Dinner! 2007

[Ted Fairhead]

Sunday, Orange Chicken from "Fine Cooking"

Monday, Trout Almondine from Recipezaar, using farmed Golden trout.

[Marlene]

Ok the orange stuff is salmon, but WHAT in the world is the purple thing?

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It looks like raw tuna to me, but then what do I know about fish?

[nonblonde007]

Mona, I love my knife, almost as much as my horses.

Judiu, you made me laugh out loud! Still giggleing.............the "purple thing" is tuna and bad lighting! My camera is still giving me a headache, even after the shop. Trust me, the colores were NOT that shocking, well, maybe the pickled daikon was.........

Ted, that trout looks amazing, the boys often bring trout home, I will have to look up that recipe.

[Prawncrackers]

Fish at last Benda, i know you've been hankering for seafood for some time! Looks good to me but how fresh did it taste. On-line fish sounds a little strange to me, though if needs must then in the same position i would undoubtedly do the same as you. So how was the on-line fish experience, would you buy again?

[MiFi]

Some recent meals:

Stir fried pork, snow peas w/XO Sauce

Day-boat Sea Scallops, polenta, tomato-garlic confit

Yellowfin Nicoise

Heirloom Tomato Salad w/Grilled Chicken and Basil Sauce

[Shelby]

Prawn, Does your wife share????  Beautiful!

Mona, YUM!  I am having visions of pulling off that skin and devouring it while no-one is looking.

Shelby, great pics, I can almost taste that salsa.

Jamie, looks great.

Sashimi dinner, with various pickle and rice.  (I have learned to order on-line and make the things I crave that I can't get around here.)  The ray of sunshine through the clouds.

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Brenda, is that tuna and salmon? I looks just heavenly *droooooling*

[nonblonde007]

Prawn, I ordered the fish from Catalina Offshore Products, While the shipping costs nearly floored me, (you know your an e-gulleter when....) The seafood was reasonabley priced. Very fresh, tho frozen, the ikura was sublime, the salmon was just amazing, very buttery/avacadoish, and the tuna was melt in your mouth delish. Just bizarre what one will do to satisfy a craving! I had also ordered uni on a previous occasion, and it was quite possibly the best I have ever had, and much less expensive than you would think, before shipping, that is. I will deffinately do it again, and again, and again......just not too often. $$$$$

MiFi, Wow, fantastic looking meals, bright and beautiful.

[monavano]

Dinner last night was leftovers, but dessert was prune plum upside down cake.

Recipe and post here..

Edited September 18, 2007 by monavano (log)

[little ms foodie]

Dinner last night was leftovers, but dessert was prune plum upside down cake.

Recipe and post here..

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gorgeous!

our corn season is late here but it is in full swing now- 10 ears for $5!

last night was a green salad, herb and garlic bread and the best corn & bacon chowder!! served with a very pretty WA Chardonnay

[monavano]

Dinner last night was leftovers, but dessert was prune plum upside down cake.

Recipe and post here..

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gorgeous!

our corn season is late here but it is in full swing now- 10 ears for $5!

last night was a green salad, herb and garlic bread and the best corn & bacon chowder!! served with a very pretty WA Chardonnay

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Yesterday,I defrosted a container of cheddar corn chowder that I made in August. It held up well in the freezer. It's one of my all time favorite soups. I've been cutting the kernals off of summer corn and vacuum sealing them for winter. One very cold day this soup will remind me of summer!

[little ms foodie]

I wondered about freezing some, thanks for posting that monavano! I also am cutting corn off- save the cobs too! simmering them in the milk/cream gives it even more corn flavor!

[C. sapidus]

Mmm, scallops, beautifully-cut sashimi, bacon-corn chowder, and a gorgeous upside-down cake. I would dearly love to try them all.

To prolong the waning days of summer, we grilled thick New York strip steaks after marinating them in light soy sauce. The boys split a steak; the grownups split a Thai grilled beef salad (click) with shallots, cilantro, mint, long-leaf coriander, roasted rice powder, and tomatoes from the garden. Cukes and jasmine rice on the side.

[Ce'nedra]

My homemade Claypot Chicken Rice! One of my few successful meals

Edit: Boy does it look bad compared to all the other dishes in this thread arrghh!

Edited September 19, 2007 by Ce'nedra (log)

[Jamie Lee]

Grilled Cheese (Boring...) but made on bakery italian boule bread, smeared with (over) ripe brie, sharp cheddar and fresh mozzarella, served with a side of chipotle sour cream for dipping...

Excuse the picture flaws..

[Ce'nedra]

Salmon, tarragon walnut vinaigrette.

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Very elegant

Would it be ok if you could share the delightful recipe?

[Dejah]

My homemade Claypot Chicken Rice! One of my few successful meals 

Edit: Boy does it look bad compared to all the other dishes in this thread arrghh!

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Looks VERY comforting. YUm! What all did you have? chicken, lapcheung, carrots, scallions, medium grain or short grain rice?

Did you use stock to cook everything or just water?

I have lap gnap, lap yuk, lapcheung and was thinking of claypot rice myself. You just pushed me over the edge.

[Domestic Goddess]

After a long hiatus, I finally decided to take dinner pics again. Tonight's mains were fried chicken fillet sandwiches.

Dessert was peach cobbler pie... (with peaches given by hubby's boss).

Plated for my hubby (who had seconds)....

[Domestic Goddess]

My homemade Claypot Chicken Rice! One of my few successful meals 

Edit: Boy does it look bad compared to all the other dishes in this thread arrghh!

