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Dinner! 2013 (Part 5)


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My son did not tell me the complete recipe for the kalbi but I can tell you he started by combining ingredients from recipes from his uncle, a recipe from a cookbook of well known Korean restaurants in LA and from his mom and then added some of his own ideas. It is marinated and then basted with the sauce while being grilled. I know it includes Pear Nectar, Coca Cola, garlic, gochujang, ginger, soy sauce, salt and pepper, and sesame oil.

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Very exciting international delicious recipes and artistic plating designs. I don't know any another forum has such great display of cooking skills.

A few recent meals

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Sous vide Calamansi chicken on wild rice risotto

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Sauteed shrimps on rice noodles

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Smoked pork shoulder on aspargus

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heidih – You are very kind, thank you

dcarch - We posted at the same time. Holy smokes, that pork shoulder!

Still on a Mexican jag

Pollo en escabeche – We make this frequently. Season chicken thighs with allspice, Mexican oregano, black pepper, and salt. Brown chicken thighs and remove. Fry white onion and carrots, add halved garlic cloves, and then simmer with the chicken, vinegar, pickled jalapenos, and chicken broth until done.

Green bean salad with red onion and salsa verde dressing – Nuke green beans until tender-crunchy, and toss with sliced red onion and a dressing of tomatillo salsa, lime juice, cilantro, and olive oil. Outstanding flavor-effort ratio. :smile:

Served with store-bought olive oil bread.

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Sapidus, speaking of international cooking, I am so fascinated by your recipes. I have learned a lot from your cooking. Thanks.

For smoking, I don't go for the ring and the bark, just pure smoke flavor at low temperature. That shows the "Money Muscle" smoked at 150F, kind of sous vide by smoke.

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mm -- you've been killing it with the rabbit/hare dishes this past week! I've had a lot of rabbit dishes recently but haven't tried cooking with it myself -- I may have to give it a shot.

Kudos to all the awesome dishes folks have been posting recently -- this thread is on a roll right now (no thanks to me!)

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looks good

Wapi

but how was that Octopus?

perfect? it sure looks like that.

Thank you!

I was very pleased with the result. Very tender. However, next time I'll try the temperature and time as recommended in Modernist Cuisine so that I can compare. One thing is certain, sous vide and octopus are a great match.

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mm -- you've been killing it with the rabbit/hare dishes this past week! I've had a lot of rabbit dishes recently but haven't tried cooking with it myself -- I may have to give it a shot.

Kudos to all the awesome dishes folks have been posting recently -- this thread is on a roll right now (no thanks to me!)

Thanks!

Today, no hare, so I had pigeon. Marinated in red wine with juniper.

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Cabbage is braised in red wine and layered between slices of cooked apple.
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Potatoes are cut, shaped and fried.
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The pigeon is seared in goose fat and finished in the oven. The cabbage/apple compressions are glazed in the reduced cooking wine with a little creme de cassis and butter. There is an apple/red onion chutney that sits on top of each. The jus is thickened with a little foie gras terrine and the livers of the pigeons.
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Served with pommes pailles (matchstick fries)
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Legs with salad
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Great looking pigeon mm84321, is it wild or farmed squab? I think i prefer the flavour of the farmed ones, especially those from France. They're deliciously meaty and more tender than wood pigeons.

It was grouse for me tonight. Pan roasted with a blackberry sauce, parsnip crisps, some roasted pink fir apple potatoes and sauteed broccoli rabe on the side.

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A couple of comfort dishes, old favourites; goat rendang and crab linguine.

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I made some macarons too this week. Experimenting with savoury flavours, this one was white stilton (mixed with cream cheese) and prosciutto. Everyone i fed these too were in raptures. A big hit!

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Outstanding food everyone. The game meats on the thread are particularly stunning (hare, pigeon, grouse, ...). Something I really miss here.

Prawncrackers- would you mind sharing your recipe for crab linguine? That looks like something I would like to try very soon. Thanks!

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Braised lamb shanks with Middle Eastern Spices, stir-fried vegetables, jasmine rice sprinkled with toasted jeera.. I made this one day ahead, let it sit in the fridge overnight and re-heated for supper last night. Really great for cool fall evening.

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mm84321 and prawncrackers, those grouse/squab dishes look amazing.

I recently made a chicken terrine with pea puree and pear mostarda (adapted from The Uchi Cookbook). The original recipe called for rabbit.

The chicken terrine was made by first curing some chicken legs (sugar, salt, juniper, coriander, pink peppercorn, cinnamon) for about 6 hours, then cooking them sous vide (1.5 hours @ 150 F) in brown butter, along with some shallots, thyme, and garlic. Afterwards, I pulled the meat and made a terrine by sprinkling the meat with Activa RM (transglutimase). In the middle of the terrine I put a line of pickled quail eggs (pickled for ~5 minutes in rice wine vinegar and sugar infused with kombu). The mixture was set overnight in the fridge in a terrine mold, with a heavy weight on top. To finish, I sliced it, glazed it with an asian caramel sauce in the oven (400 F for 4-5 minutes), then seared it in brown butter.

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Outstanding food everyone. The game meats on the thread are particularly stunning (hare, pigeon, grouse, ...). Something I really miss here. Prawncrackers- would you mind sharing your recipe for crab linguine? That looks like something I would like to try very soon. Thanks!

