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Dinner 2020


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I had made a mole chili a few months ago.. I froze in portion bags.. But the chili was beef with turkey stock and chocolate, cloves, a few Mexcian chiles, dark ones, spicy ones..  I think it was mulato, pasilla, guajillo,  ancho maybe.. It was super rich and flavorful..  

 

I fried nachos and reheated the chili:

 

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I recently purchased this vintage Le Creuset cast iron gratin.. Made in france in the 60's, i dont think they ever imagined it being used for this.. But, if you are a single layer nacho minded person, this dish is just perfect... Layer of nachos, cheese, beef, onions, pickled jalapenos, then more cheese. 

 

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Then more cheese:

 

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No clear finished pic

 

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Bite:

 

These were so good, i my wife declared it's the  best thing I made all week.. I think she was just caught up in the moment,  a few hours earlier, she was raving about the soup.. Though, these guys  were spectacular 

 

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45 minutes ago, robirdstx said:

Pork Tamales with Salsa Verde and Spicy Black Beans

 

 

Oh gosh I so so need to hear the tinkle of the vendor's bell. Not happening now...

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23 minutes ago, heidih said:

 

Oh gosh I so so need to hear the tinkle of the vendor's bell. Not happening now...


I spent my first six years in Santa Monica and Culver City. The Hot Tamale Man memory predates the Popsicle/Ice Cream Man for me.

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First up, I made a fish stock from this poor boy's head - perhaps not something you'd find in your supermarket, but every day in mine.

 

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Then took the stock and made a sort of seafood ramen dish. Used fresh hand-pulled noodles (no, I didn't pull them) fish (sole); regular shrimp; tiny shell-on, river shrimp; quail egg; chilli; garlic; shallots; ginger; white pepper and Shanghai Bok Choy.

 

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...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

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3 hours ago, liuzhou said:

First up, I made a fish stock from this poor boy's head - perhaps not something you'd find in your supermarket, but every day in mine.

 

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There is a song right? My regular A city of immigrants is not shy.

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Spring...winter...spring...winter! Weather can't seem to settle, but eating never wavers 😋
Quick Stove-top Paella using up a box of frozen cooked mussels and clam meat.  Didn't have chorizo but I did have spicy turkey "pepperoni sticks", so they went in as well.


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This virus is helping me, once again, to cook thru' my freezer - hamburger patties that I bought for a large family gathering =  Hamburger Steak / Salisbury Steak with onion gravy. Brought back warm memories of my Dad's little cafe in rural community!

 

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Prime Rib, Yorkshire Pudding dinner. I usually make my pudding in muffin tins, but there are only 2 of us eating, so I reduced the recipe and made it, for the FIRST TIME EVER, in the roasting pan. It was good! Great to mop up the extra green peppercorn gravy.

 

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Our kids, who all worked in our restaurant years ago, asked me for a recipe for our special BBQ sauce for sizzling hot plates. Had to search my books and reduce the huge 5-gal pails that we made up in the restaurant! I think I got pretty close. Did up our #109 on the menu: Chicken Sizzling Hot Plate with Peppers, Tomatoes, and Pineapple. I tossed in some mini cucumbers that needed using up. The kitchen was filled with delicious smoke!

 

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Plated with Jasmine Rice

 

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2 (3?) weeks eating eggs, beans, and other boring foods (that's another thread I guess) had me really, seriously craving some meat, especially a burger. So I took matters into my own hands, bandannaed and gloved up, and went to Whole Foods. They didn't have any ground meat that looked suitable, so I got an 11 oz pack of deboned short rib and some brioche buns. When home, I stuck the meat in a freezer for a bit, and went to it with my freshly sharpened gyuto. I have to say, hand-mincing meat is very satisfying and I don't see why I'd ever buy ground meat again.

 

Anyway, I figured I'd use Kenji's double smash burger approach, and made two balls, got some Gruyère sliced thinly, caramelized some onions, and put my Baking Steel Griddle to good use.

 

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This may be the best burger I've ever made at home, and hit the spot like a MF.

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Earlier in the day I baked no-knead bread for the first time, baked in a dutch oven.  Came out very good.  For dinner, pork chops, grilled indoors on the PAG, glazed with maple syrup, served with steamed Brussels sprouts and the bread. Dessert was homemade non-dairy ice cream - peanut butter salted caramel.

 

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20 hours ago, Captain said:

Chicken & Veal Cannelloni with some crusty bread. Yum.

I was craving this for some reason..

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Itch is now scratched.🙂

So, @Captain, did you make the pasta??? 😳 😁  If the joke escapes you, go here.  

 

How can something that starts out this ugly turn out so scrumptious:

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Canned tamales.  Tamale pie for dinner:

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Such junk food, but so good.  Canned tamales, canned chili, and shredded cheese.

 

Served with slaw, fruit and tortilla chips:

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@Kim Shook 

 

I know exactly what you are talking about

 

Ive never tried this concoction 

 

but Id love to in the future .

 

Ive always been leery of canned chili w beans

 

im not a purist on the chili , I recall the beans in the can w the chili were not

 

properly cooked.   one under cooked bean , kills the whole dish

 

of course lots of cheese 

 

and i noted some fresh fruit :

 

that balances every ting out !

 

congratulations

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3 hours ago, Kim Shook said:

did you make the pasta??? 

lol. Not this time.  I have Two pasta machines.. no idea why I have twoo.O  I enjoy making pasta but not that much.

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4 hours ago, Kim Shook said:

So, @Captain, did you make the pasta??? 😳 😁  If the joke escapes you, go here.  

 

How can something that starts out this ugly turn out so scrumptious:

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Canned tamales.  Tamale pie for dinner:

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Such junk food, but so good.  Canned tamales, canned chili, and shredded cheese.

 

Served with slaw, fruit and tortilla chips:

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I LOVE this dinner.    Canned tamales were part of my youth, something you tried to con your mom to open for lunch.    This elevated treatment gives them their due.

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Over the weekend I was rummaging around the freezer and came upon a batch of homemade sambal to try to recreate Singapore (Old) Lai Huat's specialty, sambal fish. Photos of which can be found in two of my Singapore travel blogs and also on the most recent trip to Jogjakarta. Suffice it to say that mine paled by comparison, but it was still tasty...

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51 minutes ago, Margaret Pilgrim said:

 

I LOVE this dinner.    Canned tamales were part of my youth, something you tried to con your mom to open for lunch.    This elevated treatment gives them their due.

 

There are worse things in life than canned tamales.

 

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Sunday's broccoli rabe and sausage pasta is, well, Tuesday's broccoli rabe and sausage pasta.. Just in a different package.   I don't know what I like best but, I like agnolotti in that you have to treat them differently.. I usually take a leftover roast and add liver with the cooked meat.. Making them like little liver flavor bombs.. BUt, I am locked in the house and i had some leftover sausage and greens and this was a great way to use them. 

 

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Not having parm, i chopped the broccoli rabe and sausage with the last of the mozzarella in my fridge and threw in an egg

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with egg 

 

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whoops, ok.. so, that was not supposed to post.. But, i made a simple pasta dough and stuffed.. i made little agnolotti.. 

 

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I had a fun idea of keeping the agnolotti chain in tact.. and either make long strips and treat like a noodle or treat like a lasagna sheet.. But, i did the regular way.

 

still got the skills 

 

 

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Boil, boil toil and trouble:

 

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butter and sage from my garden.. i like in brooklyn and after 12 years, I have a year round sage plant.. i use it once a month easily

 

I added homemade turkey stock, butter and sage

 

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