Dinner! 2011

[suzilightning]

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[Lindsey]

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[toolprincess]

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[menuinprogress]

Mano de Leon Sea Scallop with a Red Curry Sauce.

[Dejah]

Chipotle Cheddar-Ale Meatloaf by Steve Reid, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

For the Meatloaf

2 lbs of ground beef

1 onion (diced)

2 cloves garlic (fine dice)

1 stalk of celery (diced)

1/2 large red pepper (diced)

1/2 cup of beer (I used ale but I am sure a stout would work well also)

2 1/2 cups of roughly chopped french bread

1 cup milk

2 eggs (beaten)

1 Jalapeño (fine dice)

2 tablespoons line zest (grated)

2 Chipotle Chiles in Adobo (diced)

1 1/2 tsp of Adobo

1/2 cup cheddar cheese (grated)

1/4 cup of cilantro (chopped)

1 tsp Ancho Chili Powder

For the Glaze

1 Tablespoon Chipotle in Adobo (diced)

2 Tablespoons Ketchup

Method:

Take out a large mixing bowl and a sautee pan. Preheat your oven to 325 degrees.

Sautee the onion, garlic, celery, and red pepper in olive oil until translucent. (Approx 6-8 mins)

Pour in the beer and simmer it until the liquid has reduced by about 3/4. This will intensify the flavor of the beer. Remove from heat and set aside.

Cut the french bread into about 1/2 inch chunks and soak it in the milk in a shallow dish. Soak this for about 5 - 10 mins, turning a few times, until the bread has soaked up all of the milk. Once the milk is fully soaked into the bread, transfer the bread to a cutting board and chop the it up into a fine dice. Add the bread to the mixing bowl along with the cooled onions, garlic and red pepper.

Add in the rest of the ingredients to the bowl and mix. Make sure not to over mix the ingredients as this may make it too dense.

Form the meat into a rectangular block on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

Mix the glaze in a small dish and spread it onto the top of the meatloaf using a spatula.

Place the loaf into the oven at 325 degrees for approximately 1 1/2 hours or until a thermometer reads 160 degrees. Take out to rest for at least 10 minutes and the cut into thick slices...enjoy!

[SobaAddict70]

A couple of recent dinners ...

14 May 2011

Red leaf lettuce and heirloom bean salad

Stir-fried pea shoots and bean curd, over ramen noodles with sambal oelek, mushroom soy and sesame oil

It's VERY rare that I'll cook anything Asian OR use bean curd.

I managed to get some wonderful pea shoots at the Greenmarket this weekend so I guess this was inevitable.

16 May 2011

Linguine with spinach and ricotta cheese, adapted from this Mark Bittman article on pasta primavera.

Edited May 17, 2011 by SobaAddict70 (log)

[Pierogi]

Chipotle Cheddar-Ale Meatloaf by Steve Reid, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

For the Meatloaf

2 lbs of ground beef

1 onion (diced)

2 cloves garlic (fine dice)

1 stalk of celery (diced)

1/2 large red pepper (diced)

1/2 cup of beer (I used ale but I am sure a stout would work well also)

2 1/2 cups of roughly chopped french bread

1 cup milk

2 eggs (beaten)

1 Jalapeño (fine dice)

2 tablespoons line zest (grated)

2 Chipotle Chiles in Adobo (diced)

1 1/2 tsp of Adobo

1/2 cup cheddar cheese (grated)

1/4 cup of cilantro (chopped)

1 tsp Ancho Chili Powder

For the Glaze

1 Tablespoon Chipotle in Adobo (diced)

2 Tablespoons Ketchup

Method:

Take out a large mixing bowl and a sautee pan. Preheat your oven to 325 degrees.

Sautee the onion, garlic, celery, and red pepper in olive oil until translucent. (Approx 6-8 mins)

Pour in the beer and simmer it until the liquid has reduced by about 3/4. This will intensify the flavor of the beer. Remove from heat and set aside.

Cut the french bread into about 1/2 inch chunks and soak it in the milk in a shallow dish. Soak this for about 5 - 10 mins, turning a few times, until the bread has soaked up all of the milk. Once the milk is fully soaked into the bread, transfer the bread to a cutting board and chop the it up into a fine dice. Add the bread to the mixing bowl along with the cooled onions, garlic and red pepper.

Add in the rest of the ingredients to the bowl and mix. Make sure not to over mix the ingredients as this may make it too dense.

Form the meat into a rectangular block on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

Mix the glaze in a small dish and spread it onto the top of the meatloaf using a spatula.

Place the loaf into the oven at 325 degrees for approximately 1 1/2 hours or until a thermometer reads 160 degrees. Take out to rest for at least 10 minutes and the cut into thick slices...enjoy!

Copied and THANK you !!! That sounds (and looks) amazing......will be my next meatloaf.

[SobaAddict70]

Fairly boring dinner (but it tasted great, just the same):

Broiled steak (medium-rare) with fried onions, rice pilaf, steamed spinach

[rarerollingobject]

Crispy Thai pork belly..slathered in garlic, red chilli and Thai basil.

[Blether]

Crispy Thai pork belly..slathered in garlic, red chilli and Thai basil...

