Dinner 2021

[heidih]

54 minutes ago, Shelby said:

I was gonna say it was the wine 🤷‍♀️

I think that is from Piedmont, Italy. I just love all that member's food. Inspires me. Here is link to @David Lebovitz on Sicilian capers  Scroll down for the pods that almost look like olives. https://www.davidlebovitz.com/capers-in-pantelleria-italy-sicily/

[KennethT]

Singapore chicken curry with home made  roti prata

 

[weinoo]

Looks like cooking is happening in the new apartment, @KennethT! (How do you make that roti prata? It looks great).

 

Let's call this the hot mess dinner, after a day with my in-laws, and driving home through what only could be called rain of biblical proportions. Or a derecho. No xanax were harmed. But 1.5 bottles of wine were consumed once home.

 

 

Little gem salads with house made ranch dressing.

 

 

Pan roasted Berkshire pork chop over reverse engineered rice-a-roni (which is never as good as real Rice-A-Roni, due to the lowering of the sodium content by like 2/3).

 

Truly a hot mess. 

 

[liuzhou]

My friend J and I had a late birthday dinner (but an early dinner time-of-day-wise) for me today.  My birthday was actually two weeks ago, but celebrations were delayed due to a family bereavement. 

Lunch  was partaken of in a mainly Cantonese restaurant on the 73rd floor of the city's tallest building. Great views normally, but it poured monsoon-like all through the meal.

 

铁板黑椒牛仔骨 (tiě bǎn hēi jiāo niú zǎi gǔ) - Iron Plate Black Pepper Cowboy Beef Ribs.

 

高山菌黄牛舌 (gāo shān jūn huáng niú shé) - Mountain Mushroom Beef Tongue

 

水东芥菜 (shuǐ dōng jiè cài) - Cantonese Mustard Leaf Soup

 

铁板海鲜炒饭 (tiě bǎn hǎi xiān chǎo fàn) - Iron Plate Seafood Fried Rice

 

Then we went shopping and I ended up accidentally buying a new cell phone! Now spending the evening, trying to work out all its functions.

 

Edited May 31, 2021 by liuzhou (log)

[KennethT]

51 minutes ago, weinoo said:

Looks like cooking is happening in the new apartment, @KennethT! (How do you make that roti prata? It looks great).

 

Yes- I am getting back into the groove. I love working in the new kitchen and it's not even done yet!

 

I actually wrote down my prata recipe here... 

 

[weinoo]

2 hours ago, KennethT said:

I actually wrote down my prata recipe here... 

 

I think I better come over to try yours and make sure I am doing it correctly once the attempt is made.

[gfweb]

3 hours ago, KennethT said:

 new kitchen and it's not even done yet!

 

 

 

Got pix?

[KennethT]

Not yet - I haven't finished the lighting yet so I don't know how well it would come out.

[Duvel]

Phở bò viên - or meatball pho. Everything made from scratch during the breaks of the seemingly endless video conferences. A tasty reward for a long day, enjoyed outside and very well accompanied by a Hefeweizen ...

 

[liamsaunt]

Today is a holiday in the US and nobody had to get up this morning so last night we did pizza and movie night.  Pepperoni was nephew's choice:

 

 

Niece chose mashed potato and bacon:

 

 

Wild mushroom and caramelized onion for myself, my husband, and my sister.

 

 

Movie: Ford vs. Ferrari

 

[rotuts]

Its Monday

 

Pizza and a Movie.

 

no pizza tonight :

 

MarketBaslet has a Turkey Dinner

 

that is decent 

 

I got two , as I was there .

 

Turkey Dinner is my favorite , for many reasons

 

Historical etc ;

 

 

The turkey is real  turkey , the mashed potatoes , store made 

 

from real potatoes..  the stuffing is a bit too salty 

 

but the celery very finely minced.

 

the veg , MB Fz , but OK.

 

i do have an Uno's DeepDish 

 

in the freezer ....

