Dinner 2020

[CantCookStillTry]

My Patented Picky Chicky. 

Aka Mummy can't be bothered to make a full well rounded meal, here's a chicken, do what you want. 

Played around with brining this one for about 18 hours, tried to dry out, roasted for 45 mins. As a 'Skin Freak' I didn't really find much benefit to the brine... but I'm stuck in the house and it was something to do! 

 

[KennethT]

I decided the other day to give dum biryani a try when I realized that most of my spices are really old and need to be refreshed.... It's a good thing Kakustyan's is nearby...

 

[BonVivant]

Pasta Norma, with double smoked ricotta.

 

Home-made "button" dumplings. (They are supposed to be rounder but my batter was not thick enough)

 

"Gulasch" with tempe and root vegs.

[Kim Shook]

I mentioned a couple of days ago that we were craving fried chicken or Chinese and Chinese won out.  Well, we fixed the fried chicken cravings tonight:

[Anna N]

18 minutes ago, Kim Shook said:

Well, we fixed the fried chicken cravings tonight:

How was it? I ordered KFC a few days ago. 20 pieces dark meat. Thought I would freeze most of it. It’s disgusting. Flabby, greasy. Yuck. 

[liamsaunt]

I only got photos of some of the sides yesterday.  Roasted potatoes with mustard and rosemary

 

 

Fried zucchini with pecorino and red pepper flakes

 

 

Grilled bread with a green garlic-parmesan butter

 

 

Not pictured: giant salad and grilled ribeyes.

[Kim Shook]

It was delicious.  Popeye's is really good stuff.  Super crisp and juicy.  And it saves very well.  You could never describe Popeye's as flabby.  We have a wonderful number of choices for fried chicken including some very good grocery stores and, believe it or not, convenience stores.  Being in the south of the US, that is expected, I guess.  But I confess I haven't bought KFC chicken in years.  I've found it just as you described, though, when I've had it at potlucks and such.  I don't know if you have any Popeye's close to you, but if so, that's what I recommend.  

[Shelby]

I agree with Kim.  Popeye's chicken is good.

 

Lasagna

Venison tacos

[BKEats]

So, I always tell myself I am going to concentrate on taking photos and well, i usually forget outside of a couple quick grainy snaps... 

 

Anyway, grouper diced and soaked in lime juice.. Shrimp covered in salt, cooked on the grill in the shell.. Removed the shell and diced.  The ceviche itself was 2 garlic cloves diced, one half onion sliced thin, 1/2  lemon juice, 1 orange juice, 1 clementine juiced, 1.5  lime juiced.. 1 avocado diced, 8 baby heirloom cherry tomatoes quartered. cumin, salt, pepper, cilantro, one serano diced, a little horseradish, 7 radish match sticked and maybe a big spoon of sour cream... Then cliantro, added the grouper that had been in a zip lock soaking in only lime juice.. The grouper I think was maybe 1 or 1.5 limes worth of juice... i grilled them real quick just to get the juices flowing sort of speak. 

 

 

 

 

Queso fundido with queso hebra, chorzo, and onions.. Queso hebra is a oaxacan string cheese.. if you have never had it, get it. 

 

The entire ball unravels in one string and then, the large string can be broken into thousands of little strings. 

 

 

Cooked the chorizo, cooked the onions, added them together in a gratin dish and covered with the cheese:

 

 

There is a video of the cheese pull somewhere.. 400 degree oven for like 15 minutes or so.. The green onons where for shrimp tacos but, i made too much as per usually.. shrimp tacos are for lunch tomorrow. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 3, 2020 by BKEats (log)

[gfweb]

Goose leg confit tossed in saba, risotto with chorizo, braised cabbage.

(It ate much better than it looks).

 

[TicTac]

The orientation should not matter on this one!  Baby back ribs 2 types of dry rubs. 

[robirdstx]

 

Salad with Caesar Dressing, 

 

 

Chicken and Andouille Gumbo with  French Fries 

 

 

Edited May 3, 2020 by robirdstx (log)

[KennethT]

So after half the day in the kitchen (the other half spent making Thai Chicken stock which is almost done)

 

Hyderabadi chicken biryani:

 

We enjoyed this very much. More than the Thai style I made last week... But not as much as the biryani restaurant in Singapore which I LOVE!!!  But it's a good starting point.