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Looks VERY comforting. YUm!   What all did you have? chicken, lapcheung, carrots, scallions, medium grain or short grain rice?

Did you use stock to cook everything or just water?

I have lap gnap, lap yuk, lapcheung and was thinking of claypot rice myself. You just pushed me over the edge.

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I too, would love to have the recipe for this.

Edited September 19, 2007 by Domestic Goddess (log)

[Ce'nedra]

My homemade Claypot Chicken Rice! One of my few successful meals 

Edit: Boy does it look bad compared to all the other dishes in this thread arrghh!

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Looks VERY comforting. YUm! What all did you have? chicken, lapcheung, carrots, scallions, medium grain or short grain rice?

Did you use stock to cook everything or just water?

I have lap gnap, lap yuk, lapcheung and was thinking of claypot rice myself. You just pushed me over the edge.

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I too, would love to have the recipe for this.

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Why thank you both! It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside when people compliment your cooking

I basically just created the recipe on top of my head, with influences from my mum's cooking But whenever I have successful meals, I write it down (I'm kinda making a compilation of family meals) so here goes...

Oh and Dejah, I use jasmine rice as that's the kind we usually have at home

Claypot Chicken Rice

Yield: 4 servings (actually I'd say probably more...)

Tip: To make shallot soy sauce oil, chop 3 shallots and stir in a heated pan with oil, soy sauce and sugar. (I recommend making quite alot of this!)

Ingredients:

2 ½ cups uncooked rice, washed

2 carrots (medium sized)

4 lap cheong (Chinese sausage)

2 salted duck eggs, cracked and minced into bits

water

Optional:

lettuce, shredded into long strips or

cucumbers, sliced

Chicken:

2 chicken breast halves, boned and skinned

1 tbsp sesame oil

5 tbsp (60ml) soy sauce

2½ tbsp sugar

2 cloves garlic, crushed

2 small red chilli, finely sliced

Directions:

1. Slice the chicken into bite sized pieces. Pound the garlic and chilli together to form a paste.

2. Marinade the chicken breast meat with the sesame oil, soy sauce, sugar and chilli-garlic paste. Put in fridge (for at least 30 minutes) while preparing the rest of the ingredients.

3. Place the 4 lap cheong in a pan with water (approximately ½ width of lap cheong) and cook until water is reduced, turning the sides. Slice the lap cheong into thin slices and chop the carrots into matchstick sizes.

4. Boil the rice with water in a covered claypot over gas stove on high heat until water is reduced and steam is released. Then lower heat to minimum and leave to cook for approximately 15 minutes.

5. Stir fry the marinated chicken with chopped carrots (add when chicken is almost cooked) in a wok. Reserve the marinade.

6. Add the chicken, lap cheong slices, carrot and reserved marinade over the rice. Add the salted egg bits on top and stir through. Cover the claypot and cook well.

7. Before serving, add a big dash of the shallot soy sauce oil through the rice and a final scatter of spring onions. Serve with a bed of shredded lettuce or sliced cucumbers (not necessary).

* I tend to leave the claypot on the dinner table and everyone can self serve and flavour their rice with as much or little of the shallot soy sauce oil as they like.

Enjoy! And tell me if you've tried it! *big grin*

And don't forget to make the shallot soy sauce oil because that's the secret to making this meal (I suggest making ALOT!)

EDIT: Just to confirm, we call 'scallions' shallots or green onion here in Australia lol. To be honest, I get confused between the 3 names myself and it can get frustrating sometimes when reading cookbooks!

EDIT: I officially uploaded this on RecipeGullet Here's the link: http://recipes.egullet.org/recipes/r2029.html

Edited September 19, 2007 by Ce'nedra (log)

[monavano]

I agree ce'nedra, your dish looks and sounds delicious. Good to see Domestid Godess's food again. Keep them comming!

[monavano]

Some recent meals:

Stir fried pork, snow peas w/XO Sauce

Day-boat Sea Scallops, polenta, tomato-garlic confit

Yellowfin Nicoise

Heirloom Tomato Salad w/Grilled Chicken and Basil Sauce

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These dishes look amazing. The colors just jump off the screen.

[monavano]

Polish mushroom soup made with dried Borowik and button mushrooms. A glass of sherry to splash in the soup!

I'm so happy it's soup season!(soup challenge and book giveaway here)

Edited September 19, 2007 by monavano (log)

[lucylou95816]

I haven't posted in a while for a couple of reasons, 1 I just got a fancy new camera, and the pics were too big to load on imagegullet, so I had to figure that out, and 2, we're doing Atkins (15 lbs since 7/7/07) , so you can only take so many pictures of steak. But last night, I did make my low carb version of Tyler Florence's Ultimate Meatballs, obviously without the spaghetti. They were good, so good, I had one for breakfast:

After baking:

Plated up, does look lonely without the pasta.

[monavano]

I haven't posted in a while for a couple of reasons, 1 I just got a fancy new camera, and the pics were too big to load on imagegullet, so I had to figure that out, and 2, we're doing Atkins (15 lbs since 7/7/07) , so you can only take so many pictures of steak.  But last night, I did make my low carb version of Tyler Florence's Ultimate Meatballs, obviously without the spaghetti.  They were good, so good, I had one for breakfast:

After baking:

Plated up, does look lonely without the pasta.

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Look at that gooey cheese. Yum!

[Ce'nedra]

Polish mushroom soup made with dried Borowik and  button mushrooms. A glass of sherry to splash in the soup!

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Can I just say that looks absolutely stunning?! Simplistic and classy -I love it. Makes me think of romance