Dinner! 2014 (Part 2)

[Blether]

... This time  I sweated down some diced onion and sweet red peppers  , juice of half a lemon in the pan then left to reduce down. I put this aside to cool .  In a bowl I had minced garlic, lemon zest, dried  greek oregano, the onion/pepper mixture , a good pinch of a spice blend I made with coriander seed, red chile flake, white pepper, and marjoram, S& P and the lamb.. mixed til just combined and made the patties. ( actually I fried off a small bit first to check seasoning and needed a bit more s &p)  homemade tzatziki and fine slice onion on top. 

 

Sounds dang good.

[dcarch]

Ashen – delicious way to give leftover chicken gourmet treatment.

 

SobaAddic – many stunning photos!

 

Scottyboy – We miss your cooking.

 

Huiray – you need to start thinking about writing a cookbook.

 

Ann_T – you make yummy food look so easy to create.

 

Anna N – your dishes are always just as appetizing as any fancy ingredients.

 

Basquecook – Dandelion greens, ramps --- you are speak my kind of language.

 

Mm84321 – everything comes out from your kitchen is perfectly done.

 

Steve irby – beautiful plating.

 

Chefmd – Agree, perfect salmon.

 

Kim – Absolutely amazing onion rings. Not the easiest thing to get perfect.

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A few recent cooks.

 

dcarch

 

Roasted pork, kabocha, broccoli stems

 

 

smoked chicken daylily shoots

 

 

Smoked pork shoulder on orzo

 

[Norm Matthews]

When I was in the Asian market getting a beef shank and bones for Seolleongtang, I also picked up a stewing chicken for stock. It still had it's head and feet attached.  It was a skinny and tough old bird but when simmered for 3 hours, very tasty. 

 

Cassie said she had never heard of drop dumplings before I made them with chicken.  She only knew about the noodle-like kind and she liked that kind.  She left for work yesterday around 8 so I thought she'd be home for dinner. It turns out she worked a 15 hour day and I was in bed before she got home. I don't know if she liked the noodle dumplings or not but Charlie said they were good. They were made with baking soda/powder and buttermilk.  We had it with corn muffins.

 

I still have a couple quarts of stock which is now in the freezer.

Edited May 12, 2014 by Norm Matthews (log)

[huiray]

Many thanks to all the folks who sent kind words and compliments my way.  Much appreciated.

 

 

A simple dinner - chicken soup w/ fresh orecchiette.  Soup made w/ a stewing chicken, carrots, leafy celery (see below), ginger slices, salt....

 

 

...which followed from lunch w/ the soup only...

 

 

...and the making of which was urged on me by my mind after I got these lovely leafy celery stems from the BRFM...

 

[Shelby]

Dcarch--Lovely smoked chicken.  I'm hungry for that.

 

Huiray--Such clear, gorgeous chicken broth!

 

Everyone else, as always, I love perusing your mouth watering food.

 

 

Chicken and mushroom alfredo of sorts

 

 

 

And, a friend came to stay with us for a few days.  He made us these wonderful venison burgers on the grill.

 

 

 

 

[caroled]

Shelby, That's a fine looking burger on that onion bun.

[rotuts]

Wow

 

both look delicious 

 

but that burger is Talking to Me :

 

Its saying  Yum Yum.

[David Ross]

More wonderful fresh asparagus from Walla Walla.  This time stir-fried with black bean garlic sauce-

[merstar]

Tonight's salad and pizza, the only frozen pizza I can stand - Newman's Own Thin and Crispy Four Cheese Pizza - it's excellent.

[Anna N]

Canned salmon salad on still-warm home-made bread with a layer of thinly sliced cucumber.

[SobaAddict70]

Was an experiment tonight -- my partner proclaimed it delicious which is all that really matters in the end.

Garlic shrimp, with ramps and egg on toast

We also had:

Leftover soupe au pistou

Cheese, fruit and honey

[patrickamory]

Anna OMG that's what I'm talking about… a perfectly put-together sandwich is always going to be my favorite thing!

[huiray]

I do have more elaborate or more involved dinners but it is more often the case that they are simple ones or meals made from leftovers - unlike most of you here where dinner appears to be almost always the most substantial meal of the day frequently involving lots of fancy footwork/handwork and the greatest investment of time and energy and resources and ingredients. 

 

Here's a meal I had late last night, which was definitely a homestyle/really simple thrown-together meal, something that was tasty but allowed me to just barely stir from my sleepiness/general-blahness.

 

White rice (this took the usual ~ 1/2 hr prep & cooking time, stove-top) liberally sprinkled w/ wasabi fumi furikake; in-situ scrambled "marbled" eggs (three) (very hot pan, hot oil, maybe 1-2 minutes tops cooking time, full heat, eggs "release" fairly quickly; still runny in the centers, just the way I like them); stir-fried Taiwan bok choy (screamingly hot pan, almost smoking oil, Himalayan salt; less than 2 minutes cooking time, covered part of the time; some of the pieces get slightly browned). 

 

:-)

 

 

 

 

[Host note: This topic continues here, Dinner! 2014 (Part 3)]

Edited May 14, 2014 by Mjx
Note added. (log)