Dinner 2015 (Part 2)

[huiray]

Where are you people getting all of those tree trunk-thick asparagus?

The only asparagus I see in my local grocery stores is thin to super skinny (pencil asparagus). Not that I'm complaining it's just I am finding it curious to see such thick spears in a lot of the dinner photos posted in this thread.

 

I certainly agree with you, I'm not sure where they are getting those trees but I'm glad they are getting them and not us! I certainly prefer the small pencil like spears we are getting here, they are much more tender.

 

I thought y'all might like to take a gander at this one spear, part of a bundle I picked up last weekend.

 

 

[liamsaunt]

Crab cakes with mustard sauce and asparagus from the first farmers market of the season

 

Edited May 16, 2015 by liamsaunt (log)

[Shelby]

Happy Preakness Day!!!!!!  (GO Firing Line)  I wouldn't be sad to see AP win so we could root for a triple crown....... (sorry..I'll stop with the horse talk now )

 

In between storms yesterday I went out and picked some more spinach and collard greens.  The greens are as tender as the spinach right now so I used both in a lasagna.

 

Started with salad made from assorted lettuce from the garden and a couple of green onions.

 

 

Then we moved on to the lasagna.  I need to find a pan that is deeper, but around the same width.  I always have an overflow problem.

 

 

[rotuts]

Yum Yum on the above

 

deeper Lasagna pans are oddly hard to find.

 

I use 'disposable' aluminum pans that a line w parchment paper and use over and over again.

[kayb]

Makes me want lasagna. 

 

And I'm pulling for AP. The "home horse," after all, since he won the Arkansas Derby.

[patrickamory]

Giant white bean salad with marinated chicken thighs cooked at 400F on a sheet pan.

 

[Paul Bacino]

Made a turkey roll

 

Wright Bacon --Top layer

 

Turkey thigh ground/ hard garlic salami/ fontina cheese/ chedder/ Red devil sauce/ parsley/ ritz crackers

 

Smoked 2 hrs w/ mesquite wood

 

Edited May 16, 2015 by Paul Bacino (log)

[Paul Bacino]

Done..

 

 

 

[Dave W]

Man all the food on this page looks so great. Bonvivant, steamed buns look perfect. Huiray your pasta is just tip top.

Shelby beautiful frittata and Kim Shook that poppy cake looks just wow.

[Paul Bacino]

I made sliders out of my roll!!  Each cut was width of Bacon

 

Worked pretty well

 

 

 

[Ann_T]

A couple of recent meals.

 

 

Last night's dinner - Fresh halibut in a lemon dill buerre blanc sauce.

 

 

Chicken Enchiladas.

[rotuts]

like the tomatoes there BP ! looks health !

[patrickamory]

Gulyas:

 

 

 

 

[rotuts]

except for the Green Bells, looks mighty tasty.

[patrickamory]

rotuts I put those in there for you, and the celery for Kim (I think)!

[Mendel C-k]

 

Oysters

Asparagus with Yolk, Pancetta, and Marrow Sauce (Marrow, capers, shallot, anchovy, garlic, mustard, butter, verjus) and some picked radishes

Serratus ventralis (beef rib) with cauliflower puree, demi glace, 4 hour roast carrot and parsnip, marrow, and persilade (Parsley, shallot, garlic, mustard, anchovy, capers, EVOO)

Persimmon and strawberry compote (with vanilla, ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, orange and lemon) with gin and tonic granita, candied ginger and caramel and macadamia

 

Sorry about the large photos...my plating could do with some work but it tasted pretty good.

Edited May 17, 2015 by Mendel C-k (log)

[huiray]

• Marinated beef slices stir-fried w/ lots of garlic & bittergourd slices.  White rice.

• Soup – Water, garlic, oil, fresh shiitake mushrooms, fresh wood-ear fungus, dried scallops, chicken stock, sliced de-ridged angled loofah, cellophane noodles.

