Dinner! 2005

[Susan in FL]

Y'all made me hungry for a whole fish! Last night we were out to dinner and on the menu was a "flash fried" (deep-fried) whole red snapper with a hoisin glaze, so I ordered that. It was very good, and got us thinking we'll try deep frying a whole fish. Our biggest deep-fryer is on the side of our grill... wonderful for keeping the greasy mess in the great outdoors!

[suzilightning]

friday was vegetarian night at 31 croft so participated in the pad thai cook off by making padd thai bann gog from Cracking the Coconut by Su-Mei Yu. noodles, garrlic, fried tofu, salt-packed capers, bean sprouts and dry-roasted nuts(accidently grabbed the mixed nuts instead of peanuts). john inhaled it!!!!!

last night was chicken with 40 cloves of garlic(ok - chicken breasts with 27 cloves), noodles and haricot verts. the leftovers will be turned into a soup once the stock thaws.

today we are cleaning up from the rain yesterday that sent tons of gravel and silt down our street and into our driveway and back yard. macaroni and cheese from the newest saveur magazine and a salad. i can just pop the casserole in the oven and go out to shovel some more

[sashavan]

Last night marked a long overdue return to the kitchen. It's been takeout takeout takeout around here for too long.

Pan Seared Duck with Sour Cherry Port Sauce.

[legourmet]

For today's lunch we had stuffed rabbit with spaetzle on a rabbit stock reduction. The deboned rabbit was filled with minced meat from the legs, the sauted liver and the kidneys.

The desert was the leftover dessert of the easter lunch. A chocolate egg shell filled with white chokolate mousse and a mango sauce in the middle representing the eggyolk

[Susan in FL]

Nice looking food, everyone!

We are cooking for at least three for a while! One of our boys is here now, and another and his girlfriend are coming later this week.

...A bit of a different way to picture dinner tonight. We rotisserie-grilled a roast of beef; oven-roasted potatoes with rosemary, garlic, S&P, olive oil, and duck fat; cooked peas and corn on the stove top; and put together a bowl of salad using some of the little yellow tomatoes from our garden (and yeah those edible flowers that just don't go away). And for the final photo they actually gave me their permissions to post their pictures.

[mizducky]

Pad thai!

[Behemoth]

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Too cool. Like an edible version of a cadbury egg.

Our dinner was basic stuff. Good salami, bruscetta, and eggplant parmigiana. Not the most photogenic of foods, but what it lacks in looks it makes up for in charm. Espresso & starbucks ice cream for dessert.

I will eat something green tomorrow, I think.

[silentryan]

My first contribution:

This was my Peruvian dinner from last Tuesday.

First course was a simple mushroom ceviche:

Next course was a spicy cod soup:

Last course was a yellow seafood ceviche:

[Jake]

Dinner tonight was at the SO's request as it was cold and rainy all day. Green salad and freshly made pain de campagne followed by lasagna (trad. meat sauce, fresh ricotta, mozz.). Dessert was Lemon Meringue Pie made from my mom's own recipe -- too bad I'm too far away to get lemons from her tree.

[percyn]

Saturday - Pan Seared Scallops and Scallop Cake with Saffron Risotto

The sauce was made with Aioli, egg, lemon juice and parsley.

Sunday - Sweetbreads with mushroom. Tandoori chicken w/naan

Was grocery shopping this afternoon and came across some veal sweetbreads, so I immediately knew what I was going to have for dinner . The sweetbread was made with Mitake, Crimini and Shitake mushrooms with some left over short ribs, demi glace, marrow bones and duck fat.

I had bought this chicken and naan a few days ago and had to finish it too.

[little ms foodie]

This week we are cooking out of the Feb issue of Food&Wine- the Spanish issue.

salad of white beans and chorizo with olives

saucy clams and shrimp

chicken and vegtable croquettes

all served with Txacolli (sp?) a basque white wine which is slightly effervescent

dessert thanks to Ferain Adria- bittersweet chocolat on toasts with EVOO and sea salt

Edited April 4, 2005 by little ms foodie (log)

[SuzySushi]

Last night -- no pix as dinner was delicious but turned out to be non-photogenic:

Deep-fried whole tilapia

Grilled portobello mushrooms brushed with chimichurri sauce

French baguettes with more chimichurri sauce

The pan I used was too small for the tilapia, so when I turned it, the skin stuck to the bottom of the pan instead of going with the fish, and then the tail fell off. Now if I'd been a TV chef, I'd have another tilapia in reserve....

