Lunch! What'd ya have? (Late 2016–Early 2017)

[kayb]

Leftovers from the charity shrimp boil carryouts I picked up last night. Not a thing wrong with Cajun boiled shrimp twice in 24 hours.

 

[chromedome]

2 hours ago, Anna N said:

Found a recipe that claimed it would make one biscuit...more like a small loaf of bread!  I made two biscuits, added some cheese to the dry ingredients and it wasn't bad. May hang on to the recipe and keep tweaking it to my taste. When you're a singleton you don't want a dozen biscuits.  The soup is more or less finished now but it was getting very good!

 

When I was alone I'd mix up a standard batch of a dozen (baking powder version, not soda) and freeze the cut-but-unbaked biscuits in a ziploc bag. When I wanted one, I'd throw it straight from the freezer into my toaster oven. 

[ProfessionalHobbit]

20 hours ago, FrogPrincesse said:

I love that idea. I occasionally do something similar with pesto, or even a thick basil vinaigrette.

 

Do you have a standard herb mix for your salsa verde, or do you vary based on what you have on hand?

 

I usually vary it.

[Anna N]

 

Home-made pain de mie (Pullman loaf) with scraps of meat from a smoked hock and some purchased pickled onions. I was wishing for some of @Shelby's jalapeno mustard. 

[Duvel]

Lunch at Maxim's City Hall, an HK institution in a great banquet hall just next to my office. We were there early at 11.30h and it was packed. It reminded me why we don't go there more often ... We had:

 

Peppers stuffed with shrimp paste

Deep-fried won ton

Fried tentacles

Baked char siu bao

Sui mai

Deep-fried taro fritters with chicken pieces

Steamed beef ribs with black pepper

Har gow

Xiao long bao

 

When the bill arrived, it reminded me of the second reason why we don't go there too often (its not expensive per se, but for everyday lunch slightly out of budget).

After a nice lunch break finally finishing with a walk back to the office and a nice view across Victoria Harbor ...

 

[Anna N]

 

Last night I stripped the last of the meat from the smoked ham hock that has been feeding me for a while.  I used some of the meat in a pasta dish for dinner.   Today I minced the rest of it in the food processor, added some chopped scallions, some mustard and some mayonnaise and made a sandwich.   A smoked ham hock is a "good thing" as  Martha would say.

 

[HungryChris]

TJ's chicken liver and truffle mousse, Aldi brie and rosemary and olive oil imitation Triscuits, some olives and a pear.

HC

[kayb]

2 hours ago, Anna N said:

 

Last night I stripped the last of the meat from the smoked ham hock that has been feeding me for a while.  I used some of the meat in a pasta dish for dinner.   Today I minced the rest of it in the food processor, added some chopped scallions, some mustard and some mayonnaise and made a sandwich.   A smoked ham hock is a "good thing" as  Martha would say.

 

 

If you like egg salad, chop up a hardboiled egg or two (depending on how much ham you have) and make ham 'n egg salad. One of my favorites.

 

 

 

[IowaDee]

Last week was our anniversary and we had that TJ chicken liver moose, brie and champagne to celebrate.      Spread it on little toasted cocktail breads and it was so tasty.   Had an assortment of  olives as well.   Never met an olive that I didn't like!  And small pickled onions too.  With a spread like that, we may start celebrating our 6 month anniversaries in addition to the annual ones.!  We are still working on the kilo of imported French brie I snagged for $1.99 from our Mennonite store.  Yup, that was the price of the entire wheel...

We have another mousse hidden in the back of the refrigerator.  Intending to celebrate the outcome of the election with t.  If the wrong person wins. we will use it and lots of champagne to drown our sorrows. Either way, it goes on Nov. 9 or sooner if the race is called earlier.

[Anna N]

6 hours ago, kayb said:

 

If you like egg salad, chop up a hardboiled egg or two (depending on how much ham you have) and make ham 'n egg salad. One of my favorites.

 

 

 

Thanks. I thought about adding a hard boiled egg but decided I was just too hungry to take the time. 

[Shelby]

18 hours ago, IowaDee said:

Last week was our anniversary and we had that TJ chicken liver moose, brie and champagne to celebrate.      Spread it on little toasted cocktail breads and it was so tasty.   Had an assortment of  olives as well.   Never met an olive that I didn't like!  And small pickled onions too.  With a spread like that, we may start celebrating our 6 month anniversaries in addition to the annual ones.!  We are still working on the kilo of imported French brie I snagged for $1.99 from our Mennonite store.  Yup, that was the price of the entire wheel...

