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Dinner 2023


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It’s been a while since I went on a business trip. Relocation to Germany some 3.5 years ago plus COVID put a screeching halt to my biweekly trips around Asia that I „enjoyed“ in my last (actually, second to last) position. But …

 

JAL lounge in Frankfurt. Definitely better than the Cathay one. They‘ve a cook !

 

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I had the curry (seems it‘s a must) and yes, it was good.

 

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And the pork & eggplant (with a tiiiny Highball, despite my „no alcohol on long distance trips*) …

 

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* but hey, isn’t Australia even further ?!

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@mgaretz – re: the Costco orange chicken. Sounds like something we’d like.  Was it frozen or refrigerated and how spicy was it?  Costco has a tendency to stock regionally, so I might not be able to find it, but I’d like to try.

 

@Norm Matthews – that’s too bad about your ribs.  They look SO good that it must have been especially disappointing!  Glad the next batch turned out well.  Did you find something to do with the disappointing ones?

 

@Shelby – I completely get what you said about meal planning – my attitude towards cooking lately has been a lot of “what, again?” 😊

 

@Ann_T – Happy Birthday to Moe!  That meal looks exactly like what Mr. Kim would choose if his birthday was in Spring rather than Summer!

 

@Dejah – thank you for the kind words.  I passed your mention of the BBQ on to Mr. Kim and he said he’d love to cook for you. We are hoping to road trip around the US and Canada if he ever retires, so you never know 😄!  Also, those ribs look amazing and I’d love to try them.

 

Jessica made a wonderful dinner one night last week. Started with a spinach and arugula salad with a lemon/balsamic vinaigrette:

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She made this excellent bagel dish with a side of hash brown patties:

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This was inspired by a recipe by Hajar Larbah at her blog Moribyan.  It is basically a stack of cheese, cream cheese, and bagel top with a hole cut in the middle of it and ham (coppa, in this case) and an egg dropped into the hole.  Everything is baked until the egg is how done you want it (ours had firm white and jammy yolks).  They are baked on parchment paper so they don’t stick.  They were then topped with hollandaise, as was the hash brown patty.  Dessert was paletas - this one was yogurt with fruit:

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Late dinner one night after our regular telephone double date with friends in Florida was a bunch of the meats and cheeses left over from our charcuterie dinner with our friends:

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…on a bolillo roll.

 

Mr. Kim played poker Friday night so, Jessica and I had a mommy/daughter evening with dinner at the Korean chain Bonchon and then home for Russian car crashes on Youtube (we like odd entertainment).  Seasoned fries:

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Bulgogi tacos:

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Soy-garlic wings:

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Potstickers:

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Korean doughnuts:

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With what we’re sure was just sweetened condensed milk.  These are new and amazingly good.  Close up:

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We love this place and get the same things pretty much every time we go.  The wings and potstickers are the best I’ve ever had. 

 

Saturday night was Taco Night:

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The taco shells were so incredibly tight that it turned into Tostada night:

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We literally couldn’t fit the fillings into the shells!  

 

Jessica made some really good Taco Bell copycat potatoes with frozen diced hash browns, enchilada sauce, cheese dip, and sour cream:

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Last night:

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As close as I can get to smash burgers, potato salad and macaroni salad (both purchased), fixed up baked beans, watermelon, and corn (tough, but tasted pretty good).

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@mgaretz – re: the Costco orange chicken. Sounds like something we’d like.  Was it frozen or refrigerated and how spicy was it?  Costco has a tendency to stock regionally, so I might not be able to find it, but I’d like to try.

Frozen, a little more kick to it than Panda, but not too spicy.  I believe it may be Crazy Cuizine brand.

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To many, Memorial Day means grilling. Who am I to argue? Indonesian grilled chicken - ayam bakar taliwang. This was a keeper - next will be to try it on some wings or fish!

 

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My first attempt at making sous vide burgers- used the Ernest Hemingway burger recipe and finished them on the Foreman grill on a bed of onions. We got long rolls as there were concerns about structural integrity but the burgers held together perfectly. Side of herbed potato salad (made by the local food co-op's commissary kitchen, not by me)

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Cheese board- Lazy Lady Sweet Emotions, Sweet Rowan Farmstead Red Line, Giselle, Drunken Goat, Sugarbush cheddar, plus serrano ham, and home made pickles. With mango mam'oul cookies for dessert.

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14h flights are just not for yours truly anymore. But, after checking in on the hotel I found this place in a sidestreet …


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Menu …

 

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Otoshi (the food you get for paying the obligatory 1.3 € cover charge) …

 

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Raw chicken liver … super creamy

 

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Chicken heart and skin

 

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Dried & grilled skate wings …

 

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Pork tongue and belly. By now I had realized I always ordered two …

 

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Corrected. King oyster mushroom and tomato, both wrapped in bacon.


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Aand some highballs !

 

 

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And on the way home, passing a supermarket, getting some sushi for 7 € - just great.

