Dinner 2021

[Duvel]

For some reason I‘ve got this hankering for Giuvetsi (or Juwezi in German) for some time now. I think it started some weeks ago when I was too lazy to cook and ordered some Gyros at the Greek restaurant, that had earned my trust. My wife wanted something different and I suggested Juwezi. It was bad. As great as their Gyros is, the Juwezi sucked. Big time. I decided to make my own …

 

Flash forward to Friday. 1.5 kg of beef neck were marinated with allspice, nutmeg and oregano, browned and simmered with a loooot of wine, bay leaf, cinnamon and quite some veggies for several hours in the oven Today I strained the sauce, added toasted kritharaki noodles and simmered for 30 min more in a clay pot for the pasta to absorb all the sauce. Topped with crumbled Feta cheese it was really good. Both my wife and the little one asked for seconds and one of them, who still has some growing to do, wanted thirds.

 

Preceded by some Meze …

 

 

Then the piece de resistance …

 

 

And all helped by Ouzo.

 

 

(and accompanied by Disney‘s Robin Hood)

[JoNorvelleWalker]

On 9/15/2021 at 2:24 PM, Duvel said:

Gesundheit !

 

Danke.  After a bit of research, utskho suneli is Trigonella caerulea.  You may know it as ziegerkraut.

 

[heidih]

59 minutes ago, Duvel said:

For some reason I‘ve got this hankering for Giuvetsi (or Juwezi in German) for some time now. I think it started some weeks ago when I was too lazy to cook and ordered some Gyros at the Greek restaurant, that had earned my trust. My wife wanted something different and I suggested Juwezi. It was bad. As great as their Gyros is, the Juwezi sucked. Big time. I decided to make my own …

 

Flash forward to Friday. 1.5 kg of beef neck were marinated with allspice, nutmeg and oregano, browned and simmered with a loooot of wine, bay leaf, cinnamon and quite some veggies for several hours in the oven Today I strained the sauce, added toasted kritharaki noodles and simmered for 30 min more in a clay pot for the pasta to absorb all the sauce. Topped with crumbled Feta cheese it was really good. Both my wife and the little one asked for seconds and one of them, who still has some growing to do, wanted thirds.

 

Preceded by some Meze …

 

 

Then the piece de resistance …

 

 

And all helped by Ouzo.

 

 

(and accompanied by Disney‘s Robin Hood)

Sounds wonderful. I was just reading a description of an Umbrian pasta dish where it is simmered in young wine, dressed with new olive oil and black pepper and tossed with a local hard sheep milk cheese. Totally different but the pasta in flavored liquid thing intrigues

[Ann_T]

Not the best photo, but a tasty and quick work night dinner.

Petrale sole over spinach with a lemon butter sauce and roasted potatoes.

The potatoes took 30 minutes in a hot oven to roast and both the spinach and the Petrale sole took less than five minutes.

[Paul Bacino]

First I'm truly saddened by loss of David Ross!!  Just saw that

 

 

 

Antelope Chorizo burger--souse vide  125/45 min  sautéed in tomato water/ topped with Gogugang home made pickles/ red peppers on Daves bun/ dukes meyo

 

[ambra]

13 hours ago, heidih said:

Sounds wonderful. I was just reading a description of an Umbrian pasta dish where it is simmered in young wine, dressed with new olive oil and black pepper and tossed with a local hard sheep milk cheese. Totally different but the pasta in flavored liquid thing intrigues

Oddly, I've never met a "drunken" pasta I liked. But most people are really drawn to it over here. 

 

I've not been posting much as I keep forgetting to photograph the food. Plus many, many moving snafus and we are finally just getting settled. But here is yesterday's dinner out.  

 

Here you have a yummy rose (though alcohol felt strong); truffles and egg on toast (you might have realized by now that any time truffles are available I get them.  ); Cantabrico anchovies with Burrata; a mixed antipasto plate with pappa al pomodoro in the center (tomato and old bread soup); stuffed rabbit;  "Nana al forno" (Roast duck Arezzo-style) served with roast potatoes and veg not shown. There are three "fegatelli" ( liver wrapped in caul fat and sage then stewed) on top; and finally a coffee bavarese. And then the wine selection. No wine list, you have to get up and go choose. Which I love. 

