Dinner! 2004

[Jinmyo]

Miso shiru with spinach.

Mesclun salad with bits from roast pork loins with a glaze made from my tonkatsu sauce, tomato, and lime.

Packages of sauteed wild mushrooms wrapped in blanched Napa cabbage, tied with a scallion.

A slice of roast pork like this but then sliced into pieces you can pick up with hashi, tonkatsu/tomato/lime dipping sauce.

Gohan (Japanese rice) flavoured with pork juices.

[Jake]

It looks fabulous, Jinmyo. Your pictures always make me hungry!

[Jinmyo]

Thank you, Jake. The photos are getting better but still take me a long time to take, upload, re-size etc. I took ten pictures of that slice of pork and wound up with two I could use.

[paul o' vendange]

(Minor Sunday celebration - goodbye, Chicago)

Gravlax with Red Onion Confiture, Buckwheat Blinis and Creme Fraiche

Veuve Cliquot Vintage Reserve 1993

Braised "Poulet a l'Estragon" and some Chimay Grand Reserve

Chilled orange mousse with a chocolate-espresso tuile

Paul

[redfox]

Nothing but a gigantic steamed artichoke apiece, with garlic mayonnaise. And damn good, too!

[Ling]

Yesterday:

-country fried steak with oven-roasted potato wedges

-sticky toffee pudding

Today:

-spaghetti and meatballs and lots of mushroms

-crackers and fruit

-coffee cake

[Dana]

Spicy boiled crawfish with corn on the cob, new potatoes and link 'party time' sausages.

Coronas with limes

Banana pudding for dessert.

We are stuffed. What a great evening.

[devlin]

Pizza -- the Italian, near paper-thin cracker bubbly crust sort. Three of them, two with bressaola, olive oil and arugula (mozzarella and olives added to my husband's), and one with thinly sliced apples covered with melted gorgonzola dulce. My favorites. We ate them standing up in the kitchen dropping bits of cracked pizza crust for the dogs to snatch.

[curlywurlyfi]

- delicious porky pork chop from Doves Butchers on the Northcote Road, seared then roasted plain for 15 minutes in a hot oven

- small cubes of apple, fennel and onion fried in butter with a few fennel seeds

- butternut squash roasted with olive oil + red chilli flakes

- steamed green beans tossed with olive oil, parsley + garlic

celebrating having the oven back!

[bleudauvergne]

A chorus line of spatchcocked quail - served with sauteed fresh champignons de Paris and country bread, followed by salad and cheese.

Edited to say that I was so ready to get these birds to the table as they came out from under the broiler that I did not think of taking a photo of the finished product, which was really very beautiful indeed.

Edited April 5, 2004 by bleudauvergne (log)

[Jake]

Saturday

Cucumber slices topped with wasabi creme fraiche, shrimp and caviar

Proscuitto & melon

Foie gras pate

seared black sesame crusted tuna over greens, mango salsa & sticky rice

Dark chocolate & orange mousse cake

Assorted cheeses

Sunday

Spicy dry-rub ribs

Grilled corn with chipotle butter

Cole slaw

Fresh fruit

[eunny jang]

Soprano's Sunday night. For two:

Garlic bread, made by me. Salad of watercress tossed in a delicious Caeser-ish dressing of lemon, olive oil, anchovy paste, and lots and lots of grated Parmigiano. Pureed some garlic with salt and pepper for last minute tossing, cutting board in my lap and mincing away, wholly absorbed in the show. Surprised that I managed to keep all my digits.

stouffer's lasagna

[Susan in FL]

Lots of great looking and sounding food was consumed this weekend!

Jake, both of those menus sounded especially good. Bleudauvergne, I know the feeling of forgetting to photo because of being so eager to serve something. I'm sure the quail were delicious, and beautiful as well.

Nothing but a gigantic steamed artichoke apiece, with garlic mayonnaise. And damn good, too!

Beautiful! And steaming them "upside down"... I'm not sure it makes a great deal of difference, but we do ours tops up, or if the stems were too beautiful to cut off, on their sides. We'll try placing them that way next time we do it. Who knows, maybe tonight?! Do you use a splash of vinegar or wine or anything?

Friday night we were out, happy hour eating. Saturday we grilled beef tenderloin steaks and baby vegetables, and by request of my son, "mom's potato salad." He flew from Pensacola to Daytona with some other Navy Flight Officers this weekend for my birthday, and brought them to dinner. Last night we realized that we had never grilled hamburgers and hot dogs on the new grill, and did that. Zinfandels both nights.

[Jinmyo]

As was requested, here is a shot of the old Garland:

The other shots are all during prep:

Seaweed (wakame and kombu strips) soup with soba.