Tonight, we had oysters rockefeller (store-bought) and spaghetti puttanesca, followed by a "cheese course" of Old Amsterdam aged Gouda and matzoh! I'd been planning to serve a salad, but the oysters were so drenched in spinach that I think we'll skip the greens tonight.

(edited for spelling)

Edited April 4, 2005 by SuzySushi (log)

[petite tête de chou]

Grilling in April...first time posting an image, please bear with me.

Shrimp, asparagus, bread, red onion etc.

Edited April 4, 2005 by petite tête de chou (log)

[BonfireCuisine]

Dinner with the wife:

We start out with a nice bottle of 2001 Nederburg Pinotage – a very nice wine from South Africa, slight cherry smell (not sure about raspberry as the label says) but smell cherry. The taste is old cherry, like the old vines but hey I like wine. Very smooth that only improves as the bottle is open. Not bad for a $18 bottle of wine ($30 in a bistro).

The meal is just one, a Roast Rack of lamb cooked with a Kalamata olive marinade topped with a Merlot wine reduction served with Shitake Mushroom Risotto and Roasted Asparagus.

Jason

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Edited April 4, 2005 by BonfireCuisine (log)

[Chufi]

Susan, what a lovely colorful meal.

Wendy, I want those vegetable croquettes for lunch! Now!

petite tete de chou, your grilled dinner looks so inviting, it speaks of summer!

our dinner yesterday: stamppot raapstelen with lemon-parsley veal scaloppini.

Stamppot is a classic dutch dish of potatoes mashed together with another vegetable. Winter favorites are choucroute and kale, this is a summer version with turnip tops, mustard and ham:

[Chufi]

Dinner tonight: chicken scorzonera mushroom pie. It looked very pretty when it came out of the oven and out of the springform tin. And then it totally collapsed when I cut into it and was one big pastry-scorzonera-chicken-mushroom mess.

So, no pic!

But it was the first time I cooked scorzonera and I loved it.

[M. Lucia]

Moroccan night.

Cucumber and zaatar salad:

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Do we have a food stylist/photographer in the making?

Really, your pictures are so lovely. How is that cucumber salad made? It looks so refreshing.

And Chufi, I guess stamppot is similar to colcannon in Ireland?

Edited April 4, 2005 by M. Lucia (log)

[Chufi]

And Chufi, I guess stamppot is similar to colcannon in Ireland?

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yes, it's similar, although colcannon is (I think) always made with potatoes & cabbage, whereas stamppot can be made with potatoes and almost anything.

[petite tête de chou]

Thanks for the compliments SuzySushi and Chufi.

I called it my "April Withdrawls" supper. As much I love winter vegetables I.just.couldn't.take.it.anymore and craved a taste of summer, seasons be damned.

[legourmet]

stamppot raapstelen with lemon-parsley veal scaloppini.

Stamppot is a classic dutch dish of potatoes mashed together with another vegetable. Winter favorites are choucroute and kale, this is a summer version with turnip tops, mustard and ham:

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That dish looks like "bubble and squeak" does it

[sadistick]

Decided to try something different tonight, wanted to try a Indian/Thai fusion curry...

Did a Indian/Thy chickpea&lentil curry over basmati rice...reallly nice.

[ellencho]

As much as her mannerisms irritate me, I made Rachael Ray's lavash pizzas, the only difference between hers and mine is that I dress my greens and she doesn't dress hers.

[Ninjai Fanatic]

we made bread buns and tofu burgers plus spaghetti last night

[Behemoth]

Do we have a food stylist/photographer in the making?

Really, your pictures are so lovely. How is that cucumber salad made? It looks so refreshing.

Aww. Thanks!

The salad is really easy: peel, seed and grate cucumbers. Squeeze out excess water. Dress with sugar, olive oil, vinegar, salt and zaatar, and chill until ready to seve, then add the black olives. Actually, the original recipe was from Paula Wolfert's Moroccan book. While probably authentic, the original recipe had too much sugar for my taste, so you can adjust the seasoning the way you like it.

Oh, we went out today. It wasn't great but Monday is a late day.

Edited April 5, 2005 by Behemoth (log)

[Jake]

Tonight was rotisserie chicken (cavity stuffed with a head of garlic, a lemon, fresh herbs) potato and leek gratin using a mustard cream and peas. Pinot grigio to accompany.....actually the second bottle, the first evaporated while all the cooking was going on!