Lunch 2022

[Kerala]

Lunch for one. Chippolatas, mixed wild mushrooms and a wodge of 'nduja on ciabatta.

[gfweb]

Fried chicken

 

 

[weinoo]

 

Pizza bianca. Broccoli and parmesan frittata. Salad. Salumi.

 

[BonVivant]

Jet lag has thrown my circadian clock out of whack. These days I eat early and have a beer or glass of wine in the evening.

This meal and leftovers were both dinner and lunch. Stopped drinking S. African wines for many years. It's one of the countries I shun.

 

 

Chinese-style soup with tomatoes, salted turnips, and eggs.

 

Dumplings filled with red kuri squash. Home-made crispy chillies in oil.

 

Soy sauce braised leg of goat with taukwa tofu. Also added some Mexican chillies to the braised.

 

Oysters and a nice beer from Serbia.

 

Forgot the limequat photos last week. I made marmalade.

 

 

On 3/6/2022 at 8:59 PM, KennethT said:

Your luggage must have smelled really smoky once you got home!

And of Chocolate, (again). I put all the chillies in zip-lock bags after realising the smell in my rucksack was so overwhelming that I might get chilli burn if I had to wear my clothes!

Edited March 13, 2022 by BonVivant (log)

[blue_dolphin]

Yesterday's late lunch/early dinner.  Take out treats from ZEF BBQ.   

Salad of compressed watermelon, smoked feta, arugula, basil, mint and a smoked balsamic vinaigrette. 

Viet-Cajun crawfish boiled with traditional southeast Asian aromatics, tossed with coconut curry & served with grilled corn, simmered potatoes, limes, homemade chili crisp.

 

Their coconut curry is really good so I got an extra pint of that to make some other curry things.  Plus a quart of pineapple kimchi and some Portuguese sweet rolls that came with a miso-honey butter and smoked pineapple jam. 

[Kim Shook]

Sunday being “Little Easter” we were able to eat restaurant food.  Mr. Kim has been craving wings, so we went the Hooters root for lunch.  Pretzel sticks and cheese dip:

 

Family guilty pleasure.  Jessica had the Buffalo shrimp:

 

Shockingly, these were cooked perfectly – not overdone in the slightest.

 

I had BBQ wings:

 

 

Mr. Kim had the 3 Mile Island wings:

[Paul Bacino]

Pretty Healthy here-  Turkey/Roasted cauliflower Tortilla with Tomatilla/Plabano salsa  ( Radish microgreens )

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

10 hours ago, Paul Bacino said:

Pretty Healthy here-  Turkey/Roasted cauliflower Tortilla with Tomatilla/Plabano salsa  ( Radish microgreens )

 

 

Beautiful.  I had to give a "like" even with the cauliflower.

 

[Kim Shook]

I forgot to add this (probably because I haven't eaten it), but Mr. Kim made some of his Creamy Garlic-Mushroom soup this week and he and Jess and his mom have been making lunches from it all week:

They report it is delicious. 😄

[KennethT]

Today was the first time we had eaten in a restaurant in a long time....

 

Thai dumplings wrapped in tofu skin

 

Had Yai fried chicken

 

Pak boong

 

Pad kee Mao

[johnnyd]

Chowder Day!

 

 

Lobster stock, local russett, haddock, shrimp from Ecuador, local smoked mussels, thyme leaves

 

 

Seafood is getting expensive, even in this New England port.

[weinoo]

That looks great @johnnyd  - enable us with a recipe!  I don't think the price of oil is helping with the price of seafood.

 

 

 

Griddled prosciutto and 2 cheese (one Italian, one French) sandwich.  Assorted stuff on the side.

 

Griddle.

 

 

 

[heidih]

42 minutes ago, weinoo said:

That looks great @johnnyd  - enable us with a recipe!  I don't think the price of oil is helping with the price of seafood.

 

Having seen the depth of his chowder shared here  am craving  

 

[Kim Shook]

Deli roast beef and Swiss (with plenty of horseradish):

[Paul Bacino]

Working the Binder program again with Cod Cakes

 

This time added Flax seed/  a bit more egg /  toasted panko

worked well, 

 

[rotuts]

@Paul Bacino 

 

very interesting . looks very tasty

 

did you grind the flax seeds ?

