Dinner 2015 (Part 1)

[weinoo]

 

Whole, roasted red snapper, about 1.75 lbs.  With potatoes, tomatoes, scallions, dill, green and black olives, olive oil, and white wine. Potatoes didn't brown as much as I'd have liked, probably because the liquid from and around the fish makes it more like a braise. 

[huiray]

Thanks for the explanations.  In my world, a fuzzy melon is past its prime and destined for the compost pile.  I'm glad I asked! 

 

You are most welcome.

 

I believe you are traveling around warm climes at the moment.  Including California?  If so I would murmur that it may be an idea to drop by some of the markets you may be around and pick up one or two of these fuzzy squashes/melons/pick-your-term and play around with it.  BTW, I use a potato peeler (the classic type) to de-skin these gourds. Look up recipes on the web for these things, if you are so inclined.  I'm sure you can adapt any number of them that may strike your fancy to your circumstances or desire or imagination or whatever else.

[Kim Shook]

Okanagancook – your Brussels sprouts comment made me laugh, because your feelings about sprouts are my feelings about most vegetables.  The list of the vegetables that I don’t like is so long that I mostly don’t bother to tell folks, I just eat what I’m given and wrap something I like around it.  And of all the vegetables to like, I like sprouts!  Every kids detested veg enemy! 

 

Stir fry tonight:

Beef, snow peas, water chestnuts and onions with a purchased “Korean” stir fry sauce.  Served with an Asian chopped salad kit from Fresh Express.  Someone at our church pot luck brought it and it was very good – Savoy cabbage, carrots, cilantro, sesame ginger dressing, fried noodles and slice almonds among other stuff:

[BKEats]

Dinner tonight was a rather simple affair.  We had ordered in Sichuan Food last night.  There was a shrimp dish, a dry pot fish, pea shoots, some cold noodles and a tripe and tendon dish.  My wife was looking forward to eating the leftovers while. my daughter wanted pork chops.  

 

I went down to defrost pork chops and found out we had none and In fact was defrosting a half of a turkey breast.  I continued defrosting the turkey breast and placed it in a brine for fried sandwiches saturday lunch.  I then decided to grab a really beautiful wild caught salmon filet that my cousin had brought over Christmas Eve.. She brought it over as she had recently purchased it at Whole Foods and was not going to eat it before she left for a trip.  I had taken the filet and tossed it in the freezer back then.. Now, I took it out of the oven, cooked skin side down in butter and oil, basting the top.   Then placed in a 350 degree oven for about 12 minutes.. During this time I was able to make mashed potatoes.  served with butter and lemon over the potatoes. 

 

My wife was still trying to put down our newborn so, from the fridge, I took the dry pot fish, the pea shoots and the shrimp and placed them in their take out containers on top of our old cast iron radiator.  the radiator was turned up to 78 degrees so, it was kicking out some hot steam.. it heated the food up perfectly in about 10 minutes.  Maybe better than a microwave.  

[liuzhou]

Beef with bitter melon, garlic, ginger, chilli flakes and sesame oil to finish. This is it in the wok just before plating.

 

 

It should have had fermented black beans in there, but like an idiot, I forgot to put them in. The jar is still sitting on the counter looking at me reproachfully. 

 

Tasted OK without them, though.

[ninagluck]

I don't really like veal, but it was in the freezer. the best I could do was season, roll it, braise it, grill it. served with risi e pisi and a salad. Not that bad, but I am glad its gone.

[rotuts]

ninagluck

 

BTW  very nice plates !

[huiray]

Sambal Udang.  Adapted from recipe P49 of "Irene's Peranakan Recipes" (Epigram Books).  

Ingredients included a rempah of (soaked) dried red chillies, buah keras (candlenuts), shallots, toasted belacan - all ground together in a mortar & pestle; tamarind juice/slurry (from wet paste), deveined de-shelled large shrimp (wild Atlantic), salt, palm sugar, oil.

Wong nga pak (Napa cabbage) stir-fried w/ garlic.

White rice.

 

 

[CatPoet]

 

I'm ill and so is the rest of the family.   I wanted something comforting and decided to make "ants on a stick", well  I took  way too much meat , because my tired brain didn't work .  Oh well  it became more the attack of the ants but it still tasted as I remembered it .    The recipe comes from  a close family   friend , who from age 1- 12 grew up in China, before her father was stationed in Sweden again.  She is  75 years old now and  this was one of  her favourite  Chinese recipe and the only one she taught me.

Edited February 14, 2015 by CatPoet (log)

[scubadoo97]

Last night I made chicken adobo. A Filipino dish using a lot of vinegar in a tomato marinade then braised.

Marinade was cider and white vinegar, soy sauce, brown sugar and tomatoes. Actually I used left over bread and butter pickle brine that had made because I was out of cider vinegar. The aromatics in the brine played well in the dish

After a long marinade I browned the chicken and then added it back to the adobo to braise. Tangy, sweet and savory. Served over white rice

[Hassouni]

Hey, i cooked again!

