Dinner 2019

[CantCookStillTry]

13 hours ago, demiglace said:

 Oh and how do you make your stuffing balls. I want them.

 

Thank you so much. 

Re Stuffing balls. So simple.

 

Basically you save up every single roll / heel of bread that missed the eat fresh cut in the freezer until your significant other looses their mind. (I find for maximum effect its better that you don't store said rolls together - more a haphazard, every third package is a stale roll type of situation). 

 

I process to crumbs, blitz one or two onions. Ton of Sage. Bind with egg and squidge. Cook for 25 mins around the roast or, if not roasting meat I cook in my dripping reserve - because heart disease is unfortunately tasty. 🤷‍♀️

[KennethT]

SV salmon with nam jim seafood...

[Okanagancook]

Pizza from the other night.  The crust wasn't very chewy..more biscuit like.  It was not made with our usual dough.  Topping was salami, cheese and peppers.

[Shelby]

Made Ronnie's favorite last night.  Chicken fried venison.

 

[liuzhou]

The theme tonight was abject laziness. Stuck a spud in the nuclear box to bake and pan fried some pork tenderloin slices. Served with Shanghai bok choy (not pictured as you may have noticed!)

 

I so wish China had decent pototoes, but I make do. These are too waxy for my liking. Topped them with salt pepper and Sriracha because I could. They weren't bad, but could have been so much better.

 

 

[mgaretz]

Tri-tip steak cooked SV then seared,  served with jumbo artichoke made in the IP and a glass of Lodi Zin.

 

 

Another tri-tip, this time with lightly stir-fried snap peas and a different Lodi Zin.

 

 

And dessert of homemade non-dairy chocolate-peanut butter-sea salt gelato.

 

 

[shain]

@Duvel @liamsaunt @Okanagancook It seems that it was pizza day

We had my folks over for a pizza night a well. I went with a Neapolitan style dough, baked ~2min in my electric broiler oven / death machine.

 

Margarita.

 

Bechamel, artichoke, rosemary, pistachio, parmesan.

 

Moussaka flavored eggplant - tomato sauce & bechamel,  oregano, thyme, nutmeg, cumin.

This one I somewhat mishandled, so it's a bit of a mess.

 

Ricotta, mozzarella, pesto, tomatoes.

 

Crumb view:

[Okanagancook]

Wow, wonderful looking pizzas and that crust!  I have your recipe saved somewhere...need to dig it out.  If I remember, it is an overnight kinda dough. I like the toppings especially the artichoke.

[dcarch]

Happy Father's Day to all!
 

Some more garlic scapes to harvest.

 

Made SV rib eye steak with garlic scapes for Father's Day dinner.

 

dcarch

[demiglace]

9 hours ago, CantCookStillTry said:

 

Thank you so much. 

Re Stuffing balls. So simple.

 

Basically you save up every single roll / heel of bread that missed the eat fresh cut in the freezer until your significant other looses their mind. (I find for maximum effect its better that you don't store said rolls together - more a haphazard, every third package is a stale roll type of situation). 

 

I process to crumbs, blitz one or two onions. Ton of Sage. Bind with egg and squidge. Cook for 25 mins around the roast or, if not roasting meat I cook in my dripping reserve - because heart disease is unfortunately tasty. 🤷‍♀️

 

Hilarious, thank you!

[TdeV]

2 hours ago, shain said:

pizza

 

Shai, gosh, now I have pizza envy!! Can you post your recipe for pizza, please?

[shain]

@TdeV @Okanagancook

Thanks both. Here is the recipe. It's not the same one I posted before, as this one is my Neapolitan style dough and the other was for NY style pizzas.

 

3 pizzas:

6g fresh yeast / 3g dry yeast

280g room temp water

430g AP flour

15g sugar

11g salt

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Rehydrate yeast in water.

Mix in other ingredients. 

Knead well until a strong dough forms.

Rest 10 minutes, the dough will relax and soften.

Knead again until it's strong and "tough".

Cover and refrigerate overnight (up to 3 nights).

1 to 1.5 hours before baking (more if you have cold climate),  divide the dough into 3 equal pieces.

Shape into balls (look online for bread rolls shaping technique).

Dust well with semolina (flour tend to dry the dough exterior). You may also oil them lightly, but the result will be slightly different.

Cover with towel and rest for 1 to 1.5 hours.

Have a wood fired oven or a really hot broiler with a really hot baking steal ready. I use an electric pita bread oven.

Shape the dough into a pizza, making sure to leave a 2cm wide shoulder unpressed. In general, avoid pressing or over stretching, don't use a rolling pin.

Top with sauce, cheese etc. For a Margarita, I use briefly cooked and blended tomatoes, salt, and cold fresh motz.

Transfer to oven (If you don't feel like risking it, shape and top the pizza over a parchment paper and bake with it).

