Dinner! 2011

[kayb]

Shelby, I'd just about kill for that Reuben. The pork roast looks primo, too!

[Toliver]

Kim Very nice hamburger, but what are "tots"?

An eGullet discussion on tots: "The Tater Tot Topic - Creative Uses for The Little Buggers"

Pork roast...

Same pork roast only smothered in BBQ with mac and cheese

Shelby, I have pork envy/lust now. It looks great!

[bmdaniel]

Gulf shrimp, avocado, cucumber, red pepper, and red onion salsa...

...with yellow tomato gazpacho poured on top

[robirdstx]

Major comfort food for dinner tonight: Ground beef and Mexican chorizo (with serranos, onions, roasted green chiles, and tomatoes) Enchiladas and Refried Beans topped with Chopped Onion and Queso Fresco.

[C. sapidus]

Robirdstx, I could get comfortable with that meal.

Comfort food of a sort here, too. Stir-fried pork tenderloin with green beans, garlic, and mild chiles, served with jasmine rice. We marinated the pork with fish sauce, Shaoxing wine, and Chinkiang vinegar, stir-fried until partly cooked, and then removed the pork to keep it tender. The green beans and chiles were cooked with oyster sauce, fish sauce, sugar, and water, and then the pork was tossed in the wok to finish cooking just before serving.

The same cook-rest-finish technique also works nicely with fish.

Edited June 9, 2011 by C. sapidus (log)

[SobaAddict70]

Slowly getting over a weird sore throat that struck towards the end of last week.

Light dinner:

Whole wheat spaghetti (from Eataly), with Jersey tomato sauce, anchovy and mint.

This was supposed to have been dinner for one night for last week's Foodblog.

3 tablespoons olive oil

1 anchovy fillet

1 garlic clove, thinly sliced

scant pinch of red pepper flakes

4 Jersey tomatoes, diced

a generous handful of mint, chopped

salt and black pepper, to taste

mixed pitted olives, optional

Warm olive oil. Add garlic and red pepper flakes to skillet, then anchovy. Let anchovy disintegrate, mashing it with a wooden spoon. Do not let garlic burn. Add tomatoes to the sauce. Add olives, if using. Cook until tomatoes reduce their volume by half. Taste for salt and pepper. Add mint to the sauce. Stir. Stir in drained cooked pasta, toss, then serve immediately. You could make this in half an hour, including prep.

Edited June 9, 2011 by SobaAddict70 (log)

[Deus Mortus]

Why wouldn't you leave the anchovy intact? Does it add to flavor to mash them? Looks lovely though.

[SobaAddict70]

Why wouldn't you leave the anchovy intact? Does it add to flavor to mash them? Looks lovely though.

It adds a certain "oomph" to the sauce. These are oil-packed anchovies. They *will* disintegrate, so you might as well help things along.

[robirdstx]

Robirdstx, I could get comfortable with that meal.

Comfort food of a sort here, too. Stir-fried pork tenderloin with green beans, garlic, and mild chiles, served with jasmine rice.

Thank you, Bruce Your pork looked fabulous.

I pulled some pork tenderloin out this morning with the idea of doing a stir-fry, but instead, decided to make a recipe I've been meaning to try ever since I saw Eric Ripert make it on Avec Eric back in January.

Bacon Wrapped Pork Tenderloin with Peas "a la Francaise" It was delicious!

ETA link to recipe: Here

Edited June 10, 2011 by robirdstx (log)

[mgaretz]

Tonight I made a stir-fry with green beans, shrimp, onions, garlic and whole, dry roasted almonds. I used my drunken noodles (pad kee mao) sauce recipe. Served with basamati rice.

Not sure what to call it? Drunken Beans?

Edited June 10, 2011 by mgaretz (log)

[Kim Shook]

Shelby – your bread is gorgeous and those SANDWICHES!!! And your pictures are just getting better and better, girl!

Robirdstx – great looking tacos. I need to get back to making interesting tacos – I’ve slid back into the easy way – just ground beef with a little taco seasoning and they are so dull.

We had my in laws over for dinner a couple of nights ago to visit and see our pictures. Pre-dinner snacks:

Guacamole, chips and sunflower seed nibbles.

We found these at World Market – they are called ‘Somersaults’. Similar to benne wafers, but with sunflower seeds instead of sesame.

Mr. Kim smoked a pork butt so we had BBQ and all the fixings. Pork:

(a little steamy) He got a pretty good smoke ring and great burnt ends:

Cheater baked beans:

Just fixed up Bush’s (hey, it was a work night!).

Macaroni salad:

Slaw:

Dessert was peaches, Greek yogurt, honey and amaretti cookies:

We’ve been getting some gorgeous peaches from the supermarket (99 cents a pound!!):

[Shelby]

Now I'm hungry again!

Sheesh, me too, I need to quit looking at all of the dinner thread

Oh lord, that pork roast! Intense drooling! Shelby -- what are the herbs it looks like are crusted on there?

I did a mix of dijon mustard, thyme, crushed rosemary, ( I don't care for the whole ones)red pepper flakes, black pepper, garlic and olive oil. I didn't use salt because the roast was sitting in salt water brine for a couple of days.

