Dinner 2022

[Honkman]

3 hours ago, weinoo said:

Are we all Tucci?

I have to admit before your post and subsequent googling I wasn’t even aware too much about Tucci 

[Honkman]

1 hour ago, Ann_T said:

I'm almost always awake by 3AM and sometimes earlier. Might as well bake.

Wow - that is actually closer to the time when I might go to bed at some nights. 

[Annie_H]

3 hours ago, Ann_T said:

I'm almost always awake by 3AM and sometimes earlier. Might as well bake.

Our alarm goes off at 4.01 am. I'm always up an hour earlier. 

Monday night I did a quick prep. Pressed the tofu and made the sauces and sticky rice. Tuesday morning I marinated the tofu and salmon. 

Last night was a sheet pan roasted tofu, salmon, and kimchi rubbed halved romaine-while the dumplings were steaming. 

Sunday I smoke/roasted a chicken and made a master stock so was easy to make a miso soup on the back burner. Seems ambitious for a weeknight but most was prepped ahead. And made nice lunches. 

Not sure if it is a thing but I made sticky rice balls with furikake--made a batch last week. Stuffed with a salmon chunk for our lunch bowls. 

Dumplings made by FlyByJing. 

 

[heidih]

Your sticky rice balls w/ furikake are something I would try. Love the toenail shot in the stock. How I miss torturing the teenage boys with chicken feet from my freezer storage. They would have to move the bag to get to their frozen "junk food". Grown men now - and they have not forgotten

[Annie_H]

35 minutes ago, heidih said:

Your sticky rice balls w/ furikake are something I would try. Love the toenail shot in the stock. How I miss torturing the teenage boys with chicken feet from my freezer storage. They would have to move the bag to get to their frozen "junk food". Grown men now - and they have not forgotten

A common trick for years is to label freezer goods 'liver', 'chicken paws', 'beef tongue', when in fact it was prepped ahead holiday cookies or Chex party mix. 

DH has been recently smitten with sticky rice balls for lunch. Inside-out sushi. I do stock the snack pack mini nori sheets that I could roll them in but at 4am I just pack the balls with other pre-made salads. Just ordered another 12 pack of mini nori from misfits. 

[weinoo]

 

Chicken (thighs) persillade.  Meat + 2?

 

 

Chicken persillade, crispy roasted potatoes, peas & carrots.

[liamsaunt]

Tacos, cilantro rice and beans

 

[gfweb]

Cod with romesco, charred broccoli, roasted root veg

 

[Norm Matthews]

Charlie gave me a scare. He asked for a salad for lunch. I knew he was OK later  when he asked for meatballs and spaghetti for supper.  It was too hot to turn on the oven so I used the grill instead. 

[gfweb]

23 minutes ago, Norm Matthews said:

Charlie gave me a scare. He asked for a salad for lunch. I knew he was OK later  when he asked for meatballs and spaghetti for supper.  It was too hot to turn on the oven so I used the grill instead. 

 

 Looks great Norm!  And having ground beef and pork at the ready is no small feat.

[Ann_T]

Still had some smoked pork left so made tacos tonight.

Matt made the homemade corn tortillas and had them ready just before I got home from work so dinner came together quickly.

 

Warned up the pork in the CSO and made a fresh salsa.

[Norm Matthews]

1 minute ago, gfweb said:

 

 Looks great Norm!  And having ground beef and pork at the ready is no small feat.

 Thanks.  I live a mile from a large grocery store so picking up stuff at next no notice is barely a  problem.

[Honkman]

Fettuccine with carrots, fennel and broccoli in an orange-cream sauce (made by mixing heavy cream, vegetable broth and reduced orange juice and some orange zest in the end to give it a fresh kick)

[liamsaunt]

Pasta with raw tomato sauce

 

 

and with long cooked zucchini and basil for my tomato-hating niece

 

[Annie_H]

Warm sauté salad greens--kale, leek, fennel, charred corn, cherry tomatoes. Cast iron seared flank steak. First course we ate in the kitchen right out of the pan--zucchini flower fritters. 

 

[Norm Matthews]

The only thing of note I made today is a cake. I don't make cake often enough to know that something that sounds off really is off and I didn't know that one can of cherries will not come close to being 2 1/2 cups, and that the frosting would need to be whipped. I figured it out eventually though.

[heidih]

Well looks might not have been movie star/Victoria's Secret but chocolate & cherries has always appealed to me. Moist brownies with cherries are a fond memory.

[Honkman]

Oven roasted cod (just with paprika, salt and pepper) with a lemon-capers-scallion-parsley relish over couscous and a side of spinach

[Anna N]

11 hours ago, Norm Matthews said:

I figured it out eventually though

I would happily dig right in. Good for you. 

[kayb]

Spent three nights this week in StL, taking in a couple of ballgames. Thursday night, SO and I decided on Carmine’s Steakhouse, a downtown classic, for dinner.

 

Mixed reviews. I wasn’t tremendously hungry, so we opted to split a 16-oz NY strip. I had lobster bites, an appetizer, served at the same time. The menu noted they were “tender chunks of lobster with lemon cream sauce.” Ok. The menu did NOT note the chunks were dipped in a light tempura batter and deep fried, which was ok, or that the lemon cream sauce was SWEET (lemon pie sweet!) and did NOT come on the side, but forming a pool on which the lobster sat. 
 

Way too much sweet. Overpowered the lobster.

 

The steak, however, was excellent.

 

[Ann_T]

On 7/14/2022 at 1:16 PM, gfweb said:

Cod with romesco, charred broccoli, roasted root veg

 

Love this photo.

 

 

Last night's dinner.

Veal Schnitzel with Mushroom Sauce.

With sides of red cabbage and spaetzle.

Took a little longer to make than my normal work night dinners, but was worth a little extra time.

[liamsaunt]

Another unattractive curry that tasted good.  This one had chicken, cauliflower and cashews.  My nephew especially enjoyed it.  He's not usually a big cauliflower fan but he liked this preparation enough to ask for the recipe.  

 

 

[KennethT]

9 minutes ago, liamsaunt said:

Another unattractive curry that tasted good.  This one had chicken, cauliflower and cashews.  My nephew especially enjoyed it.  He's not usually a big cauliflower fan but he liked this preparation enough to ask for the recipe.  

 

 

Personally, I wouldn't call it unattractive!  Is taht paratha or naan?  Do you make from scratch?

[Tropicalsenior]

20 minutes ago, liamsaunt said:

curry

I'm not a great fan of Curry but your naan always look so beautiful. I know you told me once how you made it but I seem to have lost the recipe. Could you please repeat it for me. Thank you.

[mgaretz]

Odd shaped but thick cut of top sirloin, cooked SV then seared, served with the last of the steamed snap peas.