Dinner! 2009

[Okanagancook]

AUSHAK: Boiled leek pastries topped with a simple lamb and tomato sauce and finished with garlic/yogurt sauce and dried mint. An Afghanistan recipe from The Complete Middle East Cookbook by Tess Mallos.

[percyn]

Nice meals all.

Today, I made Sous Vide Beef w/Lobster and Sauce Américaine - the bits in the sauce are lobster tomale scrambled in at the last minute.

Beef was cooked Sous Vide @60C (140F) and then torched for some Mayard reaction effect.

Pink throughout

Wife's version without the sauce

[menuinprogress]

A couple of Mexican-inspired hot dogs.

First with bacon:

We've done full-on bacon-wrapped before, but this time we were lazy and used the bacon as a garnish.

And also one with some Oaxacan-style chorizo:

[percyn]

Hmmm....I want a couple of those for lunch Menu...

[Peter the eater]

Sadly, we didn't raise a pig this year. On the other hand, it's a good time to clean the ice box. The chest freezer in the cellar is almost empty so everything was moved to the kitchen fridge and a few odds and sods were defrosted for immediate consumption. Found some lamb flank ribs, pork shoulder slices, a small beef flank steak and four chicken thighs:

Who says you can't have a four-protein tasting menu for dinner at home?

The pork was ground for a terrine, thighs were boned, the beef was rubbed with dry spices and the lamb was simmered for an hour. The beef and the lamb ribs are going on the grill:

Chicken thighs stuffed with three kinds of olives:

Lamb ribs on very thick rosemary sauce, with minty wild rice:

Beef sliced thin with horseradish mashed potatoes and walnut cherry sauce:

I forgot to add the sauce before taking the beef flank steak picture, so here's the black cherry sauce with walnuts:

The mini pork terrine with capers went over well as a starter, in fact it disappeared before I could take a picture.

[mgaretz]

With temperatures expected in the triple digits here (never quite got there, but close) we wanted something cool and light.

Chilled shrimp with avocado and garden fresh tomatoes. Homemade cocktail sauce not shown.

[percyn]

Very nice Peter

[SobaAddict70]

bacon is great with [most] anything.

those lamb ribs...oh....

Heirloom tomato and stone fruit salad (white peaches, plums)

Peperonata and poached farm egg on sourdough toast

[SobaAddict70]

Omelette with peperonata, pan-glazed heirloom tomatoes

[deensiebat]

Brought dinner to friends with a new baby, and made the traditional quiche (in this case, swiss chard and goat cheese ).

[SobaAddict70]

You'd think autumn hasn't arrived, what with the weather in NYC and the offerings at USGM (Union Square Greenmarket). Case in point is tonight's dinner, which btw is pretty much ALL from USGM with the exception of the flour, salt, pepper and nutmeg in the gnocchi.

Ricotta gnocchi with corn and heirloom tomatoes

[johnnyd]

Local lamb shoulder, braised in red wine/madeira/water, carrot, onion and celery root, green peppercorn, rosemary, lemon thyme - house crouton garnish

Tuna loin topped with spicey tomato confit and garden basil

[Kim Shook]

Lovely meals, all!

Soba – everything you cook is so beautiful and fresh looking!

Johnny – mmmm, braised lamb! C’mon Fall food!!!!

We had a high school friend of mine from DC down for the weekend. Dinner last night was romaine, hearts of palm and radish salad w/ ginger dressing (like Japanese steak house dressing):

Scallops With Miso-Mustard Cream Sauce:

Pan Roasted Glazed Salmon:

Orzo w/ herbs and vegetable broth:

Stir Fried Sugar Snaps:

Grilled ciabatta slices:

Ginger Mascarpone Icebox Cake w/ Caramel Apple Sauce:

We had a bottle of Sancerre with dinner – it’s become my new favorite wine.

[SobaAddict70]

Kim -- thanks. Salmon looks delicious (I'm a huge fan of salmon, it's one of my favorite fish). I'm also not a dessert person normally but I think I could spring for a piece of that cake.

Light dinner last night:

Slow-roasted cherry tomatoes and fromage blanc, paired with corn-marjoram fritters

Cheese plate (not shown), golden raspberry jam, toast points

2006 Anthony Road Pinot Gris

We're knee-deep in Indian summer here in New York. I have a huge mess of corn and tomatoes to go through before any fall food makes an appearance in my kitchen.

[percyn]

On Saturday a couple of friends got together for Battle Spaghetti Squash !!

[monavano]

My link

Oven-roasted lemon rosemary Smart chicken with sauteed mushrooms and broccoli rabe. Leftovers were made into an open-faced sandwich with lots of gravy!

My link

(sorry about pics-I have to figure out this new software)

Edited September 28, 2009 by monavano (log)

[C. sapidus]

Everyone is making tons of beautiful and interesting food, but the two dishes that jumped out and said “eat me” (in a good way ) were johnnyd’s lamb and deensiebat’s swiss chard and goat cheese quiche.

Okanagancook, welcome! Your Afghani meal looks delicious, and I hope you will share more of your cooking.

Grilled chicken marinated with oyster sauce, soy sauce, garlic, sugar, and black pepper (gai yang), served with coconut rice and sweet chile sauce. Mrs. C prepared assorted vegetables, including what may be the last of this summer’s particularly glorious tomato crop.

[johnnyd]

Can't find the LUNCH! topic and this was too late for BREAKFAST! thread, so here we are,

Fresh Haddock, Cape Elizabeth onion and heirloom tomato, poached in butter, garlic and lemon peel - garden basil and black pepper grind garnish.

Standard Baking baguette on the side. Secret ingredient: capful of Noilly Prat white vermouth.

An hour later and I would have cracked open some pinot grigio, but I'm a good boy.

[SobaAddict70]

very nice, Johnny

Roast chicken (a la Thomas Keller); sautéed peppers and heirloom green beans; steamed rice and heirloom tomatoes

Life is good.

edit to say: the chicken was from Flying Pigs Farm in upstate New York. you can buy them at Union Square Greenmarket on Saturdays. it totally blew me away. no comparison to regular supermarket chicken.

Edited October 1, 2009 by SobaAddict70 (log)

[Jenni]

Home grown peas and home grown kale made masoor dal with kale, green pea pilau and ajwain carrots.

[Jenni]

Tonight's supper was cucumber raita, figs from Madhur Jaffrey' "World Vegetarian" and a pancake from my next book. I love recipe testing!

[Blether]

That pancake looks good, Jenni. Is there a lot of egg in it ? What's the green ?

[Jenni]

That pancake looks good, Jenni. Is there a lot of egg in it ? What's the green ?

No egg, I don't eat eggs so none of my food contains egg. Don't want to give away too much about the pancake, as it will be a recipe in my next book, so let's just say there are fresh herbs and spices in it!

[Chris Amirault]

Why not share the recipe with us here so that we can try it out and give you feedback? Looks like it has some kind of dal flour in it to me.... Chana dal?

[Blether]

Yes, I smell besan as well as dahi; and dhania is prime suspect number three.

It's up to you, Jenni - so you're advertising but there're no loss leaders. At least we know you're not a supermarket