Lunch 2021

[liuzhou]

2 minutes ago, Anna N said:

While the pineapple presentation is quite attractive I am much more interested in the contents of the jade green casserole dish. It looks quite interesting. 

 

It was a kind of pork belly stew with daikon, wood ear fungus etc. Very good.

[Dejah]

Lunch - a riff on Vietnamese Bun Mam using a cube of seasoning from my Chinese grocery store haul yesterday in the big city;-) Also had rice noodles. Added some meatablls from leftover wonton filling, a few little shrimp, Thai basil, fresh beansprouts, Shanghai bok choy, and some green onions. Very satisfying!

 

                                                                                  

[BeeZee]

Using up more leftovers...green lentils, some grape tomatoes that were going soft, oil packed tuna. Black pepper, sherry vinegar, dash of TJ’s umami seasoning.

 

[Dejah]

Hot dog for lunch: Kirkland / Costco Polish Beef Sausage / weiner, on a Villagio sub bun, diced onion, cilantro, watercress, and a squirt of sweet & spicy mustard. Hubby had Jalapeno peppers with his. I had radishes.

 

                                                                                        

[rotuts]

@Kim Shook 

 

Ive seen so many wonderful sandwiches 

 

you've made

 

like this :

 

 

next time consider

 

getting your bread ready

 

etc

 

and the meat and cheese

 

set up to just fir

 

but micro the meat ab cheese

 

to warm i up

 

on a plate and possibly

 

felt the cheese

 

then slide that warm delicious goodness

 

off the  plat from th miceo

 

on th the bread

 

and enjoy

[robirdstx]

 

I made this Chicken, Bean and Vegetable Soup with the last of the Rotisserie Chicken from earlier in the week.

 

 

[liuzhou]

Was busy. Near-instant lunch. I just boiled some water.

 

 

 

[chefmd]

Swordfish with roasted cauliflower.

[BonVivant]

Sourdough rye

 

Half kilo of shrimps

 

Beer with the seafood

 

Warm lunch of leftover spelt and beetroot

 

Spicy cuttlefish

 

Chilli sauce I used:

 

[Duvel]

12 minutes ago, BonVivant said:

 

Half kilo of shrimps

 

I so love peeling those ... happy childhood memories !

[Anna N]

On 2/26/2021 at 10:39 PM, liuzhou said:

Was busy. Near-instant lunch. I just boiled some water.

Just a bit curious. I know English is not the second official language in China as French is the second official language in Canada.  so is the English on the package for export purposes only?

[liuzhou]

34 minutes ago, Anna N said:

Just a bit curious. I know English is not the second official language in China as French is the second official language in Canada.  so is the English on the package for export purposes only?

 

The product is actually Japanese and labelled in Japanese and English - no Chinese!

 

That said, many products in China have English (or what they think is English). It's just a marketing ploy - makes the product seem more exotic! A bit like all the idiots in the west who get tattoos in languages they can't understand or even identify. 90% of them are nonsensical.

Edited March 1, 2021 by liuzhou (log)

[blue_dolphin]

My cousin signed me up for a combined cooking class/travel lecture via Zoom.  A collaboration between a cooking school and travel agency, both with regular operations on hold.  Their current series is on Italy and yesterday's session was on Sicily. 

We made Sicilian stuffed zucchini

 

Very easy recipe.  Stuffing was the zuke guts sautéed with garlic plus almonds, capers, golden raisins, lemon zest, panko and Parmesan

I think I spent more time trying to position my iPad so I could see it while trying not to share my kitchen mess than I did actually cooking.  

While these were in the oven, we watched a lecture/slide show from a woman in Sicily who's a professor and often works as a tour guide.  She talked a bit too fast and tried to cover way too much but it was still a fun diversion. 

 

[heidih]

3 minutes ago, blue_dolphin said:

We made Sicilian stuffed zucchini

Very easy recipe.  Stuffing was the zuke guts sautéed with garlic plus almonds, capers, golden raisins, lemon zest, panko and Parmesan

 

Forgot how much I enjoy that Sicilian flavor combo. Jotted it down for zucchini season. Thanks!

[MommyDragonsDen]

A little twist to puff pastry cheese sausage rolls (actually beef rolls)

 

cheese, beef mince ,onions & a bit seasonings as fillings

 

 

 

[rotuts]

@MommyDragonsDen 

 

looks delicious.

 

Im missing a bit

 

and that's been said before ...

 

I see thence on the lowestpic

 

then the rolls

 

they look a bit like flowers ?

 

then you baked them

 

should you get a chance

 

might you fill in a few gaps ?

 

how did you fill the Puff.P to get to the flower stage

 

then how did you bake them ?

 

looks very interesting to me.

[MommyDragonsDen]

28 minutes ago, rotuts said:

@MommyDragonsDen 

 

looks delicious.

 

Im missing a bit

 

and that's been said before ...

 

I see thence on the lowestpic

 

then the rolls

 

they look a bit like flowers ?

 

then you baked them

 

should you get a chance

 

might you fill in a few gaps ?

 

how did you fill the Puff.P to get to the flower stage

 

then how did you bake them ?

 

looks very interesting to me.

 

Thanks for your comments. Cut the pastry into circles & roll up.   It does look like flowers if looking from the top. 

 

Instructions about how to make these detailed in my YT channel( the link in my signature)

Hope it helps. 

Have a good day!

 

 

Edited March 1, 2021 by MommyDragonsDen (log)

[weinoo]

 

Still working the chow fun jonesing. Yesterday, stir-fried with some pork shoulder strips and green pepper. Stir fried choy sum alongside.

I will note that the rice noodles are probably best used within a day or two of purchase, or maybe frozen? These were a few days out, but still worked, though I had to smush them around in the wok more than when I first bought them.

[Kim Shook]

@liuzhou – I love pineapple and shrimp fried rice and have had a work-in-progress version of it for over 10 years.  I can’t quite get it where I want it.  Luckily, there is a nearby Thai restaurant that makes a good one.  That one that you showed looks especially nice.

 

My dad and his wife are moving back to Virginia from Florida after 20-some years.  On the drive up, they stopped for a safely distanced visit.  I wasn’t sure what time they’d arrive, so I made sure to have lunch in care they were early enough.  I did a pressed sandwich and made tapenade for it:

It is the Alton Brown recipe.  Really good – green and black olives, capers, lemon juice, olive oil, and anchovies.  So, I miscalculated their trip time a bit.  They were not here in time for lunch, so we have sandwiches for the rest of the week:

 

Tapenade, goat cheese, marinated artichoke hearts, sweet sopressata, ham, and vinaigrette dressed arugula.

[Paul Bacino]

Steamed and grilled Artichokes--Dude  this choke  was a gigantee

Served in a Duke Sriracha Meyo

 

[Kim Shook]

Stouffer’s classic – Welsh Rarebit on bread machine toast with bacon:

[MokaPot]

Corkscrew pasta with tuna and tomato. The tuna is Sajo brand (Korean) canned tuna. Kind of too fishy, IMO. Yes, I realize tuna is a fish. Still tasty, though.

 

 

[Anna N]

4 minutes ago, MokaPot said:

Kind of too fishy, IMO. Yes, I realize tuna is a fish.

Yes. I frequently have that issue. Fish that are fishy don’t pass the smell test! I like the smell of shrimp and don’t consider it fishy. When shrimp start smelling fishy they get binned at my house. 

[jimb0]

i still had some turkey in the fridge from the other day's roast so lunch was turkey, gravey, and sautéed parsnips

 

[rotuts]

@jimb0 

 

like the .gif !