Dinner 2016 (Part 2)

[Tere]

My go to in ice cube form is the fat from the Christmas goose

[Anna N]

 

 some times you have to stop being a food snob and accept all the help you can get. This is a steak and mushroom pie from a local retailer. It was amazingly good.  The meat was tender and tasty and the pastry passed muster as far as I'm concerned.   I wish I could've plated it to better advantage.  

[sartoric]

A Keralan seafood curry, snapper and prawns in a coconut chilli spice mix.

Served with green papaya as vegetable, rice, chutney and pappadams.

[FrogPrincesse]

On ‎2‎/‎9‎/‎2016 at 0:01 PM, Paul Bacino said:

Did  :    Abalone crusted in Corn Flakes / Parm Risotto / Green Beans

 

 

This was a pre tenderized steak

 

 

 

Where were these abalones from? I've bought them in the shell like that from an abalone farm in Hawaii (these were small ones) and am curious to know where else they are available. They are also amazing with pasta & garlic...

[HungryChris]

Fried Stonington Scallops. They looked and smelled so good I bought too many. 1 lb for two would have been plenty, but I bought 1 1/4 lb. I bet the few we had left over will be in an omelet quite soon. My first Caezar Salad was at a place, now long gone, that made it table side and taught me how to make it. I am forever grateful for that lesson!

 

Edited February 11, 2016 by HungryChris
Comma (log)

[Norm Matthews]

Not a great picture but it's chicken slow cooked in seasoned milk and a recipe called Potatoes Romanoff.  We also had gravy made with mushrooms and the liquid from the chicken and a salad with dressing made with pineapple balsamic vinegar, tamarind glaze, homemade mustard, salt and olive oil. 

 

[Ann_T]

Pizza night.  Two pizzas.  Sourdough crusts.

One for my son - Half Greek potato and the other half topped with tomatoes and Kalamata Olives.

Crust.

 

And one topped with Italian Sausage and Mushrooms

 

For Moe and I to share.

[Thanks for the Crepes]

11 hours ago, Tere said:

My go to in ice cube form is the fat from the Christmas goose

 

Great idea, Tere! I wish you'd posted it before I froze some duck fat in a pint container, just the other day. Not too late to thaw it and correct that though. Can't wait for duck fat potatoes.

 

As usual, this thread is an amazing array of top notch, varied and covet-worthy foodstuffs.

 

After both of us eating on the duck and it's stock for three days, plus a ramen lunch for the husband, I still have a quart of gelatinous duck stock and a pint of duck fat in the freezer. My $13 ducky just keeps on giving.

 

As excited as I was about the head on/feet on duck, I have to say that I may not buy the Keystone Katie brand again. I went to their website, and sure enough, I was right about the ducks never eating fish or worms or bugs. It certainly wasn't a bad duck, by any means, but I prefer a little gamier, ducky flavor that comes from the a more natural diet. This one was very mild, and tasted like chicken with a duck texture. It was still a great experience, and people who don't like gamy flavors would probably be overjoyed with their ducks.

 

Tonight I fried up a little one pound pork tenderloin. It was dusted and rubbed with Goya adobe, sage, cumin, chili powder, black pepper, and oregano. Both my adobo and chili powder contained salt, so I didn't add any more. After it marinated in its spice robe for a while at room temp during other prep, it was shaken in flour in a recycled produce bag and shallow fried at med-high in a skillet to develop a crust, then a lid was put on, and heat turned to low to sort of steam-fry it like chicken. When it got near 150F core temp, I took off the lid to recrisp for a few minutes. Then pulled, blotted on paper towels, removed towels, tented with foil and rested for a few minutes and sliced.

 

The tenderloin was served with kabocha squash, brussel sprouts, and cinnamon dusted apple sauce.

 

About half the tenderloin is left, so it will probably appear at dinner tomorrow thin-sliced in sandwiches along with the other half of the kabocha and french fries.

[HungryChris]

Boy, Ann_T, Those pizzas look good enough to eat.!! Nice pics.

[rarerollingobject]

Lovely meals, all.

 

Mine; uni (sea urchin) carbonara with crispy pancetta fluff and toasted nori. 

[liuzhou]

Tonight, I did a very common dish round these parts. 茄子肉末 (qié zi ròu mò). That is aubergine/eggplant with minced pork, done in the wok.

 

 

The pork is marinated in the usual suspects - garlic, ginger, Shaoxing wine, soy sauce, chilli flakes. The aubergine is sliced and stir fried. When almost ready, the pork is added along with any remaining marinade and perhaps a splash of water if it's drying out.. S+P. Chinese chives and chopped coriander leaf/cilantro. Eat. Simple Chinese home cooking.

 

Incidentally, instead of saying "Say Cheese" when taking photographs, the Chinese say "Say Eggplant (茄子 (qié zi))" which has the same result.

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Edited February 11, 2016 by liuzhou
typo (log)

[rotuts]

   @Ann_T   

 

fantastic pizza.  a gift you have.

 

thank you for posting today.

 

pleased you didn't post yesterday.    My pizza yesterday came from WalMart.

 

it was 1/2 off. I would not have been able to 'enjoy' it yesterday had I seen your pic.

