Dinner 2016 (Part 1)

[sartoric]

A simple pesto with spaghetti as I struggle to use all the basil we have growing.

Served with garlic sourdough.

[liamsaunt]

Linguini with clam sauce. An old favorite that I have not made in a while for some reason

 

[Kim Shook]

Steve – WAY back to your post of 12/14 – re: sugar cane and Craig Claiborne. Stories like that are one of my favorite things about eG.  I love hearing about how people come to such an interest in food.  Thanks for sharing.

 

Okanagancook – your pork cracklings and Yorkies are the best I’ve ever seen.  Two things dearly beloved of my late stepdad, Ted Fairhead (some of you will remember him) and I never see either without thinking of him!

Finally back to post some recent meals!  With the craziness of Christmas and requisite colds and general craziness, I’ve been lax in my reporting! 

 

An old favorite:

Roasted lamb shanks, salad and orzo.  I never make plain old roasted lamb shanks, but it’s how my mom always made them and just what I wanted that night!

 

We decorated our tree with the traditional Shook fondue meal.

 

Beef and steamed potatoes:

 

Bread and béarnaise:

 

Veggies and dips – Green Goddess (Shook family tradition and not easy to find these days) and bleu cheese:

 

Various dips for the fondue: 

Pizza, A1, HP, sweet and sour, guac, and horseradish.  There was also curry and bbq.

 

Dippers for the chocolate fondue:

 

Our favorite – charred marshmallow drizzled with chocolate:

 

Christmas Eve we had our usual family and friends open house.  We had about 40 people show.  I tried a bit of a different menu this year – still trying to please everyone, but with less work – especially at the last minute. 

 

Smoked salmon and toasts with all the accoutrement:

 

Crackers, cheeses and sausage:

 

The ‘main course’ was make-it-yourself sandwiches with ham, turkey, slow cooker Italian beef and all the fixings.  Ham and turkey:

 

Beef:

 

Salad served with Marlene’s bleu cheese dressing and my dad’s Paprika dressing:

 

Macaroni salad:

 

My grandmother’s fruit salad:

 

Pickles and olives:

 

My refrigerator after all of the leftovers were put away:

 

We never got a true Christmas dinner this year, so I improvised one night:

Hot turkey sandwiches with gravy (from a packet) and dressing (from a box).  Trashy, but it hit the spot.

 

Served with leftover macaroni salad and fruit salad:

 

We finally ate our NY’s dinner on the 3^rd.  Scalloped tomatoes:

 

Cornbread:

 

Ham, collards, tomatoes and black eyed peas:

 

Best part of the meal:

[Patrick S]

Dinner was two 5.5# Portuguese roasted chickens flavored with anchos, smoked paprika, loads of garlic, red wine vinegar, olive oil and coriander. These were roasted over a bed of about 3# of waxy red and gold potatoes along with a few carrots. Served with CI's almost no-knead bread, which has become a staple at my home.

Edited January 11, 2016 by Patrick S (log)

[huiray]

5 hours ago, ninagluck said:

Indeed i bought half of a deer from my hunter, butchered it and put in in my freezer. there are worse places to live ;-) this pieces come from the leg, as I labelled every single bag (which I not always do) I knew how to treat it ;-)

 

Ah! Very nice. Thanks for revealing that.

[huiray]

Rice with chorizo & stuff. 

Sautéed flat-head tatsoi.

Sliced cipollini onions, chopped smashed garlic, oil, a cube of caldo de tomate con sabor de pollo plus a half cube of caldo con sabor de pollo [both Knorr], cut-up de-cased chorizo sausage, chopped hot green chillies, chopped de-stringed celery, whole peeled tomatoes [SMT] chopped into quarters w/ the spatula, the tomato juices, long grain rice, water, lightly crushed fresh bay leaves, dried oregano entero, simmer, chopped parsley.

 

On the way there.

 

[Ann_T]

Liuzhou, beautiful bride, and amazing wedding feast.

Weinoo, your soup broth looks rich and delicious.  

 

Dinners since Friday.

 

Greek roasted chicken with lots of garlic, oregano and lemon.

 

 

 

Penne with grilled Italian Sausage.

 

 

Chicken Kiev with rice and lima beans.

[Shelby]

Kim--I always love seeing your food   Ohhhh those scalloped tomatoes YUM and the turkey sandwiches....want.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Used some of that delicious SV pork and made sandwiches last night.  Best bbq sand. I've ever had.

 

Edited January 11, 2016 by Shelby (log)

[blue_dolphin]

I had excellent intentions but instead had this for dinner:  warm apple and onion relish, sharp cheddar, crisp bread and red wine.

