Dinner 2019

[Anna N]

23 minutes ago, Duvel said:

some nibbbling and browsing, that I’d like to sell you as dinner:

 You’re killing me.  

[scubadoo97]

Threw a chicken on the grill on indirect heat.  Didn’t take long to get up to temp.  

 

 

[Captain]

7 hours ago, Duvel said:

Thailand

Love that place and it's food.

[Franci]

Pizza for the kids: no cheese for the boy, cheese for the girl. Picanha for us, with salad and some krauts (comparing Trader Joe’s and Cleveland Krauts). How much we miss the kimchi from our Korean veg shop in Brooklyn 😩

[KennethT]

10 hours ago, Duvel said:

After a half-day dentist appointment at Chiang Mai, Thailand - some nibbbling and browsing, that I’d like to sell you as dinner:

 

To start the night (and take the edge off the local anaesthetics and anxiolytics) I got something from the Duty Free at Hong Kong airport. Very, very smooth ...

 

 

Stumbled across a local market on my way to the “touristy” center ... who can resist grilled meat ?

 

 

Pork neck, grilled with soy and bbq honey. Chopped and served in a plastic bag. What’s not to love ?

 

 

Grilled sausages, one cured, the other one heavily spiced with curry and lemongrass ...

 

 

Khao Soi: curry-based broth, egg noddles, fried noodles on top, chili, pickles, lime ...

 

 

Fried chicken with garlic, soy, a bit spicy ...

 

 

Random nightmarket picture ...

 

 

At home - in conjunction with a highball based on above Speyside blend - a local Lays’s variety. Pleasant.

 

 

Was one of the sausages a sai oua?  I love those - I had some amazing specimens in Chiang Mai around 13 years ago...  and khao soi!

[KennethT]

Chicken thighs in the CSO with home made Sriracha

[Ann_T]

Didn't know what I wanted for dinner. And pizza is always received well by both Moe and Matt, so I hand-mixed a 500g dough at 80% hydration this morning and put it in the fridge before I left for work.

Matt took it out of the fridge two hours before I got home.
Instead of baking right on the stone on the grill, I baked the pizzas in the Bakerstone Pizza oven. I haven't used this in about three years.

Was really happy with how the pizzas turned out.

Baked a three cheese pizza for Matt and a Pepperoni deluxe for Moe and I.

 

I really love the crust.

My favourite part.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

They say swordfish stores well at cold temperatures.

 

 

 

Do not judge.

 

A bit of belly, potato and coleslaw.  Ignore any little specks.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 21, 2019 by JoNorvelleWalker
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[Margaret Pilgrim]

Small dinner party

Guest brought homemade spring rolls for living room nibbles.    Avocado and crab filled.  Yummy!

Starter = sauteed chanterelles and white mushrooms, raw white mushrooms, mache, EVOO, lemon juice, egg yolk.

 

Breton cotriade fish soup included monkfish, salmon, mussels, sorrel...

 

 

Sorry, no time for more pics.     House made bread.

Soft goat cheese with figs baked with brown sugar, cinnamon and rosemary

Chocolate pots de creme with chile powder and Malden salt, lightly whipped cream

Fresh mint tea

[Duvel]

5 hours ago, KennethT said:

Was one of the sausages a sai oua?  I love those - I had some amazing specimens in Chiang Mai around 13 years ago...  and khao soi!

Yup ... the upper one. So fragrant !

[liuzhou]

黄尾 鱼 (huáng wěi yú) - yellowtail fish, deep fried and served with couscous and 夜香花 (yè xiāng huā) - Tonkin jasmine, stir fried wih garlic and chilli.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dcarch]

1 hour ago, liuzhou said:

黄尾 鱼 (huáng wěi yú) - yellowtail fish, deep fried and served with couscous and 夜香花 (yè xiāng huā) - Tonkin jasmine, stir fried wih garlic and chilli.

 

 

 

 

Beautiful! Just wonderful!

 

I have to point out that it is too bad that most of the world do not use chopsticks. The only way we can enjoy lots of different kinds of fish is to use chopstick. We are endangering  ocean life by wasting so much seafood. We eat very limited varieties of fish, and only filleted fish. It's wasteful filleting fish.

 

Thank you Liuzhou for having shown the world how many different kind of fish are delicious in you posts.

 

dcarch

 

 

Edited September 21, 2019 by dcarch (log)

[Shelby]

I was hungry for fattoush salad, but I also wanted kind of a chef's salad.  So I compromised with myself.

 

Sous vide chicken breast cut up and marinated in some sumac, lemon juice, pomegranate molasses, garlic, red wine vinegar and olive oil

 

Cheese toasties to go with.

[liuzhou]

30 minutes ago, dcarch said:

I have to point out that it is too bad that most of the world do not use chopsticks.

 

 

Thanks, but I ate that with a fork and kinife.

