Dinner 2017 (Part 6)

liamsaunt · November 25, 2017

Ann_T · November 25, 2017

10 hours ago, Kim Shook said:

What I am thankful for is that we didn’t end up in the ER. We didn’t find out until after we ate that her stuffed turkey sat on the counter STILL STUFFED for almost 5 hours.

@Kim, reminds me of my mother. I think because of her I'm immuned to food poisoning. I grew up with gas stoves. The kind with pilot lights. We usually had holiday turkey dinners around 1 or 2 in the afternoon. For space purposes, Mom would put the turkey back in the turned off oven for a few hours. Incubating from the heat from the pilot light. And there was often still stuffing in the bird.

**ElsieD** · November 25, 2017

1 hour ago, Shelby said:

Asian sticky wings, pork lo mein and eggrolls last night.

Ye gods, those wings look good. What's in the sauce?

**Shelby** · November 25, 2017

4 minutes ago, ElsieD said:

Ye gods, those wings look good. What's in the sauce?

They are good. I was sad that I only made a few. I could have eaten like twelve of them lol.

I used this recipe

**Smithy** · November 25, 2017

@gfweb, what a lovely Thanksgiving spread, with the formal dining setting. I miss that.

Please tell more about the jalapeño cornbread madeleines. That looks like something I'd like to try. If I can get it right, it might go well at our family Christmas dinner.

Kim Shook · November 25, 2017

11 hours ago, Duvel said:

Sorry, but I can't fully get the issue (maybe cultural and /or language): your MILs turkey was cooked and then left to cool for 5 hours ? And usually to do that you have to remove the stuffing (bread ?) ? Why does that mean it is unsafe to eat ?

I don't think it is a cultural thing, but a science thing. Stuffing left in a bird that long at room temperature is an invitation to food poisoning.

**ElsieD** · November 25, 2017

48 minutes ago, Shelby said:

They are good. I was sad that I only made a few. I could have eaten like twelve of them lol.

I used this recipe

Looks good. Thank you!

gfweb · November 25, 2017

@Smithy Thanks! We use the dining room a lot...few times a week. It cleans up as easily as anywhere else LOL and it keeps Henry from begging for food

The cornbread recipe (which isn't critical I guess) is

3/4 cup flour

1 1/4 cup corn meal

1/2 cup sugar

1 cup milk

1/2 cup peanut oil

1 beaten egg

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

I mix in the jarred diced jalapeno and pour into the oiled madaleine pan and bake about 13 min at 400 F.

To allow for non-jalapeno eaters I usually have the jalapeno pieces in the basket with the dark side up.

kayb · November 25, 2017

2 hours ago, gfweb said:

@Smithy Thanks! We use the dining room a lot...few times a week. It cleans up as easily as anywhere else LOL and it keeps Henry from begging for food

The cornbread recipe (which isn't critical I guess) is

3/4 cup flour

1 1/4 cup corn meal

1/2 cup sugar

1 cup milk

1/2 cup peanut oil

1 beaten egg

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

I mix in the jarred diced jalapeno and pour into the oiled madaleine pan and bake about 13 min at 400 F.

To allow for non-jalapeno eaters I usually have the jalapeno pieces in the basket with the dark side up.

There are, I believe, two schools of cornbread thought:

1. Sugar in cornbread.

2. No sugar in cornbread.

I am of the latter school.

gfweb · November 25, 2017

8 minutes ago, kayb said:

There are, I believe, two schools of cornbread thought:

1. Sugar in cornbread.

2. No sugar in cornbread.

I am of the latter school.

Knew somebody would object

Where's @Jaymes?

There is another division as well. Cakey vs non-cakey corn bread.

I'm ambivalent about the sugar; to me, CB is good either way depending on the application.

But cakey CB is an abomination.

Edited November 25, 2017 by gfweb (log)

**Smithy** · November 25, 2017

It seems non-cakey cornbread would be an absolute requirement for madeleines anyway, but I appreciate the assurance that these aren't cakey. If I leave out the sugar that will make them edible to the diabetic in our family. Now, if I can work out a way to omit the egg another member of the family will be able to enjoy them. (Our lot has quite a collection of food problems nowadays.) OTOH I don't want to wreck the recipe. Experiments are in order. :-)

Raamo · November 26, 2017

Tonight I made my homemade sloppy joe - start with onions and oil, add beef, then crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, bunch of spices, even a touch of sherry vinegar.