 

Looks remarkably similar to my breakfast.....except for the wine, which was very nice.

[BonVivant]

They get culled sometimes mostly due to over population. Well, at least that's what the government says. I like them in a braise with smoke beer, Speck, juniper berries and mushrooms. Served with Spätzle.

 

 

[Okanagancook]

Curried lamb, dahl, grated curried zucchini, cucumber raita, rice and the fireplace roasted eggplant from the 'cooking in the fireplace thread' topped with the famous tomato chutney.  Here is the eggplant.  DH thought it was too smoky but I liked it.

 

[sartoric]

Bacon and mushroom risotto, served with salad and fresh sourdough.

 

[ElainaA]

5 hours ago, BonVivant said:

They get culled sometimes mostly due to over population. Well, at least that's what the government says. I like them in a braise with smoke beer, Speck, juniper berries and mushrooms. Served with Spätzle.

When we visited my nephew in San Diego we ate wild boar sausage and wild boar roast - both delicious. He said he got 2 boars at 350 yards with 2 shots (and I do believe him - he had been an army sniper a few years earlier - putting his training to good use). 

[ElainaA]

Dinner tonight - a friend gave us several pieces of venison so tonight I thawed and cooked the piece of backstrap. Panfried really fast, served with a red wine, shallot and juniper berry sauce. Venison was a major part of my growing up diet but it always seemed that chewing it should have given me physical education credit. This was much better. With a potato rosti with yogurt/scallion sauce and some chopped tomato.

 

 

[Norm Matthews]

We had Pork Bulgogi for dinner tonight and cooked it at the table.

 

[Ann_T]

Tonight, we skipped dinner and went right to dessert.

 

 

Apple Pie

 

[Anna N]

 

Inspired by @blue_dolphin. Cheddar melt with onion marmalade. 

[huiray]

Pasta with crème fraîche, parsley, lemon & parmesan.

Basically the recipe from Bluebeard, Indianapolis.**

Gremolata: Chopped parsley, minced garlic (Music), lemon zest.  Sauce: Crème fraîche, Arbequina EV olive oil, fresh lemon juice; grated parmigiano reggiano, hot red chili flakes, gremolata.  Combination: Just-cooked fresh spaghettini [Nicole-Taylor's] straight from the cooking water, the sauce, sea salt & black pepper, toss well.  Serve.

I varied the quantities &etc in the recipe.

 

** BTW it's just Abbi Merriss now at Bluebeard. (see here, here for more info)

 

Edited January 12, 2016 by huiray
Corrected typo and added omitted ingredients. (log)

[liuzhou]

Dinner tonight was a simple dish of pan-roasted chicken, new potatoes and stir-fried cauliflower. I've posted such before, so won't trouble you with images of that.

 

But I made a little starter which I've never done before. I bought a few baby octopuses (octupi?) about the length of my thumb....

 

 

and marinated them in lemon juice and zest, Sichuan (Pixian) doubanjjiang (spicy broad bean sauce), garlic, salt and a pinch of sugar. Then briefly stir-fried the lot together. I was very happy with the results. So was my mouth.

 

 

Edited January 12, 2016 by liuzhou (log)

[liamsaunt]

Yesterday my fish share was hake, and I wanted to do something different.  I found a recipe on NYTimes cooking for a dish called Cha Ca La Wong, and decided to make it.  This required running around to multiple stores on my lunch break to find things like fresh tumeric, Thai basil, and dry fried shallots, but the result was worth it.  Lots of bright, spicy flavors.  Terrific for a cold night.

 

 

 

[Paul Bacino]

After a Playing a Game of Indoor Football ( Soccer )  came home to watch some Outdoor Football  National Champion ship!!

 

Paully's Pizza Pie

 

The dough is Basic 65%  Hydrated AP   but this has 30%  White wine in the liquid

 

Simple Hamburger. Mushroom with an Asiago Cheese

 

 

 

Edited January 12, 2016 by Paul Bacino (log)

[Shelby]

Salad and oysters last night...with few shrimp.

 

[gfweb]

23 hours ago, Shelby said:

Kim--I always love seeing your food   Ohhhh those scalloped tomatoes YUM and the turkey sandwiches....want.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Used some of that delicious SV pork and made sandwiches last night.  Best bbq sand. I've ever had.

 

 

 

Nice.  SV pulled pork always reminds me how dried-out regular pulled pork can be.

[HungryChris]

Chicken salad and salad, smoked salmon spread and a few pickled onions.

[Sparren]

Dinner last friday.