Dinner 2021

[rotuts]

Im going with Mushrooms.

[TicTac]

4 hours ago, scamhi said:

what is this pile of delicious looking stuff?

foraged 'elm oyster' mushrooms with fresh garden herbs.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

38 minutes ago, TicTac said:

foraged 'elm oyster' mushrooms with fresh garden herbs.

 

I thought they were potatoes.  I still like.

 

[Wait. Wot]

My SO made this dinner to celebrate the 40th anniversary of my 30th birthday.

 

Pan fried duck breast, rare,  over our own sweet potatoes and onions with store bought spinach. Gravy made with our canned chicken stock.

 

 

Daughters gifted us an appetizer plate of fruit, almonds, berries, pickles, cheese and prosciutto with fig jam and grain mustard. Bread and Butter chardonnay went with.

 

 

Wine was a 1967 Haut Brion. It was fabulous for as long as it lasted.

 

Dessert was dark chocolate avocado pudding with fresh fruit and berries (sorry, no pictures) accompanied by a 1951 late bottled (1973) vintage port. I doubt that I shall ever drink a wine as old as (or older than) I am ever again.

 

[gfweb]

9 hours ago, Wait. Wot said:

My SO made this dinner to celebrate the 40th anniversary of my 30th birthday.

 

Pan fried duck breast, rare,  over our own sweet potatoes and onions with store bought spinach. Gravy made with our canned chicken stock.

 

 

Daughters gifted us an appetizer plate of fruit, almonds, berries, pickles, cheese and prosciutto with fig jam and grain mustard. Bread and Butter chardonnay went with.

 

 

Wine was a 1967 Haut Brion. It was fabulous for as long as it lasted.

 

Dessert was dark chocolate avocado pudding with fresh fruit and berries (sorry, no pictures) accompanied by a 1951 late bottled (1973) vintage port. I doubt that I shall ever drink a wine as old as (or older than) I am ever again.

 

 

Nice.

I enjoy the glimpses of kitchen in the background too

[liuzhou]

I know I've posted versions of this before, but always with a slight twist. It's my go-to comfort food.

 

Lemon and olive oil marinated pork with coriander seeds, garlic and chilli. Served this time with orzo and a tomato and scallion salad.

 

 

[liamsaunt]

Banh mi type sandwich with egg and black oyster mushroom filling

 

[Annie_H]

A quick go-to in the rotation. Always have miso, ginger, scallions, eggs, avocado, dumplings in the freezer---crisper drawer veg varies. 

 

[Duvel]

It has been a while … a veritable business dinner.

 

At our companies restaurant, and conveniently available as a bilingual dinner:

 

 

 

Tuna & veal tail

 

 

Thai-inspired soup with some quail

 

 

Steak

 

 

Dessert

 

Digestif - Talisker 25 yo

 

 

… and a taxi home 😊

[Shelby]

27 minutes ago, Duvel said:

It has been a while … a veritable business dinner.

 

At our companies restaurant, and conveniently available as a bilingual dinner:

 

 

 

Tuna & veal tail

 

 

Thai-inspired soup with some quail

 

 

Steak

 

 

Dessert

 

Digestif - Talisker 25 yo

 

 

… and a taxi home 😊

Wow.

 

Our company had a break room and a coffee maker.

[mgaretz]

Just now, Shelby said:

Wow.

 

Our company had a break room and a coffee maker.

 

Our company had a room and a broken coffee maker...  😉

[Wait. Wot]

45 minutes ago, mgaretz said:

 

Our company had a room and a broken coffee maker...  😉

My last job was at a drinking company with a software problem.

[Raamo]

We have some end of the season Tomatoes - I cut out the core and blasted to bits in a Vitamix.  Added some chicken bullion and tomato paste.  Combined with chicken sausage and some red pepper flakes + pepper of course over pasta:

 

 

Really good!

[rotuts]

@Duvel 

 

Wow !

 

Fancy Pantsty

 

thank you for the menu !

 

looked delicious , 

 

but not very filling  .....

[MaryIsobel]

10 hours ago, Annie_H said:

A quick go-to in the rotation. Always have miso, ginger, scallions, eggs, avocado, dumplings in the freezer---crisper drawer veg varies. 

 

Inrigued that you freeze avacado. Care to share how you do it?

[Anna N]

4 hours ago, Duvel said:

It has been a while … a veritable business dinner.

Meh. I would rather have dinner at your house. 

[Anna N]

 

 

Chicken thighs with lemon, garlic and thyme. Inspired by Nigel Slater. 

[Honkman]

Frikadellen (German style flat meatballs) with a panko crust over potatoes and carrots in a vegetable-cream broth

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

I wanted pasta, and I wanted something quick.  I threw together a batch of blender bechamel.  The sauce itself was pleasant, but with pasta the result was cloying.  Still, hard to complain about a dinner when all that is dirtied is a blender jar.

 

[Honkman]

Just bechamel - no cheese, vegetable or anything else ?

[Annie_H]

5 hours ago, MaryIsobel said:

Inrigued that you freeze avacado. Care to share how you do it?

I do have avocado in the freezer, and eggs, but in this instance just the dumplings are frozen. We get a fresh veg box every other week. Always add a couple avocados. Prefer fresh. But when we needed an annual Costco run for tp etc, I ordered a bag of avocados that always ripen around the same time. I mash with lots of lime, then into 1/2 pint deli containers pressing a piece of saran on top before the lid. Learned much about the freezer last year when I finally could get a delivery date. From a restaurant supply. I even froze mirepoix.

 

Taco bar. BoSaam pork from the freezer. Boston bib. No corn tortillas. Should have made fresh but ran out of time. 

 

[liamsaunt]

Pilau with roasted kale stirred in, topped with roasted delicata squash and some chicken sautéed with garam masala.  A yogurt-cilantro-mint sauce on the side.  

 

[weinoo]

 

Stif-fried wild Gulf shrimp, sweet onion, and bok choy. Jasmine rice.

[ambra]

8 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

The sauce itself was pleasant, but with pasta the result was cloying.

I agree it can be a little much after a few bites. 

 

7 hours ago, Honkman said:

Just bechamel - no cheese, vegetable or anything else ?

In fact, a classic can be frozen peas and bits of ham with parmigiano crust.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

10 hours ago, Honkman said:

Just bechamel - no cheese, vegetable or anything else ?

 

Sorry, yes, cheese.  Add milk and flour to bender jar.  Salt to taste.  Blend.  Add nutmeg, butter, cheese.  Touch of sodium citrate.  Blend again.