Dinner 2023

[KennethT]

10 hours ago, liuzhou said:

 

Happy me!

 

After reading your post and twitching with envy and frustration, I decided to search just once more for rau răm on my purchasing options. My usual one hour later delivery people deny all knowledge, but on Taobao, the main Amazon-like shopping portal I hit gold!

 

I can buy 250 g, 500 g or a full kilo and it will take, at best, until tomorrow to get here. Probably two days.

I can also order potted plants and set up in business myself!

 

So glad you posted your meal. It gave me good kick up the posterior! Thanks.

I don't think you even need to order the potted plant (unless you don't already have potting soil and pot) since it roots so easily.  Take practically any branch, pick the leaves off (except for  the top two or so) and plunk it in a glass of water.  You'll see roots probably by the next day!

[TicTac]

Wife took the kids to MIL’s - had a night to myself, so steak it was!  
 

6 week dry aged rib eye, fried green tomatoes, purple mashed potatoes, lambs tongue (wild spinach), Malabar spinach, porcini reduction 

[liamsaunt]

Final dinner in Vegas was at Mercato de Percheria. I was not particularly hungry so nothing on the menu looked appealing. I think I am just ready to get out of here. Vegas is just too overwhelming. Anyway, restaurant setting

 

 

Drink for husband and sister 

 

 

Menu

 

 

we ordered the truffle board to start but they were out. So, calamari (WAY too salty)

 

 

salmon tartare (this was nice)

 

 

husband and niece both got the tortellini filled with prosciutto. They said it was fine 

 

 

My sister and I split an arugula salad and a pizza. The salad was tasty but too cold. The pizza was undercooked and too saucy 

 

 

 

No dessert. 
 

And a couple of concert photos, just for fun, one from each night, so different perspectives.  It was visually stunning and the sound was perfect, but I won’t come back to Vegas, even for another concert at the Sphere. 
 

 

[heidih]

21 minutes ago, liamsaunt said:

 It was visually stunning and the sound was perfect, but I won’t come back to Vegas, even for another concert at the Sphere. 

OMG that photo says it all. Too much crazy. Ex's dad lived strip adjcent - my bike rides saved my sanity. Disappointing meals post Bermuda!

Edited October 9, 2023 by heidih (log)

[mgaretz]

Blasphemy ribs.

 

Ready to come off the smoker:

 

And on the plate.  Served with steamed bok choy.

 

Close-up:

 

 

[OlyveOyl]

Pork, Polenta and Prunes, inspired by a NYT recipe “ Slowed Braised pork and Prunes”.  The “ adjustments” I made were substituting pork tenderloin for shoulder and not going the slow cooker method.

Polenta was a la Wolfert oven style, I used Italian polenta , 240g polenta to 5+ cups water.  The prunes were firm French prunes from Agen marinated in a little vinegar and brown sugar prior to adding to sauce.

The sauce was delicious, sherry vinegar, wine, shallots and orange peel.  Although my meat was a third of the recipe, I kept the sauce measurements the same.

Enough polenta leftover to pan fry some slabs  tomorrow. 😁

Edited October 9, 2023 by OlyveOyl (log)

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Last night I assayed a bit more cooking than usual.  I repurposed the last of my dumpling filling for bucatini and meatballs.  The meatballs I fried on my A4Box using the takoyaki plate.  Good.

 

[MaryIsobel]

4 hours ago, liamsaunt said:

Final dinner in Vegas was at Mercato de Percheria. I was not particularly hungry so nothing on the menu looked appealing. I think I am just ready to get out of here. Vegas is just too overwhelming. Anyway, restaurant setting

 

 

Drink for husband and sister 

 

 

Menu

 

 

we ordered the truffle board to start but they were out. So, calamari (WAY too salty)

 

 

salmon tartare (this was nice)

 

 

husband and niece both got the tortellini filled with prosciutto. They said it was fine 

 

 

My sister and I split an arugula salad and a pizza. The salad was tasty but too cold. The pizza was undercooked and too saucy 

 

 

 

No dessert. 
 

And a couple of concert photos, just for fun, one from each night, so different perspectives.  It was visually stunning and the sound was perfect, but I won’t come back to Vegas, even for another concert at the Sphere. 
 

 

I attended two trade shows a year when I was working. One was always in Vegas. The other was usually in New Orleans. Vegas was fun the first time, mildly amusing the second time. I think I went there a total of 8 times. After the second time I learned to buy myself a nice bottle of wine and stay in my room after the trade show. I have absolutely no desire to return.

 

[heidih]

34 minutes ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

Last night I assayed a bit more cooking than usual.  I repurposed the last of my dumpling filling for bucatini and meatballs.  The meatballs I fried on my A4Box using the takoyaki plate.  Good.

 

Repurposing can be fun. No risk on something you might toss. Niece brought home some "Mexican poke" Spice over hot and way too much sesme oil. Tuna nice but got lost. Put on foil in toaster oven and cooked lightly. Mixed with cilantro and dry chili crisp. A nice snack with spicy cornbread. 

