Dinner 2017 (Part 3)

[liamsaunt]

Roasted salmon and vegetables over white lentil risotto with cashew gremolata

 

 

 

The salmon was my addition to a Purple Carrot meal.  My husband signed us up to get three Purple Carrot meals a week. They are based on a vegan, gluten free, low soy and who knows what else diet that New England Patriot Tom Brady follows.  To say I was skeptical is an understatement.  However, this first meal was actually really good!  I ended up saving my salmon for lunch today and just ate the lentils and vegetables.  I doubt we will keep the subscription for very long, but for now I guess I won't mind experimenting with whatever comes in the box.  I have the capacity to recycle all of the packaging, which is a plus.  

[HungryChris]

Tacos last night. I realized after I put away the camera, that the shredded lettuce was still in the fridge and never made it into the pics. I find it to be an integral part of the taco whereas Deb likes hers as they appear, sans shredded lettuce.

HC

 

[Okanagancook]

10 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

Last night:

 

 

 

Lasagne al forno from Giuliano Bugialli's The Fine Art of Italian Cooking.  Finest lasagne I have made.  Hard to think of a better meal.

Page 189, I know because I've made that recipe so many times the pages have separated themselves from the book.  In fact, I love that book.  I bought it in 1982!

[Okanagancook]

@HungryChrisThose tacos looks wonderful.  I'm with you about the shredded lettuce.  I just checked and I have some taco shells in the cupboard......hummmmm, lunch.

[Okanagancook]

Crab cakes from Cooks Illustrated.  Ridiculously big.  I KNEW they would fall apart turning them in the pan.  Here's a picture before frying.  The final dinner plate looks like the cat's breakfast but tasted good.  Next time I will make them 1/3 the size, these were 4 oz each and made with crab, a very small amount of bread crumbs, mayo, chopped green onion, spices and some egg. They were left in the fridge to 'set up' from 12 hours.

[mgaretz]

Spaghetti made with my chunky red sauce.

 

 

[sartoric]

Bengali fish curry, steamed rice, red onion salad, dosa, tomato chutney, sambar, mango pickle.

 

 

[Anna N]

 Bacon makes even avocado bearable.

 

[Captain]

20 hours ago, mm84321 said:

Damn fine meat pie

I see you have the wisdom of eating a pie upside down

[Captain]

Deviled sausages with potato mash for dinner.

[HungryChris]

Kimchi fried rice with leftover kielbasa.

HC

 

[Thanks for the Crepes]

On 4/4/2017 at 7:50 AM, chromedome said:

Good call. I haven't seen pre-tested sprouts anywhere here in Canada, but admittedly I haven't been looking. They don't seem to be much in demand anymore, at least here in New Brunswick. 

 

 

Hmmm, now that I think about it, Food Lion used to carry sprouts, and I think they disappeared around the time of the last contamination scare. I wasn't interested in contracting food poisoning, so just forgot about sprouts for a while. By the time I looked for them again, Food Lion had dropped them, and still doesn't carry them, but their selection has always been limited, although they are the least expensive supermarket in the area. I'm just glad to have found a safe source of sprouts again.

[Thanks for the Crepes]

Shrimp marsala with a nice juicy, ripe mango for dessert.

 

I looked at this recipe as well as others looking for ideas. I didn't find anything that really grabbed me over (the probably inauthentic) marsala dishes as they are served in restaurants in this area. I also had some lovely fresh mushrooms that I wanted to use, so my dish was simple. Sliced mushrooms sauteed in butter with garlic added after juices started to release, remove mushrooms, add a bit more butter, add peeled, deveined wild caught, NC shrimp, and more garlic. Sautee a minute, add marsala, add back mushrooms, reduce sauce, finish with a little more butter and serve over thin spaghetti.

 

I probably won't do it again, although it was good enough. I left me longing for the lighter flavor of just garlic, and butter finished with pasta water in this dish. I love my marsala made this way with pork, but with shrimp, the wine seems to muddy the flavor. Okay, I'm definitely not doing it again.  The flavor of shrimp is so delicate. I don't even care for tomato in a shrimp dish, but that seems to be popular, so YMMV.

[mm84321]

"Chief Wiggum" pork belly, hash brown, apricot mustard

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Ah, my, more Bugialli lasagne, preceded by an artichoke.  I, for one, eschew red wine with artichoke so it required some quantity of Soave to cleanse the palate.  The lasagne was accompanied by a bottle of Caroso Montepulciano d'Abruzzo 2010, a beverage a bit above my paygrade.

 

Tonight's digestive is a bottle of Bolivian Singani.  Untraditional, perhaps, but oh so good.

 

[liamsaunt]

Purple Carrot #2: ramen bowl with gingered amaranth greens, roasted broccoli, and watermelon radish.  I de-veganized it with an egg.  It was pretty good but I like my usual recipe more.

 

[Anna N]

 

I particularly like the method used in this adaptation of a recipe from The Kitchn. You heat a sheet pan in a very hot oven,  lay down your buttered bread slices, butter side down.  You then spread the slices with "dijonaisse" (a mixture of mayo and Dijon mustard), pile the vegetables and cheese on one slice and, when the cheese is melted, cover with the other slice which is now beautifully grilled. 

[sartoric]

Beef, leek and mushroom braise with mozzarella mash.

It's getting cold here as we head towards winter, this hit the spot !

 

 

[Paul Fink]

I'm doing mushroom, chicken, wild rice soup.

If I have the stamina to finish it

[Paul Fink]

My wife came home and helped me finish the wild rice soup.

We paired it with a very nice Riesling  from Oregon.

 

 

 

[Thanks for the Crepes]

I had a bit of leftover shrimp marsala for dinner. It was a side dish instead of an entree this time. Then I fried a zucchini, and then a 4 oz. ground chuck patty in the same skillet after collecting the oil and cleaning it. I served the hamburger on sliced Italian bread in anticipation of a 4 mile/6-1/2 km walk for supplies tomorrow. I had a few ounces of the last blueberries for dessert. More food than I usually eat, but you are supposed to carbo load for exercise, right? 

[robirdstx]

 

Grilled Sausage and Garlic Mash

[Anna N]

 

 

Details in the Ladies who Lunch topic. 

[Shelby]

Ravioli stuffed with spinach and mushrooms and kind of a primavera sauce with roasted chicken.

 

[liamsaunt]

Purple Carrot #3: crispy turnip cakes with za'atar yogurt and kumquat quinoa tabouli.  That's for for box #1, so it's back to my own ideas for dinner for the next few days.