[chefmd]

Saag paneer inspired dish.  Sautéed spinach with garlic, ginger, onions, garam masala.  Added sour cream since I did not have yogurt.  Fried halloumi cheese.

[johnnyd]

That looks great @johnnyd  - enable us with a recipe!  I don't think the price of oil is helping with the price of seafood.

 

Lobsters here have settled to about US$15/lb but picked lobster meat, $45/lb around Xmas is now $95/lb !!

 

JohnnyD's Killer Chowder

 

• Render a handful of pancetta, remove when brown
• Saute 1/2 an onion, some green pepper, and I added a minced fresno for some pop. Add oil if it looks dry.
• Add One big russett diced around 3/4 inch, stir to coat, leave it while you go have a smoke
• At this point I had almost a pint of turkey stock to use up so threw that in to hasten potato break-down
• Then added one quart *hot* lobster stock, bring all to a hard simmer.
• Add a couple minced garlic and 7-8 branches of shucked thyme leaves, stir.
• When you think everything has married, add about a pound of haddock pieces, about a 3/4lb peeled shrimp (30-40size) and 1/4lb smoked mussels
• Stir, turn off heat. Uncork some white bordeaux. Go have another smoke.
• Grind in some white pepper. Check for salt - we have a tiny bowl with spiced salt we use on everything w/red pepper flakes
• Serve.

 

 

[BonVivant]

Almost like in Morocco!

 

Chocolate and fruit pastes, honey, pistachios, runny cheese (French). To eat you use your hands. Tear a small piece and dip in the jam and honey etc. These breads are very filling. Took us 2 (happy) meals.

 

Another meal. Liver:

 

Octopus salad with mung bean noodles. Fish sauce-lime juice-sugar-raw garlic sauce. I keep the chillies separate as one of us can't eat too spicy.

 

Yet, another meal. Beans (in savoury beef & Mexican chilli broth) on toast. Hard cheese, _Graviera_, from Crete.  (Phone screen version)

[MetsFan5]

On 3/19/2022 at 1:09 PM, Kim Shook said:

I forgot to add this (probably because I haven't eaten it), but Mr. Kim made some of his Creamy Garlic-Mushroom soup this week and he and Jess and his mom have been making lunches from it all week:

They report it is delicious. 😄

Recipe please! 

[Kim Shook]

On 3/21/2022 at 4:39 AM, MetsFan5 said:

Recipe please! 

Here you go!  

[MetsFan5]

4 hours ago, Kim Shook said:

Here you go!  

The sherry isn’t listed in the ingredients. How much do you use? 

[Kim Shook]

1 hour ago, MetsFan5 said:

The sherry isn’t listed in the ingredients. How much do you use? 

He says 2 tablespoons.  Thanks for letting me know.  I'll correct it!

[Kim Shook]

Sunday was our 40th wedding anniversary.  Since it was Sunday, we attended the same church that we'd gotten married in all those years ago rather than our current place.  Jessica had let the rector know in advance and she and the whole congregation were so lovely and welcoming.  After the service, we went to my favorite breakfast diner for brunch.  Jessica and I had been craving Benedicts, so that's what we got:

 

Mr. Kim chose the Rueben:

 

This was yesterday's "fill the void" late lunch, early dinner:

Deli ham and American cheese with yellow mustard on toast!  

Edited March 22, 2022 by Kim Shook (log)

[Shelby]

32 minutes ago, Kim Shook said:

Sunday was our 40th wedding anniversary.  Since it was Sunday, we attended the same church that we'd gotten married in all those years ago rather than our current place.  Jessica had let the rector know in advance and she and the whole congregation were so lovely and welcoming.  After the service, we went to my favorite breakfast diner for brunch.  Jessica and I had been craving Benedicts, so that's what we got:

 

Mr. Kim chose the Rueben:

 

This was yesterday's "fill the void" late lunch, early dinner:

Deli ham and American cheese with yellow mustard on toast!  

Happy 40th!!!!