[weinoo]

21 hours ago, KennethT said:

I swear, if I had a restaurant, I'd made rau ram soaked in chicken juices either an appetizer or a side dish!

 

Channeling the classic roast chicken with a salad dressed in those juices, made popular by Judy Rogers at Zuni Cafe!

[billyhill]

On 10/2/2023 at 1:54 AM, Honkman said:

Szegadin Goulash with pork shoulder, sauerkraut, onions, caraway seeds, regular and hot paprika, tomato paste and vegetable broth. Served with boiled potatoes and sour cream.

This sent me off to google. 

[KennethT]

1 hour ago, weinoo said:

 

Channeling the classic roast chicken with a salad dressed in those juices, made popular by Judy Rogers at Zuni Cafe!

Maybe subconsciously? I had never been there or even heard of that salad!  But it's not just salad - the rau ram has a really strong flavor of its own - plus its texture holds up to wilting underneath the hot chicken.  I first had this in Saigon back in 2015.

[heidih]

2 hours ago, weinoo said:

 

Channeling the classic roast chicken with a salad dressed in those juices, made popular by Judy Rogers at Zuni Cafe!

But wth crispy croutons

[Honkman]

18 hours ago, Duvel said:

kritharaki after cooking or did you cook them in the stew

Cooked separately and mixed at the end

[Honkman]

Old fashioned chicken soup - cooked the chicken together with onions, carrots and chili to make the chicken broth. Later added broccoli, peppers, carrots, chicken meat, chili and ginger.

[liuzhou]

I ordered this more out of curiosity than anything else. It was described as 柳州辣子鸡 (liǔ zhōu là zi jī), something which they have made up. 辣子鸡 (là zi jī) is a famous Sichuan / Chongqing* dish of chicken buried in a heap of red dried chillies and Sichuan peppercorns. Fuchsia Dunlop translates it as Chicken with Chillies which I can’t argue with, or as Firecracker Chicken, which bears no relationship to the Chinese name.

 

Here’s what arrived.

 

 

The basic flavour was right, but it looks all wrong and was bulked out with fresh green chillies and onions which are not used in the original. The chicken was on the bone which is authentic. It was good but not Laziji.

 

This is laziji I made a while back, based on Fuchsia Dunlop’s recipe.

 

 

*Chongqing was in Sichuan until 1997 when it was taken out in a Beijing dictated reclassification. It is now directly controlled by Beijing.

[Katie Meadow]

Dinner in Decatur last night was a combined effort. My SIL made his prize winning lemon pepper wings, my daughter made sweet potato fries, and the grandparents (us!) made braised greens with bacon. The greens were a mix of collards, turnip and chard. All delicious. The sweet potatoes were a new to me variety called Mississippi, and they were very good. The other sweet potatoes/ yam choices  were Garnets from CA and a few picked over Beauregard's that didn't look very fresh. All thanks to the amazing Dekalb International Farmers' Market. 

[Ann_T]

Burgers for dinner last night.

Low salt and I found low salt potato chips.

Moe loves potato chips and these actually weren't that bad.

Just 115mg of sodium in 50gs of potato chips (approximate 25).

Edited October 10, 2023 by Ann_T (log)

[Captain]

Not home made Ravioli w/ spinach & ricotta.

[RWood]

Just meze for dinner tonight. 
Burrata with an olive, sun dried tomato, garlic and Calabrian chilies. Baguette and Chardonnay. 

[C. sapidus]

 

Green curry shrimp with spinach, lime leaves, chicken stock, coconut milk, and coconut cream. I used green curry paste from a tub, freshened up with a puree of green chiles, shallot, garlic, ginger, and lemongrass. Final flavor adjustments with fish sauce and palm sugar. Shrimp were poached in the sauce.

 

 

Cucumber salad with rice vinegar, lemon, palm sugar, shallots, and sliced chiles. House was bereft of cilantro, sadly.

 

Edited October 10, 2023 by C. sapidus
Forgot chicken stock (log)

[Honkman]

Variation on Mango Masala Curry with sweet potatoes, mango (not too ripe to make it not too sweet and have some sourness ), onions, garlic, curry powder, garam masala, cumin, curry leaves, black mustard seeds, coconut milk, cashew nuts

[heidih]

58 minutes ago, Honkman said:

Variation on Mango Masala Curry with sweet potatoes, mango (not too ripe to make it not too sweet and have some sourness ), onions, garlic, curry powder, garam masala, cumin, curry leaves, black mustard seeds, coconut milk, cashew nuts

Did you pound the cashew nuts or leave them whole? They can be subtle. I would love one day to see one in situ - the sorta nipple on an apple like fruit,

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Some nights only a can of Progresso soup will do.

 

[gulfporter]

Fried eggplant slices with (jarred) sun-dried tomato pesto, topped with a creamy goat cheese, parm and fresh basil.  

 

I bought bags of in-house breaded and fried eggplant slices (no sauce or cheese) at a Tucson Italian deli.  Takes a lot of the prep work out of making the meal.  I re-fried the eggplant slices until super crispy.  

 

I used to love eggplant parm but at most eateries it's overly cheesed and sauced.  I want to taste the eggplant!