Dinner! 2003

[FoodMan]

Shrimp risotto with peas, mint and basil

cheap chardonay

Bananas Foster

FM

[torakris]

Thursday night:

miso marinated lemon sole

hakusai (Chinese cabbage) and aburage (tofu pockets) simmered with lots of ginger in a soy-mirin-dashi broth

gobo (burdock root) and cucumber salad

satsumaimo (Japanese sweet potato) gohan (rice) with goma-shio (sesame and salt)

dessert:

Costco apple pie

[mags]

Damn, this thread always makes me feel like an utter slacker.

Tonight's dinner is kheema with spinach and tomatoes, and an eggplant-and-yogurt raita if I get ambitious.

[vengroff]

Homemade porcini ravioli.

Parmesan cream sauce.

Peas.

[dumpling]

Thursday

Black mushroom and chive bao

Cornish Game Hen brined then coated with JJ's Rub.

Leftover whipped sweet potatoes, and apple flavored long grain and wild rice.

Buttered corn

Ecce Panis Simple Foccacia(This company makes great bread!).

[SethG]

Am I the only one who's surprised that there's a Costco in Yokahama?

For Thursday night's dinner, I was craving Marcella Hazan's smothered onion sauce, so I made that, to go over spaghetti.

And I'm still working on my Thanksgiving menu, so I made ruthcooks' creamed spinach with bacon

and sauteed leeks with chestnuts from the November Food & Wine.

Very oniony meal. But what's wrong with that?

[Basilgirl]

Reuben quesadillas. I thought they were weird, but The Boyfriend gobbled them up.

I think he was very hungry.

[torakris]

Am I the only one who's surprised that there's a Costco in Yokahama?

Actually the address is Machida, Tokyo but is right on the border of Hachioji and Sagamihara about 30 minutes from my house in Yokohma, they are also in Chiba, Kobe and Fukuoka!

Last night

soft shell tacos

ground beef filling made per Cook's Illustrated recipe

tortillas

lettuce

avocado slices

pico de gallo

Dessert:

congo bars

[SethG]

Mom's visiting this weekend, and she likes her food rather bland.

So tonight (Friday) I broiled some salmon steaks, and made up a creamy, horseradishy sauce from some issue of Bon Appetit a ways back. Mom didn't have any of the sauce, but that's okay.

And I steamed broccoli

and made some wild rice.

Tomorrow the in-laws are coming for dinner too, and I was going to make racks of lamb from Paula Wolfort's article in the October Food & Wine, but mom told me tonight that she hates lamb. What's a boy to do? I'll come up with something else.

[dumpling]

Didn't cook for the family, so:

Frozen burger with American cheese, tomato on white bread.

[Jinmyo]

Frozen burger?

[dumpling]

Yeah, Topps Burgers, gnawed it right out of the box(See PMS, Cravings thread)....

Naah, I admit to actually cooking it a bit. Just meant not fresh ground meat.

[torakris]

Saturday,

spent over 6 hours cheering on Julia (age 5) and her classmates in their yearly undokai (sports day event) and had made a huge bento (boxed) lunch for the family to eat during the break in festivities, so I wasn't up for a big dinner:

leftover spinach fritatta (made too much to put in the bento)

risotto with red wine, cabbage, leftover sausages and kidney beans

[SethG]

Saturday dinner:

Fed my visiting mom and the in-laws. It went without incident.

We had a salad (romaine with walnuts, cabrales and vinagrette);

gamelli pasta with eggplant, tomatoes and mozzarella;

and chicken fricassee with rosemary, garlic and white wine.

[Dana]

Crostini with truffle butter

Fettucini Carbonara

Stuffed Tomatoes

Edited October 12, 2003 by Dana (log)

[Priscilla]

Last evening was Tri-Tip-Off 2003. Three tri-tips from three different sources, grilled over mesquite.

Tacos, is what we do with 'em, often.

Corn tortillas that were still warm in their package when purchased, heated and softened.

I made Victoria's salsa verde, and chunky tomato-jalapeno-white onion-cilantro salsa Mexicana, and guacamole, and refried pintos. A guest brought the smoky sort of regular salsa we all like at the local Mexican joint one canyon over.

Chips, also from the local Mexican joint, for the guacamole, which also was accompanied by very very good margaritas from the Consort's bottomless cocktail shaker -- shaken, with ice, is key, to me. Shaken and then poured over more ice in the glass, a glass which had spent time in the freezer before being dusted around the rim with a whisper of flaked sea salt. And not one of those cartoony glasses, neither, a nice dignified real-life glass with some self-respect. Overall just what one oughta get when one orders margarita-salt-rocks, but often does not.

Another guest made those flour tortilla wedges fried and topped with cinnamon-sugar, and a blackberry pie from blackberries hand-gathered on a recent Oregon trip.

[dumpling]

This being the Columbus Day weekend, it was the last opportunity for me to visit one of my favorite lobster places. So I did a quick drive around the corner (about two hours and 45 minutes to Noank, Connecticut, from Joisey), to bag a few lobsters. Abbott's is open from May to Columbus Day. It's a lobster joint with picnic tables on the water near Mystic. They have some other seafood, chowder, lobster rolls and things but the only thing I care for are the lobsters. These things are so incredibly sweet. In combination with some truly great drawn butter, they are an orgiastic delight. I was bringing some back to Jersey for dinner, so basically I ate really quickly, bought my other lobsters and steamers to take home and got back on the road for home.

I then brought them back to my friends' house for dinner where we steamed them up and served with corn and coleslaw. Lobster spray flying everywhere as we cracked our way through the feast. Josh was completely covered in lobster schmutz.

My friends then cooked up the shells for some stock(some of which I got to cart home).

This lobster,

[torakris]

Sunday night:

lamb and turnip curry

green beans with black mustard seeds, chilies and garlic

yogurt

lettuce and tomato salad

Japanese rice

Dessert:

pineapple upside down cake, not as good as it could have been because I under cooked it and messed up the sugar quantity in the caramel like topping (used only 1/4 instead or 3/4 -- I really need to get my eyes checked again! )

The first two recipes were from Madhur Jaffrey

[Malawry]

I just halfheartedly ate some corn flakes with skim milk. The house is empty of food and I'm not really that hungry after all the food this weekend.

[Suzanne F]

Mussels steamed in Paumanok Festival Chardonnay with shallot and minced celery; finished the broth with homemade garlic/herb/lemon butter

Baguette (sourdough?) from Tom Cat Bakery

Salad (but of course) of watercress, radicchio, Boston, and parsley, with creamy roasted garlic dressing

To drink: Paumanok Barrel Select Chardonnay (better than the Festival)

[Jason Perlow]

Sliced New York Strip Steak (Purchased from Stew Leonards) with Broccoli, Mashed Potatoes and sauteed Mushrooms (not shown)

[Rachel Perlow]

I'm getting much better at having the steak come out uniformly pink throughout.

[pho]

Hot damn that is some expertly cooked steak! Did it taste as great as it looks?

Could you give a quick overview of the method you used to cook it so perfectly, Rachel?

[SAute]

Here's what i cooked at work tonight. We had a sit-down for 28ppl. They got a little app, "Stuffed Bluecrab Ravoil w/ basil oil", and this pic is a "Filet's w/ mush/veal-demi Artheart Mashed and Baby-veg. Turned out kinda nice. And alittle MousseCake with Bal/reduction.

The only one picture i got is the Prime (used my sanyo8100), but i think chef's got them from the last time we served it. Anyhoot, :D

[Malawry]

Braised rice

Steamed broccoli

Pan-fried tofu cutlets with mustard sauce

A big salad.

Ahhh, comfort food.