Lunch 2020

[BKEats]

bacon egg and cheese.. Arugula with lemon and salt, sriracha, land o lakes cheese... The cheese sort of melted off the egg a bit as it took me and extra minute or two to track down the spatula.. Still can find it and had to use a pastry tool... English muffin

 

Lots of pepper and a little srircha after the pic.. Also, you can see the cheesy sort of burnt crust that formed. Sort of a happy accident. 

 

Edited April 5, 2020 by BKEats (log)

[heidih]

I thought it was intentional frico

[BKEats]

I had this lamb chop that was marinating in the fennel pesto for the last three days.. i cut it up

 

Put them on skewers, covered in spice mixture of cumin, sichuan, salt. 

 

 

 

Served with a hudson valley, valley beer. 

 

 

Edited April 5, 2020 by BKEats (log)

[KennethT]

Picked this up at the Korean grocery yesterday

 

 

It won't win any awards, but not bad.... Not bad at all....

[rotuts]

@KennethT 

 

Ive had similar Fz Bus  from Ranch88 or more local small  chinese / oriental groceries 

 

you are correct , no awards    but you have them

 

i sued to get  fresh on BOS  Chinatown , and  they were spectacular.

 

hope to do that again in the future.

 

I doubt there is a Trader Joes near you

  

but they have a few Fz  " Thai " gyoza buns that are to die for.   

 

to pick up responsibly 

 

 

[heidih]

53 minutes ago, BKEats said:

I had this lamb chop that was marinating in the fennel pesto for the last three days.. i cut it up

You are driving me to seek out wild fennel. Maybe a hike after the upcoming rain An image from the past

 

[blue_dolphin]

When I pulled out Mark Vetri's Mastering Pasta yesterday, I spied a recipe for Farfalle with Chorizo and Favas.  I had favas in the freezer and was convinced there was a small piece of Spanish chorizo in the fridge so I embarked on making the farfalle this morning using the Whole Egg, Bread Flour and Stone-Ground Wheat Dough from his book.  The chorizo went missing so I settled on some 'nduja instead.  Vetri calls for Pantaleo, a hard, aged goat cheese from Sardinia.  I subbed Cabrillo, a Spanish-style goat & cow cheese from Stepladder Creamery on the California central coast.

Next time, I'll roll dough a little thinner but it was a good learning experience - I used pinking shears to cut the dough 🤣 and a satisfactory lunch with a glass of syrah.

Edited April 5, 2020 by blue_dolphin (log)

[BKEats]

This looks really good, blue_dolphin

[BKEats]

So I made this carrot and fennel soup... I took the tops of a dozen fennel the other day and instead of tossing them. i took them home with me.. I have been trying to find different ways to use the fennel top.. Plus, as I am on lock down, it's one of the only green things I have... So, I have make a fennel pesto, a fennel pesto marinade,  fennel salad.. Last night, I made fennel and carrot soup and this morning I made fennel simple syrup and fennel caramel.  I plan on making fennel top falafel tomorrow, 

 

So here is the soup.. Carrot, onion, fennel tops, a half a fennel, homemade turkey stock.. I added a bit of fennel simple syrup and some curry at the end. 

 

Whoops, i guess an apple too:

 

 

Roasted, purred and ran through a fine Chinois. 

 

Made a simple beer bread:

 

 

Baked for an hour.. Poured hot butter over it, added fennel syrup/caramel  and butter to a hot slice

 

 

 

 

A little scoop of cream fraiche and some cayenne. 

 

 

Edited April 6, 2020 by BKEats (log)

[blue_dolphin]

Tuna salad on pita

[Steve Irby]

I made a batch of pizza dough from Ken Forkish FWSY and used two portions of dough yesterday for pizza with homemade pork sausage and pepperjack.    Today I used one portion for pizza with smoked turkey, more pepperjack and oil cured olives.  The remaining dough was roughly formed and baked after the pizza was cooked.  I used the gas grill both days. 

 

    

[Dejah]

Superstore Instacart Grocery Delivery brought me two beautiful heads of cauliflower.
 

Oven roasted cauliflower steak with Creole seasoning, steamed green beans and tomato chunks = great lunch!

                                                 

 

From the freezer, some Spicy Moroccan Spicy Beef Cigars with salsa along with a small bowl of Kale and Cauliflower soup

 

                               

Made lots of wonton soup to share with the neighbors who clear our driveway whenever there is snow. 

 

        

                                                                             

 

Pan fried a few leftover wontons and eaten with stir-fried vegs = make-believe pot stickers!    

 

                                                                               

 

                                                                

[Raamo]

Lunch today, Fish and Chips!  Fish is cod.  

 

Bit more involved then we usually do for lunch, but my wife teaches in the later afternoon/evening so can't do this mid week and we picked up groceries too late on Sunday to make this on the weekend.

 

 

Very nummy

[heidih]

44 minutes ago, Raamo said:

Lunch today, Fish and Chips!  Fish is cod.  

 

 

You fry well! Lucky lady. Cod- appreciated in history but not often in my markets https://www.amazon.com/Cod-Biography-Fish-Changed-World/dp/0140275010  My fvorite supplier can get it but we are all stuck in now  https://santamonicaseafood.com/product-guide

[Kim Shook]

Yesterday:

Ham, Lebanon bologna, and Provolone.

 

Today:

 

Smoked oysters and buttered saltines.

[Captain]

2 hours ago, Kim Shook said:

Smoked oysters and buttered saltines.

A favourite of mine.  Yum!

[suzilightning]

sweet or regular?

[Kim Shook]

5 hours ago, suzilightning said:

sweet or regular?

Not sure:

Very smokey!

[rotuts]

what id give for a ' cold cut ' sandwich 

 

on fresh bread .   LTM .    

 

maybe not a Full Roll , but Ill negotiate .

[BKEats]

I’m Pennsylvania Dutch and my mother’s maiden name was Seltzer.  I grew up eating summer sausage, aka Lebanon Bologna.  I would eat it on buttered white bread with potato chips. My mother also use to roll them up with cream cheese.  

[Kim Shook]

Lavash with ham, provolone, and salami:

 

[kayb]

There's a local sandwich shop that does something similar to this, with a wonderful oil and vinegar dressing. I love it because for those of us who are off gluten, they'll wrap it in lettuce leaves. Then it's an "unwich."

 

[Kim Shook]

 

1 hour ago, kayb said:

There's a local sandwich shop that does something similar to this, with a wonderful oil and vinegar dressing. I love it because for those of us who are off gluten, they'll wrap it in lettuce leaves. Then it's an "unwich."

 

I remember eating these sandwiches years and years ago.  My Syrian aunt's mother (that sounds like a sentence from a foreign language lesson: "the sister of my uncle's wife"😁  ) would get these giant sheets of lavash from somewhere and stuff them full of cold cuts and cheeses and vegetables, sprinkle with a lemon and oil dressing and roll them up in a towel.  They'd sit in the fridge for a couple of hours and then she'd slice them and load up a platter.  Mine was sadly not that stellar, but it was pretty dern good.  

[KennethT]

Fettuccine with dried porcini sauce...

[kayb]

Lunch today was the Pandemic Special: French onion dip, Pringles, and candy Easter eggs.