Dinner 2016 (Part 7)

[huiray]

Chicken soup.

The last part of the decant from a new batch of chicken stock; plus some retrieved skin & meat, and chopped scallions & some Maldon salt.

 

Stir-fried beef & bittergourd. White rice.

Sliced brisket marinated w/ Shaohsing wine plus some salt, oil, corn starch. Stir-fried w/ garlic & rice bran oil, and sliced cored/de-seeded young bittergourd. Some sugar. Water. 

 

[Shelby]

14 hours ago, gfweb said:

 

Looks great, but not much food there. Appetizer?

Lol, it was bigger than it looks.  I was full.  For a while.  I'm sure I had ice cream later.

[Shelby]

13 hours ago, Auro said:

Today is father's day in Brasil. We had a special family meal

 

I made shrimp conchiglioni, with tomato sauce. 
Unfortunaly is winter in Brazil and the tomatoes are a little green. So I used italians pomodoro pelati and tomato sauce with the natural tomatoes.

Conchiglioni is hard to fit on plate, so I used zuchinni rings under then .

 

 

A good Olive Oil and cooked shrimps

 

 

Filling conchiglioni with tomato sauce, requeijão a brazilian cream cheese and shrimp

 

 

Ready for oven with mozzarella

 

 

Happy Father's Day!  This looks SO good.  If I can find some pasta shells like that, I want to make this. 

[ElainaA]

Pizza night.

For this, the crust was brushed first with garlic oil and then with pesto, Topped with sliced artichoke hearts (pretty much invisible under the cheese and tomato), sliced tomatoes, mozzarella and basil.

 

A second pie with tomato sauce, sausage, sliced yellow pepper and onions and mozzarella..

Edited August 15, 2016 by ElainaA (log)

[scubadoo97]

Last night I did a few wings.  First in the smoker for a couple of hours, then finished on the grill to crisp them up a bit

 

Edited August 15, 2016 by scubadoo97
Typoh (log)

[David Ross]

The annual Hatch chile roast is going on for two weeks at our local Mexican market.  The aroma of those roasting chiles is amazing.  They roast them in a huge, rotating metal basket fired by 6 propane blasters.  I'm pretty tame with chiles, so I bought a bag of the "medium."  (They were also roasting hot, extra hot, and an even hotter strain of Hatch chiles).

 

Simple grilled T-bone steak with fire-roasted hatch chiles in olive oil with some salt and pepper-

[suzilightning]

So John is supposedly due home about 7 pm.  I have no idea if he has any food leftover that he went up with or bought.  I don't care.  It is almost at a human temperature around here so off to create something:

rice noodles are soaking

shrimp to saute

squash - both yellow and green

last of the snow peas to steam

scallions to chop

mix it all together with a sauce of some sort for dinner.

 

In the meantime I need something to eat so I have chicken breast to shred and make into a chicken salad with some minced red onion, replumped dried cranberries, chopped pecans and some mayo along with a hint of celery salt then into a tortilla.

[Kerry Beal]

 

After the discussion here - I just had to make Larb.

[scubadoo97]

Chicken Massaman curry tonight

 

 

 

[Anna N]

 

 

Shrimp, roasted artichoke bottoms over zoodles. 

[Thanks for the Crepes]

We were under the usual heat advisory until 8 PM today with heat indices in the 105 to 110 F (40.5 to 43 C). Today I felt like making a no-cook, mostly cold dinner, so that's what happened. Cold oven-fried chicken thighs, Healthy Multi-Grains toast with butter, little cherry tomatoes picked 30 minutes earlier, Thompson and black muscadine grapes and this Avocado Cumcumber Salad. Thanks @cyalexa!

 

I had everything for the salad except fresh cilantro, parsley or tarragon, but it was excellent without it. The tomatoes came from my kind neighbor 2 houses down, and the cucumber was another portion of the monster my brother brought me from his garden. It's 9:25 PM here and still 86 F/30 C. But on the upside, I had so few dishes tonight I was able to pop the grease trap screen thingie from the ventilator hood over the top of the stove into the dishwasher.

Edited August 16, 2016 by Thanks for the Crepes (log)

[robirdstx]

On my own for dinner tonight, so used up some leftovers.

 

 

[FauxPas]

Warm summer days and sometimes we want simple meals. Also, had to use up farm eggs and CSA farm box produce (peppers, cukes, tomatoes, onion, pattypan squash, basil). So, last night's dinner was an easy baked frittata with squash, garlic, parmesan cheese and basil. And a Greek salad on the side. 