 

 

[chromedome]

4 minutes ago, ambra said:

 

I've not been posting much as I keep forgetting to photograph the food. Plus many, many moving snafus and we are finally just getting settled. But here is yesterday's dinner out.  

 

 

I feel your pain. I've moved more times than any three normal people you know (I'm nearing 60, and my lifetime average per address is somewhere in the range of 14-16 months...I haven't recalculated lately). Sometime today or tomorrow I'll be driving to NS to help my daughter and her gormless husband move (ugh), and when I get back my GF and I are *finally* going to get around to pulling everything out of our kitchen cupboards and reorganizing/rationalizing it all. Right now everything is still in the same places I chose on the fly when we were moving in.

[Annie_H]

28 minutes ago, chromedome said:

Sometime today or tomorrow I'll be driving to NS to help my daughter and her gormless husband move (ugh), and when I get back my GF and I are *finally* going to get

Treat yourself to fish-n-chips at Masstown Market Lighthouse if it is anywhere near your road trip. 

Ugh, moving....

 

truffle eggs, all of it---looks amazing.

 

Smoked 16 boneless skinless chicken thighs and another tray of mixed cheeses.

Chicken over a mixed grain. ---froze some chicken for quick meals, made a chicken salad for a couple lunches.

Edited September 20, 2021 by Annie_H (log)

[chromedome]

8 minutes ago, Annie_H said:

Treat yourself to fish-n-chips at Masstown Market Lighthouse if it is anywhere near your road trip. 

Ugh, moving....

 

I drive past Masstown Market on my way to and from NB, every trip. My mom's place in (nearby) Truro is my base when I'm in the province, but we've never driven out in that direction while I'm there. Mom's partial to the fish and chips at Murphy's, in Truro itself (and easy walking distance from her apartment).

 

Like a lot of people I think of Ches' fish and chips in St. John's NL as my personal benchmark, though I haven't had theirs in 40 years so now (of course) it's a matter of rose-hued nostalgia. I don't know if they're even still in business.

[scamhi]

Sunday dinner.

Heritage Berkshire pork chops pan seared with a mustard cream sauce and shredded brussels sprouts with bacon.

Riesling

[liamsaunt]

Saturday we went to my parents for dinner.  My Mom called and asked me to bring a loaf of bread or some kind of roll, so I baked a pan of the garlic butter dinner rolls from the most recent issue of Cook's Country magazine.  My Mom and Dad both really liked them, so I will count it as a hit.

 

 

 

Yesterday we had grilled ginger marinated grilled chicken thighs and peaches on yogurt with basil and scallions and an ear of corn on the cob.  I only got four ears of corn in my CSA box this week.  I guess the summer bounty is coming to an end. 😐

 

 

 

[BeeZee]

Everything on the grill last night: salmon fillet cooked on cedar plank; shishito peppers; eggplant/zucchini/red pepper salad; yams. 

[lindag]

3 hours ago, chromedome said:

 "‎gormless" 

Whoa.  Had to look that one up.  Love it.

[Annie_H]

3 hours ago, chromedome said:

Like a lot of people I think of Ches' fish and chips in St. John's NL as my personal benchmark, though I haven't had theirs in 40 years so now (of course) it's a matter of rose-hued nostalgia. I don't know if they're even still in business.

We are always on a zip-trip to catch the ferry to NFLD. Ozzy's lobster roll, night in StAndrews. (smoked salmon just up the road)---Masstown has local veg so we stock up. We have never fried at home so it is a treat trip up and back. Had Ches's once when InLaws visited. Good. MassTown is better. (their lobster rolls are horrid)

Gormless, lol. I had to look it up as well. We called our BIL 'no-pants lance' for years....now X-BIL. 

 

Gorgeous mustard sauce and buns and grill thighs...corn, peach.