 

[liamsaunt]

Happy Birthday to me.  I had my family over for my birthday.  What do you make when you have nine people, one pescatarian, one who eats absolutely no vegetables, one allergic to crustaceans, and one aging Dad with health issues whose favorite food is pizza?  Pizza.  It was too warm to cook inside without turning on the AC (which I refuse to do in May, especially after our record breaking 100+ inches of snow this winter).  So I grilled them.  I got a new grill a couple of weeks ago, and am still getting used to it, but overall am pleased.  

 

Pepperoni (for the non-vegetable brother and my pepperoni loving nephew)

 

 

Eggplant (for my Mom, sister, and me)

 

 

Peppers and onions (for my husband)

 

 

Margarita (for my niece)

 

 

Dad was thrilled, which made me happy.  Leftovers divided up among all for lunches during the week.

[Anna N]

Salad with SV chicken breast (oh so juicy and tender!) and a creamy garlic dressing.

[mm84321]

Salmon á la nage, sauce vert 

 

[Dejah]

Yesterday, we celebrated grandson's 17th birthday, and his little sister's 3rd birthday. Food requested by the families was Alaskan King Crab. We cleaned up every leg and claw, along with corn on the cob, taters, marinated vegetables, avocado vegetable rolls and a lb. of garlic butter!

 This was the first batch of crab while the second batch was steaming...

 

For dessert, we had DQ Oreo Cookies ice cream cake AND the first rhubarb pie of the season.

 

It's May in Manitoba, and the weather is miserable...windy with gusts up to 90 km/h! It started raining yesterday afternoon, and by this afternoon, we were getting ice pellets. Now, evening...snow is falling!

 

Kids requested black bean garlic beef and bitter melon for supper - hard to believe my kids call this "comfort food". Eaten with lots of rice and fuzzy melon soup.

 

Now, some hot chocolate and snuggling on the couch under blankets...

 

 

[Smithy]

Dejah, you have the snow now, we're getting it tomorrow.  Meanwhile, today between thunderstorms I realized that it's GREEN and it suddenly (truly, within a day) smells like our northern spring.  I don't know what plant(s) make that smell (newly-leafing alder? willow?), but it's distinctive - and magical.

 

The ramps are up in our woods, and the markets have good asparagus.  I scored some scallops (marked down for quick sale) this weekend.  Dinner was seared scallops with asparagus, ramps, and prosciutto with caper butter, over rice. Bread from today's baking exercise, warm from the oven.

 

 

 

 

[huiray]

A late night snack...a few ladles of the just-done pot of chicken stock/broth, w/ purple & green pencil asparagus plus baby zucchini scattered into it and zapped briefly.

 

[liuzhou]

Pulled beer-braised duck leg with carrot, red and green chilli, garlic and new potatoes.

 

It may look a bit monochrome, but it didn't taste so.

 

[Thanks for the Crepes]

Dejah,

 

All of the food looks particularly good for your birthday spread.

 

Congratulations on being able to afford to feed your family and grandson and granddaughter wild Alaskan king crab legs. They are unparalleled when they fit the budget, no question. Not only are they delicious beyond comprehension, but did you ever check out the incredible nutrition on them? It makes them even easier to justify in the food outlay.

 

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/finfish-and-shellfish-products/4160/2

 

I have a question about your beautiful avocado rolls?

 

How do you achieve that dark green and light green affect on the wrap? You rarely see that even in the best sushi bars here.

 

It's really attractive. 

 

PS: The neighbor brought me a piece of ice cream cake tonight (not homemade). I scarfed it down anyway, but the layers did not taste like they were supposed to. The white ice cream had NO vanilla. The brown ice cream layer tasted only faintly of chocolate. The brown cookie-textured layer between them tasted of no chocolate at all. I ate it anyway because I've been dieting, and was starved for a sweet "treat". Sure wish I'd spent the calories on something better. 

 

But I would have happily scarfed up a piece of your rhubarb pie with no regrets at all!

Edited May 18, 2015 by Thanks for the Crepes (log)