Dinner 2018

[scubadoo97]

Pastrami tonight made from a prepared corned beef picked up when they were on sale around St Patty's day.  Leached of a fair amount of salt and seasoned with pastrami spices and smoked till tender.  This was from a point cut.  

 

 

[Kerry Beal]

Dinner tonight with @patris at the Falafel Bar in Amhearst,NY

 

 

mint tea for me

 

 

Fried Cauliflower

 

 

we both had grilled romaine with falafel 

 

 

 

a Maximilian Affair after our return home 

[Anna N]

 

Frozen, cooked duck leg reheated in the Cuisinart steam oven at 250°F on the steam/bake function for 30 minutes. I did a poor job of the searing. The orange sauce was frozen separately in an ice cube tray and reheated in the microwave. 

[Mmmpomps]

10 hours ago, Shelby said:

@Mmmpomps You always inspire me---that pad thai is something I would dig in to with complete abandon.  I made your taters last night.  Super big hit.  Also quite good cold in the morning.  Just sayin'.

 

Sous vide t-bone steaks last night with excellent potatoes (check out the link above for how she does them) and salad.  Blueberry cream cheese cake for dessert.

 

 

 

They are PERFECT!! And yes I , ahem, noticed how good they are cold in the morning Your dinner looks great!!! You always inspire me in a Little House on the Prairie way

[Dante]

 

Tonight's dinner:  sausage, tomato and lentil stew

[Thanks for the Crepes]

Saturday night, my nephew was in town again to deal with more of the details in his role as executor of my brother, his dad's will. He was kind and patient enough to shepherd my crippled self over to my stepbrother's house where he was staying with his pregnant wife. We all had a dinner of rib eye steaks (my personal favorite), fast food thin store bought frozen fries, broccoli, and salad.

 

It was so nice to get out of the house for a big change, and the steaks were so good! It has been decades since I've hung out or eaten with my stepbrother, and he was cooking the steaks on the gas grill. I made a query that I forced to be casual and offhand as he headed out the patio doors with the deck, "Hey K., your're not planning to incinerate those steaks or anything, are you?" He said med rare, and I said that sounds good. Heh, Heh. I needn't have worried. When my pregnant niece-in-law (is that even a thing?) said she couldn't eat her's like it was, that it needed to be cooked more, I could see him agonizing over ruining the steak. The final decision after discussion was to microwave her steak on a plate for 30 seconds, at which point, she was satisfied. During the microwaving, I said to K., "I needn't have worried about you ruining the steaks. This is killing you, isn't it?" He admitted it was, and we all has a good laugh out of it. Amazing how similar our tastes have turned out to be after decades of separation.

 

Good company and good food is so welcome in my life right now and this was so very satisfying on every level. Absolutely priceless!

[BonVivant]

10 hours ago, Smokeydoke said:

@BonVivant your ssam spreads look amazing. That pork belly! I can just hear the skin crunch.  Do you make your own kimchee?

I love the addition of endives too. I've never tried that. I have done daikon wraps before, they were delicious.

 

Yes, I make my own kimchis and pickles because a, they are stupid easy to make and b, I live in food hell.

I prefer perilla leaves but they are hard to get hold of. The pork rind is actually quite soft as it's not roasted.

Thank you.

 

Market in Busan.

[HungryChris]

Pork tenderloin schnitzel, baked potatoes and peas.

HC

[liuzhou]

A few days back, @Tropicalseniormentioned she was making or had made Roujiamo, from a rough recipe I posted. This reminded me that I hadn't made any myself for a while so, tonight:

 

 

 

I had a couple.

 

Couple means three or four? Right?

[weinoo]

White bean soup with collard greens...

 

 

Coda alla vaccinara...

 

 

 

This came out quite delicious.

[Shelby]

Ronnie went fishing at a lake up north and came home with a huge mess of some of the nicest catfish I've ever seen.  Cats thought so too.

 

I used LA Fish Fry instead of my usual beer batter or Rice Chex.  Very good stuff.  

 

Turned @Mmmpomps leftover taters into scalloped ones

 

[Mmmpomps]

1 hour ago, Shelby said:

Ronnie went fishing at a lake up north and came home with a huge mess of some of the nicest catfish I've ever seen.  Cats thought so too.

 

I used LA Fish Fry instead of my usual beer batter or Rice Chex.  Very good stuff.  

 

Turned @Mmmpomps leftover taters into scalloped ones

 

 

 

I LOVE the cat swat!!! Great idea for the spuds! How did they come out?

[Shelby]

43 minutes ago, Mmmpomps said:

 

 

I LOVE the cat swat!!! Great idea for the spuds! How did they come out?

Those two stinkers were all OVER me.  I barely got the fish vacuum packed.  A lot of "NO"  "STOP THAT" and "GET BACK" was said lol.

