Dinner 2016 (Part 8)

[Shelby]

2 minutes ago, Okanagancook said:

I have had my mandolin for quite a few years and have only slightly cut myself once.  The key is your UNDIVIDED ATTENTION !  I also use a small bar towel to put on top of the object being sliced if it is large, like potatoes when slicing for frites.  I love my mandolin.  I just picked the last of the zucchini so will make your sala for lunch tomorrow.  Thanks for sharing.

Good idea about the towel.  Adopting that for next time.  You will love the salad....just let it sit for a bit...I let mine sit for about an hour and drain it along the way.  I think I drain 2-3 times.

[scubadoo97]

One of my wife's favorite things.  Seared raw tuna.

Edamame and roasted cauliflower sides, although some more roasting of the cauliflower  would have been beneficial.  

Personally I find seared tuna kinda boring

Edited September 13, 2016 by scubadoo97 (log)

[sartoric]

Lamb shank and barley soup. Served with special toasties, homemade tomato chutney, avocado and Swiss cheese.

 

[Okanagancook]

I agree about boring tuna.

[Okanagancook]

sartoric, your meals are always delicious looking!

[Steve Irby]

Dinner last night was a little comfort food french style.  Potatoes  dauphinois

 

 

With skin on deboned chicken thighs in a light tarragon cream sauce.  

 

 

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

@Steve Irby I would love to have your dinner at the moment!  Would that I could find skin-on boneless thighs to purchase.  I can scarcely get thighs with skin attached in any form -- save when buying a whole chicken.

 

Do you bone the thighs yourself or does your store sell them deboned that way?

 

My actual dinner tonight is a @Wolfert lamb tagine with spinach, lemons, and olives, served with her beet and cinnamon salad.  Since these are Paula Wolfert recipes I expect to sit down to the table around 1:00 am.

 

[scubadoo97]

I don't see boneless skin on thighs in my grocery stores.  But it's pretty easy to debone a thigh and you get that nice bone to save  and  make stock when you have a bag full 

[HungryChris]

Because we had a late lunch in Volterra and got back as darkness was coming on, we opted for snacks out on the patio. I did make the bruschetta that I craved after a disappointing one at lunch.

HC

 

[huiray]

Earlier in the day...

Soft boiled eggs.

Drunk straight from the bowl. Slurp, chew, gulp.

 

Then...

Boiled edamame w/ Maldon salt.

 

Later on...

Chinese take-out from a local place.**

Hot & sour soup. Added some chopped scallions.

Quite good, actually.

General Tso's Chicken (左宗棠雞; Jyutping zo2 zung1 tong4 gai1). With rice.

There was more of both. :-) 

**ETA: From this place.

Edited September 13, 2016 by huiray (log)

[Thanks for the Crepes]

I came back from the grocery store with some deli roast beef that I made cold subs out of that night. The beef was, to put it kindly, disappointing. I hate wasting food, so a couple days later tried to rescue the second half pound by making a cheese steak of sorts. First I caramelized onions, and cremini mushrooms, removed from the pan, and added in the beef which I had cut into strips about an inch and a half long by a quarter inch wide. I added garlic powder, black pepper, a little soy sauce, and a little Worcestershire sauce and stir fried over high heat very briefly. I piled the meat and veggies into deli French bread that had been hollowed out some in the middle and then grilled. I topped it with provolone cheese and popped into the hot oven for a few minutes and served alongside cantaloupe.

 

These were far from the best cheese steaks I've ever had or made, but let me tell you, they were a lot better than the first time out with the sad beef.

 

The next night we had hot Italian sausage with onions and peppers. The original plan was to serve it on buns, but I was getting tired of sandwiches and didn't want pasta either. I just served the sauteed veggies over the browned and beer braised sausage. The star of this meal to the point that I had to rack my brain to recall the protein I served with it yesterday, was a yellow crookneck squash casserole. It's an old-fashioned one with caramelized onions, canned cream of mushroom soup, mayonnaise, and topped with a layer of cheddar cheese. The recipe given to me by an elderly church lady called for a whole cup of mayo and Stove Top stuffing on top of the casserole. I liked her version enough to ask for the recipe, but I'm not putting a cup of mayo in anything unless I am serving a small army. I also used some of the French bread cubes and crumbs with melted butter, Knorr Caldo con sabor de Pollo chicken bouillon powder, parsley and sage instead of the Stove Top. This was really, really good. I think we had more cantaloupe, banana, muscadine grapes and garden tomatoes, but again, my memory is focused on the squash casserole.

 

Tonight was a broiled pork blade steak with rosemary, salt and black pepper, baked sweet potatoes served in their split jacket with butter and salt, and I made two stir fry veggie side dishes. I caramelized some onion in butter first to split between the two dishes, and removed half from the pan to reserve for the second dish. Then, to the onion still in the hot pan, I added white corn that had been cut off its cob and some diced red bell pepper along with mo buttah. All this needed was a little salt. When that was done, I plated it on the plates I had heating on the hot stove top, which gets really hot when the top element electric broiler is going.

