Dinner 2017 (Part 3)

[gfweb]

@Norm Matthews Here's the Irish stir fry I had today and yesterday for breakfast

[sartoric]

Kerala style fish and potato curry with steamed rice. Homestyle dosa with sambar, fresh tomato chutney, green chutney and lemon lime pickle. I have two new kitchen toys, a Preethi mixie (all the way from Chennai) and a rice cooker (from a local op shop). I can't believe I haven't bought a rice cooker until now...perfect rice. 

 

 

 

[jvalentino]

Pasta w simple tomato sauce. 

[mm84321]

New Zealand greenshell mussels. Best damn mussel I did ever taste. 

 

[Okanagancook]

Well, that's interesting.  From the freezer?  I have seen them and always wondered what they would be like.

[dcarch]

Happy St. Patrick's Day.

 

Sous vided corned beef on napa cabbage.

 

138F 72 hours resulted in fork tender corned beef.

 

dcarch

[chileheadmike]

Cookin Cajun.  Smothered pork chops.  Brown roux, trinity,  chicken stock,  garlic and spices. Served with penne. 

[Thanks for the Crepes]

@mm84321, Those green lip mussels are tasty, aren't they? The only ones I have access to around here are from the freezer case at my fishmonger, but they are still very good. I noted they still have boxes of them the last time I was up there for king crab legs.

 

@dcarch, I was admiring the plating of your fine looking corned beef, and thought to myself, "Now that bell pepper bottom with the stem set off to one side sure is an unusual garnish, but the color makes the plate pop." I scrolled down to the second picture and thought, "Duh? That's a shamrock!" 

[mm84321]

1 hour ago, Okanagancook said:

Well, that's interesting.  From the freezer?  I have seen them and always wondered what they would be like.

 

I am in New Zealand.

[kayb]

Shrimp, filet, cauliflower, asparagus. Not to be sneezed at.

 

 

All on the grill. It was a gorgeous day today. Last week, it was snowing.

 

 

Back left is a piece of pork loin brined and then smoked/grilled for Canadian bacon. Unlike the last time I forgot the brined pork curing in the fridge for a few hours, which became a few days, at which point it was a hockey puck and I chunked it.

 

We will try Canadian bacon tomorrow, maybe. Tonight, it was filet, garlic butter shrimp, asparagus, and roasted cauliflower with ricotta. Good dinner. Wish I'd been hungrier.

 

[Anna N]

 

A tray of vegetables roasted with garlic and rosemary. 

[HungryChris]

Korean BBQ rock Cornish game hens, grilled Romano asparagus and silver queen corn frozen in late summer.

HC

[JoNorvelleWalker]

6 hours ago, Anna N said:

 

A tray of vegetables roasted with garlic and rosemary. 

 

That is a pretty picture!

 

[Anna N]

@JoNorvelleWalker

why, thank you.  My photography skills leave a great deal to be desired.   Once in a while I must get lucky.

[sartoric]

A char siu pork and veggie rice bowl. I marinated pork belly rashers and baked them in the oven, they were cut into bite size bits and joined stirfried broccolini, shiitake mushrooms and spring onions on top of cooked rice.

 

 

Followed by fresh fig clafoutis.

[kayb]

A lovely day yesterday, so surf 'n turf on the grill -- steak, garlic-butter shrimp, asparagus. With roasted cauliflower and fresh ricotta (my adaptation of the NYT recipe).

 

 

Small filets, SV 125F for an hour, chilled, then onto a hot grill. Got 'em just about perfect.

 

 

Getting the most out of the grill, in the left rear is a chunk of pork loin that had been brined and was being grilled/smoked for Canadian bacon. Haven't cut into it yet.

 

 

 

[Norm Matthews]

 I smoked half of the corned beef brisket to 200 degrees. Without boiling it, it was very salty.  I covered it with water and put it in the Instant Pot for 30 minutes and it retained some of the smoke flavor an became much less salty.  I recently saw a recipe called Irish Tacos and tried it.  It was just corned beef, coleslaw and pickled jalapeños. It was a nice change of pace.

Edited March 19, 2017 by Norm Matthews (log)

[kayb]

M'mmm. I made slaw today. Got a little corned beef left. That may be on my agenda later in the week.

 

Today, pork loin that went for a SV bath earlier in the week, with baked beans, potato salad and slaw. Simple, but good.

 

 

Loin was cooked SV for about 8 hours at 145, then chilled. Sliced about an inch thick, glazed with some barbecue sauce, and broiled in the CSO.

 

 

[Anna N]

Roasted cauliflower and a glass of wine. 

[scubadoo97]

Non Texas chili with cakey cornbread 

[Steve Irby]

23 hours ago, mm84321 said:

New Zealand greenshell mussels. Best damn mussel I did ever taste. 

 

 

I'm just a little bit jealous of your access to such quality products (always) and also being in New Zealand to feast on those mussels.  I'm getting close to retirement so keep me in mind for that valet gig!  Passports current.   I had my mussel epiphany at Wildwood in Portland OR years ago when it was owned by Cory Schreiber.  

[mm84321]

At your service

[gfweb]

2 hours ago, scubadoo97 said:

Non Texas chili with cakey cornbread 

 Cakey cornbread is an abomination.

 

[liuzhou]

Last night's dinner is hanging its head in shame over here.

[HungryChris]

I had game hens that were thawed and ready to roll so we had to postpone St Patty's day until tonight. IP for 90 min, natural release. Put the veggies in the pot liquor at HP for 5 min and pressure release at ten minutes. Just about perfect for this flat cut.

HC