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Dinner 2016 (Part 3)


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Early afternoon dinner. Maklouba (Arabic for upside-down). An hearty rice dish with homemade baharat spice mix (mostly cumin, allspice, cinnamon, black pepper and turmeric). Roasted eggplant slices, cauliflower and carrot slices. Also plenty of chickpeas and caramelized onion. I usually top it with pine nuts, but opted for ewe milk feta this time. The common preparation is to fry the vegetables, but this results in a dish that is too rich and oily to my taste, so I roast them. It is also very common to add chicken, which I do not.

 

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Cold ouzo with spearmint makes a lovely digestif a warm afternoon.

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I posted the recipe in another thread:

 

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Beef stew made with ends of tri-tips that I cut into steaks.  Tri-tip, carrots, celery, onion, potato, parsnips, peas, mushrooms and barley.  Made in the Cuisinart Electric Pressure Cooker.  

 

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Sous vide chuck eye and roasted carrots, parsnips and potatoes. 

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12 hours ago, Shelby said:

Sartoric, lovely noodle bowl.  You might want to put that on the Ramen cook off thread?

 

Hungrychris, Your scallops always look perfect.  

 

RRO, jealous of your seafood.  Would love to see more pictures sometime.

 

Ann, I'll trade you livers for your bread :)  Now I'm hungry for a tuna sandwich! 

 

SV BBQ pork sandwiches on homemade white bread last night.  My pickles that I made last summer on the side.  Gotta get a move on and eat 'em up...'bout time for more cucumbers :)

 

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SV changed how I felt about BBQ. Even the best stuff was a little dry and rescued only by sauce. Done SV, you  can just spice the pork and it remains juicy and flavorful

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This is salted egg yolk prawns, a Malaysian dish. You steam salted duck egg yolks, mash them and then fry them in butter with chillis, garlic, ginger, curry leaves and shallots until the yolks are foamy, and then coat crispy deep fried prawns in this sauce. Eaten with steamed Chinese broccoli and white rice.


If you don't immediately recognise the end product as prawns, it's because of my Staunch Prawn Preparation Opinions, which are as follows:

1. Always remove tail. Tail-on prawns just annoy me. Presentation is nicer, yes, but this is dinner and I ain't playing.

2. Except in very rare cases, I prefer shell off. I do like when prawn shells go crispy, but with a soft, wet sauce, it's hard to keep them crispy enough, so shell off is better.

3. I prefer head on. (Australian prawns are always sold head on).

4. I would rather de-face the prawn, ie. cut off the sharp prongs, whiskers, eyes, and front legs with scissors. Less stabby and fewer eye-balls.

5. Always devein and butterfly.

 

So in sum, my preference is face off, head on, shell off, butterflied, tail off. Phew! See? Staunch.

 

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4 hours ago, rarerollingobject said:

This is salted egg yolk prawns, a Malaysian dish. You steam salted duck egg yolks, mash them and then fry them in butter with chillis, garlic, ginger, curry leaves and shallots until the yolks are foamy, and then coat crispy deep fried prawns in this sauce. Eaten with steamed Chinese broccoli and white rice.


If you don't immediately recognise the end product as prawns, it's because of my Staunch Prawn Preparation Opinions, which are as follows:

1. Always remove tail. Tail-on prawns just annoy me. Presentation is nicer, yes, but this is dinner and I ain't playing.

2. Except in very rare cases, I prefer shell off. I do like when prawn shells go crispy, but with a soft, wet sauce, it's hard to keep them crispy enough, so shell off is better.

3. I prefer head on. (Australian prawns are always sold head on).

4. I would rather de-face the prawn, ie. cut off the sharp prongs, whiskers, eyes, and front legs with scissors. Less stabby and fewer eye-balls.

5. Always devein and butterfly.

 

So in sum, my preference is face off, head on, shell off, butterflied, tail off. Phew! See? Staunch.

 

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Do you still take dinner appointments ? It's just a 10h flight, I guess ...

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My riff on Porco à Alentejana (pork in the style of Alentejo). I prefer razors or almond clams in this dish. Sauce is not tomato, it's massa de pimentão / red pepper paste.

 

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Bread to mop up all that nice sauce of course.

 

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On 3/9/2016 at 8:21 PM, huiray said:

Soybeans.

Taucheo.

Kangkong.

Stir-fry w/ garlic as well.

 

Thanks!

 

 

On 3/9/2016 at 10:22 AM, Kim Shook said:

kayb – that corn looks great!  What’s your secret?

 

This is Silver Queen corn I froze last summer. I dumped a pint carton of mostly-thawed corn in a skillet with 1/4 stick of melted butter, let it saute/steam over medium heat until the water from the corn is all cooked away (there is quite a bit of water put off by the thawed corn) and all the kernels are well coated in butter. Added about 1/3 cup milk, and let that cook mostly away as well, on medium low heat with the lid on. Let it go just a bit too long, and actually got some browned bits, but that didn't bother me.

 

There is NO corn any better than Silver Queen. Right, @Shelby?

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Tried to add this to the previous post and it didn't wish me to do so, so here's the first time I've been in the kitchen since last Wednesday. Sunday dinner for the kids: roast chicken, corn casserole ( @Kim Shook, it's the Jiffy one!), green peas, baked beans. Simple, easy, good.

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Best fried rice recipe ever; curry fried rice, with crispy garlic and ginger, well-browned beef and onions, lashings of garlic/ginger oil, curry powder, dashi granules, 6 melted Japanese curry bricks and a tablespoon of cocoa(!). And an egg yolk and a little slice of butter. From here: http://ladyandpups.com/2013/02/26/gold-on-gold-curry-fried-rice-eng/

 

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23 minutes ago, rarerollingobject said:

Best fried rice recipe ever; curry fried rice, with crispy garlic and ginger, well-browned beef and onions, lashings of garlic/ginger oil, curry powder, dashi granules, 6 melted Japanese curry bricks and a tablespoon of cocoa(!). And an egg yolk and a little slice of butter. From here: http://ladyandpups.com/2013/02/26/gold-on-gold-curry-fried-rice-eng/

 

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Wow, looks totally devourable.

Thanks for the link, I've subscribed to the blog. What an interesting use of packaged curry. I must get some.

 

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