Dinner 2021

[JoNorvelleWalker]

 

Mark Bittman's crisp-braised duck legs with aromatic vegetables.  Served with Bineshii Ghost and (oh, and why not) apple sauce.

 

[liuzhou]

To start: Salt and pepper prawns. Salt, Sichuan peppercorns and kashmiri chilli flakes. Prawns I bought live, but they didn't make it through the night in the fridge. Stir fried with the spices - shell and heads on.

 

 

To continue: Chinese liver and onions. Pig's liver flash fried in bacon fat with white onion, bacon, garlic, ginger, Shaoxing wine and soy sauce. Bizarrely, served with buttery mashed potato. Con fusion food.

 

 

Sorry. Terrible image. Having lighting problems.

Edited October 23, 2021 by liuzhou (log)

[liamsaunt]

Last night my niece came home from college for the weekend, so I made a dinner of some of her favorites to counteract all of the instant ramen she has been eating in her dorm room.  Miso salmon on rice with roasted kale, delicata squash and radishes that were brushed with a little miso, maple syrup, and butter.  She was happy.

 

[gulfporter]

And they said it wouldn't last....

 

Decided to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary at home. 

 

I remade the recipe we liked best this year.....Grilled Moroccan Chicken with Pecan Couscous (both with green olives and prunes).  

 

Mi esposo tackled a new (to us) dessert, Bête Noir.  Wow!   He added a chipotle glazed cherry on top (es Mexico!). 

 

Both accompanied by Mexican sparkling wine, Freixenet which is bottled in nearby state of Queretaro.  

 

Edited October 23, 2021 by gulfporter (log)

[kayb]

On 10/18/2021 at 4:06 PM, Paul Bacino said:

Didnt make this..but boy was it killer.

Omaha gets some pretty decent seafood  @Hiro's88

 

 

That looks gorgeous. I've always been intrigued with the great seafood one can find in the middle of the country. Shaw's Crab House in downtown Chicago is one of my faves.

 

[heidih]

1 hour ago, gulfporter said:

And they said it wouldn't last....

 

Decided to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary at home. 

 

I remade the recipe we liked best this year.....Grilled Moroccan Chicken with Pecan Couscous (both with green olives and prunes).  

 

Mi esposo tackled a new (to us) dessert, Bête Noir.  Wow!   He added a chipotle glazed cherry on top (es Mexico!). 

 

Both accompanied by Mexican sparkling wine, Freixenet which is bottled in nearby state of Queretaro.  

 

Congrats. Nice effort by your guy. And Freixenet is under rated as a fun celebration wine in my book.

[Ann_T]

3 hours ago, gulfporter said:

And they said it wouldn't last....

 

Decided to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary at home. 

 

I remade the recipe we liked best this year.....Grilled Moroccan Chicken with Pecan Couscous (both with green olives and prunes).  

 

Mi esposo tackled a new (to us) dessert, Bête Noir.  Wow!   He added a chipotle glazed cherry on top (es Mexico!). 

 

Both accompanied by Mexican sparkling wine, Freixenet which is bottled in nearby state of Queretaro.  

Congratulations.

Lovely dinner and I love your dishes. 

[Margaret Pilgrim]

Asparagus, petrale, morels, vin jaune sauce

[Dante]

Burger with mozzarella, arugula, and homemade aioli with black garlic. Side of steamed rapini with butter, nutritional yeast, and umeboshi vinegar.

[Ann_T]

Pizza tonight.

Dough was made Thursday night and left in the fridge until this afternoon.

Matt took it out around 2:30 so it would be ready to use when I got home from work.

It always needs about three hours to warm up and finish rising.

I need a new grill and I really don't care much for the Ooni so this pizza was baked in the oven

using the Forkish method combination of 550°F oven and finished under the broiler.

Moe and I shared an Italian sausage and mushroom pizza.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Surprisingly Whole Foods still had corn.  One ear was very good, one ear was OK.  Served with coleslaw and RG Corona beans, drizzled with olive oil and vinegar.

 

[robirdstx]

 

Rotisserie Chicken, Stuffing, Gravy and Peas

 

[TicTac]

Sometimes you make something that even you impress yourself with.  Last night was such an occasion…

foraged some boletes 

 

first ever attempt at pork belly

Picked lobster

 

served with a orange/lime/Serrano gastrique 

Playing skills suck, taste made up for it! 

[heidih]

1 hour ago, TicTac said:

Sometimes you make something that even you impress yourself with.  Last night was such an occasion…

foraged some boletes 

 

first ever attempt at pork belly

Picked lobster

 

served with a orange/lime/Serrano gastrique 

Playing skills suck, taste made up for it! 

I think your playing skills are just fine; plating well I prefer taste over styling. Quite a special meal!

[Tropicalsenior]

1 hour ago, TicTac said:

taste made up for it! 

I too prefer taste over presentation. Sometimes when I see a fantastically arranged plate, I can just imagine all those fingers dancing through the food to get it that way.

[heidih]

27 minutes ago, Tropicalsenior said:

I too prefer taste over presentation. Sometimes when I see a fantastically arranged plate, I can just imagine all those fingers dancing through the food to get it that way.

That would be tweezer play

[Margaret Pilgrim]

Lobster and pork belly by definition qualifies as art.

[rotuts]

""   That would be tweezer play ""

 

so they say ...

[Tropicalsenior]

1 hour ago, rotuts said:

so they say

I worked in the food industry for years and the only tweezers I ever saw was in the first aid kit.

[rotuts]

Excellent !

 

reviewing :

 

Micro-Tweezers 

 

for that 

 

micro-green

 

still probably 

 

a neo-shrub

[BonVivant]

I like skate." Spicy sauce" is Sichuan broad bean paste.

 

Greens

[shain]

Filo pie filled with split peas, feta, rosemary, browned onion, confit garlic, some oregano and pepper.

Eggplants with mushrooms, tomato, bechamel, thyme, nutmeg.

Tzaziki.

Also made a smaller pie and more eggplants, that were baked later same week.

 

 

[Duvel]

One of the last glorious autumn days of this year. Temperatures are single digit, but the sun is still powerful and in the bright sunshine one hardly needs a jacket. We went with my parents to the center of Weinheim and enjoyed the scenery, before they left for Lower Saxony.

 

 

At night only leftovers. Canelons are Catalan filled pasta rolls, stuffed with whatever you have left from the big roast on Sundays. We didn’t had that, but roasted pork belly, sous vide chicken breast, Mett & onions from two breakfasts, a veal rib and half a Leberwurst all went into the meatgrinder and together with a thick bechamel made for very tasty filling.

 

 

 

So, comfort food at its best that - while impossible to make look good in a photograph - certainly hit the spot for all three of us …

Edited October 24, 2021 by Duvel (log)

[Margaret Pilgrim]

11 minutes ago, Duvel said:

So, comfort food at its best that - while impossible to make look good in a photograph - certainly hit the spot for all three of us …

My taste buds have no eyes.   

[MetsFan5]

I do love puff pastry. I mainly use it to make a pizza. It makes a hell of a mess with the crumbs but my dog is a living vacuum cleaner.