Dinner 2020

[liuzhou]

Squid with  snow peas - a classic Chinese pairing with garlic, ginger, chilli Shaoxing wine and oyster sauce. Served with orzo because I'm probably the only person in China who doesn't have any rice! I knew I had forgotten something at the market this morning!

 

 

 

[Spork]

Last night,

 

Quick marinaded salmon, brown sugar, soy sauce, and garlic. 
 

Angel hair with radish, orange bell, cherry tomato, and spinach. 
 

[chromedome]

1 hour ago, liuzhou said:

Squid with  snow peas - a classic Chinese pairing with garlic, ginger, chilli Shaoxing wine and oyster sauce. Served with orzo because I'm probably the only person in China who doesn't have any rice! I knew I had forgotten something at the market this morning!

 

 

I hear you. I wish I had a dollar for every time I've had to go back into the store for the one thing I'd specifically intended to buy when I walked in...

[Okanagancook]

Must be a male thing....DH went to the store for two things:  beer and sour cream.  Yup...no sour cream in the grocery bag.  I don't get it!  I do love him, although sometimes he makes it very hard😍

[Ann_T]

As part of a Secret Santa gift exchange I participated in this Christmas, I received a lovely box from my Secret Santa.  It arrived yesterday afternoon. 

It  contained a number of products from Anson Mills in South Carolina.

 

 

One of the items was their COLONIAL STYLE FINE CLOTH-BOLTED PASTRY FLOUR.

The flour is described as:

 

"Screened to a silken finish from the finest Red May wheat, this flour is an exact reproduction of the pastry flour of the Colonial South, which has been out of production since the 1850s. Esteemed historically for its crisping properties, Red May wheat represents crisping nonpareil when it is stone-milled gently, and then sifted immediately by hand through a fine silk bolting cloth at 100% bran extraction. Its texture is so fine that when rubbed between the fingers, it feels almost like cream (historically, the flour was known as “crema”). Red May pastry flour is loaded with whole wheat germ flavonoids and nutrients. It is soft enough to make biscuits tender and pie dough flaky, but strong enough to support buttery layers in laminated doughs like Danish or croissant."

 

Just from this description alone, I  couldn't resist baking a pie immediately. 

 

Thankfully I had just enough apples.

 The pastry was wonderful. Easy to work with and the finished crust was light and flaky.

 

 

 

I'm posting it on the dinner thread because Moe talked me into cutting the pie while it was still warm and having it as our dinner. 

[Okanagancook]

Wow, what a gift!!

I bought some of their products awhile back.  Not cheap when one considers you have to order a certain amount and by the time one pays shipping from down south...it's a pricey endeavour...one that I will be repeating once I use what I have.  They are in the freezer as directed.  

Wonderful products and I love the story.  Be sure to check out their recipes.  The wife of the founder is a trained chef; she worked in America's Test Kitchen and she formulates and tests all the recipes.  The cooking method for the Carolina Gold Rice is perfect.  https://ansonmills.com/recipes

Enjoy.

[scubadoo97]

2 hours ago, Okanagancook said:

Must be a male thing....DH went to the store for two things:  beer and sour cream.  Yup...no sour cream in the grocery bag.  I don't get it!  I do love him, although sometimes he makes it very hard😍

Priorities 

[Duvel]

3 hours ago, Okanagancook said:

Must be a male thing....DH went to the store for two things:  beer and sour cream.  Yup...no sour cream in the grocery bag.  I don't get it!  I do love him, although sometimes he makes it very hard😍

Fair enough, but who really needs sour cream if you have BEER 😜

[Okanagancook]

The sour cream was for a baked potato WITH BACON BITS!!

[heidih]

8 minutes ago, Okanagancook said:

The sour cream was for a baked potato WITH BACON BITS!!

 

Ha! I assumed beer + chips & dip (Lipton onion preferably)

[Okanagancook]

Lipton onions mix and our cream is a really good onion dip for chips.  Does anyone have a recipe for onion dip not using the mix?

[robirdstx]

9 minutes ago, Okanagancook said:

Lipton onions mix and our cream is a really good onion dip for chips.  Does anyone have a recipe for onion dip not using the mix?

Have not tried it, but this might work : https://thepioneerwoman.com/food-and-friends/how-to-make-french-onion-dip/

[Margaret Pilgrim]

28 minutes ago, Okanagancook said:

Lipton onions mix and our cream is a really good onion dip for chips.  Does anyone have a recipe for onion dip not using the mix?