 

I rinsed and wiped out the same skillet, added a little oil, and stir fried some thin sliced cremini mushrooms until they gave up their moisture and began to brown. Then I threw in about a quart of counter grown mung bean sprouts, the reserved onion, a half teaspoon of brown sugar, a little splash of white wine, a bigger splash of soy sauce and some black pepper. I stir fried like crazy for just a minute or two, and plated this.

 

As usual, in my rush to get hot food to the table the garnish of toasted sesame oil was added to the bean sprout dish at the table, and I had temporarily forgotten the small but very flavorful sliced garden tomato on the cutting board on the counter.

 

 

[liuzhou]

Happy shopping this morning. I needed rice and, after being unavailable of several months, my favourite brand of Thai hom mali rice was back in stock. 10kg was lugged home. That'll last me about a year. 

 

I also picked up some chicken legs (bone-in and skin-on as ever) and a few other essentials.

Dinner: Chicken legs (I skinned them first - I hate skin unless it is crisply roasted) braised with shallots, garlic, chilli pepper, black olives, lemon juice and zest and a shed-load of coriander leaf/cilantro. Served with afore-mentioned rice.

 

 

(The Thermapen wasn't used with this dish. I was baking bread at the same time.)

 

 

Followed by reheated peach crumble I made earlier in the day.

Edited September 13, 2016 by liuzhou (log)

[rotuts]

@Shelby  

 

""  I don't know how we ate turkey before I learned to SV ""

 

we ate a lot of stuffing and gravy     still do !

[rotuts]

@sartoric

 

nice toastie      Ill remember avocado / melted cheese  for sure      aged at home brie for me !

 

@Steve Irby  

 

double Creamy     nice !

Edited September 13, 2016 by rotuts (log)

[Shelby]

Got another shipment of boudin in from my favorite place so we had to have breakfast last night.  Eggs were done in the Instant Pot.

 

[Steve Irby]

11 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

@Steve Irby I would love to have your dinner at the moment!  Would that I could find skin-on boneless thighs to purchase.  I can scarcely get thighs with skin attached in any form -- save when buying a whole chicken.

 

Do you bone the thighs yourself or does your store sell them deboned that way?

 

My actual dinner tonight is a @Wolfert lamb tagine with spinach, lemons, and olives, served with her beet and cinnamon salad.  Since these are Paula Wolfert recipes I expect to sit down to the table around 1:00 am.

 

I debone the thighs myself.  I usually pay between $0.99 to $1.09 # for thighs versus $2.50 for skinless.  The skin gets nuked for cracklings and fat gets used for matzo balls, confit, top dressing for the dogs, etc.  I vacuum bag the bones and freeze until  I accumulate enough for stock.  A  little trick that I saw on a food program years ago was to make a quick slit length wise along the back of the thigh  then pinch the meat away from the bone in the center.   You then slice/scrap toward the either end.  

[mgaretz]

Meatloaf, served with mashed cauliflower with chives, and salad.

 

 

 

[scubadoo97]

@mgaretz  Now I find this much more interesting and flavorful than seared tuna

Looks wonderful

[ElsieD]

Tried our a new recipe last night  called "Chicken with Chanterelles, Raspberries,  Laliberté cheese and Lemon Thyme".  After the chicken was cooked, it was sliced into three pieces and the cheese inserted between them.  Didn't have raspberries for the garnish so used strawberries.  Served with potatoes mashed with sour cream and chives, carrots and a cucumber and tomato salad.

[sartoric]

Succulent chicken breasts with white wine & thyme reduction. The breasts are skin on, boneless. Served with garlic dill mash potatoes, steamed broccoli and a salad.

[rotuts]

@sartoric  

 

I enjoy all yours posts.  not just because your DownUnder  [ed.:  Ok to say that ? ]

 

and your dishes are a bit out of sink  ( sic ) for up up here ....

 

they just look so tasty   

 

now that Ive buttered you Up  ..

 

you probably see the Breville folks  " At the Club "  etc

 

next time you have a drink with them     

 

and they get a bit Lubed      ask them why they don't have a SteamOven

 

1/4 sheet pan +   60 % higher    for   lets drop the price a bit  :  $ 349  USD  ( 20 % off w BB$B's coupon )

 

just asking ....

[sartoric]

@rotuts, thank you, and down under is perfectly okay.

 

I have a self imposed ban on new kitchen equipment, too much stuff in there already. Although, the anova has been tempting me lately

[ElsieD]

I did see the other day that Breville has come out with something called the Breville Quick Touch Crisp Microwave.  In addition to the microwave functions,  it will also crisp and brown foods such as pizza.  List price $600 Canadian.

[rotuts]

that's fine

 

I like your style   

 

still    a couple of Gigantic Foster's for the Team with the Breville 's ?

[rotuts]

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junk.

 

Steam.   simple   easy