Dinner 2023

btbyrd · August 30, 2023

Caprese salad. Blanched heirloom tomato vacuum infused with some quality EVOO and Zingerman’s ten year balsamic. Buffalo milk mozzarella, basil, salt.

btbyrd · August 30, 2023

Biscuits and gravy a la campanella.

In the south, sausage gravy is basically black pepper bechemel. I saw this pasta shape, which I'm calling campanella after my favorite Liszt riff on Paganini, and thought it would do well with a mushroom cream sauce. Then I thought of adding sausage. The "Italian biscuits and gravy" idea was born. It has nutmeg and white pepper and fennel in the sausage, so it has definite old world flavor. But it has pork sausage and black pepper, so it tastes like home.

The mise was some torn oyster mushrooms, confit onions, sauteed baby bellas, and some cooked mild Italian sausage. I also made a classic béchamel with nutmeg and white pepper, but also black pepper because I hate white pepper. I only bought some recently to see if I still hate it. I do.

Tossed the pasta through with the cream sauce, onions, sausage, and mushrooms. Then I topped it with crispy oyster mushrooms and fresno chilis.

As far as southern-Italian fusion goes, this was a hit. I'd put it on a menu. I'd order it again. I'd pay someone money to make it for me. I'd pay someone to do the dishes.

Edited August 30, 2023 by btbyrd (log)

**MaryIsobel** · August 30, 2023

36 minutes ago, btbyrd said:

Biscuits and gravy a la campanella.

In the south, sausage gravy is basically black pepper bechemel. I saw this pasta shape, which I'm calling campanella after my favorite Liszt riff on Paganini, and thought it would do well with a mushroom cream sauce. Then I thought of adding sausage. The "Italian biscuits and gravy" idea was born. It has nutmeg and white pepper and fennel in the sausage, so it has definite old world flavor. But it has pork sausage and black pepper, so it tastes like home.

The mise was some torn oyster mushrooms, confit onions, sauteed baby bellas, and some cooked mild Italian sausage. I also made a classic béchamel with nutmeg and white pepper, but also black pepper because I hate white pepper. I only bought some recently to see if I still hate it. I do.

Tossed the pasta through with the cream sauce, onions, sausage, and mushrooms. Then I topped it with crispy oyster mushrooms and fresno chilis.

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As far as southern-Italian fusion goes, this was a hit. I'd put it on a menu. I'd order it again. I'd pay someone money to make it for me. I'd pay someone to do the dishes.

What a great idea - looks fabulous. I will join you in the no white pepper camp. It has always tasted off or weird to me, can't even describe it

btbyrd · August 30, 2023

White pepper just tastes “musty dusty fusty” to me. That’s the best description I’ve come up with.

Ann_T · August 30, 2023

Tonight's dinner.

Homemade French Onion soup.

CantCookStillTry · August 30, 2023

Unauthentic Enchilladas for the boys - but at least I didn't use a kit (for once)!

Chicken, refried beans, capsicum, corn, onion in the stuffing.

How do we serve these without second degree burns? 🤔

Deephaven · August 30, 2023

Chimichurri, squash, corn, baguette, skirt steak

Loving the local produce right now!

**MaryIsobel** · August 30, 2023

13 hours ago, btbyrd said:

White pepper just tastes “musty dusty fusty” to me. That’s the best description I’ve come up with.

Musty is a very good description!

heidih · August 30, 2023

7 hours ago, CantCookStillTry said:

Unauthentic Enchilladas for the boys - but at least I didn't use a kit (for once)!

Chicken, refried beans, capsicum, corn, onion in the stuffing.

How do we serve these without second degree burns? 🤔

That is a whole lotta cheese and sauce. I think you have to treat it like lasagna. Let it cool and set, then use a wide spatula sorta cutting between the rolled tortillas (if you can find them

liuzhou · August 30, 2023

15 hours ago, btbyrd said:

White pepper just tastes “musty dusty fusty” to me. That’s the best description I’ve come up with.

Sounds to me you are buying stale peppers. Or, please no, pre-ground.

