Dinner! 2008

[doctortim]

Lisa - that looks awesome!  One question, does it freeze well, using the fresh pasta?  I haven't made lasagna in ages - live alone so I'll end up with ton's of leftovers - but I'd love to make one and put some aside.

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Thank you, Liz I freeze a lot of homemade pastas (tortellini, fettucine, et al), but this is before they've been cooked. I've frozen fully cooked lasagnas before, with great success, but not with homemade, cooked lasagna sheets. Maybe someone here has and can give us their opinion/experience with it?

On another note, what a beautiful chicken mole photo, above.

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I've made a lasagna with homemade pasta before and frozen the cooked leftovers without issue.

[Lisa2k]

Lisa - that looks awesome!  One question, does it freeze well, using the fresh pasta?  I haven't made lasagna in ages - live alone so I'll end up with ton's of leftovers - but I'd love to make one and put some aside.

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Thank you, Liz I freeze a lot of homemade pastas (tortellini, fettucine, et al), but this is before they've been cooked. I've frozen fully cooked lasagnas before, with great success, but not with homemade, cooked lasagna sheets. Maybe someone here has and can give us their opinion/experience with it?

On another note, what a beautiful chicken mole photo, above.

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I've made a lasagna with homemade pasta before and frozen the cooked leftovers without issue.

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Well, Liz, there's our answer. Thank you doctortim

[Shaya]

I've made a lasagna with homemade pasta before and frozen the cooked leftovers without issue.

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I always make an extra lasagna (with homemade lasagna sheets, which I do not parboil; I cover each layer with bechamel which results in a texture I prefer to the parboiling method). I freeze the extra lasagna uncooked, and when I am ready to use it I put it into the fridge the night before I want to cook it. It turns out great.

[menuinprogress]

menuinprogress, beautiful mole! How did you like it and what recipe did you use?

We were very happy with the taste - the flavors came together really well. The recipe is from a cooking class we did in Oaxaca with Susana Trilling. She has a cookbook that it might be in, though.

We still have some mole paste that we brought back from Oaxaca, so we're going to do a taste-off between that and our from-scratch version.

[suzilightning]

down the shore at our condo unit we got new grills this year.

which produced the following meals

blue burger with onions, potato salad and a green salad, grilled brats with mash, applesauce and a tomato and avacado salad.

[David Ross]

It's nice to be back! I've been gorging myself for the past week at "Vegas Uncork'd" sponsored by Bon Appetit Magazine. Needless to say, after six days of drinking and eating my way through some of the finest restaurants in Las Vegas, it took me nearly another week to recover and get back to cooking at home. (I'll be posting my experiences in Las Vegas this coming week and I'll give you notice once I'm finished).

Last night I combined two salad dressings I had in the fridge-green goddess and bleu cheese. I served the dressing over a wedge of crisp, chilled iceberg lettuce and garnished it with bacon and green onion. I was too tired to cut my bread into croutons-so I came up with a new invention-the "torn crouton." Yep, just tear the bread into pieces and off you go.

For the main I started with a recipe from Susan Spicer's Crescent City Cooking Cookook. Her recipe is for "Tasso Cream," but I couldn't find any tasso in town, so I substituted Andouille. I added some mustard and Worcestershire to the sauce for extra tang, and then garnished the sauce with Crawfish at the last minute.

Here's the result, "Salmon with Andouille-Crawfish Cream Sauce, Rice, Patty Pan Squash."

[C. sapidus]

Pork, scallion, and shiitake mushroom soup . . .

. . . beef satay, coconut crab salad, cucumbers, and jasmine rice. Details on Thai Cooking at Home (click).

[Matthew Grant]

Asparagus soup with Morels and Joselito Reserve:

Saddlle of Pyrennean milk-fed lamb, Courgette flowers stuffed with goats curd, PIquilo pepper stuffed with crushed jersey royals and braised lamb neck with oregano.

[Doodad]

We made Richard and Dale's "green perplexed tofu" last night from Top Chef. It was pretty good, but not something I would make often. The beef fat was delicious on the tofu.

[SobaAddict70]

Linguine primavera -- in this case, asparagus and ramps sauteed in unsalted butter and garnished with shaved Parmesan and chive blossoms

This may be the last weekend that ramps are available. I intend to make the most of it.

[Chufi]

Matthew Grant, what a gorgeous menu. Such a wonderful celebration of spring!

[Shelby]

O M G I think I finally figured out how to post pictures again. It's been since March 11th!!

Asparagus salad

[Shelby]

Venison sandwiches

[monavano]

Dinner was pork and sauerkraut which cooked in my crockpot during a rainy afternoon. It tasted great, but wasn't photo-worthy. Dessert was balsamic strawberry and rhubarb cobbler.

[Toliver]

It's too hot to cook (it's been hovering around 102°F since Friday and more of the same is expected today).

I bought a rotisserie chicken and removed the meat from the bone. I diced some of it up and tossed it into a mixed green salad with a variety of diced crudite mixed in. Dressed with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Cool and satisfying.

[Dr. J]

NIce soup matthew.

Here is some braised ribs with asparragus, sweet potato, and potato on a bed of rice.

I found the pic interesting from the standpoint of how the flash came out. The potatos look funny. Remind me of the stars in the sky. (probably me seeing things again)

[MiFi]

Home-ground blue cheese burger on homemade bun

Leftover roast pork shoulder ragu w/penne

coffee marinated grilled pork loin w/pineapple catsup (thanks to Christopher Schlesinger and John Willoughby)

[SobaAddict70]

coffee marinated grilled pork loin w/pineapple catsup (thanks to Christopher Schlesinger and John Willoughby)

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I do love their cookbook "How to Cook Meat". Worth an investment.

[Ce'nedra]

Leftover roast pork shoulder ragu w/penne

I'd imagine that would be the perfect standby dish!

Ha cheung (prawns in rice sheets drizzled with a sweet soy-sesame oil sauce)

[nakji]

Curse you Ce'nedra! I had forgotten that I missed those!

Now I will crave them all week.

[NoNiceTime]

Wings!

[monavano]

Oh MiFi, that burger, the cheese, the BREAD!! My mouth is watering just looking at it!

[Shelby]

Oysters on the half shell

Mussels in vodka cream sauce

[Dr. J]

Love that dish ce'nedra.

[percyn]

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Leftover roast pork shoulder ragu w/penne

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In my best Homer Simpson impression ..... arrrggguuuuuhhhh ... droool !!!