 

Trial run of my new Moroccan unglazed tagine. Used this recipe: http://moroccanfood.about.com/od/beeflambandgoatrecipes/r/Lamb-Or-Beef-Tagine-With-Eggplant.htm

 

 

 

Came out great, my apartment still smells like it (good!)

[patrickamory]

I love adobo!

 

Catching up with some meals from past weeks. Lamb kheema, lemon basil chicken, Lidia's marinara, Kenji's 5-ingredient pressure cooker chicken, sautéd leeks (had a few times), and something I whipped up with chicken and snake beans.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Lovely chicken tetrazzini which took way more time than it should have.  (Maybe it was the zombie?)  Served with broccolini.  After several glasses of M.R. I switched to red wine out of concern for global warming.  Although exactly why I am not so sure, since, as of the time of writing, it is 14 degrees Fahrenheit outside and snowing heavily.  The wind is rattling the windows.

[BonVivant]

Some recent meals. Squids with green peppercorns. I like Thai food sometimes. Gutted the squid myself, this way I get to keep the tentacles and ink (if there's any of the latter).

 

 

I've decided to make Chinese (style) food everyday this week in anticipation of Chinese new year. My other half likes rice more than I do so at least one of us is happy for days (me, rice once a week is enough). Took us 2 hours to eat all this food and could only finish half.

 

- Scallops with Sichuan black bean sauce with chilies. Cleaned the scallops myself, only had to remove gut sac and digestive tract.

 

 

- Steamed turbot with Shaohsing wine, light soy sauce and sesame oil.

 

 

- Steamed eggs with roe and preserved turnip bits (as well as the usual wine, soy and sesame sauces.). I left the roe sac whole for this one.

 

 

- Steamed eggs with roe and (Sichuan?) preserved vegs (as well as the usual wine, soy and sesame sauces.)

 

[BKEats]

We eat very little chicken.  If i can't buy it from a small farm, i won't buy it at all. i usually game hen anyway.. but, it's scary to see what happens at a mass chicken facility.  I bought this turkey breast from this Amish Place down in Jersey..  I have a bunch of turkey frozen.  The other day, i defrosted, placed in a brine for a day, then a buttermilk brine for a day.. then sliced then and breaded.   Fried at a low  temp got the thing crispy.. placed on a super small potato bun with sriracha and mayo and some lettuce and onion..  

 

This thing was so damn good. 

 

This was the first real thing i ate yesterday.  

 

[ninagluck]

the pic is not great, but the dish itself was delicious. crab cake with gingered grapefruit

[huiray]

A variation on pork belly rice congee.

 

I browned the sliced pork belly (skin on) much more than usual; and used half of a whole plant of salted mui choy (a kind of preserved mustard) (rinsed, soaked, chopped up) plus Jasmine rice, besides the usual stuff.

 

 

On the way there:

Edited February 15, 2015 by huiray (log)

[suzilightning]

Lovely chicken tetrazzini which took way more time than it should have.  (Maybe it was the zombie?)  Served with broccolini.  After several glasses of M.R. I switched to red wine out of concern for global warming.  Although exactly why I am not so sure, since, as of the time of writing, it is 14 degrees Fahrenheit outside and snowing heavily.  The wind is rattling the windows.

 

Wow....warm down where you are.

 

Made cod and shrimp with a creole sauce from a recent Food and Wine magazine and served it with some sautéed green beans and mixed rice.  Chocolate pots du crème for the husband's dessert....MISTAKE!!!  Caffeine kept him awake until 3 am.

[Shelby]

Oh gosh, the food has been looking so great you guys!  Now I'm hungry for eggplant, Hassouni.  My plants didn't make it last summer.  Going to have to rectify that so I can have some homegrown.

 

It's been quite a week here.  Life should be settling down now (knock on wood) and I'm ready for it to!

 

Last night I made a prime rib.  The store didn't have bone in so I had to settle for boneless.  It was still very good along with some salt crusted baked taters and salad.  Cherry pie for dessert.

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Tonight was polenta with spareribs in tomato sauce.  No complaints at all...and the temperature is down near zero.

[patrickamory]

Maiale al latte:

 

 

 

 

[Anna N]

Sv'd Lamb chops with tiny steamed potatoes that were browned in some butter. My plan was to glaze the potatoes after they was steamed but I could not get the skin off them!

[scubadoo97]

Potato skin is my favorite part

I tossed a flap steak in the bath at 131f for 3 hrs then seared the heck out of it as quickly as I could. Served with roasted potatoes.

Edited February 17, 2015 by scubadoo97 (log)

[ElainaA]

Butternut squash soup with chopped apples, salad with feta and olives and scallion, sea salt and black pepper biscuits. And wine, of course.

Elaina

[ElainaA]

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Sv'd Lamb chops with tiny steamed potatoes that were browned in some butter. My plan was to glaze the potatoes after they was steamed but I could not get the skin off them!

I think the potatoes look great as is!

Elaina