Here's the pot with our e pig - lets it boil with the lid just ajar - found these in Vancouver and I love this pig.

And here it is on MB Hamburger Buns - toasted - I managed to polish off two of these. One at a time - since soggy bread is bad bread.

**Shelby** · November 26, 2017

4 minutes ago, Raamo said:

Tonight I made my homemade sloppy joe - start with onions and oil, add beef, then crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, bunch of spices, even a touch of sherry vinegar.

Here's the pot with our e pig - lets it boil with the lid just ajar - found these in Vancouver and I love this pig.

And here it is on MB Hamburger Buns - toasted - I managed to polish off two of these. One at a time - since soggy bread is bad bread.

Buns look great. I love sloppy joes. Need to make them soon.

robirdstx · November 26, 2017

Fresh Homemade Fettuccine ~ Pasta alla Carbonara

JoNorvelleWalker · November 26, 2017

2 hours ago, Shelby said:

Buns look great. I love sloppy joes. Need to make them soon.

I love the pig.

Kim Shook · November 26, 2017

I brought home some turkey breast that my MIL had cooked Wednesday in case the whole turkey wasn't enough. To me, the real reason to roast a turkey is sandwiches – hot and cold. And since I didn’t bring any gravy home from her house, this was dinner tonight:

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White bread, cranberry sauce, turkey, lettuce and mayo. And Utz potato chips, of course.

And some of my favorite pasta salad, Wegman’s capellini w/ mozzarella and tomatoes:

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HungryChris · November 26, 2017

Spaghetti with Deb's meat sauce. My first attempt at homemade French baguettes served as garlic bread and a favorite basic red.

HC

Norm Matthews · November 26, 2017

Every year that it is not my turn to do the whole family Thanksgiving meal, I make a mini meal the next day so we can have "leftovers" This is it minus the cranberry chutney. I made the cornbread with a little chicken stock and water. When it came out of the oven, I didn't like how it tasted an didn't plan to serve it but Charlie had a piece after it cooled and I was setting the table. He said it was really good so I served it too. The turkey recipe had seasoned butter added under the skin. I expected it to melt, baste and flavor the whole bird but it came out with dark brown splotches on the skin where I put it, so I left out that picture. I couldn't tell that it added much flavor either so I made a note to not try that one again. I asked Charlie if he wanted rice or mashed potatoes, thinking he'd say rice. (I only had one potato). He said mashed so I mashed a potato. It was enough for both of us luckily.

liuzhou · November 26, 2017

This wasn't my dinner but I thought some of you might be interested. The 20-year-old daughter of a friend is studying in university in China. Like almost all college students here, she lives in a dormitory about 30 feet by 12 feet - with 7 other students. They have a bed (bunks), a small space for their belongings and a table for study. There are lavatorial and shower facilities, but there are no cooking facilities. Institutional food in canteens.

Last night, she sent me a picture of an illicit hotpot dinner they prepared in their dormitory (one of them having smuggled in a portable induction cooker and an electric pan for rice). I have sent her a message asking her what everything is in those containers, but it is the weekend and she has a part-time job. I'll edit if and when she gets back to me.

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Edit:

I have now been duly informed that the front left bowl, marked below, is chicken and coriander/cilantro.

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The two bowls top right are various metballs (pork, beef, shrimp, fish).

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Everything else is vegetables.

This is neither meat or vegetable, but looks like fun.

Edited November 27, 2017 by liuzhou (log)

**Smithy** · November 26, 2017

1 hour ago, liuzhou said:

Last night, she sent me a picture of an illicit hotpot dinner they prepared in their dormitory (one of them having smuggled in a portable induction cooker and an electric pan for rice).

That's quite the feast! Better looking than what we did in our illicit dorm cookery. It looks like they put their electric kettles to good use, as well.

liuzhou · November 26, 2017

3 minutes ago, Smithy said:

That's quite the feast! Better looking than what we did in our illicit dorm cookery. It looks like they put their electric kettles to good use, as well.

Yes. Nothing if not resourceful. The joys of youth!