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Dinner 2016 (Part 8)

ElainaA

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Okanagancook

Okanagancook

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Man, you guys are kill'n it with these dinner  posts!!!!!!!

Great work everyone.

Can't believe there are people who eat at fast food places, night after night.

They have no clue.  Really no clue.  Very sad.  It can be a matter of economics also as I understand.  And that is really sad.

cheers to summer and our bounty.   Share if you have extra.  Always a good thing.

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Wild_Yeast

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Steamed the last of my homemade Chiuchow dumplings. Ground pork, Asian chives, Chinese celery, shitake mushrooms and roasted peanuts wrapped in crystal wrapper. Also made Beijing-style Smashed Cucumber salad.

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Okanagancook

Okanagancook

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Hey Wild_Yeast, wonderful to have you posting!  Your dumpling are beautiful.  "Crystal Wraper"?

Are they made with wheat flour or those dreadfully difficult rice/wheat starch dough dumplings?

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Wild_Yeast

Wild_Yeast

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21 minutes ago, Okanagancook said:

Hey Wild_Yeast, wonderful to have you posting!  Your dumpling are beautiful.  "Crystal Wraper"?

Are they made with wheat flour or those dreadfully difficult rice/wheat starch dough dumplings?

Thanks @Okanagancook , it is that one. The recipe I use has wheat and tapioca starch instead of rice starch. They're not "dreadfully difficult" lol, as a matter of fact I think they're much easier to work with than the wheat flour kind. you can't overknead it since there's no gluten to worry about. It's only biggest enemy is when it gets too cold, the starch seizes and crumbles. So you have to work fast, or get an assembly line of volunteers, family works best. Lol 

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JoNorvelleWalker

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Last night was guacamole, not very good guacamole, too much raw onion.  Overcooked RG beans.  Tonight I'm tired.  Very tired.  Canned tuna, probably too much raw onion.

 

I'm about to go find out.

 

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huiray

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A day of grazing and odds & ends.

 

More of the BKT from here on rice; plus stir-fried kai-lan stems.

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Jamaican patties from "Patties of Jamaica".

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Also got a bag of frozen ones for munchies later...

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Gingered chicken soup w/ bamboo shoots [from Asia Mart], straw mushrooms [Dragonfly], wong nga pak & toasted wheat vermicelli [Ahmed Foods] folded in right at the end. Scallions.

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Mini apple strudel from The Fresh Market's bakery. [This one]

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Anna N

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10 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

Last night was guacamole, not very good guacamole, too much raw onion.  Overcooked RG beans.  Tonight I'm tired.  Very tired.  Canned tuna, probably too much raw onion.

 

I'm about to go find out.

 

But you do have a libation of some sort as a consolation prize?

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kayb

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A hybrid ratatouille/gumbo, as detailed on the Create My Meal thread, to make use of leftover chicken. 

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JoNorvelleWalker

JoNorvelleWalker

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1 hour ago, Anna N said:

But you do have a libation of some sort as a consolation prize?

 

Well, yes, Soave of course.  Though actually the tuna and onion was quite tasty with a few quartered tomatoes.

 

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gfweb

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On 8/22/2016 at 8:54 PM, Norm Matthews said:

Our dinner was KC strip steak on the grill, stuffed mushrooms, baked potato and asparagus.  The little tomato was the first one from the garden. We split it. 

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Looks more like a NY strip  ; - )

 

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gfweb

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20 hours ago, Okanagancook said:

This wasn't very good.  Kung Pao shrimp from Chinese Kitchen by Eileen Yin Fei Lo.  Too much spice.  Over powered the shrimp and too many peanuts.  Didn't finish it.

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Exact same thing happened to me w kung pao shrimp last week. Too damn spicy.

 

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rotuts

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indeed.

 

most digitally Inclined these days would have 

 

;)

 

or 

 

^_^

 

or

 

-_-

 

personally I enjoy

 

:P

 

and

 

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although the last one is 

 

O.o

 

still on dial up are Ya ?    AOL ??

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gfweb

gfweb

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I'm old school, brother @Rotuts   ; - ).

Still on DSL, which is so crappy it might as well be dial-up.

 

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Kerry Beal

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5 hours ago, huiray said:

A day of grazing and odds & ends.

 

More of the BKT from here on rice; plus stir-fried kai-lan stems.

 

Jamaican patties from "Patties of Jamaica".

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Also got a bag of frozen ones for munchies later...

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Always enjoyed good Jamaican patties! Not too hot though.

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ElainaA

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I've been too busy to post much recently but I did take pictures so here are a few meals.

 

Chicken thigh pieces seasoned with garlic, parsley, cumin, paprika, crushed red peppers and salt - sat for a couple of hours in the refrigerator then skewered and grilled. There was a nice yogurt sauce with more garlic to go with. Also home made naan topped with yogurt with chopped cucumbers, mint, parsley, s&p and a little hot sauce, then a layer of chickpeas mashed with vinegar, onions,parsley and a little olive oil and finally topped with sliced tomatoes seasoned with sumac, cumin, coriander, chopped garlic, red pepper flakes and salt. Very good but a bit challenging to eat with out structural collapse.

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Veal braised with zucchini, grated tomatoes and onions in chicken stock with cinnamon and a risotto with dried porcini.

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Boneless chicken breast marinated in a lemon vinaigrette then grilled, small red potatoes parboiled then grilled, a few tomatoes and cukes in more of the vinaigrette and Deborah Madison's 5 minute beets with some of the golden beets from the garden.

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NWKate

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No pics- still computerally inept but a good French dip with Caesar salad.  Sourdough, toasted and buttered, with roast beef simmered in beef broth and dipped in same- YUM!!!

 

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NWKate

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@anna Thank you for the microwave corn answer! Yes, I believe!  I doubt I will ever try another( or tried/true solution!)!

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sartoric

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Mezze !

Lamb cutlets dusted with sumac, pan fried, served with mint chermoula.
Slow roasted tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant strips with harissa sauce.
Baked SB mushroom caps stuffed with roast garlic, mint and dukkah butter.
Roast pumpkin hummus, olives, pickles, falafels, medjool dates, toasted pita breads.

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liuzhou

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Last night.

 

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Stuff on sticks.

 

Pork marinated in olive oil, lemon juice and zest, s+p  for 24 hours. Cherry tomatoes, red and yellow bell peppers, and shallots marinated in the same marinade for about an hour. Grilled. With rice and a green salad on the side.

 

I ate six sticks.
 

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