Sautéed huagu and cremini mushrooms in chile and sesame sauce.

Three kinds of tofu roasted with leeks in awabi sauce.

Snow peas with lemon.

Quick green daikon tsukemono.

Edited April 6, 2004 by Jinmyo (log)

[thursdaynext]

Saturday night we went out to dinner- rack of lamb with a heavenly red wine reduction sauce- buttery garlic pottatoes and spring asparagus.

Last night we ate in... shrimp creole over rice. Lovely big, fat gulf shrimp from the fishmongers! Served with an Australian Shiraz.

[Basilgirl]

Friday night: Brats & kraut cooked Thursday night in the slow cooker. BAD, BAD IDEA. The brats were mushy & and the expensive German kraut with white wine was all but obliterated. Yuck.

Saturday night: To make up for Friday: Mom's Sicilian Meat Roll, veal/beef/pork, mixed with garlic, tomato juice, egg, breadcrumbs, oregano, parmesan, S&P, laid out flat & layered with ham and provolone, rolled up and baked. Yum. Olive oil mashed potatoes and Lidia's green beans in chunky tomato sauce.

Last night: Lidia's Chicken Valdostana on her Spaghetti Aglio-Olio. Used Barilla's linguine rigate. ROASTED CAULIFLOWER sprinkled with red wine vinegar.

Tonight: Biba Caggiano's white bean soup, made yesterday, with lots of ham added. Asiago bread, bruschetta style. Some cheese. Leftover ROASTED CAULIFLOWER.

I do not have one bit of Italian in my blood.

[NeroW]

Saturday:

Bone-in leg of lamb, seared in bacon fat , then covered in compound butter (fennel seed and some other things I forget) and roasted, served with a red wine reduction that had some of the compound butter mounted in at the end--this is my new favorite way to prepare a leg of lamb

Gratineed potatoes

Julienned fennel bulb cooked "hobo style " (probably known as en papillote on these boards ) with more bacon fat, lardons, lemon zest, fennel seed, and juniper berries

Baguette

And steamed asparagus, for my cousins, who looked at the fennel bulbs and screamed "eeeew! That looks like dinosaur food!"

For 12

EDIT: also, I forgot, the lemon curd and marscapone cake from the front of Bon Appetit. Was a nice, lemony cake. Will keep handy.

Edited April 5, 2004 by NeroW (log)

[Jinmyo]

And steamed asparagus, for my cousins, who looked at the fennel bulbs and screamed "eeeew! That looks like dinosaur food!"

Huh?

[NeroW]

And steamed asparagus, for my cousins, who looked at the fennel bulbs and screamed "eeeew!  That looks like dinosaur food!"

Huh?

I suppose they thought it looked like something dinosaurs might eat. My aunt said they feel the same about artichokes.

[Jinmyo]

Artichokes I can understand a bit more because of the "scales".

I'll have to remember that when I pull the fennel out tomorrow and give them a good look.

[FoodMan]

Last night I made steak sandwiches using thin sliced beef marinated in EVOO, Rosemary, little lemon juice and pepper. The bread was my own (or I should say Jack Lang’s) wonderful sourdough, baked a couple of hours earlier. To go with it I made garlic aioli that was slathered on the warm bread before the pan grilled steak and lettuce were added .

The sandwich was served with French fries (double fried) and extra aioli on the side.

I am having leftovers for lunch.

Elie

[Susan in FL]

Last night I made steak sandwiches using thin sliced beef marinated in EVOO, Rosemary, little lemon juice and pepper. The bread was my own (or I should say Jack Lang’s) wonderful sourdough, baked a couple of hours earlier. To go with it I made garlic aioli that was slathered on the warm bread before the pan grilled steak and lettuce were added .

The sandwich was served with French fries (double fried) and extra aioli on the side.

I am having leftovers for lunch.

Elie

That's my kind of steak sandwich!

P.S. Belated Happy Birthday

[FoodMan]

Thanks Susan..we are palnning on celebrating my birthday this coming weekend by going out for a nice dinner since the babysitter (aka mother in law) was busy this past Friday. So, it is not that belated

Elie

[redfox]

Do you use a splash of vinegar or wine or anything?

Oh yeah, half a lemon rubbed and squeezed over each one. (Sounds dirty!)

[Susan in FL]

We're between courses. Redfox, thanks for the artichoke idea. It's been a while since we've had that, and as soon as I saw your photos, I knew I wanted some tonight. I love this place!! We decided to use the side burner of our new grill which is a deep fryer OR steamer OR warmer, instead of stove top, so there wasn't room to place them upside down. We'll do that next time.

Here's a "before" photo of them,

And here's an "after" photo of them.

The pork is cooking on the grill's rotisserie even as we speak.