Dinner 2016 (Part 9)

Okanagancook · October 8, 2016

What beautiful looking meat.

I love meat.

robirdstx · October 9, 2016

Chili with Beans over Pasta topped with Shredded Cheese and Diced Onions

Edited October 9, 2016 by robirdstx (log)

scubadoo97 · October 9, 2016

A quick dinner of an airline chicken breast with roasted potatoes, roughed up prior to roasting (thanks donk79) and a beet and feta salad

JoNorvelleWalker · October 9, 2016

6 hours ago, sartoric said:

Pork steaks marinated with soy and oyster sauces, garlic, red onion, chilli, shredded coconut and oil. Pan fried and served with charred asparagus, charred pineapple and cucumber salad. Plus a sauce made with leftover marinade and stock.

Here we have no such thing as "pork steaks". I love language.

sartoric · October 9, 2016

57 minutes ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

Here we have no such thing as "pork steaks". I love language.

They're also called pork scotch fillet, but are actually just slices of neck. These were so tender !

I too love the different words that people use to describe unfamiliar (to me) ingredients.

Can't imagine life without Google

ProfessionalHobbit · October 9, 2016

Salsa verde fixings:

1/4 cup flat-leaf parsley leaves
1/4 cup basil leaves
juice of half a lemon
1 minced garlic clove
3 anchovy fillets
a pinch of sea salt
a scant pinch of crushed red pepper flakes

Process until you obtain a coarsely textured paste. Stir in extra-virgin olive oil until you have a loose sauce. If you need proportions, 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil is about right.

Taste for salt and pepper, then use as desired.

Either broil for 20 minutes at 500 F or bake for 30 minutes at 400 F. Turn chops over twice during cooking.

Boiled potatoes with salsa verde.

4 LaRatte heirloom potatoes, peeled and boiled in salted water, then coarsely diced and served with salsa verde.

Yukon Gold potatoes are fine if you don't have LaRatte heirlooms.

JoNorvelleWalker · October 9, 2016

Assayed an attempt at Marcella Hazan's noted tomato sauce. Did not care for it, myself.

kayb · October 9, 2016

11 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

Here we have no such thing as "pork steaks". I love language.

May not be in New Jersey, but I assure you we have them in the Mid-South, where a barbecued pork steak is a delicacy!

8 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

Assayed an attempt at Marcella Hazan's noted tomato sauce. Did not care for it, myself.

I've always found it needs to be "dressed up" with some herbs and spices, myself.

suzilightning · October 9, 2016

14 hours ago, robirdstx said:

Chili with Beans over Pasta topped with Shredded Cheese and Diced Onions

Almost Cincinnati chili.....where are the ranch oyster crackers??????

Last night was a basic salad with a burger. Found some good 90% lean on markdown yesterday so 2 burgers and 4 sliders from a pound. Soup for tonight with some bread as it is a little drizzly and cool. Can't wait to see what I can do soon when it gets cool.....right now I'm tired of making variations of chicken salads as Johnnybird will not eat sandwiches anymore............unless he is in the car.

Edited October 9, 2016 by suzilightning (log)

robirdstx · October 9, 2016

31 minutes ago, suzilightning said:

Almost Cincinnati chili.....where are the ranch oyster crackers??????

Almost! I did most of my growing up in St. Louis and loved Steak 'n Shake's Chili. But, I prefer saltines to oyster crackers, and now I like pasta with my chili even more! My husband (born and raised in St. Louis) added crushed saltines to his portion.

Edited October 9, 2016 by robirdstx (log)

Thanks for the Crepes · October 9, 2016

The first time I heard of chili spaghetti, I thought it was a crazy idea. After trying it, especially in @robirdstx's treatment with beans, onions and melty cheese, I am a believer!

**Shelby** · October 9, 2016

Pizza night again

ninagluck · October 9, 2016

@Okanagancook, yes this are dumplings from stale bread and I used fresh chanterelles, which I sweated together with some onions before I put it into the dumpling mix. but I am sure dried will do7

Edited October 9, 2016 by ninagluck (log)

ninagluck · October 9, 2016

finally I got a cornstick pan, so I baked cornsticks. gamberones in the freezer turned into a warming soup.

liuzhou · October 9, 2016

A bit of an experimental dinner which needs work. It tasted as I hoped, but left something to be desired in the look. Too many similar colours.

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Spicy, lentil stuffed roast peppers with fried wild shrimp. Served with rice.

Followed by apple crumble with cinnamon. This needed some ice cream, but I was too lazy to go get any.

sartoric · October 9, 2016

Chicken wings in a red sauce with casarecce pasta. The wings are cooked in a sauce made with diced onion, lots of garlic, chilli flakes, stock and a can of tomatoes. Served with a green salad and toasted sourdough.

mgaretz · October 9, 2016

My Chunky Red Sauce served over a combination of homemade angel hair pasta and bean sprouts.

Norm Matthews · October 9, 2016

My son has been in Las Vegas this week visiting family so I have not been doing much cooking, but he is home now and I went shopping for dinner ideas. The store had lamb stew meat, something I rarely see. I remembered seeing a NY Times recipe for Irish Stew so that's what I made today with a Jaques Pepin recipe for green beans.

chefmd · October 10, 2016

Tuna tartar with baguette slices. Tuna was mixed with soy sauce, hot chile sauce, garlic and Lyme juice.

robirdstx · October 10, 2016

Pork Tenderloin Kabobs and Grilled Zucchini

scubadoo97 · October 10, 2016

Salmon and Swiss chard after noshing on a batch of baba ganoush from two big grilled eggplants. I was looking to maybe incorporate the eggplant into a dish but we just snacked on it while it took me a while to decide what to cook

HungryChris · October 10, 2016

Char grilled oysters and steamer clams, made this day just about perfect.

HC

Edited October 10, 2016 by HungryChris (log)

**Shelby** · October 10, 2016

Chicken, onion and hatch chile quesadillas

Tere · October 10, 2016

No pictures because it was essentially brown on brown but I adapted this recipe https://www.cooked.com/uk/Anjum-Anand/Quadrille-Publishing/Indian-Food-Made-Easy/Meat/Easy-all-in-one-lamb-curry-recipe for slow cooked hogget neck steaks - just chopped them up and simmered until done (about 4 hours). Really tasty, would do again. Only change apart from the timings were nigella seeds in place of poppy seeds and I took out the chili half way through as hubby was bitching about the heat. Served with simple mint and cucumber raita, a thrown together spinach curry sauteed with various whole seeds toasted and some left over passata, and some home made paratha, easily my favourite Indian bread.

Just eaten leftovers which were equally yummy Would cook again!

liamsaunt · October 10, 2016

On 10/8/2016 at 3:44 PM, kayb said:

Mamma Maria's. Very good.

A classic. I have not eaten there in forever. I'll have to get back there.

I spent yesterday afternoon baking pizzas while listening to the Patriots on the radio. A pepperoni pizza for my nephew, made with a thick crust, extra cheese and extra pepperoni the way he likes it.