Dinner 2023

[Duvel]

3 hours ago, liamsaunt said:

cilantro rice

I haven’t heard of cilantro rice before. According to Google it seems to be quite popular - may I ask how you make yours ?

[Dejah]

6 hours ago, rotuts said:

@Dejah

 

how did you do the noodles and the curry flavor ?

I usually have char siu and shrimp in the Singapore Rice Noodles, but didn't have any char siu thawed. However, I had  a small piece of beef tenderloin that needed using up.

I have been trying to find a good commercial curry powder, one with good fragrance and bite. I should mix my own, but sometimes it's so much easier to use what's already mixed. This was a package from Amazon - RANI brand. It smelled wonderful, and retained some of that fragrance after cooking.
I always cook the curry powder in hot oil a bit then add the rice noodles. Once incorporated, I add a bit of chicken broth (or water), cook until liquid has evaporated, then I add the raw bean sprouts and the rest of the veg and protein, which I had cooked before hand.

 

[Honkman]

Pan)-Asian inspired curry/ragu with diced chicken breast, garlic, ginger, onion, curry powder, cumin, tomato paste and puree, vegetable broth, coconut milk, kimchi, cherry tomatoes served with red rice and finished with cashew nuts, cilantro and lemon zest

[mgaretz]

Pork tenderloin, cooked in the NFG, with a cherry-zinfandel-balsamic sauce.  Served with steamed green beans and a glass of Zin.

 

 

[rotuts]

@Dejah 

 

Penzey's has a number of curry powders 

 

https://www.penzeys.com/search/?q=curry powder  

 

their sweet curry powder is almost identical in flavor to the sort used

 

in Cinatown here and two lical places.

[liamsaunt]

19 hours ago, Duvel said:

I haven’t heard of cilantro rice before. According to Google it seems to be quite popular - may I ask how you make yours ?

 

I just use my rice cooker to cook some rinsed and soaked rice in chicken stock with minced cilantro, chopped garlic, and salt.  Normally when it's done I stir in some fresh minced cilantro and a squeeze of lime, but I used my last lime in the sauce for the fish, and forgot to save any of the minced cilantro, so left both out this time.  

 

Last night, sole meuniere, spinach, and rice

 

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

Small strip sirloin, pierogis, blistered shishito peppers, sour green tomatoes, mixed greens, tomato and feta salad with a glass of Cote de Rhone.

 

 

The other half of the steak with oven roasted potatoes and carrots, peas, tomato salad and a glass of Cote de Rhone.

 

 

Hamburger 'steak', roasted butter nut squash, greens, tomato and feta salad with an Uncle Leo's Smoked Porter (one of the best porters I've had in a long time).

 

[Dr. Teeth]

Food looks super.   Now, if I could just persuade you to help me resuscitate the beer forum.

[Duvel]

(Skewerless) chicken sate, marinated with fresh turmeric, served with (commercial) peanut sauce and a mixed salad with wafu dressing … I know: odd combination, but tasty 🤗

 

[TdeV]

This is from a couple of days ago.

 

Sous vide thick pork loin. Not well enough done for me, see post in sous vide thread.

 

 

Endive and mushroom.

 

 

[KennethT]

45 minutes ago, Duvel said:

(Skewerless) chicken sate, marinated with fresh turmeric, served with (commercial) peanut sauce and a mixed salad with wafu dressing … I know: odd combination, but tasty 🤗

 

wafu?

[Duvel]

52 minutes ago, KennethT said:

wafu?

Yeap, wafu …

[AAQuesada]

Roasted chicken breast, giant beans & fennel 

 

 

[farcego]

Birthday's dinner: lamb chops, potatoes and rochefort cheese.

 

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

6 hours ago, AAQuesada said:

Roasted chicken breast, giant beans & fennel 

 

 

 

Very attractive picture.

