Dinner! 2013 (Part 1)

[liuzhou]

I'm on the road, so tonight's dinner is a take away from a tiny Sichuan restaurant in a Sichuan village.

宫保鸡丁 (gōng bǎo jī dīng), aka Kungpo Chicken, spicy chicken with peanuts.

Not pretty I grant you, but it was tasty. Hot as Hades, while simultaneously mouth-numbing from the Sichuan peppercorns. Somewhat over-padded out with carrot but at ¥18 (£1.80; $2.90) for the large dish with rice, who is complaining.

The restaurant's two tables were full, so I asked for it to go and went to another restaurant next door, ordered a beer and ate the meal from the first place. Perfectly acceptable in rural China. Don't try this at home!

[rotuts]

so many wonderful dishes that at a distance ( ie here ) inspire me to move away from time to time from SV! and you should see my freezer!

mm: simply a stunning dessert! you can e-mail me that as an attachment to follow those perfect, ie perfect Turbot dishes. are those available by attachment?

now all I have to decided on are the 'Hors : how about a cold selection of Oysters on the 1/2?

many thanks to all who share!

[Keith_W]

Sardines on toast. The sardines were stuffed with chopped capers and red onion. The green sauce is a salsa verde, the red sauce is a simple passata.

Edited January 5, 2013 by Keith_W (log)

[gfweb]

I'm on the road, so tonight's dinner is a take away from a tiny Sichuan restaurant in a Sichuan village.

宫保鸡丁 (gōng bǎo jī dīng), aka Kungpo Chicken, spicy chicken with peanuts.

Not pretty I grant you, but it was tasty. Hot as Hades, while simultaneously mouth-numbing from the Sichuan peppercorns. Somewhat over-padded out with carrot but at ¥18 (£1.80; $2.90) for the large dish with rice, who is complaining.

The restaurant's two tables were full, so I asked for it to go and went to another restaurant next door, ordered a beer and ate the meal from the first place. Perfectly acceptable in rural China. Don't try this at home!

Actually I did try it at home last night. Yours looks better!

[munchymom]

Liuzhou, that Kungpo chicken looks uncannily similar to the kind I can get at my local (southern US) Chinese restaurant. I have a feeling that yours tastes much better though!

[patrickamory]

Chicken leek barley and dill soup made with pressure cooker stock (partner insisted on some fat being left in)

[rotuts]

WoW, WoW,

patrickamory

Id love to see the details of all of the above.

it looks so delicious.

I now have an induction 'top' and will now try to use that and the PC for things as I see you do!

[The J]

The picture isn't that great (I have to work on my food photography), but tonight's dinner was flank steak (marinated in grapefruit juice, tequila, salt, sugar and onion) that was cooked in a cast-iron skillet with a little olive oil, some soy sauce, tabasco and spicy brown mustard, on top of a mixture of charred sundried tomatoes and caramelized onions, with romaine, diced jalapeno cheddar and a little horseradish mayo, on freshly made garlic and black pepper flatbread, served with seasoned baked potato chips.

[liuzhou]

Actually I did try it at home last night.

I meant don't try eating food from one restaurant in a second restaurant, at home.

By all means try the dish

[mm84321]

Paella with striped bass

[patrickamory]

Mm, nice looking paella mm.

[mm84321]

Thanks, patrick.

[patrickamory]

Thanks rotuts - I combined a Jewish chicken barley soup recipe from the web with an old Gourmet recipe for a browned chicken soup with leeks (and apples, Calvados and heavy cream - the latter ingredients, obviously, omitted from this). Although the stock was great, the soup was not successful - neither one nor the other.

So we made a whole pot of the stock again the next day and some of it went into that chicken with Sichuan peppercorns further up, which was a wild success... the first time I've ever come close to wok hay. I recieved Grace Young for Christmas and now I want to use some of the insights from this book on the Fucshia Dunlop recipes I've been working on.

[Ashen]

The picture isn't that great (I have to work on my food photography), but tonight's dinner was flank steak (marinated in grapefruit juice, tequila, salt, sugar and onion) that was cooked in a cast-iron skillet with a little olive oil, some soy sauce, tabasco and spicy brown mustard, on top of a mixture of charred sundried tomatoes and caramelized onions, with romaine, diced jalapeno cheddar and a little horseradish mayo, on freshly made garlic and black pepper flatbread, served with seasoned baked potato chips.

wow... It is always weird when I look and see someone on here has cooked something similar to what I have prepared. My photo wasn't the greatest either .

Skirt steak taco with homemade guacamole. skirt marinade was adapted from a Rick Bayliss recipe. Skirt was seared on a comal then sliced across the grain.

Edited January 6, 2013 by Ashen (log)

[Rico]

Pastrami for dinner. Just sliced pastrami. Made the beef cheek version and, after six days' worth of preparation and waiting, I just wanted to eat pure, unadulterated pastrami.

[rarerollingobject]

Pastrami for dinner. Just sliced pastrami. Made the beef cheek version and, after six days' worth of preparation and waiting, I just wanted to eat pure, unadulterated pastrami.

Now THAT is a thing of beauty..*swoon*

[SobaAddict70]

very nice, Rico.

Vegetable tasting plate.

Left: Endive and carrot salad, Castelvetrano olive vinaigrette.

Right: Onion and shallot confit.

Oven-roasted wild cod, colcannon

Not a completely "white" plate of food, thankfully.

[SobaAddict70]

Leftover colcannon will probably reappear as colcannon cakes (that is if it solidifies enough in the fridge, as I think I overestimated by adding too much cream), and be served for tomorrow's breakfast, with a poached egg or two.

[benthescientist]

Bit of a southern US theme for me tonight (from Aus.), and the next six given the quantity!

A simple chilli with beef mince and kidney beans, a black beans and rice mix and cornbread using andiesenji's recipe from the bean thread.

[benthescientist]

Pastrami for dinner. Just sliced pastrami. Made the beef cheek version and, after six days' worth of preparation and waiting, I just wanted to eat pure, unadulterated pastrami.

Beautiful.

[patrickamory]

Yes that pastrami is the most gorgeous thing so far this year!

[scubadoo97]

Yes that pastrami is the most gorgeous thing so far this year!

Sure is. Beef cheek pastrami. Just fabulous idea

[huiray]

A simple dinner after shopping/restocking at my local Chinese grocery last night.

Roast pork rewarmed/skin recrisped in the oven.

Collard greens soup, w/ cilantro & smashed garlic.

White rice (Hom Mali).

[patrickamory]

Took a day off from Chinese to try something from The Food Of Morocco, which I got for Christmas. It's funny, I recently made a Parsi chicken with apricot dish. This one was even better. Though, as usual with Wolfert recipes, it turned out to be far more involved and time-consuming that a quick skim would suggest. Nonetheless incredible - one of my favorite new dishes.

While the marinated chicken cooks with onions in the tagine, you simmer butter, sugar, cinnamon and the apricots down to a syrupy glaze:

This then goes in the tagine along with some fresh herbs and they cook until the meat is falling off the bone:

The final step is a quick glaze under the broiler, followed by a scattering of pine nuts.

[nickrey]

That doesn't look anything like the apricot chicken of the 1970s which if I remember correctly used powdered soup and apricot nectar. Give me your version anytime.