet, but we know that there will be a couple of days in London and then a road trip south and west with the POSSIBLES including: Oxford, Canterbury, Rye, Winchester, The New Forest, Bournemouth, Dorset (Chideock, Charmouth & Lyme Regis), Salisbury, Wells and definitely the Cotswolds. Once we get our itenirary more set, Ill be asking specific restaurant/food questions. But what Id LOVE right now is an email penpal or two. If you would be willing to answer non-food related questions and make suggestions please PM me and we can take the conversation off eGullet (so that we can stay on topic here). EDITED TO SAY: That would be May 2011!
  9. Kim Shook

    Dinner! 2010

    Blether – the watermelon curry was served hot. But I’m thinking that without the rice and cut up smaller (something I suggested anyway) it would make a great Indian spiced gazpacho-like soup. Soba – gorgeous roasted tomatoes. If I had a minute this summer, I’d roast a ton of them and can them for some lovely sauces all winter long. fairfranco – your duck dish looks wonderful. Prawn – the watermelon curry was from Saveur magazine. It says that the recipe is based on one that appears in 660 Curries by Raghavan Iyer. What a beautiful spread that you made for your friends. Lucky folks, indeed! I just had tonkasu at our favorite Japanese restaurant – it is one of my favorites and yours looks perfect. Not a lot of cooking done here lately. My mom had to have a femoral bypass this week, so we were in NC for that. I did do some cooking last weekend to take down to fill her freezer. Vegetable soup: This was kind of a ‘coals to Newcastle’ dish, as it’s Momma’s recipe, but I know that she likes it and it is something that freezes really well. I also did my grandmother’s beef stew: I love stew at this point – when it’s basically just beef and gravy – I could pile it on one of Marlene’s ethereal Yorkies and dig in! Finished: I did cook a super simple dinner last night: just top sirloin (a little tough, but very flavorful and cooked perfectly for me), creamed corn and garlic bread. And, of course, salad: Before anyone asks, I did NOT make the corn. Whenever we go to NC, I stop at the Piggly Wiggly and get this creamed corn. I can’t remember the brand (and don’t want to dig through the trash for it), but it comes in a tube like breakfast sausage and it is really delicious – nothing like the canned variety. I usually mix it with a bag of frozen kernels, but was too lazy last night to dig through the disaster area that is my freezer for a bag.
  10. Yes, this. My (extremely old and needs replacing) kitchen floor has a pattern on it that doesn't show dirt at all. Consequently, it is the last thing that gets cleaned. I joke (?) that I know it's time to clean the floor when the animals start sticking to it. I just saw an online article from House Beautiful about decorating small kitchens. One of their ideas was to remove the doors from all of the upper cabinets. All I could think of was how icky the contents would be from the airborne results of cooking. I guess that House Beautiful readers have kitchens to look at, not to cook in.
  11. Kim Shook

    Dinner! 2010

    I didn't cook this, Mr. Kim did: A watermelon curry - ingredients include both the rind and the fruit of the melon, ajwain, cumin seeds, nigella seeds, chiles de árbol, garlic, & tumeric. Served on basmati rice and topped with cilantro. To me, it was just ok - just not my kind of thing. But Mr. Kim and his sister loved it.
  12. Looked all through 1978 and no 'Go'! Hope someone else can find it for you, I know how that kind of thing can drive you crazy!
  13. Kim Shook

