Dinner 2018

[Dejah]

Weather finally turned spring-like! Gardening takes time away from eGullet!
A few meals:
Steel-head Trout baked in foil with lemongrass, lime leaves, green onion, cilantro, ginger, chili pepper - eaten with roasted carrots and asparagus.

                                                                            

 

                                                                           

 

Taiwanese Three-cup Chicken in Instant Pot

 

                                                                           

 

Eaten with vegetable medley that needed using up! 

 

                                                                           

 

Tonight, I had ground beef thawed and wanted chili or spaghetti sauce. No tomato sauce or paste on hand, but I did have a jar of antipasto and some red kidney beans. Threw in dashes of Lee 'n' Perrin sauce, Matanzas Chili Spice Blend ( from a visit to Grapevine, Texas) and smokey chili...and it was great!

 

                                                                        

 

Eaten with spaghetti squash for me and low-carb black bean spaghetti for hubby.

Loved all the food eGulleteers have been posting!

[MetsFan5]

On 5/27/2018 at 6:20 AM, HungryChris said:

Sore spot for me. My older brother lives in Chicago and has often bragged that there are more than a thousand restaurants within walking distance from his front door. My response: There is only one restaurant within a twenty minute drive from mine, a pizza place, and they don't deliver.

I'm glad I learned to cook!

HC  

 

 

 

This looks like Dominos to me... am I wrong? @robinstx 

  I live  in Northern NJ and can get great pizza from local places within an hour. 

Edited May 29, 2018 by MetsFan5 (log)

[robirdstx]

4 hours ago, MetsFan5 said:

 

 

This looks like Dominos to me... am I wrong? @robinstx 

  I live  in Northern NJ and can get great pizza from local places within an hour. 

 

 

No. Not Domino’s. It’s Marco’s Pizza and we love it!

 

 

 

Edited May 29, 2018 by robirdstx (log)

[ProfessionalHobbit]

 

Insalata cruda e cotta ("raw and cooked vegetable salad")

 

This version has Little Gem lettuces; boiled potato and green beans; roasted onions; diced tomato; capers, pickled cherry peppers; marinated artichoke hearts and olives.

 

Then we had

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

chicken braised in wine with garlic, rosemary, olives and vinegar.

 

also great if made with rabbit

[Raamo]

Chicken tikka Masala, key to makeing this taste authentic is fried onion paste and lots of spices!

 

[ElsieD]

@Dejah That trout looks amazing.  I just saw some really nice, fresh trout at Costco yesterday and wondered about getting some.  If you could share the details of how you prepared yours, I'll hop right back over to Costco and pick some up.

[liuzhou]

I may be getting boring, but I'm not getting bored. It's hot here. 35ºC/95ºF at the moment. 9 pm. So another duck salad. Or maybe more than one salad. Busy plate.

 

 

Duck breast meat sliced thinly and quick fried with just salt and black pepper. Lettuce, red onion, cucumber salad dressed with a lemon and olive oil dressing.

 

 

Raw asparagus with basil and lemon juice. Tomato. Couscous.

 

Edited May 30, 2018 by liuzhou (log)

[kayb]

8 hours ago, HungryChris said:

Beautiful hard shell lobsters were on sale and we couldn't resist.

HC

 

 

Lord, how I envy you your seafood! We get so little here that isn't frozen...

 

[Shelby]

Pizza and salad on Sunday night

 

 

Yesterday was my first attempt at brisket  along with fake crab salad, potato salad and beans

 

 

 

 

[Katie Meadow]

9 hours ago, HungryChris said:

Beautiful hard shell lobsters were on sale and we couldn't resist.

HC

You and your god damned clams and lobsters. I would kill for a bucket of freshly dug littlenecks. That's my childhood summer. 

[HungryChris]

31 minutes ago, Katie Meadow said:

You and your god damned clams and lobsters. I would kill for a bucket of freshly dug littlenecks. That's my childhood summer. 