 

and the movie is :

 

https://www.hbo.com/mare-of-easttown

 

episode 7 , the finale.

 

no spoilers  here !

 

Now , the NYtimes is a fine newspaper 

 

sa the the WSJournal 

 

and The Guardian etc

 

but the film critic , mentioned before 

 

from the NYTimes :

 

"""  This has to be so because “Mare of Easttown,” ...

is in the tradition of Middle American miserabilism ""

 

and

 

"" It’s there in a scene that brings together two of the show’s saddest characters, in violent fashion, for no discernible dramatic purpose beyond an injection of outré melodrama. ""

 

Im no film critic.  and make of MofE what you will.

 

and adding a french word , well , adds culture of course 

 

but please , Mr NYTimes Film critic :

 

as my mother might have said :

 

" Perhaps your should get your head examined ?

 

dinner was fine

 

M of E  will be missed next week

 

but I have in on HardDrive

 

so there it is.

 

 

 

Edited May 31, 2021 by rotuts (log)

[gfweb]

@rotuts M of E is pretty popular down here. WaWa,  Rolling Rock (which nobody not in Jr High drinks) and Yeungling (which we all drink) mentions go a long way.

[rotuts]

I knew nothing of MofE went i first saw the episode 1

 

but i knew instantaneously 

 

for the first Set Pic , in the first episode :

 

this was PA.

 

and the green bottles were RollingRock.

 

this :

 

 

and this :

 

 

could only be in PA.

Edited May 31, 2021 by rotuts (log)

[Margaret Pilgrim]

Stunning pics.

[gfweb]

4 hours ago, rotuts said:

I knew nothing of MofE went i first saw the episode 1

 

but i knew instantaneously 

 

for the first Set Pic , in the first episode :

 

this was PA.

 

and the green bottles were RollingRock.

 

this :

 

 

and this :

 

 

could only be in PA.

Looks like home

[gfweb]

Chicken and biscuits with spicy honey sauce and greens

 

[chefmd]

U8 scallops with leftover mashed potatoes mixed with kale.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

8 hours ago, rotuts said:

Its Monday

 

Pizza and a Movie.

 

no pizza tonight :

 

MarketBaslet has a Turkey Dinner

 

that is decent 

 

I got two , as I was there .

 

Turkey Dinner is my favorite , for many reasons

 

Historical etc ;

 

 

The turkey is real  turkey , the mashed potatoes , store made 

 

from real potatoes..  the stuffing is a bit too salty 

 

but the celery very finely minced.

 

 

Your picture looks similar to my dinner last night.  Amazon managed a grocery delivery, but my dinner plans were sold out.  I had ordered duck and lamb.  They did not arrive.

 

What dinner was:  a chicken thigh, mashed potatoes, cream gravy, frozen peas.

 

I cooked the thigh in the APO.  I achieved stringy meat that was underdone.  A feat formerly thought impossible.  Skin was crispy though.

 

The potato chunks were underdone and almost didn't mash.  I ate them anyway.

 

The cream sauce was lumpy, I believe from being overheated.  Maybe straining would have helped.  Maybe it would have not.  Anyhow I didn't bother.

 

The frozen peas were acceptable.

 

 

Edit:  and I didn't watch a movie.

 

 

Edited June 1, 2021 by JoNorvelleWalker (log)

[JoNorvelleWalker]

I was researching almonds for another topic when I came upon a topical Kate Winslet interview in the NY Times:

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/31/style/mare-of-easttown-kate-winslet.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces&block=lone_trending_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=1071460&impression_id=20624db0-c28e-11eb-a494-7748be40cb79&index=0&pgtype=Article&pool=pool%2F91fcf81c-4fb0-49ff-bd57-a24647c85ea1&region=footer&req_id=882398965&surface=most-popular-story&variant=0_bandit-all-surfaces

 

Her hoagies were vegetarian and had no onion.  And she did not try scrapple!  I grew up in West Philadelphia, and west of Philadelphia.  I could probably still do the accent but they did not ask me.