[shain]

Dinner from before my vacation.

Navratan curry of cauliflower, eggplant, peas, and graham massal flavored egg cubes. The sauce itself made with coconut, ginger and various spices. Served with vermicelli flavored with turmeric and yogurt.

 

 

[Okanagancook]

1 inch thick SV ribeye (125F x 75 minutes)then seared with steamed Chinese greens/mushroom, SV pearl onions....DH got some noodles...I'm on an austerity diet 😎 

[Franci]

Today it was a Costco day, so we got some prime center cut ribeyes but I already defrosted some jumbo key west pink shrimps, so we had both.  We have a store here, called Wild Fork Foods, just frozen. Paradise for proteins, we get shrimps there. 
 

 

Edited September 22, 2019 by Franci (log)

[Duvel]

Nibbling through Chiang Mai continues ... this time on Wua Lai Street night market:

 

Sausages are always a good start ... this time one with rice (middle left) and one “sour” sausage, made from fermented pork (middle right). The latter was excellent ...

 

 

Together with a shrimp-based rice roll ...

 

 

Had to try the fried cheese balls. Came with sweet mayo and parsley flakes. Probably better after some more beers ...

 

 

The crispy seafood pancake shop. I took the oyster version - it did not disappoint !

 

 

At nightfall the market was swamped ...

 

 

I had my dose of sausage for the day, but this one looked soooo tempting !

 

 

From my last visit almost two years ago I still have dreams of this place ...

 

 

The shop only makes a herbal soup with blood and Khao Soi, the curried egg noodle soup of northern Thailand. It is divine here. A thick coconut-based curry broth, boiled egg noodles, fried noodles on top. All the fixings come separate - pickles, shallots, chili, lime ...

 

 

Simply divine. For 90 cents !

 

 

Getting crowded ...

 

 

A serene smile on my way back ...

 

 

And to conclude the night a Speyside highball (or two or so ...) 

 

Edited September 22, 2019 by Duvel (log)

[KennethT]

@Duvel Love these pics... you can never have too much Khao Soi when in Chiang Mai...  when we were there, our hotel was about a 20-30 minute ride away from Chiang Mai proper, and they had a shuttle that left every hour.  We wound up missing said shuttle from the night market to get back to the hotel because we got distracted getting some great mango with sticky rice from a vendor, and then basically had to run back to the meeting place, only to get there like 5 minutes late... But that mango with sticky rice was totally worth it!

 

[Margaret Pilgrim]

Son brought over brood for dinner while wife was in class.

Kid friendly menu = pork belly and mac and cheese.

Roasted carrots.

Cantalope

And crowd pleasing lemon dessert dim sum.

 

Must have been success because 8 year old granddaughter decided to spend the night, committing to get up at 5am to go to the flea market with us.    We'll see how this goes.....

[Shelby]

Bang bang shrimp, sweet and sour tofu with green beans and zucchini and bok choy

 

[BonVivant]

Oktoberfest at home because I would never go to the real Oktoberfest. It's an introvert's nightmare.

 

Tyrolean sausage with Speck.

 

Corn puree and roasted cauli.

 

[heidih]

On 9/21/2019 at 1:42 AM, Duvel said:

Yup ... the upper one. So fragrant !

 

Oh my  the fermented sausage is on my final list. Everything appeals. @snowangel  you are the  Khao Soi lover I think.

[BeeZee]

Diner classic last night, tuna melt. Made with swiss cheese (which I actually prefer vs cheddar), thin tomato slices under the cheese (which allowed the tomato to warm up when the cheese was broiled), and bread properly grilled so it didn’t get soggy. It’s one of those things I’ll order maybe once a year, so I can appreciate when the elements come together like they should.

[Kim Shook]

You know, I really should sit down at my computer and peruse the dinner thread when I’m making my shopping list for the week.  I get home with my groceries, come here and am dissatisfied with everything I’ve bought and don’t want the meals I’ve planned.  I’m looking now and find that I want @Ann_T's Shepherd’s Pie, @HungryChris' skewered shrimp and salad, @scubadoo97's smoked trout and grilled shrimp, @Shelby's roast, @Margaret Pilgrim's Swedish meatballs, @liamsaunt's gorgeous black cod…etc.  Sigh.  Well, back in reality land - We were at Wegman’s yesterday and got an Edward’s petite country ham and these interesting looking potatoes:

 

Tomatoes:

 

Ham:

 

With scrambled eggs:

The potatoes were surprisingly good.  They also had a version with sweet potatoes.  I’ll be buying these again.  Served with a lovely freezer gift:

Sweet potato biscuits from Yoder’s (an Amish/Mennonite market near Charlottesville VA) and cinnamon biscuits from Callie’s Biscuits in Charleston SC. 

 

It was all very good.  But looking at what y’all have made lately, I have ambitions. 😁