Dinner 2019

[Ann_T]

8 minutes ago, eugenep said:

pizza looks really good - a lot of your meals are executed pretty perfectly 

 

Question: did you use all purpose flour and or 00 Caputo or a different flour? And..would you happen to know the protein content of the flour you are using offhand? thank you 

 

I imagine that the circle shape for stretching the dough depends on higher protein/gluten for elasticity? 

 

 @eugenep  Thanks for your kind words.   

 

I use a Canadian bread flour.  It is from Rogers Flours and it is one of their commercial products. 

Protein is 13.4%.   Even their regular bread flour available in grocery stores has 13.4 %.   protein.

 

I have tried a number of "pizza dough" recipes and also the 00 Caputo flour.  And I haven't found a recipe or a flour that I like better than what I use.

 

If I know that I am going to use a batch of dough for pizzas than I will usually increase the hydration.   The batch above was 76% hydration and started with a  yeast biga

The higher hydration makes  it easier to stretch with a couple of rests .

 

[ElsieD]

We don't normally have sandwiches for dinner but the new edition of Cuisine@Home came out this week and this jumped out at me, so that was dinner tonight.  The recipe was called Korean Barbeque Steak Sandwiches.  The steak was a rib-eye grilled (on a Breville indoor grill in my case), sliced thinly, mixed with a sauce consisting of ketchup, rice vinegar, light brown sugar, soy sauce, gochujang, garlic and sesame oil. Buns are toasted, I used brioche, shredded napa cabbage is put on the bottom of each bun, sauced meat on top.  The cucumber salad, called Korean Cucumbers, had a dressing of rice vinegar, gochuganu, soy sauce, sugar and sesame oil.  Sliced scallions were added as were some toasted sesame seeds.  Looking forward to having them again.

[suzilightning]

For years I have seen this sign for pierogies at this little hole in the wall deli.  I decided to stop on Monday....OOOPS.  Closed.

Stopped yesterday on my quest for food for John and his friend.  Scored a dozen frozen potato and onion pierogies.  

Dinner tonight was 4 of them cooked up and served with some applesauce and sour cream.  These are possibly the best I have

ever had...except for my friend Rich's.

[sartoric]

Down at the cottage for Easter with limited cooking capacity, and eating a la lap. I pan fried chicken, feta and tomato sausages, then served them with reheated potato bake/veg and roasted asparagus. Tomato sauce and hot English mustard on the side. Crumb catcher at the ready.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Something new:  asparagus steam baked in the CSO:

 

 

 

Perfectly prepared but note the sulfurous demonic hue.  Normally I boil my spears in a large pot of excess water which preserves the color.

 

Typically tasty baked potato and lightly grilled tuna steak.  I repent the years I tortured tuna before I learned what it could be.  And before I acquired the tools and technology to make the apotheosis so.

 

[liuzhou]

Spicy, lemony, garlicky, wild-caught shrimp with cous-cous, flying fish roe and Chinese sea grass.

 

 

[tonyrocks922]

On 4/9/2019 at 10:41 AM, ElsieD said:

 

I said much the same thing earlier in this thread.  If he didn't see my comment perhaps he will see yours.  Without a basic description the pictures, while nice to look at, don't really mean much.

 

He's been doing that on egullet for years. I think he enjoys the attention of people wondering and speculating. I wish this forum has a feature to hide/ignore posts by user. 

[liamsaunt]

39 minutes ago, tonyrocks922 said:

 

 I wish this forum has a feature to hide/ignore posts by user. 

 

 

It does.  Go to your drop down menu under your username in the top right corner, select "ignored users" and you will be brought to a page where you can add the usernames of those whose posts you do not wish to see.

 

Last night we had black bean and roasted poblano pepper enchiladas verde with yellow rice.

 

Edited April 20, 2019 by liamsaunt
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[BeeZee]

I know I won’t be able to post photos later, as I will have 12 for Passover dinner (down from possible 14). Mom is making/bringing brisket, sis is making/bringing roasted potatoes. I made citrus/honey baked boneless chicken breasts yesterday, tasted one chilled and decided they will be served coldish. Saffron quinoa pilaf with dried cherries. Thai carrot salad. Lemon roasted green beans. Chicken soup with matzoh balls (added some fresh dill to the mix). Mom is also bringing homemade chocolate dipped macaroons and some fruit salad for dessert. Uncle and his daughter bringing some other dessert.

I am currently sitting with a cold adult beverage enjoying the fact that everything is done, so glad I did advance prep.

 

Edited April 20, 2019 by BeeZee (log)

[Shelby]

After the freezer thaw debacle, I once again thanked the person that invented sous vide for home use and the person that got me started doing it.  I was so tired so I threw some beef steaks in the water bath.  Saved me from a lot of cooking and I don't think I could have fit them in the downstairs freezer lol.

 

 

Next night was oysters and fried shrimp and frog legs

Last night I couldn't resist picking the 8 spears of asparagus that were up in the garden....not enough as a veggie side so I blanched them and threw them into the marinated mushroom jar for a few hours.  Venison meatballs and spaghetti to go with.