We have another mousse hidden in the back of the refrigerator.  Intending to celebrate the outcome of the election with t.  If the wrong person wins. we will use it and lots of champagne to drown our sorrows. Either way, it goes on Nov. 9 or sooner if the race is called earlier.

Happy Anniversary!!!  I love snacky type meals like that.

 

Anna, you've made me hungry for ham salad....

[blue_dolphin]

Penne with pesto, sugar snap peas, yellow bell pepper, shrimp and feta

[scubadoo97]

Played around with salt/sugar cured egg yolks today.  Never have done this before.  I liked it.  Did a 2 hr cure then used them later for a quick snack using leftovers from last night.  Sliced roasted potatoes, collards and oxtail topped with the cured egg yolks 

 

 

[rarerollingobject]

Bought a beautiful piece of Australian yellowfin tuna belly at the fish market so made sushi.

 

[Duvel]

5 hours ago, rarerollingobject said:

Bought a beautiful piece of Australian yellowfin tuna belly at the fish market so made sushi.

 

La Vie en Rose ...

[rarerollingobject]

1 hour ago, Duvel said:

La Vie en Rose ...

 

Nothing rose about my vie.

[Duvel]

There are two types of Sushi places in HK: the "Japanese"-style ones, usually good to excellent with more traditional offerings, high quality and high prices (RRO's lunch would fit right in there). And then there are the "localized" ones, good to lousy, with more creative offers, medium to budget prices and quality that you either know or you are desperate.

Todays lunch fell in the very last category. I had to run errands in the Fuk Wing street in the heart of Kowloon, known for all sorts of party decorations and cheap toys. Being done at around 13.00h with a toddler sleeping in the stroller is not a good prerequisite for a satisfying lunch. Everything popular (the beef intestine noodle soup shops, curry fishball joints, Sichuan hot-pot places) was crammed with queues, which means no stroller parking with a sleeping kid. Finally, on a corner an unknown Kaiten sushi place - and after some haggeling we were allowed to park the little one in the corner.

As I was starved I filled up on the very decent plates from the conveyor belt and then ordered a la carte for some fresher sushis. Note the size of the side-order soup, which was actually a bone-marrow based Ramen. All in all quite ok and for 240 HKD a steal. Would not dare to bring friends here but for an emergency Saturday lunch I'd return any time.

 

[Dejah]

On 2016-10-26 at 2:30 AM, Duvel said:

 

 

 

The above is my favourite - taro puffs!
It's been 58 years since I left HK. Going close to the island in April but won't have time this trip to visit. We'll be spending time in Guangzhou and my village in Toisan.
My brunch today: leftover lamb filling from Shepherd's pie earlier in the week plus scrambled eggs.         

                                           

 

Edited October 29, 2016 by Dejah (log)

[Duvel]

Autumn has arrived - only 23 oC today.

 

Homemade chicken soup with macaroni, carrots and peas. I started to add tiny mounts of white miso to my chicken soyps - not noticeable as miso, but just the little umami-boost needed for a plain soup ...

 

[Anna N]

Re-heated chicken fingers, blistered cherry tomatoes and parmesan cheese in flour tortilla. Sour cream and more tomatoes on top,  

 

[Anna N]

 

Always happy to find enough leftovers for lunch. 

 

 

[shain]

Quick stir fry of soft tofu in sambal oelek.

[chefmd]

Risotto made with smoky chicken stock with sautéed chanterelles and a tiny bit of bacon.  Oh, and there was freshly grated Parmesan mixed into risotto.

 

[Spork]

An FLS Reuben.

 

 

 

That'd be Forkish, Lagasse, and Spork.

[liuzhou]

A couple of days ago, I soaked some dried cèpes and matsutake mushrooms to use in a dish for dinner. The soaking liquid was strained through muslin and popped into the freezer alongside more of the same from earlier.

 

Yesterday, I dug both out and used it to braise a chopped up oxtail. Some garlic and an onion went in, too. After around six hours slowly cooking. I separated the remaining stock from the meat, bones, veg etc. The stock/braising liquid went into the fridge overnight in one bowl and so did the solids, in another.

 

This morning I scraped the bulk of the fat from on top of the jellied stock, then separated the meat from the bones while discarding vegetation. The meat fell off the bones if I so much as gave it a withering glance.

 

The meat went back into the pot along with the de-fatted stock and one large ice cube of red wine. Salt and generous amounts of pepper were added and the lot brought back to a boil. Topped with some chopped Chinese chives. Served with Chinese flatbread (the only bread I have at the moment. There is some proofing at the moment. It will be in the oven in half an hour. Too late for lunch).

 

 

 

Edited October 31, 2016 by liuzhou
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