 

[Honkman]

Pasta with a mix of mushrooms (button, shiitake, oyster, maitake) in a tomato-cream sauce with pancetta

[liamsaunt]

Coconut rice noodles with ginger and eggplant from Melissa Clark's cookbook Dinner: Changing the Game.  We all thought it was tasty.  The recipe suggested adding the optional ingredients of corn, which seemed odd and was immediately dismissed, and spinach, which I would have put in if I had not eaten it all the night before!

 

[KennethT]

22 minutes ago, liamsaunt said:

Coconut rice noodles with ginger and eggplant from Melissa Clark's cookbook Dinner: Changing the Game.  We all thought it was tasty.  The recipe suggested adding the optional ingredients of corn, which seemed odd and was immediately dismissed, and spinach, which I would have put in if I had not eaten it all the night before!

 

It looks kinda like a tom kha (but not as a full soup, but as what I would call dry noodle).  Other than ginger and coconut milk, what were the other sauce ingredients?

[liuzhou]

1 hour ago, liamsaunt said:

the optional ingredients of corn, which seemed odd and was immediately dismissed

 

as it always should be!

[Dejah]

On 1/19/2023 at 7:51 AM, rotuts said:

@Dejah 

 

Penzey's has a number of curry powders 

 

https://www.penzeys.com/search/?q=curry powder  

 

their sweet curry powder is almost identical in flavor to the sort used

 

in Cinatown here and two lical places.

It's been a long time since I'd been in a Penzey store! Unfortunately, I can't find Penzey on Amazon.ca, and shipping and other fees will be crazy if I ordered from the store in USA.
Will have to set my snowbird friends on a hunt!
Thanks for the info!

[Dejah]

Fish & Chips with Pickerel, curry gravy and malt vinegar, mashed peas with mint. Pretending to be in Whitby, England! 😊

 

                                                                        

 

Leftover Baked Ham from the freezer, cheesy cauliflower, peas, and apple cranberry orange chutney

 

                                                                       

                                                                 

 

[liamsaunt]

4 hours ago, KennethT said:

It looks kinda like a tom kha (but not as a full soup, but as what I would call dry noodle).  Other than ginger and coconut milk, what were the other sauce ingredients?

 

The recipe calls for Thai (or other hot) chiles, lemongrass, garlic, ginger, coconut oil, curry powder, lime zest, and cilantro ground together to a paste and then sautéed with softened onions.  Chicken (or vegetable) stock, coconut milk, and fish sauce are then added along with the eggplant (which was previously cooked in coconut oil) and a handful of cherry tomatoes.  After everything cooks together for a while you stir in lime juice and more fresh cilantro (and the spinach and corn, if using).  The recipe suggests finishing with chopped rao ram but I don't have access to that here.

 

2 hours ago, liuzhou said:

 

as it always should be!

 

I thought of you when I dismissed the corn idea! 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

2 hours ago, Dejah said:

It's been a long time since I'd been in a Penzey store! Unfortunately, I can't find Penzey on Amazon.ca, and shipping and other fees will be crazy if I ordered from the store in USA.
Will have to set my snowbird friends on a hunt!
Thanks for the info!

 

You could probably find something from Spice Trekkers.

 

[rotuts]

the Penzey's Sweet Curry 

 

is so similar to BOS chinatown and others in y area 

 

Id say this is what many people think of  Curry powder

 

It might very similar , to a good quality curry powder on

 

a supermarkets shelf.  can't see chinatown et al using 

 

something more rarefied . ie Maharajah 

[KennethT]

7 hours ago, liamsaunt said:

 

The recipe calls for Thai (or other hot) chiles, lemongrass, garlic, ginger, coconut oil, curry powder, lime zest, and cilantro ground together to a paste and then sautéed with softened onions.  Chicken (or vegetable) stock, coconut milk, and fish sauce are then added along with the eggplant (which was previously cooked in coconut oil) and a handful of cherry tomatoes.  After everything cooks together for a while you stir in lime juice and more fresh cilantro (and the spinach and corn, if using).  The recipe suggests finishing with chopped rao ram but I don't have access to that here.

 

 

Fascinating - that ingredient list is so all over the map, but still I'll bet it was tasty!