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Dinner! 2013 (Part 5)


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@C. sapidus....

That looks great!

You can't go wrong with BBQ!

Southern Tier Brewing Company....are you a southern tier resident?

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Broasted quail. Pan fried corn-off-the-cob. Roasted acorn squash and peppers. Corn cakes. Jus.

Broasted is a trademark infringement unless you made it in a genuine Broaster. Looks great though illegal.

Ponying on gfweb's comment - Mitch can you tell us what you mean my the term in this instance?. Members have been posting a good bit of quail and my craving has reached lift-off status.

Wow - I never knew that about the Broaster. Since I don't have access to a grill, the quail were marinated (olive oil, garlic, S&P, herbs) and then were simply broiled in my oven. I left them in the oven for a few minutes after they had browned under the broiler, so decided to call them broasted!

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@C. sapidus....

That looks great!

You can't go wrong with BBQ!

Southern Tier Brewing Company....are you a southern tier resident?

DiggingDog - thanks! I looked up Southern Tier brewing company and, to my surprise, they are in New York. We are in Maryland, home of pit beef, but I prefer to BBQ pork.

To keep on topic, for tonight's dinner Mrs. C will be attempting to make Scottish eggs with quail eggs. Looking forward to it, and will post a pic if successful.

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An Asian friend gave me this recipe last spring and I have been wanting to try it ever since. It's Caramelized Oxtails. Caramelized sauce is butter, shallots, garlic, jalapeno, sweet soy sauce and beef broth. It has not been garnished yet but will be with green onions and lemon juice.

Norm: Caramelized then braised in the broth? A little more info', please?

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An Asian friend gave me this recipe last spring and I have been wanting to try it ever since. It's Caramelized Oxtails. Caramelized sauce is butter, shallots, garlic, jalapeno, sweet soy sauce and beef broth. It has not been garnished yet but will be with green onions and lemon juice.

Norm: Caramelized then braised in the broth? A little more info', please?

I sent you the recipe. The oxtails were simmered then caramelized with the sauce.

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Basquecooks pictures of cassoulet made me miss my mom's Southern cooking so I went looking for some ham hocks. I didn't find any but did find some nice meaty ham shanks. I made them with brats, collards and navy beans. I still have time to make some cornbread for supper tonight.

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And the cornbread. Next to it are some vanilla buttermilk cupcakes made yesterday.

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Working on an Appetizer:

I made an Oregano Tangerine Balsamic vinaigrette to go with:

Scallop/Black Garlic/ Pink Sea-salt and A nice Blk pepper served with oregano butter crouton !!

Paired with an Italian native Grape from Angoris " Ribolla Gialia "

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Its good to have Morels

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Soo PB: you have a scallop source?

big bummer for me I do not ie fair price for good scallops.

Id like to ask you to moove back to big Beef. Mooooooo that , as much as Id like to try pales

by my addiction to Scallops.

Moooooooooo.

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It's getting cooler and darker here so I pulled out the unglazed tagine and improvised a highly unauthentic chicken with habaneros, cayenne peppers and olives:

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Recipe: I gently warmed a quarter-cup of olive oil in the tagine over a flame tamer on medium heat. Sauteed minced garlic, minced orange habanero and minced medium-hot long Indian green chile until garlic changed color. Added a mixture of 1 tsp each ground cumin, black pepper, sweet paprika, and 1/2 tsp each ground Ceylonese cinnamon and Indian medium-hot dried red chiles, and sauteed briefly. Then a couple tablespoons tomato paste and sauteed for a bit. Added 3/4 cup hot water and 1/2 tsp salt, brought to a boil, added 3 chicken thighs and a big long green cayenne pepper, quartered the long way. Brought to a boil again, then covered simmered for one hour, turning chicken halfway, adding olives about 10 minutes before the end. Removed thighs and crisped them in 450-degree oven. Meanwhile removed olives and peppers from sauce, boiled it down in a saucepan, degreased. Returned everything to tagine for another 10-minute simmer, followed by 5 minutes sitting off heat, covered.

