Dinner 2016 (Part 10)

[kayb]

22 hours ago, chefmd said:

Duck breast with spaghetti squash.  

 

 

 

I don't know WHY I can love a rare steak, but can't eat rare duck. Of course, I grew up eating wild duck, which you have to braise longer to make it more tender.

 

10 hours ago, HungryChris said:

 

1/2 cup of soy sauce

1/4 cup dry sherry

3 heaping TBS gochujang

1 TBS rice wine vinegar

1 thumb sized piece of peeled ginger, grated

4 large cloves of peeled garlic, grated

2 TBS brown sugar

I zip this up with an immersion blender then add 4 chopped green onions

 

This is the same as I use for Korean BBQ chicken, but chicken skin will tear easily if marinated for more than 3 hours. Duck skin is much tougher, so I marinated it in a plastic bag overnight. I have a 3 burner Weber, which I adjusted to 375 with the duck over the center burner, which was turned off. I cooked  the trussed duck for 21/2 hours for a crispy skin. I used a large sizzle platter to collect the drippings. The next time I will use a shallow pan half filled with water. Baste every half hour with the duck marinade, up until the half hour before it is ready, because you want that raw duck marinade sanitized completely by the heat of the grill.

Happy Cooking

HC

 

 

 

Got it saved. With the addition of the sesame oil. Going to try this on chicken, maybe this weekend.

[chefmd]

Sous vide octopus with pan fried cauliflower finished with scallions, capers, black olives.  

 

[Okanagancook]

Octopus is a wonderful protein.  It lends itself well to all kinds of seasoning.  Sous vide is an easy way to cook it.  Another way is to put the whole thing in a Dutch oven with a little salt and if you like a clove of garlic, no moisture.  Cover and bake. At 200 f for four hours.  This yields a very tender hunk of seafood and the juice that is left in the pot is awesome.  Easy.

[Okanagancook]

23 hours ago, chefmd said:

Duck breast with spaghetti squash.  

 

 

Boy, that skin looks nice and rendered!  Perfect cook on. The meat.  Thank goodness you didn't ruin the dish with Brussels sprouts!

[dcarch]

For Halloween dinner:

 

dcarch

 

Steamed Spaghetti squash

 

And

Sous vide ossobuco on pan fried Pineapple and asparagus

 

[scubadoo97]

Sharon and I both worked late so it was a last minute "what can we eat"meal.  

The last of the oxtail.  Fried it up with cilantro, diced jalapeño and BBQ sauce.  Jalapeño chips as a side.  

 

 

[robirdstx]

 

Roasted Chicken with Long Grain & Wild Rice and Green Peas

Edited November 4, 2016 by robirdstx (log)

[Norm Matthews]

I tried two new (to me) recipes tonight.  One was similar to the Martini Chicken that I've often made, but this one was easier.  I added mushrooms to the sauce on a whim.  The other one is cornbread from East Coast Grill in Cambridge, Mass.  We liked both. 

[Duvel]

After a very long day of discussions and negotiations there is always my favourite part of a business trip – the dinner. Together with our JV partners in a supposedly well-known Shanghai institution, located in a colonial type building with a fitting sino-colonial interior.

 

 

 

We had …

 

 

Jellyfish with sesame oil and vinegar

 

 

Filled braised lotus root

 

 

Greens with garlic and walnuts. This was surprisingly nice with a sharp dressing.

 

 

Drunken chicken.

 

 

Braised beef shin with Sichuan pepper and chili (a variety of “husband-and-wife” lung slices). Very good.

 

 

Pomelo with onions and honey. A little bit weird.

 

 

Red-braised spare ribs.

 

 

Filled devil’s horn (kind of water nuts)

 

 

Deep fried river fish. A local Shanghainese speciality.

 

 

Two types of shrimp

 

 

Braised beef short rib

 

 

Spicy chicken legs

 

 

Steamed abalone with garlic. Very tender and very good.

 

 

Beijing duck

 

 

Steamed bamboo with ham

 

 

Steamed nibbles. Surprisingly popular.

 

 

Sweet and sour clams with veggies

 

 

Stir-fried crab with garlic on cellophane noodles. Excellent.

 

 

Deep-fried lotus root filled with pork and ginger. Also excellent.

 

 

Three types of steamed pumpkins

 

 

Steamed carp

 

 

Dong Po Rou. I love this !

 

 

Clear soup with five-spice fish balls

 

 

Stir-fried water vegetable

 

 

“Good fortune” noodle soup

 

 

Green onion pancake.Very light and flaky. I ate three.

 

After that several different fruits, but I was too full to make more pictures. And very happy ...