Bake until the cheese is just fully melted, fresh motz should not be browning and should barely bubble. The crust should be pale but charred at spots. Ideally, it should take about 90-180 seconds.

Remove from oven and place over wire rack, top with basil and other finishing touches (the pistachios and Parmesan on the artichoke pizza are both unbaked).

Edited June 17, 2019 by shain (log)

[Captain]

Beef short ribs smoked with a little Plum wood.

Its been a while since I have found these so I was a little excited to get them done.

[Okanagancook]

@shain  Thanks for the pizza recipe!!

[Ann_T]

@shain, Wow, look at that crust.  Beautiful pizzas.

 

Shopped yesterday on the way to work for dinner ideas and ingredients.

 

Picked up veal and made veal piccata with a side of spaghetti.

[Margaret Pilgrim]

Husband asked for really thin-crust pizza.     Had homemade tomato sauce on hand.    Oaxacan cheese, mushrooms, sweet onions.      Free form, as pizza master Todd English admonished, "Never trust a round pizza."  

Baked in lowest rack of oven on a cookie sheet in 550F preheated oven.    About 7 minutes.

[kayb]

14 hours ago, CantCookStillTry said:

 

Thank you so much. 

Re Stuffing balls. So simple.

 

Basically you save up every single roll / heel of bread that missed the eat fresh cut in the freezer until your significant other looses their mind. (I find for maximum effect its better that you don't store said rolls together - more a haphazard, every third package is a stale roll type of situation). 

 

I process to crumbs, blitz one or two onions. Ton of Sage. Bind with egg and squidge. Cook for 25 mins around the roast or, if not roasting meat I cook in my dripping reserve - because heart disease is unfortunately tasty. 🤷‍♀️

 

Girl. We have to teach you how to make cornbread dressing. Do you do cornbread?

 

Love the baking it in balls in the drippings. Cornbread dressing is a bit to "liquidy" to do that with, and I'm not sure how it'd do if you used enough less liquid to enable you to mold it. I will have to experiment.

 

[Toliver]

19 minutes ago, kayb said:

 

Girl. We have to teach you how to make cornbread dressing. Do you do cornbread?

 

Love the baking it in balls in the drippings. Cornbread dressing is a bit to "liquidy" to do that with, and I'm not sure how it'd do if you used enough less liquid to enable you to mold it. I will have to experiment.

 

That reminds of this recipe (click) from Food Network (Emeril has a version of this recipe, as well). I thought the shrimp was a little fussy and thought just the corn bread crab balls would be great by themselves. You could leave the crab out (can you tell I like cornbread?  ).

[lindag]

A simple enough dinner since I'm still recovering and will be it seems for another week or so.

Potato salad in the IP, gosh, that was the easiest recipe ever, whew,   And a bone-in pork chop done in the CSO and dinner is ready.  

 

[Margaret Pilgrim]

55 minutes ago, kayb said:

 

Girl. We have to teach you how to make cornbread dressing. Do you do cornbread?

 

Love the baking it in balls in the drippings. Cornbread dressing is a bit to "liquidy" to do that with, and I'm not sure how it'd do if you used enough less liquid to enable you to mold it. I will have to experiment.

 

 My Austrian M-I-L used to wax euphoric about bacon dumplings her mother used to make.    She never had a recipe, and since this was before the internet, we were never able to find one.  But this is pretty close to what she described.     Not rocket science and sounds pretty savory. 

[liamsaunt]

18 minutes ago, aishwaryajha said:

potato salad, easy and my best favorite one 

 

 That looks tasty.  Care to share your recipe?  Welcome to egullet!

 

Tonight I made a quinoa-black bean-mango-pepper-avocado salad with a cilantro-lime dressing that I found in a vegan cookbook.  I topped it with grilled shrimp because I am not a vegan and crustacean allergic nephew is out of town for the week so I have plenty of time to scour the kitchen and grill before his return 🙂

 

 

 

[mgaretz]

Teriyaki beef, made with tri-tip, marinated in homemade teriyaki sauce and stir fried with mushrooms and snap peas.

 

 

[CantCookStillTry]

9 hours ago, kayb said:

 

Girl. We have to teach you how to make cornbread dressing. Do you do cornbread?

 

 

I'm an English girl living in semi outback Australia whose only 'American Experience' was Disney Land Florida circa 2001. I do not Cornbread. Teach me your ways.

 

Edit to Add: I know there will be a thread or 6, off to find..

Edited June 18, 2019 by CantCookStillTry (log)

[Paul Bacino]

Chxn in Arrabiata Sauce w/ tomato/onion/scapes/leek  with Garlic scape mash  ( my scapes are looking good )

 

Inspired by Pasquale Sciarappa   

 

 

 

Edited June 18, 2019 by Paul Bacino (log)

[Ann_T]

Last night's dinner.

 

Blanquette de Veau

I used shallots instead of pearl onions.  Hate peeling pearl onions.