Dinner! 2014 (Part 4)

[scamhi]

roast chicken with mushroom sauce, broccoli rabe and sweet potato.

[CatPoet]

SobaAddicted70  have you tried making rose honey?

[SobaAddict70]

SobaAddicted70  have you tried making rose honey?

No, not yet.

It'll be a while before I get to that project -- because (1) the roses I buy are from my farmers' market, and (2) the season for them is over.

[Paul Bacino]

William Colsher incredible looking pizza.

 

Il Casale meatballs on Ternetta vermicelli.

 

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Patrick..   Why do you rinse the ground meats?  For those meatballs?

 

Looks lovely

[CatPoet]

Soba put it up for next season. It said to be lovely, how ever I am  highly intolerant to roses so  I have only sniffed it.

[CatPoet]

Kim Shook.  It has a very soft texture, moist and lovely due to the brine.

[SobaAddict70]

Soba put it up for next season. It said to be lovely, how ever I am  highly intolerant to roses so  I have only sniffed it.

It'll have to be a trial and error run and a limited small quantity.

Those roses aren't cheap. You're looking at approx. $5 for a box that contains about 1/2 cup of miniature edible roses. I tried to convert that quantity to the metric system but I'm not sure of the weight.

I'll keep it in mind for the future though. (Is there a canning/preserving thread? Might want to split this off. I'm starting to explore canning in baby steps; I want to make jam, jelly and canned tomato confit.)

[spipet]

Only made a picture from dessert, but dinner was veal cheeks and mash with some rocket salad. Dessert is red fruit with lemon curd (yum!).

 

[rotuts]

I must say

 

 

scamhi

 

Id love to know how to do a baked sweet potato that way

 

w the skin  etc 

 

looks delicious 

[FrogPrincesse]

In celebration of Bastille day I went all out yesterday -

 

Bone marrow, lemon and thyme gremolata, chive salad. The bone marrow was cooked (from frozen) on the grill in a cast iron skillet. The gremolata and chive salad (dressed with olive oil and red wine vinegar, s&p) is a vague attempt at cutting some of the richness from the marrow.  I was already comatose after this but so happy.

 

 

Then I had a hanger steak with Bordelaise sauce. I used the cast-iron skillet that still had the marrow juices to cook the steak. Once it was done (which took about 5 minutes - just enough time to get a good sear), I put the skillet back on the grill while the meat was resting, added a ton of thinly sliced shallots and a good amount of butter, caramelized the shallots a bit, deglazed with red wine vinegar, added red wine that I reduced, added more butter to emulsify the whole thing, finally adding chives, and the juices from the meat. Sounds complicated but this only took a few minutes.

 

I really like hanger steak - it's flavorful (some might say, slightly gamey) and tender at the same time. This one from one of my favorite butcher's shops was a prime example.

 

 

[mm84321]

Black bass studded with olives in a tomato sauce

[dcarch]

Mm84321 – another masterpiece.

 

FrogPrincesse – Great way to celebrate Bastille Day.

 

Kim – Love everything that comes out from your kitchen. A big Wow for the burger!

 

Shelby – A perfect pizza is a home made pizza, like yours.

 

SobaAddit – consistently beautiful pictures.

 

Huiray – That is one amazing Linguine alle zucchine e fiori di zucca..

 

Patrickamory – I always admire your pasta dishes.

 

Liuzhou – A perfect summer dinner.

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Went to the farmers market, Yellow squash looked nice, and rainbow trout smelled fresh. So it was Rainbow trout on squash. Compatible food pairing? Who cares. I was hungry. 

 

dcarch

 

 

 

[patrickamory]

dcarch thanks - and I had to laugh! brilliant.

 

Paul I tried not rinsing the meats this time and it was just as good. so I think that part of the recipe can (thankfully) be discarded.

[Shelby]

Oh dcarch LOVE LOVE LOVE the smiley squash!!!!!!

[Steve Irby]

Grilled chicken and vegetables just minutes away from the table.  The chicken was seasoned with a spice blend from World Spice (Khmeli Suneli) consisting of basil, savory,fenugreek seed & leaf, cinnamon, black pepper, cloves and coriander mixed with Rouses's cajun seafood boil.  A little unconventional but the flavor profile is fantastic.  Served with a mixed greens salad.

 

 

[huiray]

Oh dcarch LOVE LOVE LOVE the smiley squash!!!!!!

 

Their hairdos too!!!!

[IowaDee]

And my mother told me not to play with my food...what was she thinking?  Love the squash family!

[huiray]

dcarch thanks - and I had to laugh! brilliant.

 

Paul I tried not rinsing the meats this time and it was just as good. so I think that part of the recipe can (thankfully) be discarded.

 

So would you conclude then that it WAS nonna laughing into her sleeve? ;-) :-)

[Blether]

So would you conclude then that it WAS nonna laughing into her sleeve? ;-) :-)

 

My guess is, Nonna lived in a time & place (and climate) where minced meats were less reliably hygienic than those in a modern American supermarket.

[Anna N]

darch,

I can't stop smiling at your squash.

[huiray]

My guess is, Nonna lived in a time & place (and climate) where minced meats were less reliably hygienic than those in a modern American supermarket.

 

http://forums.egullet.org/topic/147265-dinner-2014-part-2/page-15?p=1962282#entry1962282

http://forums.egullet.org/topic/147265-dinner-2014-part-2/page-15?p=1962297#entry1962297

[huiray]

• Wild-caught US prawns stir-fried w/ ginger, scallions, hot long green chillies, shallots, Redmond salt, white pepper, and Shao Hsing Hua Tiao rice wine.

• Yu choy sum stir-fried w/ garlic.

• White rice.

 

 

 

Stuff for the prawn dish (minus the wine)

[BonVivant]

You can hardly see it but the pasta is there.

 

Edited July 16, 2014 by BonVivant (log)

[Shelby]

Venison taco salads last night.  I needed a break from zucchini 

 

[Smithy]

Nice, Shelby. Did you form the taco bowls yourself, and are those standard flour tortillas? They look like they have an extra color/flavoring.