Looks great. Over here, first bechamel since the nuclear accident, and first pancakes (British Shrove-Tuesday style, aka crepes) in a year or more - pancakes stuffed with a cheese leek sauce. And a flat camera battery (not stuffed). Seven 20cm crepes out of 1 egg and 2 ounces of flour.

[tug]

Crispy Thai pork belly..slathered in garlic, red chilli and Thai basil.

wow. do you have a recipe for this?

[rarerollingobject]

Crispy Thai pork belly..slathered in garlic, red chilli and Thai basil.

wow. do you have a recipe for this?

Posted a recipe (of sorts) here on the Thai Cooking at Home thread.

[tug]

Crispy Thai pork belly..slathered in garlic, red chilli and Thai basil.

wow. do you have a recipe for this?

Posted a recipe (of sorts) here on the Thai Cooking at Home thread.

yum yum. thanks!

[ChrisTaylor]

Roast, rolled lamb shoulder. Roast potatoes, carrots, sweet potatoes, capsicums, onions and garlic.

[kryptos1]

(I need a new camera....Canon SX30IS hopefully soon)

2x6oz Pisciotta Farms 80/20 beef patties stuffed with smoked cheddar, chibatta bread, and made "Jucy Lucy" or "Juicy Lucy" depending on which place you prefer.

[dcarch]

Jenni, yes, very delicious Kerala meal.

rarerollingobject, thanks for posting the recipe for the Crispy Thai pork belly. That is a dish I will have to make soon, after looking at your picture.

ChrisTaylor, that roast, rolled lamb shoulder sure looks well roasted.

SobaAddict70, That Bento box lunch makes lunch something to look forward to, and the dinner is not so boring as you indicated.

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I still have some duck in the freezer.

Sous vide duck breast medium, on beet green with wild rice stuffed pepper. Duck goes well with wild rice, and wild rice goes well with bell peppers.

dcarch

[ChrisTaylor]

Cracked open one of my new books, Abla's Lebanese Kitchen. A chicken casserole--very simple, just chicken thighs (the book says breasts ... but I say no), onion, lots of garlic, tomato paste, allspice, black pepper, stock and parsley. The green beans were slow-cooked with onions, tomatoes and allspice in olive oil. I then poured off the old olive oil and served it with a fresh drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.

[David Ross]

Two dishes using our fresh WA asparagus--a salmon dish, (details at the 2011 Copper River Salmon topic here), and another dish with sweetbreads, (in the Learning from Joel Robuchon topic here).

Copper River Salmon, Asparagus Veloute, Asparagus Salad and Yukon Gold Chips-

Crispy-Fried Sweetbreads with Cool Asparagus Veloute-

[Ashen]

I needed something for the grill that was easy today. I had alot of yardwork to catch up on. Slow smoked Tri-tip roast, natural lump, very light applewood smoke. Roast was coated in homemade steakspice.

First of the season local asparagus dry grilled while the roast was resting. Dressed with extra virgin olive oil, lemon zest, lemon juice, course grey salt and fresh cracked black. mesclun mix salad with cucumber and grape tomatoes. vidalia onion salad dressing.

I ended up getting distracted by a stubborn mower and the roast went longer than I wanted. 155 F but still very juicy. The asparagus stole the show though..

[nickrey]

Having had an unexpected drop in of some vegetables, I decided to try out some old favourites as well as some new Indian recipes from Pushpesh Pant's "India Cookbook."

So Indian vegetarian tonight [thought of you Jenni ]:

From top left clockwise we have: Kumhare ki Subzi (Dry Spicy Pumpkin), Aloo Gobi Methi ka Tuk (Cauliflower with fenugreek and potatoes), lentil leftovers converted to Indian with the addition of spices, and hard-boiled egg curry.

Dishes were served with boiled basmati rice, Greek yoghurt and cut banana (top left of photo), home-made lime pickle, and bought mango chutney.

Edited May 22, 2011 by nickrey (log)

[gfweb]

What is juicy lucy?

[percyn]

Prawn, how did you make the crackling? Just crisped it in the oven?

dcarch, are those gigot in the lamb chops? Were did you get them? I have been looking for them all over and came across a set at a flee market in Paris but they were a bit corroded.

Meals over the past week or so:

Nduja (soft spreadable salami) and a Pastrami sandwich from NYC

Korean BBQ Chicken and Beef Ribs

Hamburger w/Aged Cheddar and Parma Ham

[percyn]

gfweb, a juicy Lucy is a burger stuffed with cheese which melts as the burger cooks and oozes out when the burger is bitten.

[Dejah]

Lamb shanks braised in red Thai curry paste, lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, and coconut milk. Added potatoes in the last 30 minutes. Served with stir-fried zucchini, red peppers, eggplant, and red onions.

[rarerollingobject]

percyn, those meals are pure food porn! Love the nduja especially, I bought some myself from Boccolone in SF Ferry Plaza last year.

Dejah, great looking lamb..it's the sort of cold weather braise I should be embracing in chilly winter Sydney, but instead, at the fish shop today I fell in love with these: salmon belly strips.

Hello, sailor:

And not the nicest picture ever, but simply grilled with salt and pepper, lemon on the side and random assorted vegetables (ginger sesame broccoli, Sichuanese pickle cucumber) that I totally forgot to take a photo of in my haste to get to that luscious salmon.