Dinner 2018

[weinoo]

A clean out the fridge, kinda late lunch/early supper...

 

 

Soba noodle salad, with roast duck, corn, peas, tomatoes, celery, carrots, sautéed spinach, avocado.  Dressed with a soy/ginger vinaigrette.

 

 

[Okanagancook]

@ElsieD The green stuff that looks like relish upthread is salsa verde...I think from Bon Appetite.  It went well with the lamb.

[mm84321]

More kasekrainer, some amazing strudel and a gargantuan ham hock im Vienna 

[Anna N]

 

Hambagu donburi.  Japanese-style  hamburger with onion and shiitake gravy over rice. Accompaniments are blanched snow peas and beni shoga. 

[Okanagancook]

Ham hocks are truly delicious especially if they have crackling as shown above.  Nigella has a nice recipe with the hock cooked perched on apples and onions.  I have made that recipe a few times...usually when the butcher has an irresistible hock in their display case.😋

[dcarch]

Tentacle Spectacle, (not the musical)

 

Liuzhou posted chayote  in the amazing Chinese vegetable post "--Perhaps less well known is that the leaves and young shoots of the chayote vine are also edible and a popular vegetable in southern China. Often described as 龙须菜/龍須菜"

By coincidence, I harvested a bunch of chayote greens from my garden, and made some squids with them for dinner. Squid and veggie, both with tentacles.

 

 

dcarch

 

Edited October 26, 2018 by dcarch (log)

[heidih]

Somewhere in this  (though interesting) is our dear Nakji's discussion of that fast growing and easily cultivated choyote. Kinda bland as a pod but adaptable.  https://forums.egullet.org/topic/99670-trip-report-northern-vietnam-for-tet/

 

[Nicolai]

Thursday is French food day away few thousand miles from Paris.

 

 

1- Starters

 

I skipped the salads as I have about had it with the veggies and moved to the first course:

 

 

- Breaded and deep fried Salmon thingy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Baby Crads

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Mussels

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2- Main course

 

 

One roast beef hand carved which yours truly concentrated on. Sheer meat without any sides........ughh some veggies to oblige the wife....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dessert

 

Of course, the Tarte Tatin. However, does not look Tatinnish as no caramelizing on the Apples, But hey, Whose complaining...

 

 

 

Libation

 

- Couple of bottles of Gavi di Gavi.....in fact three bottles

 

 

 

 

And finally coffee and a smokey Shisha with Double Apple macerated tobacco to keep in harmony with the non Tarte Tatin.

 

 

 

Life is good.......when the wife says so......

 

 

 

Edited October 26, 2018 by Nicolai (log)

[Smithy]

@Nicolai, you know how to pick your places to eat! Tell me about the herbs inside the circle of salmon "thingies" in the top photo. Is that basil? Is it fried basil? If not basil, what herb and how was it prepared?

[Shelby]

Garlic, lemon, pepper sea salt wings last night

 

[Nicolai]

17 minutes ago, Smithy said:

@Nicolai, you know how to pick your places to eat! Tell me about the herbs inside the circle of salmon "thingies" in the top photo. Is that basil? Is it fried basil? If not basil, what herb and how was it prepared?

 

Hello Smithy

 

Yes. It is fried Basil and they were served with a Mayo dip which I did not try.

 

The filling was Lemon Zest and finely chopped Capers mixed with the Salmon.

It is one of their signature dishes. No herbs besides the Basil noticed. 

 

I guess the recipe avoided herbs and onions to concentrate on Basil and Capers/Lemon. I did not felt it needed the Mayo dip as the whole Basil and Salmon delivered a delicate taste for me.

[liuzhou]

Spicy pork meatballs in a fresh tomato sauce with basil. Unusually,  I served this with rice as I had some left over from lunch.

 

 

[Okanagancook]

@liuzhouyour rice always looks so perfect!  And those meat balls....

[Kim Shook]

Made breakfast for dinner the other night to leave for Mr. Kim, my mom and Jessica while I went to a meeting - sausage gravy and biscuits and fried apples:

 

Jessica made a salad:

 

Last night was some more freezer clean out.  Mr. Kim gets these pre-formed raw burgers - he makes a bunch and uses them for work lunches all week.  I just don't care for the flavor or texture, but we need the space!  So burgers, fries (also frozen - those I like) and baked beans:

 

[shain]

It's been a while since my trip to Georgia, and I started to feel the craving for some Georgian food. I choose to not yet make any dish that I had on the trip, rather opting to make dishes inspired by the cuisine. 

Celery, beans and peanuts salad, in a red-wine vinegar and olive oil dressing, garlic, coriander seeds, cilantro, parsley, mint, basil, chili.

A pan-fried quick bread with walnuts and spices (coriander, paprika, cumin, dill seeds, caraway), sour cream, cilantro, basil, dill.

A dish I made a few times before - a spread of grilled eggplants, toasted walnuts, coriander seeds, garlic, cilantro, carob syrup.

 

 

Edited October 26, 2018 by shain (log)

[TdeV]

@shain, could you please tell us more about that quick bread?

[shain]

45 minutes ago, TdeV said:

@shain, could you please tell us more about that quick bread?

 

It's powder-risen, and uses eggs for structure. The crumb is therefore eggy and pancakey, but still feels mostly like bread in texture. I used quite a bit of spices and herbs here. Also forgot to mention the caramelized onions and celery.

The thick batter is poured into a buttered pan and fried and crisp.

I can share the recipe of you are interested. 

Edited October 26, 2018 by shain (log)

[rotuts]

@Nicolai

 

Yum Yum !

[TdeV]

@shain, yes please. Recipe, please.

[kayb]

1 hour ago, shain said:

 

It's powder-risen, and uses eggs for structure. The crumb is therefore eggy and pancakey, but still feels mostly like bread in texture. I used quite a bit of spices and herbs here. Also forgot to mention the caramelized onions and celery.

The thick batter is poured into a buttered pan and fried and crisp.

I can share the recipe of you are interested. 

 

Yes, please!

 

[shain]

@TdeV @kayb

 

 

[mm84321]

Käsestrudel (yum), mini Sacher torte as a mid-day pick me up, tartare, fawn ragout, and a most delectable kaiserschmarrn 

[Okanagancook]

@mm84321 That looks like another 'stretchy' pants meal. 😉

[suzilightning]

On ‎10‎/‎23‎/‎2018 at 7:35 PM, MetsFan5 said:

Slow cooker Swedish meatballs (egg noddles not pictured):

 

I have the lingonberry sauce to go with those!

[Norm Matthews]

I marinated Kalbi overnight and grilled it today. We had it with rice, laver and kimchi.