Not quite, but you might like this onion/mayo grilled toast.    Onion/mayo toasts used to be our early poverty midnight snack.    So easy, so fast, so cheap, so delicious.   eta, we never added the cheese.

Edited January 8, 2020 by Margaret Pilgrim (log)

[kayb]

Sometimes, you do what you gotta do. 

 

I was craving tamales and chili, but the closest good Delta tamales are 100 miles away. So I picked up a half-dozen at Lost Pizza, which purports to get its tamales made in Greeneville, MS, in the heart of Delta tamale country. Then picked up the requisite can of cheap grocery store chili, grated some cheese, chopped some onions for Child A, nuked the tamales and the chili, and assembled.

 

Enjoyed with an appetizer of Rolaids.

[Margaret Pilgrim]

Peppers and anchovy

 

Lasagne, courtesy of our "angel nanny" who works next door.   She periodically drops by large pans of "dinner".

[liamsaunt]

6 hours ago, Okanagancook said:

Lipton onions mix and our cream is a really good onion dip for chips.  Does anyone have a recipe for onion dip not using the mix?

 

I have made Ina Garten's pan fried onion dip and it was very good.  Here is a link: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/pan-fried-onion-dip-recipe-1940693

 

I baked a batch of pita bread this evening without knowing what I wanted to do with it.

 

 

After some dithering around I made a chipotle-sun dried tomato tuna salad from the Half Baked Harvest cookbook, piled it on a pita with some avocado, arugula and red onion and a little sharp cheddar and stuck it under the broiler.  The salad uses mashed avocado instead of mayonnaise to bind the oil packed tuna with the chipotles and sun dried tomatoes.  I liked it, but it was a bit rich for what I was in the mood for,  I probably should have skipped the cheese.

 

[Margaret Pilgrim]

3 minutes ago, liamsaunt said:

 

 

 

 

Gorgeous!    Want!  

[scubadoo97]

Smoked steelhead, beets and French feta and leaf salad 

 

 

Edited January 9, 2020 by scubadoo97 (log)

[robirdstx]

 

Smoked Pork Neck and Bean Soup and a Salad

 

[CantCookStillTry]

"Crustless Quiche" & Salad. The ham fatigue is getting real now. But in times like these its very important not to be wasteful IMO. 

 

[liuzhou]

Pure laziness led me not to cook tonight (although I did prepare tomorrow's dinner which will marinade overnight) , so I went to the local Japanese place. It's not great to be honest, but...

 

Shashimi

 

Sushi - Tuna, Salmon, Japanese Amberjack

 

Edited January 9, 2020 by liuzhou (log)

[Shelby]

22 hours ago, Okanagancook said:

Must be a male thing....DH went to the store for two things:  beer and sour cream.  Yup...no sour cream in the grocery bag.  I don't get it!  I do love him, although sometimes he makes it very hard😍

Ronnie does this all the time, but he always explains that the store was out of whatever is missing.  Last time it was sugar 🤷‍♀️

[Ann_T]

1 hour ago, Shelby said:

Ronnie does this all the time, but he always explains that the store was out of whatever is missing.  Last time it was sugar 🤷‍♀️

 

I learned a long time ago, that sending Moe to the grocery store was not a good idea.  

 

 

Last night's dinner.  Made a second batch of sourdough on Sunday, at 82% hydration.  Left it in the fridge until yesterday.

 

Pizza two ways with sourdough crusts.

Moe and I had our typical sausage and mushroom

 

 

 

and Matt made his own Greek Pizza. 

 

Edited January 9, 2020 by Ann_T (log)

[Okanagancook]

@Shelby At least they were 'out' of sugar.  Once I sent DH to the grocery store for potatoes.  He did come home with potatoes but most of them were rotten 😯  Then the most unbelievable thing happened when I took them back to the store with the bill from the previous day....the produce guy said 'so what if they are rotten'!  Must be a male thing.  Maybe he'd like to join DH for some green mashed potatoes.  I have to say that was a long time ago and DH is way better at choosing produce.  He is in charge of shopping just now with me recovering from surgery and nothing rotten has come in the door.  He even didn't buy something because it didn't look good.    Houston, we have progress. (tongue firmly in cheek). 😁

[Okanagancook]

@Ann_T  Your pizza crust is just out of this world.  I have the recipe.

Do you make it quite thin before toppings go on?  I see the edges are nice and thick which is my favourite.  What temperature do you cook them at?  Now I am craving pizza.😍