[Duvel]

Epilogue:

 

As tradition dictates, after the dinner a smaller group went for "second place". We drove about 45 min across Pudong to reach a street where all the hip bars are supposed to be. I am not sure about that, but we found a decent place and after a couple of Old Fashioneds some if us (o.k. mostly me) were hungry again. They had oysters - who can say no to nice fresh oysters and another Old Fashioned?

 

 

(there was a "third place" as well that involved driving for another hour somewhere in search for a fried chicken place, finally ending up in another bar having some sort of mediocre pizza and a final beer - however, pictures and memories are too blurry to post here).

 

Edited November 2, 2016 by Duvel (log)

[kayb]

@Duvel -- What a magnificent meal. My hat is off to you for being able to get through it and go out afterward!

[Ann_T]

Duvel,   What an amazing feast.    Have you ever been to the Cannery in Shanghai?  Sister restaurant to The Nest?

Just asking because one of the owners is from Vancouver and the restaurant is suppose to have a West Coast vibe.  

They purchased our "western maple" boards to use as serving platters.  

 

Last night's dinner:

 

Pork Chile Verde served over homemade flour tortillas filled with cheese.  

 

Edited November 2, 2016 by Ann_T (log)

[Anna N]

 

An unusual treatment, at least for me, of eggs.  Eggs with mint and yogurt.  Click

 

[Kerry Beal]

15 minutes ago, Anna N said:

 

An unusual treatment, at least for me, of eggs.  Eggs with mint and yogurt.  Click

 

Did you like it?

[Anna N]

@Kerry Beal

 

 I did but it was a bit like nursery food. If I were to make it again I would drain the yogurt, increase the smoked paprika and hot pepper flakes and hope that I had some fresh mint rather than dried.   I would also wish to have a more suitable bread to accompany it.   Sometimes I like to step outside my comfort zone in terms of food and this seemed pretty far out of my experience. 

[chefmd]

1 hour ago, Anna N said:

 

An unusual treatment, at least for me, of eggs.  Eggs with mint and yogurt.  Click

 

 

And your toast is spread with butter "wall to wall"

[Anna N]

1 minute ago, chefmd said:

 

And your toast is spread with butter "wall to wall"

 Almost. But now you make me feel terribly guilty because looking at the photograph I know Gabriel Hamilton would probably never hire me to work at Prune having missed a couple of corners here and there. Note to self: More attention to detail, please.  

[scubadoo97]

Dry aged NY strip with grilled peppers and roasted butternut squash

 

 

[mgaretz]

Yet another tri-tip, seasoned with salt, pepper and dill seeds, then 8 hours SV at 130F, dusted with magic browning powder and torch seared.  Served with steamed cauliflower with butter and cashews and salad.

 

 

[Duvel]

13 hours ago, kayb said:

@Duvel -- What a magnificent meal. My hat is off to you for being able to get through it and go out afterward!

 

Thanks ... the key for these kind of dinners is portion control. If you convince all the other to exercise portion control, there is always enough of the really good stuff for you.

 

12 hours ago, Ann_T said:

Duvel,   What an amazing feast.    Have you ever been to the Cannery in Shanghai?  Sister restaurant to The Nest?

Just asking because one of the owners is from Vancouver and the restaurant is suppose to have a West Coast vibe.  

They purchased our "western maple" boards to use as serving platters.  

 

Last night's dinner:

 

Pork Chile Verde served over homemade flour tortillas filled with cheese.  

 

 

 

I have not been to the Cannery yet, though from the look at it I might include that in one of the next trips (at least to see you boards and find out, what a "west cost vibe" is ...).

Edited November 3, 2016 by Duvel (log)

[Thanks for the Crepes]

On a very rare occasion when the husband was not here for dinner, I made an apple crisp with McIntosh and a Granny Smith thrown in for tartness. I must have old-fashioned rolled oats in my apple crisp. That's all, and it wasn't a very balanced dinner, but it sure was good. 

[Duvel]

Blue cheese burger with fries. Happy hour pints of Asahi. Hard to say no, even if you firmly intend to do diet (then maybe start tomorrow) ...

 

[Shelby]

Beef and broccoli

 

[liuzhou]

Another of my get-home-late-need-to-eat-quickly dinners

 

 

Pork tenderloin cut into small cubes and marinated for about 20 minutes with garlic. white chilli pepper, Shaoxing wine and light soy sauce.

 

Prepared some fresh ramen by boiling for one minute then draining.

Stir fried the pork, added thinly sliced mushrooms and even more thinly sliced leek, then finally the noodles. Finished with some coriander leaf/cilantro, dark soy sauce for colour and black pepper because everything needs black pepper.

Served with a cold beer - at 10:30 pm.

Edited November 3, 2016 by liuzhou (log)

[Ann_T]

Halibut season is coming to an end here so I had to have fresh halibut one more time.