Dinner 2022

[rotuts]

@KennethT

 

fantastic food p0rn !

 

bets it very tasty .

Edited July 22, 2022 by rotuts (log)

[weinoo]

A nice, light summer dinner. Prepared when the temperature of the window shade next to my sink read...

 

 

So, why not...

 

 

Pork (neck) and Hatch green chili stew, with potatoes and beans.  And might as well...
 

 

Steam some corn.

[rotuts]

@weinoo 

 

fine looking stew.

 

when I see a sauced dish 

 

w a rim like this :

 

 

Im very happy. 

 

 

[weinoo]

Just now, rotuts said:

when I see a sauced dish 

w a rim like this :

Im very happy. 

 

So is my wife!

[rotuts]

Of Note :

 

#KennethT 's

 

Panang curry had this :

 

 

same sort of deliciousness.

 

 

[weinoo]

11 hours ago, Honkman said:

Myers & Chang Cookbook (restaurant in Boston)

it has been a while, but we’ve had good meals here.

[RWood]

Using up some patty pan squash from the farmers market. Gemelli, caramelized squash, cherry tomatoes, lots of garlic and aleppo pepper, basil and parm. 

[gfweb]

Scallops with grilled  corn soup chowder and roasted potatoes

 

Edited July 23, 2022 by gfweb (log)

[KennethT]

 

Sichuan double cooked mahi mahi 

[Ann_T]

I've had a craving for a roast chicken dinner and had been thinking about it for the last week. I presalted a chicken on Wednesday with the intention of roasting it yesterday.

But by the time I got home from work, all I wanted to do was watch the Jan 6th hearing and since neither of us was hungry for a big dinner

I postponed dinner until this morning when Moe said he would be very happy with a roast chicken dinner for breakfast.

I had actually made the dressing before leaving for work yesterday morning and it was in a casserole and just had to be baked.

 

All the traditional sides. Mashed potatoes, gravy, Brussels sprouts, and rutabaga.

I think this will keep Moe going until tonight.

[weinoo]

9 hours ago, Ann_T said:

All the traditional sides. Mashed potatoes, gravy, Brussels sprouts, and rutabaga

 

Beautiful roast chicken...but...Brussels sprouts and rutabaga were hardly traditional sides in the house where I grew up 😉.

[rotuts]

@Ann_T 

 

fantastic looking chicken !

 

I can taste it , smell it 

 

and hear the skin crackle !

 

if it was my breakfast , Id gobble it up !

Edited July 23, 2022 by rotuts (log)

[Ann_T]

1 hour ago, weinoo said:

Beautiful roast chicken...but...Brussels sprouts and rutabaga were hardly traditional sides in the house where I grew up 😉.

@Weinoo, I don't remember a holiday dinner which was Turkey, without rutabaga or turnip as my family called it.   Brussels sprouts, were often on the menu

but , it might also be broccoli or asparagus or some other vegetable.  But always rutabaga.  And since I tend to roast chickens more than turkey, I almost always

have rutabaga.  It is a favourite vegetable so it gets served with other meats too.  Especially love it with lamb or in stews. 

[weinoo]

4 minutes ago, Ann_T said:

@Weinoo, I don't remember a holiday dinner which was Turkey, without rutabaga or turnip as my family called it.   Brussels sprouts, were often on the menu

but , it might also be broccoli or asparagus or some other vegetable.  But always rutabaga.  And since I tend to roast chickens more than turkey, I almost always

have rutabaga.  It is a favourite vegetable so it gets served with other meats too.  Especially love it with lamb or in stews. 

 

That's cool - very different backgrounds!  I actually like both rutabaga and/or turnips - they're lovely veg.  

[Tropicalsenior]

44 minutes ago, Ann_T said:

rutabaga or turnip

I agree with you. I love rutabaga and it was my daughter's favorite vegetable when they were growing up. There are so many different ways to fix rutabagas and turnips and I really miss them. I have never seen them here in Costa Rica so I tried growing them myself a couple times and it turns out that the insects love them as much as I do. That's probably why they're not a very popular crop here.

Edited July 23, 2022 by Tropicalsenior (log)

[Anna N]

3 hours ago, weinoo said:

 

Beautiful roast chicken...but...Brussels sprouts and rutabaga were hardly traditional sides in the house where I grew up 😉.

Out of curiosity what were/are  traditional sides with roast chicken? I have never thought of there being such things. Again I am sure it’s matter of family history. 

[weinoo]

13 minutes ago, Anna N said:

Out of curiosity what were/are  traditional sides with roast chicken? I have never thought of there being such things. Again I am sure it’s matter of family history. 