I massaged the roast with the above--all the while wishing it was me getting a massage..minus the mustard mix lol---and I let it rest for an hour or so at room temp.

Shelby, I'd just about kill for that Reuben. The pork roast looks primo, too!

HEY, you live in the town of the best Reuben ever

Kim Very nice hamburger, but what are "tots"?

An eGullet discussion on tots: "The Tater Tot Topic - Creative Uses for The Little Buggers"

Pork roast...

Same pork roast only smothered in BBQ with mac and cheese

Shelby, I have pork envy/lust now. It looks great!

[jrshaul]

No pictures, but I made some pretty good souvlaki. I think I need to start brushing them with the marinade more during cooking, but they were tasty regardless.

[pastameshugana]

Pork wrapped pork! Yay! I think what that meal needs is some pork on the side.

It must be a theme for tonights dinner, over on my eG foodblog here I just posted the rest of this meal: Bacon, chorizo and pork discada:

Kim Shook - beautiful all American meal!

SobaAddict - that's a fabulous looking pasta dish.

[nikkib]

Seem to have a lot of beetroot left over so another simple salad with roasted cocina squash, goats cheese and home made guacamole on top.

[rarerollingobject]

Great looking meals, everyone. And welcome back, Kim Shook..you've been missed!

A clean-out-the-fridge meal for me, to close out a week of not properly cooking very much..here's to a better culinary week next week!

Roasted carrot, cauliflower, sweet potato, beetroot, zucchini, garlic, onion and jerusalem artichokes - mixed with wakame seaweed, dressed in a white miso/sake/mirin/sesame oil combo, and served over soba noodles with sesame seeds sprinkled on top.

[Dejah]

Cooking has been stifled by marking midterm exams, but reading this thread always gives me the kick-in-the-butt to start cooking again. Great meals all!

Robirdstx: That bacon wrapped pork tenderloin looks wonderful. I'll just eat the bacon!

I may be inspired, but still too lazy to do much. Tonight was lean ground turkey burgers seasoned with five peppercorn mix, cumin, hot paprika, tumeric, fresh ginger and garlic, yogurt, and grated cumin Gouda cheese. I also grilled some veg: mushroom caps, bell peppers, red onion, and zuchinni. Broccoli, cranberry and pumpkin seed slaw, watercress, and mango chutney fill the void left by being "bunless".

[Genkinaonna]

Soba- You've inspired us all with your gnocchi.. way to start a trend ...glad to see your on the mend, though.

Shelby-Seriously, that pork looks amazing. And with macaroni and cheese to boot!

Kim- I have peach envy...ours are another month away, at least. My daughter keeps asking me when she gets to have "peaches with the fuzzy skin again" as opposed to the canned ones that are naked...

Robirdstx-Gotta love anything wrapped in bacon...any meal with multiple meats is perfect in my book!

Dejah-That looks so healthy and fresh, makes me eager to hit the farmer's market tomorrow morning.

Tonight was my French Fridays with Dorie cooking club night so I made these:

Cola and Jam Baby Back Ribs. On the side was corn cooked in brown butter and thyme, and a salad with a walnut oil vinagrette. The rib recipe was killer, went together super fast and I reduced down the cooking liquid to make a glaze that was so good my DH was eating it by the spoonful out of the pan. I think it'd be really good on chicken wings as well.

Edited to take out about 10 too many exclamation points...

Edited June 11, 2011 by Genkinaonna (log)

[Dejah]

Genkinaonna: more info' on the sauce? My f-s-i-l loves ribsand it's usually his job to mix up the rub and BBQ sauce. I'd like to try somethign different to surprise him. I could probably add heat to your cola and jam sauce?

[Dakki]

I'd tell you about this fried chicken but with so much great food in this page alone I'm afraid I'll just look like a newb.

Check out my awesome new tablecloth instead!

[Twyst]

Beautiful tomatoes at the farmers market this morning so made a really simple spaghetti using Scott Conant's Scarpetta recipe. Very simple but delicious!

[Rico]

I'd tell you about this fried chicken but with so much great food in this page alone I'm afraid I'll just look like a newb.

Humility noted. Now please tell us about the chicken. You can't post that photo and then not talk about the chicken.

[percyn]

Grilled Chicken w/King Trumpet Mushrooms on a Salad of Israeli Couscous and Red Quinoa

[SobaAddict70]

Thanks Genkinaonna.

+1 on the cola and jam sauce. I don't cook pork all that much but that might be a good reason for me to do so.

Sore throat is gone so I've been making up for lost time.

Late dinner tonight -- will involve asparagus, pea shoot flowers, nasturtium flowers, peas and young onions. Be back in a little bit.

[SobaAddict70]

Pasta primavera.

This version has asparagus, young onions and foraged oyster mushrooms.

Each vegetable was briefly sautéed in unsalted butter (the asparagus were first steamed, then shocked in ice water), then finished in vegetable stock with, you guessed it, more butter. Salt and pepper to taste. Garnished with lemon thyme, nasturtium flowers, parsley and cheese.