[Margaret Pilgrim]

Red peppers

 

Lidia's chicken casalinga, same pan potatoes, side of scorched asparagua

[BKEats]

So this is one of my wifes favorites... A simple cucumber salad. There is chinese vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar, garlic and some hot oils traditionally... I added a homemade scallion oil, black sesame seeds and  some crunchy shallots in hot oil..  Used a whole cucumber... Letting it sit for a bit and marinate.   if we are still hungry, i will  add some cold rice noodles to the leftover marinade.  

 

 

So you can get a sense of "what lies beneath" 

 

 

 

Edited May 4, 2020 by BKEats (log)

[liuzhou]

Last night, I was invited to a preview of a new restaurant owned by a friend of a friend. Basically, it is a simple 快餐 (kuài cān) or Chinese fast food restaurant. Simple stir fries for the working man or woman. However, this one has a gimmick. No chef! No cooks! Everything is cooked by this.

 

 

It's a programmable robotic cooking machine with hundreds of recipes already installed, but which can be tweaked to the user's satisfaction. A couple of people were preparing ingredients which were then loaded into a tray at the top, the door closed and shortly later it 's ready to serve.

 

 

We ate:

 

Chicken with green and red bell peppers peppers and wood ear fungus.

 

Mixed vegetables

 

Soup

 

Different chicken with bell peppers

 

Stir fried cucumber

 

Pork and Tofu

 

Fried rice noodles

 

Passion Fruit Wine

 

The verdict. No thanks! The food was bland, underseasoned and boring, but then most fast food is. Bell peppers!! On the plus side, it wasn't greasy like so much of this food can be.

We sent for a bowl of the local specialty from next door - 

 

Duck and snails in a spicy soup. Great stuff!

 

Still, it was a fun and interesting experience, but not one to be repeated. I like my food to be cooked by someone with taste buds.

 

Edited May 4, 2020 by liuzhou (log)

[liuzhou]

29 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

Last night, I was invited to a preview of a new restaurant owned by a friend of a friend.

 

Incidentally, this was my first meal out since early January. The street we were on has many restaurants and they were all packed.

[KennethT]

The finished stock/soup...

I love making stock in the pressure cooker. Hard to tell in the photo but it's clear like consomme - this was taken just after I took the lid off.

 

This is probably the most expensive stock I've ever made.... The store had no backs or other cheap soup/stock parts. So it was a pound of feet, a pound of wings and two leg/thighs. On the upside, I was able to pick enough meat for four meals of noodle soup! Just needs seasoning.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Dinner was supposed to be a Jose Andres soup.  It is not soup weather.  Dinner was a bowl of Momofuku with stuff to dip into it.  Like fingers.

 

[BKEats]

its always soup weather, just put the ac on. 

[liuzhou]

6 hours ago, BKEats said:

this is one of my wifes favorites

 

How many wifes do you have? 😂

[shain]

Poached eggs with mushrooms, bechamel. Topped with cheese and broiled. Black lentils. Thyme, garlic, nutmeg, parsley, pepper.

Served with bread and salad.

 

 

Yolk action.

 

[rotuts]

@shain 

 

Ive never had béchamel on poached eggs , or any eggs

 

how could I have not thought of that back in the

 

béchamel days !

 

looks delicious 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

5 hours ago, BKEats said:

its always soup weather, just put the ac on. 

 

By dinner time I did.

 

[shain]

48 minutes ago, rotuts said:

@shain 

 

Ive never had béchamel on poached eggs , or any eggs

 

how could I have not thought of that back in the

 

béchamel days !

 

looks delicious 

 

Thanks!

I was inspired by a dish I once had where eggs were pouched shakshuka style in a sauce of cream and thin bachamel, with plenty of mushrooms.

Poaching the eggs allows them to be cooled before topping with the sauce and broiling, so that they are cooked to the desired doneness.