JoNorvelleWalker · August 30, 2023

9 hours ago, CantCookStillTry said:

Unauthentic Enchilladas for the boys - but at least I didn't use a kit (for once)!

Chicken, refried beans, capsicum, corn, onion in the stuffing.

How do we serve these without second degree burns? 🤔

Is your older boy home now?

JoNorvelleWalker · August 30, 2023

20 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

Sounds to me you are buying stale peppers. Or, please no, pre-ground.

I recall reading that some people cannot taste pepper.

OlyveOyl · August 30, 2023

Roasted Yukon gold potatoes with chicken thighs alongside to keep them company.

Endive julienned with chives, mint, radish and a garlicky vinaigrette on a radicchio leaf.

FM tomatoes…thank you farmers!

btbyrd · August 31, 2023

Chicken enchiladas verde.

Norm Matthews · August 31, 2023

I was going to make this dinner yesterday (Tuesday) On Monday, I asked Charlie if he would like to go out for lunch on Tuesday. He said he didn't think he'd be able to do it so I forgot about it and started doing dinner later on. Right after I put the Mac and Cheese in the oven around 4:30 he came in and said he could go to dinner with me in about 45 minutes. The mac n cheese went in the fridge and the rest got finished today. The mac&cheese is an Ina Garten recipe. I didn't think much of the way it tasted before it went in the oven but we both loved it when it came out. Charlie said I could skip the tomatoes next time though.

KennethT · August 31, 2023

Yunnan style bison with 5 herbs (3 from the garden)

Norm Matthews · August 31, 2023

23 hours ago, btbyrd said:

Biscuits and gravy a la campanella.

In the south, sausage gravy is basically black pepper bechemel. I saw this pasta shape, which I'm calling campanella after my favorite Liszt riff on Paganini, and thought it would do well with a mushroom cream sauce. Then I thought of adding sausage. The "Italian biscuits and gravy" idea was born. It has nutmeg and white pepper and fennel in the sausage, so it has definite old world flavor. But it has pork sausage and black pepper, so it tastes like home.

The mise was some torn oyster mushrooms, confit onions, sauteed baby bellas, and some cooked mild Italian sausage. I also made a classic béchamel with nutmeg and white pepper, but also black pepper because I hate white pepper. I only bought some recently to see if I still hate it. I do.

Tossed the pasta through with the cream sauce, onions, sausage, and mushrooms. Then I topped it with crispy oyster mushrooms and fresno chilis.

As far as southern-Italian fusion goes, this was a hit. I'd put it on a menu. I'd order it again. I'd pay someone money to make it for me. I'd pay someone to do the dishes.

Sounds really good. Love the ceramic plate.

liuzhou · August 31, 2023

牛肉炒面 (niú ròu chǎo miàn), beef fried noodles (chow mein).

A generous plateful, featuring the beef and noodles but also including Chinese celery, garlic, carrots, cabbage, water spinach, soy sauce and chilli.

I also got to see the motorcycle courier bringing it on the GPS tracking system, taking a wrong turn and tie himself in amusing knots trying negotiate the one way system around my home. He got here in the end and the food was still hot.

Ann_T · August 31, 2023

On 8/29/2023 at 10:56 AM, Kim Shook said:

@Kim Shook, I keep coming back to look at this. Looks so good.

Last night's dinner

Flattered Chicken Breasts from Fifty Shades of Chicken A Parody in a Cookbook

**Shelby** · August 31, 2023

15 hours ago, Norm Matthews said:

I was going to make this dinner yesterday (Tuesday) On Monday, I asked Charlie if he would like to go out for lunch on Tuesday. He said he didn't think he'd be able to do it so I forgot about it and started doing dinner later on. Right after I put the Mac and Cheese in the oven around 4:30 he came in and said he could go to dinner with me in about 45 minutes. The mac n cheese went in the fridge and the rest got finished today. The mac&cheese is an Ina Garten recipe. I didn't think much of the way it tasted before it went in the oven but we both loved it when it came out. Charlie said I could skip the tomatoes next time though.

Looks delicious. I love tomatoes in macaroni and cheese.