 

that's a 1/2 off loss.

[Paul Bacino]

13 hours ago, FrogPrincesse said:

 

Where were these abalones from? I've bought them in the shell like that from an abalone farm in Hawaii (these were small ones) and am curious to know where else they are available. They are also amazing with pasta & garlic...

 

These are out of Monteray!!  Red Abalone

 

http://montereyabalone.com/

 

I tried to get the ones from Hawaii.. which are black..I believe and larger..but they don't ship Live to anything but inland coastal California ...  These I shipped to my daughter in NM.. and were steaks ( fresh ..never frozen )

 

I'd love to try live from Hawaii

[Vlcatko]

Mango and coriander (and green onions, sugar snap peas, radishes, brussel sprouts, broccoli and apple - next time, I think, I will leave out the apple) salad with soy-ginger dressing (grated ginger, lime juice, soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil, rice oil, salt)

[ElainaA]

The closest Asian market is 40 miles away and the local groceries stock only very basic Asian ingredients - nevertheless I occasionally make an approximation of a meal based on Asian cuisine (or,probably, the Americanization of such).  So last night dinner was a chicken and asparagus stir fry with sesame peanut noodles (no picture). I thought it needed something else so I made some pickled carrots and cucumbers (based on recipes from Barbara Tropp's  China Moon) and wanted some dumplings. Alas, the only dumplings available locally were frozen and did not look promising. OK, I can manage this - except alas, alas - neither local grocery had any wonton wrappers. They both had a nice label under an empty shelf and I was assured that MAYBE they would get some in tomorrow. So what you see here is my first attempt at dumplings made from scratch. I used a recipe from Irene Kuo's The Key to Chinese Cooking - one of the first cookbooks I ever bought. The wrappers are what she calls "hot water dough" - much easier to make and roll out than I expected. The filling was ground pork, scallions, cabbage (just a little because that is all I had) chili sauce with garlic, oyster sauce, soy sauce. I followed her instructions for shallow frying - I wish I had steamed them as about half stuck to the pan. But they actually tasted quite good. Served with a dipping sauce of vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil and ginger.

[sartoric]

A Japanese style one bowl dish with soba noodles, poached chicken, veggies and an egg in miso stock.

 

[mgaretz]

Last night's dinner was ribs made two ways:  Smoked and char-siu style.  Served with roasted parsnips (olive oil, honey, salt and pepper), salad and homemade non-dairy cherry-chocolate-almond ice cream for dessert:

 

 

 

 

[rarerollingobject]

Beautiful char siu, @mgaretz. With all my love of Chinese cooking, I've never made it..I must give it a go.

 

Summer in Sydney and hot as hell, so here we have a crispy roast duck salad. With watermelon, pomegranate, the wiltiest, crappiest, most pathetic smithereen of mint, chili, coconut palm sugar, lime juice and deep-fried garlic.

Edited February 12, 2016 by rarerollingobject (log)

[BonVivant]

Rarerollingobject, many thanks! I can't get enough of roe.

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This fish, from Norweigian arctic, needs no more than what is seen here. (plus a lot more crunchy vegs and boiled potatoes, not pictured, however.)

 

 

Side view: stuffed with shelled prawns* and bound using butcher's twine.

(*) Made a cup of broth from the prawn shells and drank it all whilst I was putting everything on the plate.

 

 

Front view. Enormous flakes. The loin is thick and long (500g), which I then sliced in two as I have nothing long enough to serve it in!

 

Edited February 12, 2016 by BonVivant (log)

[sartoric]

Build your own amboogers. My Italian mother in laws recipe and pronunciation. 

The burgers are a mix of pork and beef, grated apple, grated onion, soy and Worcestershire sauce plus salt and pepper.

To serve, crusty poppy seed rolls, tomatoes with basil and balsamic, caramelised onions, baby beetroot and lettuce.

 

 

[Anna N]

@BonVivant

 

 Absolutely love your plating of that fish.   I really, really miss fish but I don't have easy access to anything fresh enough to tempt me.  I have not eaten roe  since I was barely a teenager and I will NOT tell you how many decades ago that is!

Edited February 12, 2016 by Anna N (log)

[HungryChris]

I couldn't wait to try the start in cold oil French fries. Had burgers and fries tonight. Had a russet big enough to hollow out and go to sea in so I turned it into fries. This method produced some great fries. Much less stressful and easier to coordinate with the rest of the meal. 

Thanks, Shelby!

[Anna N]

Really wish you hadn't done that, HungryChris.  I have potatoes in the house so it will be hard to resist an attempt.

 

 

Another meat pie. Steak and onion this time. I steamed some broccoli also and had a side dish of some middle eastern style cucumber quickles. 

[BonVivant]

Anna_N, thank you for your kind comment! And am sorry to hear you have almost no access to good fresh fish. I'd miss it so dearly, too. Hope you get to eat it somewhere on holiday then.

 

This is a big one... about a kilo. Second photo before the glasses just for size.

 

 

 

[shain]

Yorkshire puddings and a quick mushroom and onion gravy (not shown, but you don't miss much, it looks like a gray goop, but a tasty goop).

 

Edited February 13, 2016 by shain (log)