 

The taters were perfect.  I made a quick roux with flour butter and milk and then put shredded sharp cheddar in.  Layered the taters.  Put more cheese on top and popped it in the CSO for about 20 mins.  

 

I can see me making your taters weekly--and making extras for other purposes.

[Mmmpomps]

3 minutes ago, Shelby said:

Those two stinkers were all OVER me.  I barely got the fish vacuum packed.  A lot of "NO"  "STOP THAT" and "GET BACK" was said lol.

 

The taters were perfect.  I made a quick roux with flour butter and milk and then put shredded sharp cheddar in.  Layered the taters.  Put more cheese on top and popped it in the CSO for about 20 mins.  

 

I can see me making your taters weekly--and making extras for other purposes.

 

They are going on my weekly rotation too! Even in the morning, cold with flaky salt, hot cuppa tea.....

[ElsieD]

@Shelby and @Mmmpomps  did you use baking potatoes or regular ones?

[Shelby]

Just now, ElsieD said:

@Shelby and @Mmmpomps  did you use baking potatoes or regular ones?

I used Russets.  

[Okanagancook]

Steak, Mexican Tomato Rice, Mexican Black Beans topped with crumbly/salty cheese and salsa verde.

I just pan seared the porterhouse steak.  It was so good.

[Kim Shook]

49 minutes ago, Shelby said:

Those two stinkers were all OVER me.  I barely got the fish vacuum packed.  A lot of "NO"  "STOP THAT" and "GET BACK" was said lol.

 

 

One Christmas Eve morning, I was cutting up oysters to put in the stuffing and I realized that one of my cats had gotten out of the house because I was only being circled by TWO of them.  Almost had to cancel Christmas - my almost 9 months pregnant and ENORMOUS self wandered around our neighborhood sobbing (pregnancy hormones) and calling "Sugar....SuGARRRRRR" for 2 hours.  I was hot (hormones) in the 30F weather, so I was in a tent/housedress, socks and slippers (swollen feet).  I'm sure that people are still telling stories about that.  When I circled back to the house, there he was on the stoop, waiting for me to let him in.  We DID have Christmas and oyster stuffing (brought it back to food!).

[TicTac]

6 hours ago, weinoo said:

White bean soup with collard greens...

 

 

Coda alla vaccinara...

 

 

 

This came out quite delicious.

Looks good!

 

Cooked celery is totally underrated!

 

 

[rotuts]

@Okanagancook

 

interesting looking Steak.

 

S. of the Border  Ive never seen a Steak like that !

 

It looks to me like a T-bone

 

unless you cut off the top , and posted a magnified pic ...

 

I can't differentiate the filet  from the Strip.

 

maybe you have More interestingly developed Cows

 

N. of the Boarder ?

 

looks plenty tasty to me either way.

 

however , if you have a Cow up there w two ' strips ' and no filet

 

congratulations !

 

[ElsieD]

Spicy Asian noodles with chicken.  Didn't feel much like cooking and I had a Costco cooked chicken in the fridge so made this.  A bit of cucumber salad on the side.

[Okanagancook]

39 minutes ago, rotuts said:

@Okanagancook

 

interesting looking Steak.

 

S. of the Border  Ive never seen a Steak like that !

 

It looks to me like a T-bone

 

unless you cut off the top , and posted a magnified pic ...

 

I can't differentiate the filet  from the Strip.

 

maybe you have More interestingly developed Cows

 

N. of the Boarder ?

 

looks plenty tasty to me either way.

 

however , if you have a Cow up there w two ' strips ' and no filet

 

congratulations !

 

This was a porterhouse from our grass fed beef.  The fillet which is on the side away from the camera, was enormous and you are right it was almost the same size as the strip.  Both very tender.  I have three more in the freezer 

Edited March 12, 2018 by Okanagancook (log)

[Kim Shook]

We were walking through Costco and smelled their rotisserie chickens and decided that it was time for a roast chicken dinner.  I can’t remember the last time that I roasted a chicken.  With Costco’s so good and costing $5, it just doesn’t make sense.  I had some of my turkey gravy and cornbread in the freezer.  Chicken:

 

 

Gravy:

 

Mashed potatoes:

 

Green beans:

 

Cornbread dressing:

 

Rolls:

 

These were from Lidl and purported to be sweet Hawaiian.  They were decent dinner rolls. 

 

Plate:

 

Dessert was a cake mix fix-up:

Almond Joy cake:

[kayb]

5 hours ago, Shelby said:

Ronnie went fishing at a lake up north and came home with a huge mess of some of the nicest catfish I've ever seen.  Cats thought so too.

 

 

 

 

MOOOO--OOM! I want FISH!

[BonVivant]

Not something I make more than once or twice a year. Don't want to eat any meat today but I did try just a little bit to test. The partner doesn't have a problem eating meat 3 days in a row, however.

 

Air pockets!

 

Golden brown!