Dinner 2021

[Margaret Pilgrim]

2 minutes ago, robirdstx said:

 

My Take on Outback’s Alice Springs Chicken with Risotto and extra mushrooms

Eat you heart out, Outback!   

[mgaretz]

Yet another pork chop and grilled squash on the NFG, also with leftover BBQ pork fried rice.

 

 

[weinoo]

21 hours ago, Margaret Pilgrim said:

@weinoodid you ever have the ribolleta at SF's Delfina?    It was super condensed, then fried as a patty.    Intensely delicious but sounds like labor intensive for home cook.    Yours, BTW, is gorgeous.

 

While I had some great food at Delfina (years ago), I never tried their ribollita.  Mine is getting to the point (after a couple of reheats) where I think that could be managed.

[Annie_H]

I had to look that up. First link came up Ribollita "Da Delfina". Fried soup. A restaurant just outside of Florence. HERE

 

Tuesday night braised boneless skinless chicken thighs with lots of veg became a planned chicken and Marcella bean chili last night. Quick pickled fennel and red onion. Gorgonzola. 

Edited November 4, 2021 by Annie_H (log)

[liamsaunt]

Paneer butter masala, maharajah rice and naan.  All Meera Sodha recipes.

 

[Wait. Wot]

SO does a protein smoothie so I do a steak. Bone in strip steak with red wine mushroom sauce, steamed brown rice and New Zealand spinach. Steak was SVed at 123F for two hours and seared an antique CIFP at 500F for 90 seconds per side.

 

Streamer with brown rice and New Zealand spinach cooking. The steak is in a pot of water in the sink, awaiting its time in the CIFP.

 

 

Plated

 

 

New Zealand spinach is from our garden.

[lindag]

With dinner last night I had Green Bean Vinaigrette.

Recipe.

Exceptionally good.

[Norm Matthews]

Charlie wanted a crab boil but I said it was too expensive so he settled on steak.

[gfweb]

Shrimp and tagliatelle

 

[Margaret Pilgrim]

32 minutes ago, gfweb said:

Shrimp and tagliatelle

 

A plate for me, please!

 

Comfort food here, too.   Pasta dressed with ham, tomato, cream, white wine sauce

 

Embarrassingly approachable.    Kinda Burgundy meets Middle America.  

[heidih]

Pinto beans cooked in the crockpot. A source with good turnover. Plump and creamy with Herdez Ranchera sauce, tomato paste, oregano, and other spices from the start, plus some coconut cream for richness. Had with Calrose rice in the Zo, and https://forums.egullet.org/topic/156711-kaybs-cole-slaw-jail-slaw/ from a few days ago. Very happy comfort inducing food. ETA: there were 2 big smoked turkey drumette bones in the pot with a bit of meat on them. 

 

Edited November 5, 2021 by heidih (log)

[Margaret Pilgrim]

8 minutes ago, heidih said:

Pinto beans ... Herdez Ranchera sauce...coconut cream.  

 

Brilliant!   Would never have come up with this combination.    Many thanks!   

[Honkman]

Pasta with zucchini (the seeds/flesh scraped out, cut very small and used as part of the sauce, the zucchini “shells” briefly cooked with the pasta), leek, Italian sausage, small amount of tomato, parmesan, rosemary, parsley, garlic and a splash of heavy cream

 

[liamsaunt]

Cavatappi with roasted delicata squash, red onion, and arugula

 

Edited November 5, 2021 by liamsaunt (log)

[shain]

Khachapuri adjaruli, with plenty of cheeses, and an egg.

Khachapuri guriani, with hard boiled eggs, cheese, and scallions.

Simple bread baked from the same dough.

Salad with spinach, tomato, cucumber, onion, walnuts, pomegranate, cold pressed sunflower oil, wine vinegar.

Yellow pea pkhali - split peas, walnuts, garlic, spices (mostly coriander seed, fenugreek), tarragon.

Semi-dry (more of a semi-sweet, IMO) Georgian kindzmarauli.

 

[Owtahear]

On 10/30/2021 at 9:57 AM, lindag said:

I've cooked it and it's good...tastes to me a bit like turnips.

I have eaten and grown Kohlrabi since I was a kid.    Best way?  Raw.  Thinly sliced.  Cold.  Salt and pepper.  Thank me later.  Crisp, cool, savory, healthy, a bit sweetness, the salt pulls it out, the pepper accentuates its savoriness.   

 

Cooked?  It is like a turnip.

 

You also can make Kohlrabi slaw.   It is best raw, not cooked.

[alwaysdrawing]

Dungeness crab, with a baked potato with butter, sour cream and scallions, and sautéed spinach with garlic
 

 

[heidih]

nice chubby crab

[Katie Meadow]

3 hours ago, Owtahear said:

I have eaten and grown Kohlrabi since I was a kid.    Best way?  Raw.  Thinly sliced.  Cold.  Salt and pepper.  Thank me later.  Crisp, cool, savory, healthy, a bit sweetness, the salt pulls it out, the pepper accentuates its savoriness.   

 

Cooked?  It is like a turnip.

 

You also can make Kohlrabi slaw.   It is best raw, not cooked.

Totally agree, best raw, paper-thin, cold, salted. It never occurred to me to grind some pepper on it, but that's probably because growing up my mother never put anything on it but salt. I'll try pepper.  I've used it julienned in stir-fry, usually when I'm running out of the usual suspects, and it retains some crunch but lacks flavor.  Perhaps some of those who heap insults on kohlrabi have only had old overgrown examples. When it's woody and dried out it's pretty unappealing, but fresh and tender it has a delicious character. @Duvelyou must have had  a traumatic encounter with a kohlrabi as a child. 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

20 minutes ago, Katie Meadow said:

Totally agree, best raw, paper-thin, cold, salted. It never occurred to me to grind some pepper on it, but that's probably because growing up my mother never put anything on it but salt. I'll try pepper.  I've used it julienned in stir-fry, usually when I'm running out of the usual suspects, and it retains some crunch but lacks flavor.  Perhaps some of those who heap insults on kohlrabi have only had old overgrown examples. When it's woody and dried out it's pretty unappealing, but fresh and tender it has a delicious character. @Duvelyou must have had  a traumatic encounter with a kohlrabi as a child. 

 

Why?  Was Jacques Pepin also responsible for little kids' restaurant dishes in Lower Saxony?

 

Seriously, I used to grow kohlrabi.  Burpee seduced me.  Kohlrabi is beautiful.  I just never figured out how to eat it.

 

[Honkman]

Shrimp Tacos - Shrimps very briefly sautéed in a mixture of tomatoes, onions, jalapeño, garlic, ketchup and lime juice. Tortillas were brushed with some oil, then some shredded cheese and the shrimp mixture added and heated in the oven for a few minutes until the tortillas gained a little bit of crunch. Finished with avocado, cilantro and shredded lettuce.

 

[Dante]

On 10/27/2021 at 9:12 PM, Wait. Wot said:

Puts me in mind of tomato soup and grilled cheese I had in Reykjavik, Iceland, 8 years ago next month

 

Thanks for dredging that memory up for me.

 

May I ask what made what you had so distinctive?  

[Dante]

"Sugar Chicken" with roasted red kuri and kabocha squash

[Dante]

Arroz Frito

[Dante]

Fish and chips (ok, fries) with (non home made) stuffies