 

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Someone will sleep well tonight 🤗
 

 

 

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2 hours ago, Duvel said:

14h flights are just not for yours truly anymore. But, after checking in on the hotel I found this place in a sidestreet …


IMG_9372.thumb.jpeg.e97e5469e2218c0450fdb85217087f6e.jpeg
 

Menu …

 

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IMG_9357.thumb.jpeg.a5ce960da980e5f8d5b4258fc85e3db4.jpeg

 

Otoshi (the food you get for paying the obligatory 1.3 € cover charge) …

 

IMG_9359.thumb.jpeg.f96b4bdb6d42228663dd447d87f32e45.jpeg

 

Raw chicken liver … super creamy

 

IMG_9361.thumb.jpeg.c48e675054a15ee97a3503e07370af55.jpeg

 

Chicken heart and skin

 

IMG_9364.thumb.jpeg.e0bd95c6e382c389e284edc50b7d5549.jpeg

 

Dried & grilled skate wings …

 

IMG_9367.thumb.jpeg.f588b30645fd34b78512b727b94142d0.jpeg

 

Pork tongue and belly. By now I had realized I always ordered two …

 

IMG_9365.thumb.jpeg.196282575b0f42d7365b127df8463732.jpeg

 

Corrected. King oyster mushroom and tomato, both wrapped in bacon.


IMG_9369.thumb.jpeg.e864b48a82cde2927e0d8299577bcebc.jpeg

 

Aand some highballs !

 

 

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And on the way home, passing a supermarket, getting some sushi for 7 € - just great.

 

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Someone will sleep well tonight 🤗
 

 

 

You had me at skate wings, you lost me at raw liver.

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2 hours ago, Katie Meadow said:

You had me at skate wings, you lost me at raw liver.


It has a very interesting texture - a little firm to the bite, but with a „creamy“ finish. Taste is mild with a lot of umami. No iron-y taste. Was served with sesame oil and grated ginger, to which I added a bit of salt. 

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I used some leftover wood-oven roasted striped bass (yes, that hunk below) I had taken home from a new restaurant we went to...

 

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and made...

 

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the best fish burgers I've ever made.  Combined the leftovers with a can of good wild sockeye, bread crumbs, onion, egg, mayo, lemon, herbs, spices, they were wonderful. The striped bass really tempered down the salmon, which I always find a little strong when just using canned.

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I was determined Monday I would have a Memorial Day dinner, never mind a non-functional, still-under-warranty air conditioner in the main part of the house made conventional cooking impractical. So I put a chicken on the smoker, peeled potatoes for potato salad and cooked them in the IP, and doctored up a can of baked beans and put them in the CSO. ET VOILA! A climate- controlled holiday feast.

 

no pictures because, well, it wasn’t overly photogenic.

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@kayb – I seem to remember you having AC problems last year, too.  Am I misremembering?

 

Memorial Day dinner for me:

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American, Havarti, and Gouda cheese sandwich, macaroni salad, and blackberries.  We were supposed to get a delivery of char siu from an unemployed chef friend of Jessica’s and she was going to make a char siu, rice noodle, and vegetable dish.  He and his partner had an oven failure and so we all just nibbled at what appealed to us.  This was what appealed to me.  Since we have everything to make the planned dish, except for the char siu, I went out and got some pork so she can make @Dejah’s char siu tomorrow. 

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Taco Tuesday. 

Returned home Monday morning with a big flank steak. Did not trust myself cooking on the smoker/grill Sunday. No need as we had plenty of food with chickens and ribs. 

Flank from the local farm share. Would never be on my shopping list. Skirt would be my preference. We order from the local farm share only every 3-four months. Too much meat. Basic share is their choice but can do add-ons like good stock bones. Local eggs, cheese, etc.

Flank is easily shoe leather. This was excellent. Either the meat quality or the recipe or both. I cut it in half so the cut sides were on the out side edges of a small sheet pan. Marinade for a couple hours. Into the middle of the oven at 210ºF. (recipe is 225º but my oven runs high). Until the internal reached 120º. A few hour before dinner, so I put it on an ice pack and into the fridge uncovered with a dry brine. Stovetop griddle for a sear. 

Tacos last night were second day other half of the flank. Re-heated low and slow in a foil wrap with chili crisp. 

Another excellent green sauce. 

 

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On 5/29/2023 at 11:58 AM, Kim Shook said:

 

 

@Norm Matthews – that’s too bad about your ribs.  They look SO good that it must have been especially disappointing!  Glad the next batch turned out well.  Did you find something to do with the disappointing ones?

 

 

 

 

 

 

All your food looks delicious. It was the combination of the rub and the mustard sauce together. The mustard sauce got put on one of the next batch of ribs as a binder for the dry rub and it turned out really good.  I am going to do that more often. I used the same rub on brisket a while back and it turned out well but the two together was just too salty for me. I tried to eat them but couldn't. I threw them out.  I don't dislike any of my neighbors enough to have given them to someone else.   Actually I was planning to share them until I tasted them..`

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