Dinner 2022

[gulfporter]

Grilled rabbit. 

 

 

[Shelby]

I have just a few coveted jars of my canned tomato juice from summer before last.  I used one last night to make tomato soup

 

 

Ham and cheese on pumpernickel with it.

 

[rotuts]

@Shelby  

 

Im sure that Tomato Soup 

 

was excellent.

 

good choice .

[heidih]

19 minutes ago, gulfporter said:

Grilled rabbit. 

 

 

with the lean little critter - do you have a marinade or method tip esp for the grill. I have only braised.

[gfweb]

17 hours ago, scubadoo97 said:

Recently picked up some Kirkland chicken thighs from Costco.   Nasty stuff as it’s mechanically separated thighs with  a lot of little pieces.    Cooked up one pack after cleaning it up.    Tossed it on the smoker.  Not too bad but the rest was dealt with today.  Due to the mess when opening the packages, I cleaned and ground up the rest and made chicken thigh patties.   They tasted ok but too much effort.  I’ll not buy them again.  I have a couple trays of chicken thigh burgers in the freezer which will be vac packed  for later use.  
 

Had I not had a grinder I would have tossed them due to the time to deal with them 

 

Costco has slipped badly in our area. Wegman's has better meats and better prices

[gulfporter]

10 minutes ago, heidih said:

with the lean little critter - do you have a marinade or method tip esp for the grill. I have only braised.

 

I used the same marinade I use on lamb...olive oil, lemon juice, fresh rosemary and dijon mustard.  Marinated 24 hours.  

 

I grilled it not so much by time, but by instant thermometer.  Pulled pieces off as they hit 150 and let rest and they rose to 160.  I rested 15 minutes.  The larger pieces took about 20 minutes and the smaller legs maybe 12??  It's hard to take temperature on smaller pieces.  

 

This was smaller rabbit (1.08 kg) than the one I braised on Thanksgiving (1.5 kg).  The smaller one was more tender.  

 

 

[Kerala]

15 hours ago, mgaretz said:

Meatloaf, served with sweet potatoes in brown sugar sauce.

 

 

 

 

Never had meatloaf. I've eaten a nut roast and I've eaten a burger- is it somewhere in between?

[billyhill]

Photo of Shepard's pie.

 

[Tropicalsenior]

1 hour ago, Kerala said:

is it somewhere in between

I would describe it as just American family style păté, and there are as many recipes for it as there are American families.

Edited December 11, 2022 by Tropicalsenior (log)

[CookBot]

On 12/10/2022 at 10:02 AM, Shelby said:

Shrimp tortellini with crawfish boudin and my canned green beans

 

 

How in the world do you find crawfish boudin in Kansas???  I'm in the South and I can't even find it in the Carolinas.

 

(Although, now that I think about it, I'm probably only as far from Louisiana as you are, mile-wise.)

[lindag]

I came across a new recipe earlier this week that I just had to try.

I do love cabbage in any form and this one reminded me of Pennsylvania Dutch soup my Mom used to make that I've never been able to fully re-create.

Mine is cooking away in the crockpot now.

Recipe

[Shelby]

8 minutes ago, CookBot said:

 

How in the world do you find crawfish boudin in Kansas???  I'm in the South and I can't even find it in the Carolinas.

 

(Although, now that I think about it, I'm probably only as far from Louisiana as you are, mile-wise.)

I order it from LA 😬

 

I usually do a big order around this time of year --I give some to my in-laws for Christmas.  I love this place--The Best Stop In Scott

 

We can't even get regular boudin here.  Our friend from Georgia can just go to to Wal-Mart and find it.

Edited December 11, 2022 by Shelby (log)

[billyhill]

Added some demi glace to the dish, I always add mushrooms. I often add celery but not this time. I defrosted some venison stock, I added 1 cup to the dish and reduced the rest with 1/2 a Knorr's bullion cube. Ladled a little across the plated dish. It was very solid.

[mgaretz]

2 hours ago, Kerala said:

Never had meatloaf. I've eaten a nut roast and I've eaten a burger- is it somewhere in between?

Well, I’ve never had nut loaf so I couldn’t say. It’s like a burger but mine has oatmeal, onion, carrots and celery cooked in.

[Okanagancook]

Is your pie made with beef or lamb?  Are there some peas in there too?  Looks nice and moist.  Love all the gravy.

[Tropicalsenior]

8 minutes ago, Okanagancook said:

Are there some peas in there too

[billyhill]

1 hour ago, Okanagancook said:

Is your pie made with beef or lamb?  Are there some peas in there too?  Looks nice and moist.  Love all the gravy.

Venison with some pork fat.

[Marlene]

Just simply steak and baked potatoes tonight.  I always take the potato out of the skin so I can eat the skin last lol 

 

 

[billyhill]

1 hour ago, Tropicalsenior said:

Yes approximately 1 cup peas

Edited December 12, 2022 by billyhill
Additions (log)

[KennethT]

Still pretending to be in Indonesia today, as it's 40degrees and raining here.....

 

Sambal udang kecombrang. Sambal = chilli, udang = shrip, kecombrang = torch ginger.  There's a lot of variations of sambal udang - this one was made using torch ginger flower, which I've had in my freezer forever.... It's really aromatic in a floral kind of way. The head on shrimp were deep fried which made the head and shell really crunchy, and really shrimpy! Plus I have a whole load of shrimp head fat oil now!

 

Torch ginger defrosting

 

And some kuih....

 

Shrimp head oil

Edited December 12, 2022 by KennethT (log)

[billyhill]

@KennethT, Much respect. You are an ambassador. 

[Dante]

On 11/28/2022 at 1:12 AM, Tropicalsenior said:

Interesting. Would you please elaborate.

 

It's a Beef on Weck sandwich adapted as a pizza- pizza with beef, provalone, and a cream/horseradish sauce with caraway seeds

[MaryIsobel]

The skin is the best part for me. I miss my daughters living at home because they just ate the inside of baked potatoes and I got all the skins!

[Honkman]

Classical Austrian/southern Germany food - veal stew (with mushrooms, onions, veal stock, heavy cream, butter) with broccoli (briefly sauteed and finished with butter) and served over spaetzle (made from flour and eggs and finished with butter)

[liamsaunt]

A repeat of another recent meal at my niece's request: chicken katsu with rice and cucumber salad.