Dinner 2016 (Part 5)

[Shelby]

Salad night

 

 

 

[rotuts]

@Shelby   

 

very Chef-ey looking

 

Nice.  did you get a big tip ?

 

[liuzhou]

 

Pan fried sea bass fillet.

 

Couscous with capers, mint and gherkins.

 

Fried yellow bell pepper, garlic, ginger and Chinese chives.

 

Then I went back to the kitchen and cooked the other fillet.

Edited June 3, 2016 by liuzhou (log)

[Anna N]

 

Leftover steak, fried onions, fried mushrooms on a home-made toasted bun with some sliced Gruyere.   The whole thing was given a brief sojourn under the broiler. 

[gfweb]

Some recent dinners

 

Beef tenderloin with cauliflower  "cous cous"

 

 

BBQ Baby back ribs served with coleslaw and cornbread

 

 

Meatloaf with slaw and roasted cheddar cauliflower

 

 

BBQ Chicken with cheddar cauliflower and salad

[mm84321]

@mm84321, is that Mt. Mansfield in Vt.? I went to Mt. Mansfield Union High for a year when we lived in Jericho.

 

This would have been in the 70's, and almost impossible to find any kind of mango, much less a good one with notes of coconut.

 

Absolutely gorgeous photography, as usual!

 

Yes. Mount Mansfield in Vermont! I passed the high school on my drive home. Such a beautiful state! 

Edited June 3, 2016 by mm84321 (log)

[chileheadmike]

Ribs, seared new potatoes, and asparagus from a couple weeks ago. 

[mgaretz]

Hash made with leftover tri-tip:

 

 

 

[rotuts]

re: Meatloaf

 

@gfweb

 

my 'likes' does not involve the ML

 

indeed the ML has given me Deep Concerns

 

I would have pointed out those concerns Graphically  but my Photoshop Elements has taken the week-end off early.

 

so I could not crop the Pic of gf to make my point a bit clearer:

 

a bit North of the center of the Plate, very much to the West  

 

there are various " Green Items " dans that loaf

 

I sure do hope that none of them are 

 

1 ) celery    

 

nor

 

2) Green Bell Peppers   

 

I am a Big Fan of "  To Each Their Own "

 

but those two Items Ive mention

 

if plated

 

require Toot Sweet  Thearapy

 

just saying.

 

even MR, many bottles can not make up for that aberration  

 

Just Saying

 

Good Weekend to all.

[shain]

Part of tonight dinner.
Basmati rice pilaf, with toasted coconut, dried cranberries, toasted almonds.

Chopped vegetable salad, dressed in olive oil, lemon, slat and pepper.

 

Dessert was a flaugnarde (in the desserts thread).

 

[BonVivant]

Fast dinner. Wanted to use up all the herbs and last of vegs, and with some sliced seared steak it became a meaty salad. Made some simple flat bread quickly with lots of snipped chives in the dough (folded several times and rolled out, and repeated). Turkish chilli oil for the bread, Vietnamese fish sauce for the steak salad.

 

[ElainaA]

Salad and bruschetta last night: Salad is Boston lettuce, chicken, avocado, fennel, tomato, red onion and pea shoots with a version of green goddess dressing (EVO, wine vinegar, yogurt, avocado, chives, parsley and cilantro all run through the food processor).On top is some crumbled, fried chicken skin - a nice crunch. 

 

The bruschetta are seasoned ricotta, red onion and oven roasted tomato.

Maybe someday I'll learn to clean up the edges of the plate before i take a picture - but I doubt it. 

[gfweb]

2 hours ago, rotuts said:

re: Meatloaf

 

@gfweb

 

my 'likes' does not involve the ML

 

indeed the ML has given me Deep Concerns

 

I would have pointed out those concerns Graphically  but my Photoshop Elements has taken the week-end off early.

 

so I could not crop the Pic of gf to make my point a bit clearer:

 

a bit North of the center of the Plate, very much to the West  

 

there are various " Green Items " dans that loaf

 

I sure do hope that none of them are 

 

1 ) celery    

 

nor

 

2) Green Bell Peppers   

 

I am a Big Fan of "  To Each Their Own "

 

but those two Items Ive mention

 

if plated

 

require Toot Sweet  Thearapy

 

just saying.

 

even MR, many bottles can not make up for that aberration  

 

Just Saying

 

Good Weekend to all.

