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Norm Matthews

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  1. Norm Matthews

    Dinner 2024

    Charlie asked me if we could have our annual corned beef brisket a day early or late this year because his car club is having its monthly meeting on Sunday. He tried to tell the president that finding a quiet corner for 15 guys in a bar on St. Patricks day was unlikely but they are going ahead with the plan. I decided this morning to make it today. Along with the corned beef, I made Irish soda scones because I have a rotten record of making Irish soda bread. Also roasted cabbage wedges which looked fine in the oven until I took them out and found they were burnt on the bottom. Everything else came out well. It was Irish roast potatoes,Parsnips, carrots and rutabaga cooked in the strained beef broth after it was cooked. It may seem strange that we had Scotch eggs too but the recipe came out of an Irish Bar Food cookbook and is the best one I have ever made.
  2. Norm Matthews

    Dinner 2024

    Hen House market sometimes has some steaks on sale and so far they have always been very good. I was going to grill these yesterday but it rained all day and today it was too cold so they got cooked inside today. We had Pioneer Woman stuffed baked potatoes, a cut way down version of Ollie Gates BBQ beans and Southern Style green beans
  3. Norm Matthews

    Dinner 2024

    These are the ingredients in the recipe I used. 2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon cornstarch, divided 1 1/2 tablespoons Shaoxing wine 1 1/2 tablespoons light soy sauce 1/4 teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil 1 large egg 3/4 cup vegetable oil, for frying 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour For the sauce 3 tablespoons ketchup 3 tablespoons hoisin sauce 3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce 3 tablespoons water 2 teaspoons Chinese five-spice powder 1 teaspoon granulated sugar 1/2 teaspoon chili oil 1/4 teaspoon fine salt Cooked white or brown rice, for serving (optional) Sliced scallions, for serving (optional)
  4. Norm Matthews

    Dinner 2024

    I didn't know there was a green borscht. I suppose it isn't made with beets.
  5. Norm Matthews

    Dinner 2024

    I found a couple of small pork chops in the refrigerator that I got a couple days ago and forgot about them, so when I saw them I knew I'd cook them now before I forgot they were there again. I used a recipe titled Peking Pork Chops. They were marinated then breaded in flour and corn starch ,fried and coated in a spicy sauce. We had it with rice.
  6. Norm Matthews

    Dinner 2024

    Charlie was making mac & cheese and garlic bread from the last of some French bread while I was taking a picture of the rest of the meal: steak and corn on the grill, BBQ beans, and store salad bar salad.
  7. Norm Matthews

    Dinner 2024

    It was so nice for the last two days that yesterday I got a slab of pork ribs to cook outside today. Right after I got them prepped and in the refrigerator last night, I stepped outside to get the smoker ready and it had turned quite cold and very windy. This morning it was colder and a light coat of snow on the car. Fortunately by noon, the snow was gone and it had warmed up to the high 30's. It helped greatly that I had the thermometer my son gave me for Christmas. It let me monitor the temp. in the smoker from my phone. I never would have got that thing on my own but I have been using it a lot now.
  8. For the past few years, whenever I cook a city ham I have used Smuckers apricon preserves mixed about four parts to one part Boar's Head Brown Sugar and Spice Ham Glaze.
  9. Norm Matthews

    Dinner 2024

    I made some milk bread starting late this morning. Somewhat later couple of teens-or they might be early 20's- that Charlie is friends with and is paying to do some yard work came over. Around 4:30, he came in the kitchen and wanted to order some food for them but then asked if I could make some chicken breasts, Martini style. I figured I could if he would watch the bread in the oven. I ran to the store, he got one loaf out of the oven while I was gone and the second one came out as I was walking into the kitchen. ( they had alarm probes in them). it was over an hour later when the chicken was done along with some pasta and jarred Alfredo sauce and a mixed vegetables from the freezer dept. at the store. Charlie cut up the bread and make garlic bread with the slices. We were done eating sometime after 6 PM but it didn't think to take pictures.
  10. Norm Matthews

    Dinner 2024

    Our dinner will be Banh Mi sandwiches.
  11. Norm Matthews

    Dinner 2024

    Since I am on a bread making jag, I thought I'd try some decorative scoring. I looked at examples on line. Some of them use dark bread and brushed a layer of white flour over the top for contrast. I didn't see any examples of what i did but it was worth a try. I used white flour for the bread and mixed a small amount of cocoa with white flour to dust over the top. I have read that they use cocoa in rye flour to make it dark so I hope it tastes OK. We will make sandwiches with it for supper. This was my third attempt. I have some ideas for way to improve my earlier failures.
  12. Norm Matthews

    Dinner 2024

    I have made bread three or four times so far this month and as a result am getting enough day old bread to start thinking about doing something with it...like croutons. So I made Ribollita with bread in the soup and as a topper with cheese sprinkles.
  13. Norm Matthews

    Dinner 2024

    I had not made any bread in a while so when I made some a few days ago, Charlie told me about the first day he came back from Seattle. I had made some game hens and bread, the air conditioner was on, and he had his room back. Apartments in Seattle don't generally have air condition. He remembered how good if felt to have all those things again. He asked me if I'd make Cornish hens and more fresh bread again and so today I did. We also had rice and kimchi.
  14. My mom had only one knife and one sharpening stone, actually half a stone. It was shaped like an elongated football but it was broken. When she sharpened with it, she ran the stone along the whole surface of the knife so it got thinner and thinner as time went along. By the time she had to stop using it, it was so thin that it was about as flexible as a piece of spring steel and it must have been two inches shorter.
  15. Norm Matthews

    Dinner 2024

    It was decent enough to cook outside and test a Christmas present from my son today. The gift was a thermometer that can monitor four things at once and send it all to my phone. I tested the ambient temperature of the front and back of the smoker interior. I usually cook ribs by time and appearance. Its hard to stick a probe in a slab of ribs. The sides were coleslaw, BBQ beans, green beans, Mexican street corn ( I wanted to do corn on the cob but all they had was packages of five) and store bought potato salad. I had company when I posted the recipes a little while ago.
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