 

Peas & carrots. Potato of some sort. Cole slaw?  After my mother got through putting the chicken through the deflavorizer, it didn't really matter much!

[Anna N]

1 minute ago, weinoo said:

 

Peas & carrots. Potato of some sort. Cole slaw?  After my mother got through putting the chicken through the deflavorizer, it didn't really matter much!

Thanks, I could say a great deal more but I do not wish to take the topic into the stratosphere. 

[Katie Meadow]

47 minutes ago, weinoo said:

 

Peas & carrots. Potato of some sort. Cole slaw?  After my mother got through putting the chicken through the deflavorizer, it didn't really matter much!

My mother had one of those!

[Honkman]

Fettuccine with poached cod (in a mixture of olive oil, pasta water, scallions and capers) with oven-roasted grape tomatoes and a lot of parsley

[mgaretz]

Burger, cooked on the indoor grill, on brioche bread with homemade 1000 island dressing.  Brussels sprouts were tossed in avocado oil and also cooked directly on the grill since they were so huge!

 

 

[Kim Shook]

@Dante – your chili dogs are scrumptious looking!  And a patty melt is one of the top burger sandwiches, in my opinion!

 

@gfweb – gorgeous scallops!  You always get such a great sear on yours. 

 

@Ann_T – as always when you post chicken and gravy, I now have a craving.  What is that to the left of the chicken?  Between it and the mashed potatoes?  It looks like dressing (be still my heart).

 

@Anna N – re: growing up traditional sides to roast chicken.  With an English stepdad and sisters it tended to be Brussels sprouts, roast potatoes, Bisto, and even Yorkies.  In later years, my mom began sneaking in Stove Top because she and I love dressing so much and it was acceptable to the Brits 😁. 

 

@mgaretz – I love burgers on bread instead of buns sometimes.  My mom did that fairly often (there was always ground beef in the freezer, but not buns) – queue the famous Eddie Murphy McDonald’s vs. Mom’s burger bit.  But you smartly make your burgers big enough to pretty much cover the bread.  We always had leftover over corners of bread!

 

Lots of dining out for us in the past few evenings! 

 

Night before last we met friends for dinner at a new (to us) Vietnamese place that they discovered.  We started with Started with 5-Spice Calamari:

No detectable 5-Spice flavor and a bit tough.  But very delicate, sweet squid.  Mr. Kim had the Shaking Beef Pho:

The flavor of everything was excellent and the beef was very tender, but he said the Shaking Beef flavor was kind of lost in the broth.  I had my favorite Bahn Xeo:

It was one of the best I’ve ever had.  It had plenty of pork and shrimp (in most places I’m tempted to request extra shrimp) and the crepe stayed crispy throughout. 

 

 

Last night Jessica and I went out to see the movie “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” and had dinner at our favorite Mexican place.  Their excellent guacamole:

 

And the Virginia Mexican restaurant white sauce:

This sauce may have traveled outside of the Commonwealth by now, but it apparently began in southeastern VA.  It’s an interesting story. 

 

I had beef chimichangas and Jessica had shrimp (they look the same):

 

 

And I added a regular crunchy taco because I love White People tacos:

😁

[Tropicalsenior]

14 minutes ago, Kim Shook said:

interesting story. 

Thank you for the great story and for the even more interesting recipe. It sounds like a great alternative to the tomato overload you get from many Mexican sauces.

[Katie Meadow]

8 hours ago, weinoo said:

 

Beautiful roast chicken...but...Brussels sprouts and rutabaga were hardly traditional sides in the house where I grew up 😉.

Exactly. Roast chicken was obtained from Williams bbq on Broadway and was accompanied by their barley- mushroom casserole and a vinegar-heavy salad. Salad was the only thing my Dad would eat that qualifies as vegetable matter. He would have laughed out loud if anyone served him brussels sprouts or rutabaga, neither of which I ever laid eyes on until I moved to CA. He probably knew the word "rutabaga' because he was a crossword puzzle addict. My food of choice in 12th grade when stoned was a foil tub of that mushroom barley stuff. I would kill for that now; brave an airplane full of maskless fools--if only Williams still existed, which it does not. That chicken does look good. I just talked my husband into roasting one for dinner, making good use of my time on eG! 

[heidih]

We never roasted a chicken at home. Sunday dinner  (lunch really)  was to go to Slavko's Poultry after mass. So good. "Broasted" chicken and potatoes with plenty of coleslaw - life was briefly good     https://www.zmenu.com/slavkos-san-pedro-online-menu/.