 

 

Thanks for your wise comments, Brother Rotuts.

 

I am in complete agreement re green stuff in a ML esp celery and green pepper. They are an abomination in my sight.

 

The vegetation in the ML are yellow onions.

 

Perhaps the color balance is a bit off in your screen?

 

[mgaretz]

I put celery (and carrots and onions) in my meatloaf and so far everyone has loved it, including my daughter who loathes celery in general.  I don't use green pepper, but how out of place is it when stuffed green peppers are a common dish?

[huiray]

A very satisfying meal from a day or two ago: The rest of the top sirloin cap & wild rice from here (eaten from the "holding plate" and straight from the pot with zero formality :-D but, then, plus a nice salad eaten with great relish.

 

ETA: Stuff that went in included: Romaine, red-green, green leaf lettuces; bunching broccoli; baby spinach; fresh tarragon (from my garden); sliced scallions, shallots; Salina salted capers [Mongetto]; sliced hard-boiled local eggs; AgroDolce Bianco Delizia Estense, Arbequina EV olive oil, ground black pepper, Maldon salt

Edited June 3, 2016 by huiray (log)

[Shelby]

35 minutes ago, mgaretz said:

I put celery (and carrots and onions) in my meatloaf and so far everyone has loved it, including my daughter who loathes celery in general.  I don't use green pepper, but how out of place is it when stuffed green peppers are a common dish?

I do too...not always, but sometimes.  

 

I always tell Rotuts to avert his eyes when I've included anything like that 

[sartoric]

A roast chicken tray bake with lemon and chicken stock sauce.

Served with roast potatoes, carrots, shallot and garlic, plus broccoli cheese.

 

[catdaddy]

On May 29, 2016 at 5:18 AM, rarerollingobject said:

To book-end my day of obsessive noodle eating nicely (after Cantonese wonton mee for breakfast), dao xiao mian, or Sichuanese fresh knife-cut noodles. 

 

With chicken crackling and crispy fried shallots (which I made myself, so used the oil rendered from the chicken skin to fry the shallots), doubanjian Sichuanese chilli broad bean paste, ground Sichuan and white peppers, Chinkiang black vinegar, minced green onions and dark soy sauce that I simmered down with star anise, cinnamon, black pepper, tangerine peel and brown sugar.

 

You then slick it with a tablespoonful of chicken oil, mix up with the chewy cooked noodles, douse it with chicken crackling, and slurrrrrrrp.

 

The only time I would stop eating this is if my bowl was empty.

[robirdstx]

My husband had been wanting to go out for Indian food, but with his busy work schedule, we just hadn't found the opportunity, so I did a search and found a recipe for Indian-Spiced Chicken on bonappetit.com. The recipe made a large amount of sauce, so I added some carrots along with the potatoes. I served it with store bought garlic naan. Happy husband!

 

 

 

 

 

[Anna N]

 

 Not sure if this was a late lunch or an early dinner. A baked potato with a (disappointing) mushroom ragu.

[kayb]

3 hours ago, gfweb said:

 

 

Thanks for your wise comments, Brother Rotuts.

 

I am in complete agreement re green stuff in a ML esp celery and green pepper. They are an abomination in my sight.

 

The vegetation in the ML are yellow onions.

 

Perhaps the color balance is a bit off in your screen?

 

 

Chefs after my own heart. You never have to worry about green bell pepper in anything I cook. And celery only extremely rarely.

 

1 hour ago, mgaretz said:

I put celery (and carrots and onions) in my meatloaf and so far everyone has loved it, including my daughter who loathes celery in general.  I don't use green pepper, but how out of place is it when stuffed green peppers are a common dish?

 

Stuffed green peppers are an abomination, too. Right, Rotuts?

[ElsieD]

This ate better than it looks.  I found a Molly Stevens recipe on-line for braised monkfish.  The dish on the side is orzo with spinach and cherry tomatoes.

[gfweb]

Only worse thing to find in a meatloaf (or meatball) are raisins.

[mm84321]

Chicken, stuffed swiss chard, albufera sauce

 

[kayb]

1 hour ago, gfweb said:

Only worse thing to find in a meatloaf (or meatball) are raisins.

 

That's an absolutely horrible thought.

 

"This wasn't just plain terrible. This was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins on it."

-- Dorothy Parker