    Dinner! 2010

    Good looking dishes, EVERYONE!! Mr. Kim’s BD dinner last night(everything by request): salad with our favorite bottled dressing – it’s called ‘Garlic Expressions’ and it is really, really good. I use it for marinating chicken, too. oven roasted rib eyes, baked potatoes and butterbeans Mr. Kim and Jessica’s steaks had a mushroom sauce – crimini, shiitake and oyster mushrooms with shallots, garlic, thyme and Malbec
  14. So many beautiful desserts, so many talented eGulleteers! I am just in awe and want to taste EVERYTHING! In particular: Genkinaonna - your pink pearled cupcakes are adorable! Richard – loved your strawberry dessert – especially cute was the pink amoeba! Rick – loved the gooeyness of the cinnamon rolls! CanadianBakin’ – what a beautiful, beautiful cake! Lucky friend! Rwood – lovely!! I adore individual desserts. For Mr. Kim’s birthday celebration, he requested Key Lime Cheesecake: messy, but good This is served with a sauce of pureed strawberries, butter, 10X and lime zest. I forgot to take a picture of it, but it is nice with the key lime.
  15. Phaz – that looks and sounds fantastic percyn – that is a beautiful biscuit! Was it just a drop biscuit or was there something in it? kayb – yay on the homemade corned beef! Both of those omelets look wonderful – I especially like the idea of an unrolled one, since I am not to great at rolling! Mr. Kim’s birthday breakfast this morning: French toast, sage sausage and scrambled eggs w/ goat cheese and chives
  16. We saw this tonight in a local Indian-Pakastani market.
  17. We just went in the spring and had a fantastic trip. If you go here , you can read my food-centric report and then at the end is a link to the more general report on my blog. Have a wonderful trip - it sounds like you have some good plans.
  18. Potato chip and Duke mayo sandwiches on white bread is a Southern classic. Add a thick slice of fried bologna and I'm in heaven!
  19. Ditto on the plastic gloves and assorted sized dishers. I use dishers for all sorts of things - cookies, cupcakes, scooping soft cheese onto vegetables, etc., etc. Good knives, of course. NOT a matched set and not even a lot of them. Just 3 good knives. Oven safe saute pans. Until I got a couple, I had no idea how convenient they would be.
  20. Kim Shook

    Dinner! 2010

    Thank you, ma'am! I'll ask next time we get a shoulder!
  21. kayb – beautiful tortilla and quiche! And I’m going to be trying that broiled egg salad, too. What a great idea! I often eat a sliced hard boiled egg sandwich made with still hot eggs and cheese that gets squooshy from the hot eggs. Same principle, I guess. Breakfast yesterday morning: The French toast was made with the wonderful crusty loaf that we got in Friday’s CSA box. Perfect. Also Benton bacon and cantaloupe.
  22. Kim Shook

    Dinner! 2010

    robirdstx – You’re on. Where shall we meet for the exchange? And your pork steaks look fabulous. I wish we could find those here – we used to get them all the time in Indiana. Dinner last night: Mr. Kim made a big salad with some of our CSA bounty Scrambled eggs w/ chives and cheese and garlic toast with some fabulous bread from our CSA box.
  23. Kim Shook

    Dinner! 2010

    keri - If you'd like to try the tomatoes, the recipe is here at my recipe site. robirdstx - Great, now I have bun envy !
  24. Deliciously Lekker – beautiful cheesecake! You’ve seen almost this exact same cake before: It was chocolate with 7 Minute frosting and Ho Ho’s. Special request for a work birthday.
  25. Kim Shook

    Dinner! 2010

    Soba – your gnocchi is lovely! keri – that cauliflower sounds great! Welcome to the dinner thread. It’s an inspiring place! Your pad thai looks wonderful. I also have issues with cooking the rice noodles – let us know how you progress on them. djyee – I am SO making those noodles!!! Wow. Am I the only one who can’t see dcarch’s pictures? All I see is a little square from photobucket that says “Bandwidth exceeded”. Dinner the last couple of nights: Tuna macaroni salad (thanks for the inspiration, Suzi!), fresh butterbeans, fried green tomatoes, amazing corn on the cob and onion rolls – we picked up the corn, butterbeans and tomatoes at a farm stand on the way back from NC Sunday. The corn was truly wonderful. It reminded me of the corn we used to get at stands when I was a kid. Tonight we started with the cucumbers and some ripe tomatoes from the same stand: We also had grilled chicken, butterbeans, corn and fried green tomatoes. The chicken was marinated with Wildtree Asian ginger plum dressing. Wildtree is a direct sales company (like Avon) that sells food items – ingredients, spices, sauces, mixes, etc. Someone at work sells it and this stuff is NOT cheap! I think the 12 oz. bottle (which I used almost all of) was $10 !!! It tasted really good, but I think that I can find something similar for a LOT less:
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