[chromedome]

16 minutes ago, Annie_H said:

We are always on a zip-trip to catch the ferry to NFLD. Ozzy's lobster roll, night in StAndrews. (smoked salmon just up the road)---Masstown has local veg so we stock up. We have never fried at home so it is a treat trip up and back. Had Ches's once when InLaws visited. Good. MassTown is better. (their lobster rolls are horrid)

Gormless, lol. I had to look it up as well. We called our BIL 'no-pants lance' for years....now X-BIL. 

 

Gorgeous mustard sauce and buns and grill thighs...corn, peach.

I used to live in St. Andrews. It's a nice place, though it's getting priced out of reach now for many of us. There are two smoked-salmon places nearby, Wolf's Head and Oven Head, and they're both good. At Ozzie's I generally order the clams or the seafood platter, because I'm pretty indifferent to lobster (and therefore lobster rolls).

 

I'm not sure how long lobster rolls have been a "thing" in the Maritimes. I never saw or heard of them until I moved back in 2007 to open my restaurant, and was immediately asked if I'd be making them (I had to Google it). That's not to say they weren't here, of course, just that I didn't encounter them. We were not an eating-out family, in the main, when I was growing up. My extended family is heavily divided between those who favor one or another fast-food chain, and those who pack sandwiches because "why would I pay someone else to make food for me when I can make my own for cheaper?"

[Annie_H]

36 minutes ago, chromedome said:

I'm not sure how long lobster rolls have been a "thing" in the Maritimes.

Good lobster rolls stop at Ozzy's. It is a NewEngland US EastCoast thing. (we also split a mixed clam/scallop/shrimp platter at Ozzy's)😜

Homesick...we were packing for a few months trip when NY went into lock-down and the border closed. Just one week earlier we would have been stuck in NFLD...grrr. (no place I would have preferred to spent that time than NFLD).

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Annie_H]

On 9/19/2021 at 7:00 AM, weinoo said:

 

Stir fried cabbage and celery.

Sometimes the most simple meal addition with a kiss of heat---celery, cabbage, maybe a bit of fennel seed. Garlic. I have a good friend that hates celery...head shake as I can't live without celery....

NYTimes has a long list of pantry cooking. Simple two-three ingredients. No recipe cooking---pantry cooking
This was last Friday waiting for a delivery I kept putting off to use what I have. 5-7 pm delivery but came close to 7pm. While waiting I made a pasta salad and a potato salad for the weekend. (BBQ sides)...pasta salad had a minced seed---toasted pepitas, sesame, sunflower...a bit of pesto. Potato salad had lots of veg---celery herbs olives, prosciutto bacon, mustard, fresh grated horseradish...grated carrot, a last bit of fennel...singletons. Half a golden beet. Carrot tops. Garden herbs. Two ribs of lacinato kale. 

Fridge so empty I took two glass shelf trays outside and hosed off/scrubbed. 

Nice meal save taking out a pint smoked bone broth from the freezer---added veg as it thawed...a big gulp/scoop of pasta and potato salad.

(parmesan rind)... 

Double/triple starch seems odd...but the texture combination is quite stunning. Using third portions of each starch like a mixed grain. 

(if I had some roasted garbanzos I would not hesitate to add as well)...but they were soaking

Proscuitto bacon for the potato salad---extra for this beauty. Nice to make a kitchen hack that works out on the fly. 

 

 

 

 

[Annie_H]

On 9/18/2021 at 9:01 AM, scamhi said:

24 minutes ago, Annie_H said:

Sometimes the most simple meal addition with a kiss of heat---celery, cabbage, maybe a bit of fennel seed. Garlic. I have a good friend that hates celery...head shake as I can't live without celery....

NYTimes has a long list of pantry cooking. Simple two-three ingredients. No recipe cooking---pantry cooking
This was last Friday waiting for a delivery I kept putting off to use what I have. 5-7 pm delivery but came close to 7pm. While waiting I made a pasta salad and a potato salad for the weekend. (BBQ sides)...pasta salad had a minced seed---toasted pepitas, sesame, sunflower...a bit of pesto. Potato salad had lots of veg---celery herbs olives, prosciutto bacon, mustard, fresh grated horseradish...grated carrot, a last bit of fennel...singletons. Half a golden beet. Carrot tops. Garden herbs. Two ribs of lacinato kale. 