It is for me a pretty standard recipe. This one was made with a live medium sized male brown crab, poached till slightly underdone – about 7-8mins. I always buy live crabs for this recipe so I can use undercooked meat that will finish cooking in the pasta. The white and brown meat is separated, only the white meat is used for the crab sauce to which the pasta is added. The sauce starts with two cloves of garlic sliced as thinly as possible so that they melt along with four anchovies as it’s warmed together in a goodly of evoo. It’s an oil based sauce so use plenty. When the garlic and anchovy have melted add some hot chilli flakes to taste and a pinch of pimento del vera or any paprika, it improves the colour. Add a splash of noilly prat (or white wine), cook out a little then add the white crab meat with squeeze of lemon. Warm through, add the pasta, check seasoning, add parsley, serve.

The brown meat, the best part, is added to softened buttery shallots and warmed through. Seasoned and blended to give quick pate or left chunky if desired. Spread it on some bread and eat with the pasta. I haven’t yet found anything better to do with a brown crab.

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I've just got access to Restaurant Depot and have found some nice fish there. Picked up a hunk of tuna today and a lane snapper

Made some spicy tuna with the trimmings which is a nice snack while waiting for my wife to get home from work. Will do a tuna stack for dinner tonight. Snapper tomorrow

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Chicken and lobster in three services

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The carcasses are colored in olive oil then simmered in chicken stock. This is the base of the gelée for the first service.
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Some tail meat is mixed with sole, then butter, cream and egg whites to create a mousse.
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This is chilled, then passed through a fine tamis, and blended with more lobster meat. These are piped, formed and steamed for the second service.
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The chicken is rubbed generously with olive oil and butter and roasted in the oven.
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Once finished, the chicken carcass is cut up to make a jus, which is then thickened with lobster coral. The "sucs" are retrieved from the skin of the chicken for the first service.
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First service is the gelée with aforementioned sucs, the knuckle meat of the lobster, oyster and tail meat of the chicken, which I warmed slightly in some of the roasting fat of the chicken.
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Second is the breast, served with the "boudins" of lobster, and the coral jus
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Vegetable accompaniment. Fresh peas (which I just picked this morning, incredibly sweet), lima beans, carrots, turnips and baby leeks.
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Third and final service are the thighs and claws served with Caesar salad. The croutons are brushed with coral.
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With the garden producing fantastic beefsteak tomatoes we have been living on bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches. Sriracha mayo added after picture time.

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I'd be happy with this , breakfast, lunch and/or dinner.

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Grilled a small prime rib over indirect heat. The roast was presalted on Monday.

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I’m finally back after a long absence. Long story short – an almost month long illness followed by a bad fall that resulted in a fractured vertebra that has me in a back brace until at least the beginning of November. That has put a crimp in my cooking and made sitting at the computer very uncomfortable. I’ve done a bit of cooking and with my lap top, I’ve been having a veritable feast the last couple of days looking over all of the incredible meals in this thread they you’ve all made since I went MIA. I couldn’t possibly go back and mention everything that amazed and impressed me, but I loved it all and deeply appreciated the recent defense of the ordinary type of food that I tend to cook. Like others mentioned, I enjoy seeing food in all its guises – plain and ‘fancy’!

Some things that I’ve managed over the last few weeks -

A throw together dinner of cheeses, meats and veggies:

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Mr. Kim’s birthday – I began an almost month long illness early that morning and so Jessica, and our nieces together to get his birthday dinner finished. They did a remarkable job. He had requested muffalettas, salad and bananas Foster for dessert. They got a good picture of the sandwich for me:

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My mother made some BBQ pork tenderloin and I served it with baked beans, green beans and some boxed mac and cheese:

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A dinner of shrimp tacos and black beans:

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Spaghetti w/ Bolognese sauce and garlic rolls:

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Baked spaghetti w/ raw veggies and garlic rolls:

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Pecan coated tilapia w/ steamed potatoes and green beans:

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The fish is served with an orange and wine sauce and I thought that the fish was a little bland. Next time I think that I’ll add the zest to the sauce along with the juice.

Very successful day of cooking today. I tried 2 new recipes and they both turned out delicious! I did Geoffrey Zakarian’s Caesar salad and Gruyere and black pepper popovers:

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The salad is really delicious – the dressing is made with white anchovies. They were hard to find, but really worth it for their more subtle taste. The popovers were spectacular and something that I’ve been wanted to try for a long time.

My mother and I went down to Chesapeake to visit friends. They have a lovely garden and urged us to pick as many figs as we liked from their trees. One of the ways I used them was to make a prosciutto and fig pizza:

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Topped with arugula:

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Served with white anchovy Caesar salad:

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A soup and sandwich dinner – Mr. Kim’s ham and cheese:

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Mine was a BLT, made with some of the last of our friends’ amazing heirloom tomatoes:

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The best tomatoes we’ve had all summer. The soup was Ruhlman’s Rotisserie Chicken and Leek soup:

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Breakfast for dinner:

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Cheese omelet, cheese stuffed potatoes and Benton’s bacon. Served with French toast and fig syrup:

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