Dinner 2021

[gulfporter]

Duck confit.  Sauce is cherry-chipotle and grilled asparagus.

[Duvel]

Sunday night „Pizza & Movie“, with todays choices:

 

Champignons, Burrata & Iberico ham ...

 

Anchovies, olives & onions (plus 1/3 with the popular 1st variety, to keep for tomorrow) ...

 

 

... and „Hotel Transylvania 2“ 🤗

[liamsaunt]

For the past couple of weeks, on Saturday I use the website random.country to choose a cuisine to try.  This week I got Morocco.  I made seven vegetable couscous and khobz.  The vegetables are onion, garlic, cauliflower, turnip, carrot, cabbage and tomato (a fruit but I am counting it to get to seven). The dish also has chickpeas, golden raisins and cilantro.

 

[Anna N]

6 minutes ago, liamsaunt said:

For the past couple of weeks, on Saturday I use the website random.country to choose a cuisine to try

What a fun way to keep things interesting in the kitchen and on the table. 

[kayb]

Feeling quasi-German. Also quasi-cold.

 

 

Quite acceptable.

 

[Duvel]

47 minutes ago, kayb said:

Quite acceptable.

More than acceptable - lecker 😋 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

7 hours ago, weinoo said:

 

Marcella's Smothered Cabbage Soup. Consistency of risi e bisi. (Italian congee?)

 

 

D'artagnan Berkshire porterhouse chop - I did it in a well-heated cast iron pan, in the oven, under the broiler. Might've gone a minute too long, but still quite luscious and juicy.

 

 

Last night my dinner was a Berkshire chop.  Thanks for sparing me from having to post a picture.

 

[RWood]

Spanakopeta before and after. No photos, but also made pork souvlaki, tzatziki, and Greek lemon potatoes. 

[Violin_guy]

9 hours ago, scamhi said:

a dry aged burger blend from Flannery Beef.

And grilled burgers with roasted sweet potatoes and home made cole slaw

2018 Lapierre Morgon N (unsulfured)

Oh man, that's an excellent bottle of wine. Last time I had it was 2011 or so. Lucky you!

[Captain]

Some Beef Short ribs rubbed with salt, pepper and ground coffee then smoked.

 

 

 

[Smithy]

1 hour ago, Captain said:

Some Beef Short ribs rubbed with salt, pepper and ground coffee then smoked.

 

 

 

 

That looks like my kind of 'cue. Delicious!

[Margaret Pilgrim]

Asparagus with ranch starter

 

Roast chicken, mash, pan gravy

 

[MetsFan5]

A bottle of Malbec, 5 bottles of water and two fruit mentos. 

[Bernie]

7 minutes ago, MetsFan5 said:

A bottle of Malbec, 5 bottles of water and two fruit mentos. 

Sounds about right....2 fruit mentos to keep the kids busy and 5 bottles of water to wash your feet....😁

[heidih]

1 hour ago, Bernie said:

Sounds about right....2 fruit mentos to keep the kids busy and 5 bottles of water to wash your feet....😁

What kids dribble fruit mento saliva onto the floor? I missed the meaning I think.

[MetsFan5]

1 minute ago, heidih said:

What kids dribble fruit mento saliva onto the floor? I missed the meaning I think.

What do I know? I don’t have kids and barely have a husband. 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

1 minute ago, MetsFan5 said:

What do I know? I don’t have kids and barely have a husband. 

 

I have kids but I don't have a husband or a wife.  And I confess I don't know what fruit mentos are.

 

A couple days ago I defrosted the freezer.  Dinner tonight is a formerly frozen rib steak that I anovaed and am now about to go sear on my Philips grill.

 

[Katie Meadow]

58 minutes ago, heidih said:

What kids dribble fruit mento saliva onto the floor? I missed the meaning I think.

If those kids are drooling on the floor they are way too young to have fruit mentos. That's neither the size or shape you want stuck in your kid's airway.

