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Dinner 2018

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On 1.6.2018 at 6:16 PM, heidih said:

 

This gorgeous stuff needs detail!  I am a tofu lover

 

Thanks! I love tofu as well, I think it's somewhat underrated due to being misused as a meat substitute instead of an independent ingredient. 

It was 400 g soft cottony tofu, 1/3 cup yogurt, paprika, cumin, coriander seeds, chili. garlic and ginger (I'm leaving out the exact amount since I felt that they were out of balance). Stir the tofu to cover and bake as hot as your oven go until lightly charred. I used my pita bread oven which is extremely hot, and more importantly, is outside my house. I rather not crack the kitchen oven high when it's in the 80's outside. But I think it might also work on a pan or griddle.

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Ended up doing some fill in work today so got home late and with little in the fridge had to make due.   A head of celery was sliced thin and mixed with other remnants from the fridge.   Green olives, parmesan cheese, walnuts and dried orange peel made its way in the salad.   An orange based dressing was ready from the other day.   Found a piece of amberjack in the freezer to complete the meal.  I had not made a celery salad like that before.   It was good enough to make again

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Up early so I smoked three bone in chicken breasts before leaving for work this morning.    Using the 

Pellet smoke tube.   

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Dragged out my commercial meat slicer to slice the chicken breast.   I should use it more often, but

I'm lazy and I hate cleaning it.  

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Made toasted club house sandwiches for dinner.

Roasted some potato wedges in the CSO.

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15 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

Last night. Fish and chips.

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Cod in beer batter. Triple cooked chips.

 

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The potatoes look a lot like French fries.

 

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Rustic grilled Italian fresh herbed chicken.  I heavily salted and peppered and loaded up these spatchcocked chicken halves with bay leaves and fresh herbs, wrapped each tightly in foil, to try and infuse the herb flavor into them, but keep them tender and moist. The last 20 minutes, were spent unwrapped on a hotter grill to crisp up the skin. I served these with a favorite pasta salad. It was a brutally hot and humid day, so cooking outside, on the grill was a help. They were nicely herb scented and moist and I am looking foreword to the chicken salad the leftovers will become.

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2 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

The potatoes look a lot like French fries.

Pretty sure they are chips.  Fish and french fries just doesn’t have the proper ring to It. 

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A surprise dinner tonight. I was walking home from the city centre, intending to cook, when I accidentally ran into a good friend who was on her way to meet yet another mutual friend and she invited me to join them. Other friend had booked a table in a busy, popular new restaurant in town. It is not usual to have to book in China, but apparently it's necessary here. It is a Thai menu but also with pizza! I was told the chef is Thai.

 

We three shared this lot.

 

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Tom yum soup

 

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Spicy beef with pickled bamboo shoots and herbs

 

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Steamed eggs with goose liver

 

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Steamed fish with chilli and lime

 

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Stir fried greens

 

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Fried rice with pineapple, green soy beans, peanuts, cashew nuts, pork and pork floss.

 

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The spread

 

I thought she had ordered way too much, but we demolished it in reasonable time. Now we weigh too much. The restaurant is called 范生活 (fàn shēng huó) which means 'model life'. I don't think many models eat as much as we did.

 

 

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7 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

The spread

   If it tasted even half as good as it looks then you are a lucky man. But I suspect you know that.

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   If it tasted even half as good as it looks then you are a lucky man. But I suspect you know that.

 

Indeed I do.

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Ribs in the smoker was the plan for today until I finally accepted that the forecast for rain all day wasn't going to change and went with Plan B. Tossed a chuck roast in the crockpot, mixed a small can of tomato sauce and an even smaller can of tomato paste (infinitely superior to the fresh tomatoes available right now where I live) with some seasonings and an entire head of sliced garlic and poured that in, topped it with sliced onions, bell peppers and pepperoncini and a little of the juice from the pepperoncini jar and let it go on low all night last night. Shredded the meat this morning and put it back in the pot. Just going to leave it on "warm" and have sandwiches whenever the mood strikes today. Nothing exciting to look at but it's pretty tasty...

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I’m doing this for the first time from my iPhone.  I can read and drool over all of your meals but until now I didn’t think I could post pictures using my phone. Still no internet — I’m not sure I can make it until Tuesday lol.

 

Ronnie went to Texoma for a couple of days to fish so the first night he was gone I just had a piece of cheese and wine for dinner. No dishes to clean up!

 

the second night I was hungry but still didn’t want to go to much trouble so I thawed out a couple of sausage rolls and ate them with leftover salad and and egg

 

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the night ronnie got back we had venison tacos with the first banana peppers from the garden

 

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last night I cleaned up the striped bass from the fishing trip and then fried some of it

 

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salad with the first cucumber from the garden :)

 

 

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22 minutes ago, Doofa said:

@liuzhou Thank you for the link. Thats really interesting stuff. I'm going to add it to my list of things to try. D

I think the floss is usually purchased rather than made at home.  Every time I fly by EVA from NY to Taiwan, there is a package of fish floss accompanying the congee during the breakfast service.

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I think the floss is usually purchased rather than made at home.  Every time I fly by EVA from NY to Taiwan, there is a package of fish floss accompanying the congee during the breakfast service.

 

Yeah, I never heard of anyone making it at home. It's quite a complex process. I rarely use it, but when I do, I buy it in the local supermarket. It's really an industrial product.

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8 hours ago, HungryChris said:

Rustic grilled Italian fresh herbed chicken.  I heavily salted and peppered and loaded up theses spatchcocked chicken halves with bay leaves and fresh herbs, wrapped each tightly in foil, to try and infuse the herb flavor into them, but keep them tender and moist. The last 20 minutes, were spent unwrapped on a hotter grill to crisp up the skin. I served these with a favorite pasta salad. It was a brutally hot and humid day, so cooking outside, on the grill was a help. They were nicely herb scented and moist and I am looking foreword to the chicken salad the leftovers will become.

HC

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That pasta salad looks really tasty.  Care to share the recipe?

 

I'm on vacation on Cape Cod right now.  I made lobster rolls for dinner last night.

 

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14 hours ago, Anna N said:

Pretty sure they are chips.  Fish and french fries just doesn’t have the proper ring to It. 

 

how about Fish and Freedom Fries?

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