Dinner 2020

[rotuts]

@Steve Irby 

 

nice !  one of my very favorite dinners 

[Kim Shook]

1 hour ago, Steve Irby said:

Yesterday I made a double recipe of cannelloni to distribute to some of our housebound friends and for the freezer.  I have used the same recipe from Cotton Country Collection by the Jr. League of Monroe LA for about forty years.  The filling is ground beef, spinach and a little chicken liver bound with eggs, cream and pecorino romano.  I make fresh pasta sheets to substitute for manicotti tubes.  The stuffed pasta is covered in a bechamel sauce then topped with red sauce.   I'm embarrassed to say how much we inhaled for dinner but the freezer certainly isn't going to have to work as hard.

 

Sounds so good.  @David Ross gave me a similar recipe 13 years ago and it is still our favorite pasta dish.  The chicken liver addition is key.  I always have used egg roll wrappers as my pasta, but @Shelby says I have to get my never-used pasta machine out and play with it, so I'm thinking I have a similar dish in my future!  😁

[mgaretz]

Lentil soup with ham and carrots, made in the IP.  

 

 

 

[Paul Bacino]

Cubano:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Anna N]

Lamb stew for breakfast.

 

 

Toast with jam for dinner.

[Captain]

Fried rice and fried Wonky Wontons.

[Jacksoup]

Risotto with fresh and dried mushrooms, peas and prosciutto chips

[CantCookStillTry]

Today was the day. I was going to show you all I pulled myself up by the bootstraps, got off my arse, and made something for my family. 

In particular I was making a pretty little spatch cocked chicken with great attention to Crispy Skin.  

I have a routine on work nights. 

Cook the bird, take a photo, eat the skin, tent the bird, wait for Dad to get home

 

 

The Kidlet followed the routine when I was on the Phone. Missed a step.

 

[shain]

Quick dinner. Cauliflower with bechamel flavored with turmeric, garlic, thyme and hawaij. Finished with dukkah for serving. Labneh with tomatoes, mint and zaatar. Not pictured vegetables salad and pickles, tahini sauce, yogurt, which are almost always present on our table.

 

 

[scamhi]

after a trip to Costco...Grilled loin lamb chops with pan seared brussels sprouts. and a nice langhe nebbiolo

[liamsaunt]

Crab burger

 

[liuzhou]

Shrimp, garlic, ginger and chilli shrimp with asparagus and white wine. With rice.

 

 

[TdeV]

@Jacksoup, looks smashing! How do you make the proscuitto chips?

 

[mgaretz]

Prime tri-tip, cooked SV then seared, served with broccolini in butter and sweet potato.

 

 

[Shelby]

More drunken noodles and the very last of the pork belly that I have  

 

[Duvel]

Cordon Bleu with sweet potato fries and creamed spinach ...

 

[Kim Shook]

@liamsaunt – knowing you, I suspect that your beautiful applesauce is homemade.  If so, care to share your method?  If not, brand?  That is an incredible dinner.  Breakfast for dinner is a favorite in our house.  And I am decidedly NOT a cabbage person, but I would absolutely try that caramelized, delicious looking cabbage!

 

@CantCookStillTry – as usual, I need a double emoji option with your post – a laugh and a thumbs up!

 

Mr. Kim took pity on me.  Chinese-American food is probably my favorite genre of food – I could easily eat it every week – and I hadn’t had any in forever, so we picked up a bunch of goodies from Yen Ching, our favorite local place.  We’ve been going there since they opened in 1986. 

From 12 o’clock: hot and sour soup, rice and orange beef, chicken (lemon sauce on the side), crab Rangoon, and a egg roll.  Sauces:

I was a happy camper! And so was the owner – he was so grateful for the business.  Mr. Kim said that he thanked him for coming in a number of times.  We are trying to be smart about our finances.  I am not employed, Jessica has a job, but it is a new one and Mr. Kim is a state employee and there is a lot of talk about furloughs and pay cuts.  But we don’t eat out often anymore and this meal will feed us twice.  And, in a small way, it helped our neighbors and a business we value. 