[robirdstx]

 

Comfort Food: Meatloaf, Green Beans and Corn

[Bernie]

well actually the way to use the fruit mentos is to show the kids (to get their hopes up), then throw them (the mentos, not the kid...although...)onto the back lawn and tell the kids to go find them. If the lawn is long enough it will take them long enough for you to enjoy the Malbec.

You want the after taste of the wine to linger as long as you can so rather than drink the water and dilute the taste, wash your feet.

Q.E.D.😀

[weinoo]

One of our favorites, from the Italian-American canon...

 

 

Not gorgeous chicken scarpariello.  I didn't have a bell pepper on hand (I'm sure some here wouldn't miss it at all); I subbed celery. I did have those hot cherry peppers - and they are really HOT. The chicken parts I used were 4 legs and 4 wings, after cutting up two whole birds, stock making, portioning, etc.

 

 

[Norm Matthews]

On 1/23/2021 at 3:52 PM, btbyrd said:

 

Thanks! My family has always, and I mean always, cooked burgers on the grill. I've always considered the "grilled, roughly 1/3lb burger" to be my personal burger-making style; its what I grew up with and it's what I've been making my entire adult life. But I recently got a small Blackstone griddle and decided to give the smash variety a try; we love them at restaurants, but never made them at home because we haven't had a cooking surface large enough to cook them efficiently. But oh my goodness, this was probably the best burger I've ever made, and I doubt I'll make them another way for quite some time. As for the fries, they were hand cut. I follow a modified version of the ChefSteps thick cut fries recipe, the potatoes get a pre-soak in Pectinex SPL and are then blanched in simmering brine instead of cooking them sous vide. You blanch them until they're almost falling apart, let them dry, and do a low-temp fry to set the crust. Then freeze them and do a final high-temp fry to brown them up and warm them through. The fries are superior, but the downside of blanching them until they're almost falling apart is that they're very fragile and you end up breaking a lot of them. The batch in the photo was the busted/broken dregs of a larger batch that I'd used for steak frites and fish/chips. Just realized that I never posted the fish and chips, so here they are with the unbroken "fancy" fries:

 

 

I use a fries recipe very similar except it makes thin fries and the boil time is shorter. 

 

Cut potatoes into 1/4-inch strips, soak in water a couple minutes, transfer to pot with water to cover.. about 4 cups.  Add 2 Tbsp salt and 2 Tbsp. white vinegar and turn heat on high.  When boiling, time for five minutes, then transfer to cold water to stop cooking.  Spread on dish towel and dry.   

 

Fry @ 375 for just one minute.  Drain and freeze.  When ready to cook fry from frozen@ 375 for three minutes, transfer to paper towels, salt and serve.

[Norm Matthews]

On 1/23/2021 at 7:41 AM, rotuts said:

@Norm Matthews 

 

""   I have noticed sometimes on her recipes, the list of ingredients don't always jibe with the directions.  ""

 

The Understatement of the Month.

Once she (Martha) had a cookie contest and the grand winner was for chocolate cookies.  Two  of the ingredients were Dutch Cocoa powder and baking soda.  Turned out the recipe does not work with those two ingredients.  You need to use either baking powder or cocoa powder like Hershey.  Dutch cocoa powder does not have the acid needed to work with baking soda.  The first time I used Hershey cocoa and they came out fine. Next time I uses Dutch cocoa and they were totally flat.  They even spread.  It took me six months to figure out what was wrong.

[scamhi]

stuffed tomatoes- Tomates Farcie

With pork, onion garlic, sage, parsley and one egg.

With a special bottle of red burgundy for no particular reason.

[weinoo]

12 minutes ago, scamhi said:

stuffed tomatoes- Tomates Farcie

With pork, onion garlic, sage, parsley and one egg.

With a special bottle of red burgundy for no particular reason.

 

12 minutes ago, scamhi said:

 

And a Durand, the purpose we know.