 

 

[sartoric]

Hot roast chicken, asparagus and gravy rolls, flat chips and slightly wilted salad. Still in the country cottage with limited facilities, eating like kings

[chefmd]

Dry aged strip steak with roasted Yukon gold potatoes 

 

Edited April 21, 2019 by chefmd (log)

[liuzhou]

Burmese Chicken with Mint.

 

This is sort of a Burmese version of the Thai/ Laotian laab or larb. I more or less follow this recipe. This time it was less. I don't have sambal oelek*, skipped the sugar and didn't have coriander/cilantro. No great loss.

 

 

Served with rice and a side of wilted spinach.

 

*Subbed it with Guilin chilli sauce. Mint tenderly nurtured through the winter and now rampant on the balcony.

 

[Ann_T]

Lebanese Dinner - Shish Taouk with Toum (Garlic Sauce)

 

Marinated the chicken before leaving for work yesterday  morning.

Grilled.

And served with rice and Greek Salad. 

[Nicolai]

Wishing one and all a Happy Easter.

 

Pre Dinner Indian Mango Alphonso in season perfect for Easter.

 

This is left from a full box

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

followed by an Italian Panettone with chocolate and Orange Cream filling

 

Edited April 21, 2019 by Nicolai (log)

[suzilightning]

Last night: celebration BIL's 59th birthday - pizza(1/2 plain; 1/2 Hawaiian - for the BIL!!!), lobster bisque for BIL and shrimp marinara for John from Madison's in Pleasant Valley, NY.   Did you notice there were no vegetables?  Not unusual in Poughkeepsie.

If/when John gets home there will be a roasted chicken, roasted carrots, baked sweet potatoes and a small amount of mash.  Oh... and dressing; herb dressing with sautéed shallots and apple.  And Ahh! Bisto chicken gravy fortified with the skimmed drippings.

Leftover dark meat chicken off the bone with noodles for pho tomorrow.

 

Edited April 21, 2019 by suzilightning (log)

[TdeV]

On 4/19/2019 at 12:51 PM, Ann_T said:

The higher hydration makes  it easier to stretch with a couple of rests .

 

Hi Ann,

 

How do you stretch your pizza? (In spite of making pizzas for years, I have a fairly clumsy way of stretching out the dough).

 

Your pizzas (again) look fabulous. It seems to me that you have very little dough gumminess (?) where the topping intersects the dough. How do you manage this?

 

Thanks.

 

[BonVivant]

Skrei season has just come to an end. I got 2 fat loins. The fish is so delicate and expensive you really need to keep it simple. I just seared, topped with onions fried in butter.

 

Got 5 meals out of this lean duck.

 

This is the last one. Used the stock in the soup and made some crispy Speck.

 

[heidih]

4 hours ago, TdeV said:

 

Hi Ann,

 

How do you stretch your pizza? (In spite of making pizzas for years, I have a fairly clumsy way of stretching out the dough).

 

Your pizzas (again) look fabulous. It seems to me that you have very little dough gumminess (?) where the topping intersects the dough. How do you manage thi\for

Thanks.

 

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I am obviously  not Ann but just as with phyllo or puff pastry ya gotta just do it. The current trend is high hiydation. With a standard recipe

the "rest" is critical. I grew up with noodles and leaarned dough resting at great grand mother's knee. When you look at shows you see just a sort of hand  knuckle  movement rather than actual touching/pulling. Think also of pie crust - cool hamds and just do it.

Edited April 21, 2019 by heidih (log)

[chefmd]

Cod steam roasted in CSO with pan roasted carrots and salsa verde 

[Dante]

Easter dinner- ham slow cooked in cider and (good quality) maraschino cherry liquid, over cheesy grits, with steamed rapini.

[Dante]

Jackfruit with barbecue sauce and chili-lime marinade over steamed corn (with butter,smoked paprika, and nutritional yeast) and chopped steamed kale.

[Ann_T]

6 hours ago, TdeV said:

 

Hi Ann,

 

How do you stretch your pizza? (In spite of making pizzas for years, I have a fairly clumsy way of stretching out the dough).

 

Your pizzas (again) look fabulous. It seems to me that you have very little dough gumminess (?) where the topping intersects the dough. How do you manage this?

 

Thanks.

 

@TdeV, I don't do anything special.    I shape the dough loosely into a ball and flatten.   I have a board well floured and I oil my hands with olive oil and stretch initially from underneath the dough using my knuckles.  I stretch  until it resists, 

and then I let it rest for 10 minutes for the dough to relax.   I oil my hands again and then just start to push out on the dough to stretch it further, letting it rest as needed.  Once the centre is thin enough, I start to pull gently and stretch from the edge out.  

I hope that makes sense.    The secret is letting the dough rest between stretches.   When it is relaxed it stretches much easier.  

[gfweb]

Easter dinner on the patio (finally warm enough...just)

 

Deviled eggs

 

Potato salad with ramps

 

Roast veg

 

 

 

Smoked pork tenderloin with savory lingonberry sauce

 

[Smithy]

47 minutes ago, gfweb said:

Easter dinner on the patio (finally warm enough...just)

 

Deviled eggs

 

Potato salad with ramps

 

Roast veg

 

 

 

Smoked pork tenderloin with savory lingonberry sauce

 

 

That looks like a wonderful Easter dinner. Ramps!!  Oh, you lucky duck! Ours will be coming up in about a month.