My first job in a restaurant was when I was in high school. It was in a seafood place that specialized in shore dinners, clams in all their forms, including steamers, chowder and clam cakes. They had  boiled and baked stuffed lobsters, shrimp cocktail, fried shrimp and baked stuffed shrimp. Fresh fish of all kinds. I was privy to watching it all being prepared, and often allowed to help. It is part of my childhood as well and I grew to love  it. I would greatly miss it too!

HC

[mgaretz]

Blasphemy ribs along with char-siu style ribs for the wife.  Served with green beans cooked ALV and salad.

 

 

 

 

[Paul Bacino]

Made Cabbage Rolls-  Brown Rice/carrots/leeks/onions/ parsley / I did Italian seasoning

 

Sauce of tomato Puree  and Bubbies Saurkraut

 

 

[Dejah]

4 hours ago, ElsieD said:

@Dejah That trout looks amazing.  I just saw some really nice, fresh trout at Costco yesterday and wondered about getting some.  If you could share the details of how you prepared yours, I'll hop right back over to Costco and pick some up.

@ElsieD: I sandwiched the fillet with :
Bottom layer :Cilantro, stalks of green onion, slivers of ginger, chili peppers, thin lime slices, Thai lime leaves, and bruised stalks of lemongrass, sprinkle of oil. Season fillet before piling on the greenery.
Top layer - reverse above
Wrapped in foil and cook in oven @375 OR on the BBQ

Here's what it looks like prepped.
                                             

 

Edited May 29, 2018 by Dejah (log)

[ElsieD]

1 hour ago, Dejah said:

@ElsieD: I sandwiched the fillet with :
Bottom layer :Cilantro, stalks of green onion, slivers of ginger, chili peppers, thin lime slices, Thai lime leaves, and bruised stalks of lemongrass, sprinkle of oil. Season fillet before piling on the greenery.
Top layer - reverse above
Wrapped in foil and cook in oven @375 OR on the BBQ

Here's what it looks like prepped.
                                             

 

 

 

So if the trout is opened like a book, i understand the bottomlayer I think,  in that you would cover both halves.  So what is the top layer?  Another trout that gets put on top of the first one but also needs the stuffing so you put it on in reverse order so that each whole fish has the herbs in the same place?  I'm a bit confused.  Are we talking 2 fish or two halves of one fish?

[gfweb]

14 hours ago, Ann_T said:

It was Moe's birthday today and

 

 

 

Every day looks like Moe's birthday, to me.

[heidih]

@ElsieDJust a caution the  trout Dejah cooked was beautiful steelhead - the Costco ones I've seen are farm raised white guys and much leaner.

Edited May 29, 2018 by heidih (log)

[gfweb]

The color of trout flesh is an interesting question. Native fish with orange flesh are sea-run rainbows i.e. Steelhead as Heidi said. They get the color from ocean crustaceans and shellfish. Otherwise fresh water trout are grey or white fleshed 

 

But apparently some fresh water farmed trout are fed a diet that gives orange flesh. Why I don't know.  A knockoff salmon industry?

 

 

[ElsieD]

The trout I saw were orange/red fleshed, not grey or white.  

[heidih]

I imagine the labeling should denote farm/color added or wild

[ElsieD]

2 minutes ago, heidih said:

I imagine the labeling should denote farm/color added or wild

 

I shall check the label.  I remember looking at the salmon and cod labels, but didn't check the trout ones as we don't usually buy trout.  I don't buy farmed fish/seafood if I can help it.

[heidih]

Farmed trout is surprisingly perhaps one of the most sustainable man-made fisheries  http://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-recommendations/groups/trout

[chefmd]

6 hours ago, Paul Bacino said:

Made Cabbage Rolls-  Brown Rice/carrots/leeks/onions/ parsley / I did Italian seasoning

 

Sauce of tomato Puree  and Bubbies Saurkraut

 

 

 

DH is addicted to bubbies pickles and sauerkraut.  We can only get in Whole Foods and it is pricey.  But very tasty.

[chefmd]

U 10 scallops with sautéed corn.  

 

[robirdstx]

 

‘Crispy Carnitas’ Pork Tacos, Avocado Salsa, Jalapeño Olive Oil Grilled Asparagus and Grilled Mexican Street Corn

Edited May 30, 2018 by robirdstx (log)