[liamsaunt]

1 hour ago, Kim Shook said:

@liamsaunt – knowing you, I suspect that your beautiful applesauce is homemade.  If so, care to share your method?  If not, brand?  That is an incredible dinner.  Breakfast for dinner is a favorite in our house.  And I am decidedly NOT a cabbage person, but I would absolutely try that caramelized, delicious looking cabbage!

 

 It is homemade.  I quartered three pounds of Cortland apples (all I had in the house), and simmered them on low for an hour with 1/2 cup water.  Then I ran them through my food mill, added about 1/4 cup sugar, and a tsp. of cinnamon.  That is it!  And it was very good indeed.  I just wish I had more apples in the house for a larger batch. 

[Kim Shook]

6 minutes ago, liamsaunt said:

 

 It is homemade.  I quartered three pounds of Cortland apples (all I had in the house), and simmered them on low for an hour with 1/2 cup water.  Then I ran them through my food mill, added about 1/4 cup sugar, and a tsp. of cinnamon.  That is it!  And it was very good indeed.  I just wish I had more apples in the house for a larger batch. 

Apples not peeled, I assume?

[liamsaunt]

Just now, Kim Shook said:

Apples not peeled, I assume?

 

 Correct, unpeeled.  No need to peel when they are going through the food mill.  Plus, it makes the applesauce a pretty color.  

[heidih]

2 hours ago, Duvel said:

Cordon Bleu with sweet potato fries and creamed spinach ...

 

 

Your sweet potato fries seem to have not only good color but they look of decent crunch. Your method? I've been served too many that are limp and don't deserve the "fries" moniker. Oh and the creamed spinach - a favorite comfort food. How done? We just did tthe standard Einbren/white sauce

Edited April 1, 2020 by heidih (log)

[Jacksoup]

4 hours ago, TdeV said:

@Jacksoup, looks smashing! How do you make the proscuitto chips?

 

@TdeVi threw the prosciutto in the pan with the fresh mushrooms while I was sautéing them.  It was my ‘one less dirty pan’ solution.

[Dejah]

Double whammy here on the prairies - pandemic and snow!

Cooking and eating are the only things that will save my sanity!
Using the air fryer, I made a version of the Breaded spareribs we served at our restaurant as appetizers. Instead of cracker meal (soda cracker crumbs) and deep frying, I coated the ribs with eff and cornstarch. These were fried in the Ninja Foodie for 30 minutes, turning twice.

                                                   

To make our Sweet & Sour Sauce and to keep Weight Watcher Points down, I used sugar-free ketsup, sugar free maple syrup (added bonus of maple flavour!),  fresh pineapple chunks, thickened with cornstarch slurry.

                                                  

 

Stir-fried vegetable and brown rice with the ribs

 

                                                  

Cooking thru' the freezer for the next two meals: Prime rib steaks, grilled vegetable (on the Starfrit stove top grill pan because the BBQ is still under snow!) and wild rice / brown rice mix

         

                                                 

Lamb Chops, mashed cauliflower, and peas.

 

                                              
                                                

[BeeZee]

Boneless, skinless chicken breasts coated with a mixture of whole grain mustard, sriracha, and brown sugar, oven baked. Salad of thinly sliced english cuke (marinated quick pickle style) and clementine, sprinkled with furikake.

[Kim Shook]

Breakfast for dinner tonight:

Apple sauce (not yours yet, @liamsaunt - gotta find some Cortlands before I can make them), pancakes, scrambled eggs with cheese, Smithfield ham, and slab bacon.  Amazingly fluffy and delicious pancakes:

These were the fluffiest pancakes I’ve ever made, and it was purely due to having to wing it.  I used my regular pancake recipe, but we were out of buttermilk. I substituted some crema and a small carton of Light and Fit Greek toasted marshmallow yogurt.  They were really great.