Dinner! 2012

[mm84321]

Corn soup chilled with lobster

Turbot with zucchini and saffron

[chefmd]

Was zucchini raw when applied to fish? Did you steam turbot?

Everything you post looks like art and insanely delicious to boot. I am jealous of whoever gets to taste your creations. Do you cook like this at home?

[mm84321]

The zucchini is blanched for maybe 15-20 seconds, refreshed, then applied to the fish. The turbot was vacuum sealed and cooked sous vide.

Thank you for the kind words. I do cook like this at home. Home is where I do all of my cooking.

[patrickamory]

David Tanis's recipe for a quasi-Provençal potato salad with green beans, anchovies and eggs, from this week's Times.

[FrogPrincesse]

Celebratory mood this weekend so we grilled a couple of lobsters.

The female had the most beautiful light pink flesh. I was tempted to eat it raw.

Here there are before and after the grill. A little bit of butter and a squeeze of lemon, very simple.

We grilled a couple of zucchini with Za'atar as an accompaniment.

[SobaAddict70]

Indian takeout from Chennai over the weekend. I ordered rogan josh and they gave me lamb biryani instead.

Was too tired to complain but it'll be a while before I order from there again.

Meanwhile:

"Beets and ramps"

This is a very simple salad that consists of roasted golden beets, chopped scallions, sliced ramp bulbs, mint, parsley, lemon juice, extra-virgin olive oil, sea salt, black pepper.

Ramps won't be available until next year (their season is from mid/late March to mid/late May). You can occasionally find the bulbs at farmer's markets as late as the first or second week of June however. The bulbs are extraordinarily pungent ... somewhere between double to triple the strength of a miniature onion.

Zucchini "pasta", with heirloom tomato confit and golden beets

This has three components: the zucchini "pasta", the heirloom tomato confit and the beets.

The "pasta" consists of nothing more than shaved zucchini that was given a quick sauté in olive oil. The heirloom tomato confit is sliced heirloom tomatoes, olive oil, sea salt, black pepper and a very tiny bit of sugar; this was then roasted at 350 F for one hour. The beets were sautéed in olive oil, with shallots, sea salt and black pepper. Oregano and parsley to finish.

Edited July 2, 2012 by SobaAddict70 (log)

[SobaAddict70]

Just saw your comment, Kim. No, I wish bottarga had that quality as it would make things so much easier. There's a thread on it somewhere in the Cooking forum. Most folks shave it, but I prefer to add it to garlic-infused oil. You have to be quick though, if you do it this way, since it will burn if you wait too long before proceeding with your recipe.

[Justin Uy]

I'm calling this one "force in balance"

Protein is a piece of beef short rib meat taken from 3 short ribs that was stacked and bound with transglutaminase, sous vide for 72 hours at 57C, seared, and sliced into a cube with 3 sides seared dark and 3 sides freshly sliced and light.

It's sitting on top of a pillar of wilted and roughly chopped spinach.

The design on the plate is one half of homemade pesto, and one half homemade steak sauce.

Edited July 2, 2012 by Justin Uy (log)

[MikeHartnett]

David Tanis's recipe for a quasi-Provençal potato salad with green beans, anchovies and eggs, from this week's Times.

Mmm. That looks fantastic. That one'll have to go in my to do list.

[mm84321]

Turnips with lemon and black pepper

[Tri2Cook]

Not the entire dinner but dinner will include this 20 lb meat coma inducing boneless rib roast that was seared on the grill, rubbed down with a mixture of roasted garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper and low-and-slowed in the oven all day. Just for reference, that's an 18"x12" pan it's sitting on. I'm going to be hurting later...

[ScottyBoy]

The block of delicious short rib has the power to control spinach tornados!

[robirdstx]

Portobello 'Pizza' - toppings included pork sausage, pepperoni, onion and black olives

Edited July 3, 2012 by robirdstx (log)

[SobaAddict70]

Leftovers, but this was tonight's appetizer:

Fava bean and heirloom tomato ragoût

[rotuts]

Tri2: I sure hope we get a few snaps of that 'Hunk' sliced up!

[Douglas]

The ginger-salt roasted beets with some greens from my apartment "garden" and SV radishes.

Edited July 3, 2012 by Douglas (log)

[heidih]

The ginger-salt roasted beets with some greens from my apartment "garden" and SV radishes.

Lovely composition and appealing to a beet lover like me. Can you elaborate on "ginger salt"? You must live in a cooler climate than I do as my nasturtiums are all done; their green seed pods already pickled.

[Douglas]

The ginger-salt roasted beets with some greens from my apartment "garden" and SV radishes.

Lovely composition and appealing to a beet lover like me. Can you elaborate on "ginger salt"? You must live in a cooler climate than I do as my nasturtiums are all done; their green seed pods already pickled.

You make a paste out of ginger and combine it with some egg white and salt, to cover the beets and roast them in the oven. PM me for the details if you want, I always feel a bit icky posting recipes out of books on the internet.

The climate here allows for nasturtium all year round I think! What do you mean by pickling the green seed pods by the way?

[Tri2Cook]

Tri2: I sure hope we get a few snaps of that 'Hunk' sliced up!

Sorry, didn't grab any other pics. I served it with the usual suspects: garlic mashed, peas from the garden, a nice jus and yorkies. I cooked it at 170 f (as low as my home overn goes) and went to 125 f with it, it was cooked pretty evenly throughout. The very ends went to 130 f in the oven but nothing went over that. I'm going to cut the nice, rare center section into some thick steaks to flash on the grill tonight and then try to get creative with the rest of the leftover meat for the next few days.

[rotuts]

just as well no pics. Might have died looking at them.

[Mr Holloway]

Tri2Cook-that is a great looking chunk o cow.

In the same province.Will drive ,to help get rid of leftovers, if needed

Dinner was ,chicken rubbed with Cluck and Squeal All Purpose(amazing stuff), and finished with Sweet Baby Ray's

Imported corn is surprisingly good right now.

Shane

[Norm Matthews]

It was too hot to cook today. I grilled a couple of chicken breasts outside and nuked some bacon in the microwave and made a Cobb Salad. Cassie made some garlic bread. We had our first tomatoes from the garden today too.

Edited July 3, 2012 by Norm Matthews (log)

[Ashen]

3 min pizza on a cast iron comal under a broiler grill. very thin crust

pepperoni and tomato with a mix of parm,asiago, mozz . sauce was a smear of triple concentrate tom paste.

dry cure veneto salami , tomato, parm,asiago,mozz mix. sauce was chilli garlic sauce

on the comal

crust

edgeshot

Edited July 4, 2012 by Ashen (log)

[SobaAddict70]

Douglas -- I'm a little bit envious that you have nasturtium flowers available.

Last night:

Spaghetti con granchio e pomodoro (spaghetti with crab and tomato)

Adapted from Chef Michael White, currently of Nicoletta (New York), Ai Fiori (New York) and Al Molo (Hong Kong), amongst others.

[Douglas]

Douglas -- I'm a little bit envious that you have nasturtium flowers available.

Last night:

Spaghetti con granchio e pomodoro (spaghetti with crab and tomato)

Adapted from Chef Michael White, currently of Nicoletta (New York), Ai Fiori (New York) and Al Molo (Hong Kong), amongst others.

Oh my, that sounds way too good not to try. Where did you find that recipe?