 

 

 

[Okanagancook]

Forgot to take a picture.  Grilled lamb chops, eggplant, and mushrooms.  Plus roasted potatoes in the CSO.  Also made the classic green beans, onions, garlic and tomatoes.  Never made this dish before.  It is delicious made with all veggies from the garden.  What took me so long.  You can keep the beans a little firm or make them soft....I made them soft.  I also used some frozen caramelized onions that I had made a few months ago.  This was great because I was in a hurry and would not have caramelized them properly.  I am going to make some more now that onions are fresh.

[liamsaunt]

Scallops grilled on a plancha on a salad of cherry tomatoes, over toasted Israeli couscous

 

[David Ross]

10 hours ago, FauxPas said:

Warm summer days and sometimes we want simple meals. Also, had to use up farm eggs and CSA farm box produce (peppers, cukes, tomatoes, onion, pattypan squash, basil). So, last night's dinner was an easy baked frittata with squash, garlic, parmesan cheese and basil. And a Greek salad on the side. 

 

 

 

So delicious I'm going to make this for dinner this week.  We're hot in Eastern Washington right now, (though not as suffering hot as some parts of the country), and this just looks perfect for this time of year.

[weinoo]

 

Maryland style crab cakes over a sauté of corn, cherry tomatoes, and serrano pepper.

[Shelby]

Fried chicken and gizzards, squash, mac and cheese and Silver Queen

 

[shain]

Meatballs with baharat spice mix (all-spice, cumin, cinnamon, black pepper), garlic - pan fried and then pouched_(typo) poached in a buttermilk + rich yogurt sauce with a touch of fenugreek, chili and cumin + cilantro.

 

Penne with okra, browned onion, garlic, sumac, sesame, sirene cheese, parsley.

This is my meatball-free serving.
I left the grated cheese on the counter, and so it melted into those strange looking blobs.

 

Simple tomato-cucumber-onion with tahini sauce on the side.

Edited August 16, 2016 by shain (log)

[huiray]

Soup.

Chicken stock, water, yellow & red carrots, bittergourd, rehydrated snow fungus. Scallions.

 

Mei fun w/ stuff.

Hot oil, garlic, sliced pre-prepped winter-type bamboo shoots, a can of curry Cha'i-Pow-Yü (this one)(back view), firm tofu chunks, seasoning adjusted. Scallions.

 

Plus quick-pickle cucumbers.

Sliced Persian cucumbers salted for a little while, rinsed & drained, then pickled w/ aged rice vinegar, hon-mirin, sugar, sea salt, scallions, toasted sesame seeds.

 

Edited August 16, 2016 by huiray
Removed extraneous photo & edited links (log)

[Okanagancook]

2 hours ago, shain said:

Meatballs with baharat spice mix (all-spice, cumin, cinnamon, black pepper), garlic - pan fried and then pouched in a a buttermilk + rich yogurt sauce with a touch of fenugreek, chilli and cumin + cilantro.

 

Penne with okra, browned onion, garlic, sumac, sesame, sirene cheese, parsley.

This is my meatball-free serving.
I left the grated cheese on the counter, and so it melted into those strange looking blobs.

 

Simple tomato-cucumber-onion with tahini sauce on the side.

Your Baharat mix is quite different from the one I have used.  It is out of The Complete Middle East Cookbook by Tess Mallos in the Gulf States section.  This mix has 1/2 c black pepper, 1/4 c coriander seeds, 1/4 cu cassia bark, 1/4 c cloves, 1/3 c cumin seeds, 2 teaspoons cardamom seeds, 4 whole nutmegs and 1/2 cup paprika.  Can you comment on this?  Your meal looks fantastic.  Was it lamb in the meatballs?

[Anna N]

@shain

Wow those meatballs look incredibly good.  Can you tell me what you mean by "pouched"?   I would not sneer at a detailed recipe for the meatballs and the sauce.

[FauxPas]

13 minutes ago, Anna N said:

Wow those meatballs look incredibly good.  Can you tell me what you mean by "pouched"?

 

I'm guessing that it's a typo and was meant to read "poached."  

[robirdstx]

14 minutes ago, Anna N said:

@shain

Wow those meatballs look incredibly good.  Can you tell me what you mean by "pouched"?   I would not sneer at a detailed recipe for the meatballs and the sauce.

 

Maybe poached?

[Anna N]

10 minutes ago, FauxPas said:

 

I'm guessing that it's a typo and was meant to read "poached."  

 Usually I'm smart enough to figure that out. Forgot to put my brain in gear this time I guess. Thank you.