Fridge so empty I took two glass shelf trays outside and hosed off/scrubbed. 

Nice meal save taking out a pint smoked bone broth from the freezer---added veg as it thawed...a big gulp/scoop of pasta and potato salad.

(parmesan rind)... 

Double/triple starch seems odd...but the texture combination is quite stunning. Using third portions of each starch like a mixed grain. 

(if I had some roasted garbanzos I would not hesitate to add as well)...but they were soaking

Proscuitto bacon for the potato salad---extra for this beauty. Nice to make a kitchen hack that works out on the fly. 

 

 

 

 

 

I was calling it 'Singleton Soup' ---using this and that from the garden/pantry/crisper. Knowing it must have an Italian name specific. A search next day, nope. Sicilan pasta e potate....an empty cupboard using this-n-that. A quick meal hearty what is local veg and pantry staples. 

[Duvel]

After a rather intense day at work (read: home office), I needed to move a bit. My walk through the fields ended at the supermarket. I didn‘t need anything, but they had Bavarian weeks and I decided ad hoc for a mini Oktoberfest. With a full fridge at home (as my wife pointed out rightfully after my return). But who is to blame ? Never go shopping with an empty stomach …

 

 

Fresh Weisswurst …

 

Knödel with mushrooms & roasted onions …

 

 

Bierradi (daikon, salted)

 

 

And a nice beer …

 

 

There are worst days to be had 🤗

 

[Tropicalsenior]

4 minutes ago, Duvel said:

There are worst days to be had 

Why don't we have an envy Emoji? Maybe some kind of green eyed monster. 

Edited September 20, 2021 by Tropicalsenior (log)

[Annie_H]

23 minutes ago, Duvel said:

Knödel with mushrooms & roasted onions …

Mushroom envy. Need to make MarcellaHazan mushroom risotto soon. A Fall pre-winter favorite. Looks good!---anything mushroom

Such an interesting variety of foods. I do like a bit of this and a bit of that. "Fresh Weisswurst …" no idea what that is....

 

[Duvel]

10 minutes ago, Annie_H said:

Mushroom envy. Need to make MarcellaHazan mushroom risotto soon. A Fall pre-winter favorite. Looks good!---anything mushroom

Such an interesting variety of foods. I do like a bit of this and a bit of that. "Fresh Weisswurst …" no idea what that is....

 

It‘s a Bavarian veal sausage, flavored with lemon, parsley and some spices. Traditionally boiled and consumed before lunch by „sucking“ out the sausage from its peel. Goes well with sweet mustard … more here.

Edited September 20, 2021 by Duvel (log)

[Annie_H]

I should add that carb heavy meals always 24/7 365days includes side salads of fresh raw greens/pantry garden grown salads/micro-greens....grown year round. I do not often post a side salad pic. Usually a big shared salad brunch platter we snack on. Pre-dinner. I prefer a big grazing raw kitchen crisper drawer salad. Pre-dinner. Even a few hours ahead. My family is such a grazing all-day-long picker eater---raw good foods before a meal.  

 

 

[BonVivant]

Sunset wine. Santorini's very own Assyrtiko.

 

 

 

From a poverty stricken island without the most basic amenities until the 80's to its meteoric rise being "one of the most visited islands in .the. world." and "one the the most expensive places in Greece" (there are not too many of them). Santorini is the jewel in the crown of the Cyclades. Extraordinary beauty at every turn, Santorini is every photographer's dream.

 

Edited September 20, 2021 by BonVivant (log)

[scamhi]

freezer diving, again. this time a package of turkey meatballs sans sauce.

added olive oil, sliced garlic some chili flakes and a 28oz can of Gustarosso DOP San Marzano tomatoes from Gustiamo. Topped with fresh whole milk ricotta and grated parm.