I'd say it was a pretty unqualified success - I wish I'd had better olives and only added them at the end. And I think pimenton de la vera would have added a nice smokiness in place of, or in addition to, the sweet paprika. The interesting part is that the final result was not that spicy, even though that habanero packs a punch (and was supplemented by the other chiles) - the essential sour fruitiness of the habanero was there, but much of the sharp capsicum impact had dissipated somehow. Next time I'll use more!

Final point - it is remarkable how the unglazed tagine adds a flavor of its own. Of course this is the whole point but I wonder whether sometimes I want the slow-cooking properties of earthenware without that particular flavor (which I can't quite pinpoint - some combination of the clay and all the dishes that have cooked in it previously). An excuse to buy a glazed tagine!

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MM8 your sweetbreads look fantastic

PB, same with the scallop. Just perfect

Patrick, great color on the chicken

Tonight I made black beans and rice. Cuban/Puerto Rican style

Added a soffrito at the beginning and the end as well as a good glug of red wine vinegar and some fresh olive oil to finish

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Before I settle in for the NIGHTS!!

Denver Game!!

MY Pork Stuffed Peppers.. KIller I must say!! Killer A bit sloppy on the topping.. but

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A fellow Bronco fan!!!!!!! Yay!!!!!

Pepper looks awesome!

Despite my trying to not eat a lot of carbs, it is pizza night tonight. I decided a thin crust, homemade pizza with my homemade sauce couldn't be too bad for me. Along with that a salad. I am not posting a pic because ya'll have seen my pizza a zillion times.

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According to an email I received last week from our local Cordon Bleu school, yesterday (20 Oct) was International Chefs' Day. To mark the occasion, they provided a recipe for braised beef cheeks, potato gnocchi and leeks (in both French and English. A caution if using the latter: it asks for '1 Burgundy wine' when it really means '1 carrot, finely chopped').

I've never met a beef cheek I didn't like, so I gave it a try:

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Result: very tender, definitely tasty. The sauce was great. Not sure about the leeks; they were OK but I'm not convinced a vinaigrette was really right with the rest of the dish. The whole thing wasn't really that much work, but I'll probably stick with my favourite sous vide beef cheeks - sure, it takes 30 hours but it's not like you have to do anything during that time!

The gnocchi were disappointing. I've had good ones at restaurants, but the few times I've attempted them they've come out rather like warm lumps of wallpaper paste. If there's a secret to non-gluey gnocchi I'd love to hear it.

Served with a Vynfields Pinot Noir from Martinborough, which was as always excellent.

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I am totally dazzled by the two hundred amazing dishes since I last posted mine. I think I will be dreaming about food tonight when I go to bed.

A few recent dishes.

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Smoked chicken ($0.79 a lb), beet stems ($0.00 from farmers market)

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Still getting Tomatoes from the garden ($0.00 a lb)

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Sous Vide chicken ($0.59 a lb) and delicata squash ($0.90 each)

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The gnocchi were disappointing. I've had good ones at restaurants, but the few times I've attempted them they've come out rather like warm lumps of wallpaper paste. If there's a secret to non-gluey gnocchi I'd love to hear it.

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The dish may not have tasted perfect, but it looks gorgeous! I wonder whether a drizzle of something along the lines of balsamic vinegar would have been more satisfying than the vinaigrette.

I made gnocchi last night, too! I've never had a problem with glueyness, but I think that is at least partly because I almost never make traditional ones (owing to problems with wheat and potatoes). Even if I do use potatoes, I still use rice flour (and/or chestnut flour) instead of wheat flour, and regardless of whether I use potato or winter squash, I put it through a food mill, which makes for a coarser-looking puree than putting it through a sieve (as the recipe you linked to instructs), but this breaks down fewer cells, so less starch leaks out (again, reducing the gluey texture), and the puree breaks down to complete smoothness when you work the flour into the dough.

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Every thing here: delicous !

My Way : " Dinner (s) @ $ 0.79 a lbs" part one

two of Franks 5 + pounders and Acorn Squash. some thing Green might be added for pt. 2:

that might jack up the price considerably:

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