 

I've seen Winslet in only one movie, Heavenly Creatures.  I am morbidly fascinated with Anne Perry and the murder.  Winslet nailed it in my opinion.

 

[cteavin]

This is oyakodon, chicken and egg over rice. You can make one in ten minutes or you can do some extra steps to add umami to the chicken and enrich the umami in the sauce:

 

I make my own (strong) dashi with 30 grams kombu, 30 grams (freshly shaven) bonito, and one liter of water. I salt the chicken for twenty minutes, rinse it in the sink, sear it on both sides and then put that partly cooked chicken in the room temperature dashi to absorb the umami as chicken cools and draws the dashi into itself then put it in the fridge overnight. I use that 'sauce' in the dish and proceed as normal and it makes all the difference. My Japanese friends said it was the best oyakodon they'd ever had.  

 

 

[rotuts]

yes , M of E is flawed 

 

Mare's mother , Helen ( Jean Smart )

 

should have had a scene 

 

cooking up a pan full of scapple.

 

in a pan from Walmart , cheap , plastic handle

 

that would melt near the pan.

 

have a dark black semi-nonstick finish

 

and be avocado in color.

 

the scrapple would have to be cooked correctly :

 

med to dark brown , not burnt , and crispy

 

on the surface , but soft inside.

 

 

w a rolling rock as a chaser.

 

this is a food forum after all.

 

the M of E would have been perfect.

 

Delco ?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqsVXoHpyYI

 

note the Ridley Spike.

 

P.S.:  the cinematography in M of E is stunning.

 

 

 

Edited June 1, 2021 by rotuts (log)

[liamsaunt]

Fried chicken.  It was good but the bigger hit was an arugula, feta, and watermelon salad that I did not get a picture of.  I also made a pan of cornbread.

 

[gfweb]

2 hours ago, rotuts said:

yes , M of E is flawed 

 

Mare's mother , Helen ( Jean Smart )

 

should have had a scene 

 

cooking up a pan full of scapple.

 

in a pan from Walmart , cheap , plastic handle

 

that would melt near the pan.

 

have a dark black semi-nonstick finish

 

and be avocado in color.

 

the scrapple would have to be cooked correctly :

 

med to dark brown , not burnt , and crispy

 

on the surface , but soft inside.

 

 

w a rolling rock as a chaser.

 

this is a food forum after all.

 

the M of E would have been perfect.

 

Delco ?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqsVXoHpyYI

 

note the Ridley Spike.

 

P.S.:  the cinematography in M of E is stunning.

 

 

 

This on WaWa 

 

[Ann_T]

Thanks @Heidi 
Thanks @liamsaunt .

@kayb thank you from Moe.

 

@Shelby, passed your birthday greetings on to Moe.  Thank you.
Thanks @Kim Shook

 

Made a batch of my baguette dough this morning and a pizza dough. The pizza dough was made with La Molisana Pizza flour.

100% Semolina. 1000g plus 200g of my bread flour. 5g of yeast at 72% hydration.

I had been promising Moe a pineapple and bacon pizza for a while.

His pizza was topped with super thin slices of pineapple. I used the mandoline to slice the rounds and topped with bacon.

Second pizza was topped with pepperoni and mushrooms.

Baked one at a time in the Ooni pizza oven.

 

Sunday night's dinner.

Homemade halibut fish and chips with a beer tempura batter. 

Saturday night's dinner.

Chinese pork stuffed eggplant in a black bean sauce.

Just winged it.

 

Edited June 1, 2021 by Ann_T (log)

[liuzhou]

香辣小龙虾 (xiāng là xiǎo lóng xiā) - Spicy Crayfish / Crawfish. Many, many were eaten. Much, much beer helped wash them down.

Edited June 1, 2021 by liuzhou (log)