Dinner 2023

[C. sapidus]

 

Cucumber salad with green beans, cherry tomatoes, and pistachios. The sauce included palm sugar, garlic, lime, and dried Thai chiles, with fish sauce, fermented fish sauce, and dried and toasted shrimp adding a depth of funky flavor. First recipe from ‘Pok Pok’ - thanks @KennethT for bringing this cookbook to my attention.

 

 

Strip steak marinated with fish sauce and toasted/ground cumin and coriander, then stir-fried with chile jam, fried shallots, cayenne, white pepper, and more fish sauce. Jasmine rice to go with.

 

[Honkman]

Southwestern Salad - romaine salad, oven roasted butternut squash, black beans, cherry tomatoes, scallion, jicama, avocado, feta, oven fried corn tortilla strips with a vinaigrette made from evoo, lime juice, agave nectar, mustard, chipotle in adobo,

[shesmfoody]

On 10/27/2023 at 8:55 PM, KennethT said:

Can you say more about this? Looks great!

 

Hey Kenneth, that tuna panga is delicious! To prepare it,

 

First, we like to make a quick marinade with soy sauce, sliced onions, chopped garlic, and the juice from calamansi limes (you can also use regular lime). We toss cubed tuna steaks in the marinade and let it sit for about 30 minutes to an hour. This infuses so much flavor.

 

Then we fire up the grill. When the coals are hot, we lay the marinated tuna steaks right on the grates. We only grill for a couple of minutes per side - just long enough to get nice sear marks but keeping the inside rare.

 

Give it a try sometime, I think you'd love it. 😀

Edited October 31, 2023 by shesmfoody (log)

[KennethT]

4 hours ago, shesmfoody said:

 

Hey Kenneth, that tuna panga is delicious! To prepare it,

 

First, we like to make a quick marinade with soy sauce, sliced onions, chopped garlic, and the juice from calamansi limes (you can also use regular lime). We toss cubed tuna steaks in the marinade and let it sit for about 30 minutes to an hour. This infuses so much flavor.

 

Then we fire up the grill. When the coals are hot, we lay the marinated tuna steaks right on the grates. We only grill for a couple of minutes per side - just long enough to get nice sear marks but keeping the inside rare.

 

Give it a try sometime, I think you'd love it. 😀

Thanks for this.  I was curious as to the dish's origin. Is this a common treatment of the area or something of your own invention?

[Shelby]

@HonkmanI wish I had that salad in front of me right now for breakfast.  Marking this to try!

 

Thawed out some walleye to fry along with some mushrooms, spinach and Mac and cheese

 

 

 

Roasted a turkey quarter--you can tell I'm much more interested in the side dishes lol:  Squash, stuffing and mashed potato patties.

 

 

 

The usual ramen noodle cabbage salad with some roasted chicken mixed in

 

 

 

 

 

 

--except I also added several spoons of this:

 

 

  My mom recommended it to me and now I'm also addicted.  Calling it a salsa is a bit misleading IMO.  It's oil based.  All different kinds of roasted nuts: peanuts , pumpkin, sesame and sunflower.  Garlic, lime and chiles too.   I'm putting it on everything lol.

 

Ham, cheese and onion paninis to go with

 

 

Breakfast with the most delicious eggs that my mom brought me from her neighbor in Colorado.  She babysits his chickens when he's gone.  Oh and some crawfish boudin which is my favorite

 

 

Roasted quail with salad and a spicy puttanesca pasta

 

 

 

It's turned super cold which I'm not minding a bit so soup!  And cornbread--half cheese and jalapeño, half plain and ham and beans from the freezer

 

 

 

Walleye and bumblebee canned seafood chowder of sorts and cheesy bread

 

 

Fried chicken night

 

 

 

Last night I made a batch of Grammy's Rice Salad, fries and more BLT's

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 31, 2023 by Shelby (log)

[heidih]

@Shelby

Thanks for sharing that condiment. Salsa just means sauce - so brave  bold sauce.

All your food looks/sounds so good. Not things I make but would enjoy.

I often do a "chowder" like that - simple, comforting, delicious.

 

[C. sapidus]

 

Larb with hand-cleavered chicken, shallots, lime and lemon juice, fish sauce, turkey stock, cayenne, roasted rice powder, and a bowl full of fresh herbs – cilantro, mint, and long-leaf coriander. Mrs. C put together a salad of iceberg lettuce, cucumber, basil, and boiled green beans.

 

Stir-fried Brussels sprouts with oyster sauce, fish sauce, soy sauce, turkey stock, garlic, white pepper, and bird chiles. Recipe from ‘Pok Pok’, surprisingly.

 

Jasmine rice to go with.

 

 

Edited October 31, 2023 by C. sapidus
Can't forget fish sauce (log)

[btbyrd]

One of my French girls. Joyce Farms poulet rouge a la Heston Blumenthal with chicken demi glace, mashed potatoes, and haricot verts. Kind of a hybrid between Heston’s recipe and ChefSteps’s recipe. 

 

Brined, then blanched and shocked 3 times and left for two days for the skin to dry out in the fridge. Coated with olive oil, she glistens…

 

 

Then into a 200F oven for 3.5 hours, slow and low.

 

 

Several hours later, sides done, ready to fire the bird and sear that skin.

 

Yes.

 

 

Served up with a moat of homemade chicken demi glace mounted with butter and finished with thyme, garlic, and lemon juice. 

 

 

 

Edited November 1, 2023 by btbyrd (log)

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

Early dinner or late lunch as I was busy outside in the garden and getting things into winter storage until the weather turned.

I don't eat burgers often however I had a craving. 170 gm. (appr. 6 oz.) beef with lettuce, hot banana peppers, pickled red onion, blue cheese and mustard on a toasted 'crostini' bun. Enjoyed with freezer fries with sriracha, coleslaw and a Big Spruce Brewing Cereal Killer Oatmeal Stout.

[dans]

@Shelby That rice salad looks good. What's in it besides rice?

[weinoo]

Using the plating skills I learned in cooking school grade school:

 

 

Chicken roasted and somewhat picked off the bone (though I now see I did put a whole thigh on my plate.  Peas and carrots, twice baked potato, with a bit too much sour cream and pan jus.

 

 

Rib pork chop, sautéed, sliced off the bone.  Pan gravy with drippings, stock, mustard, vermouth, butter.  @rancho_gordo's white beans, cooked on stove top, and then baked in oven with olive oil, parmesan, herbs, bread crumbs.  And now, a thrice-baked potato.

 

Had to get back to Katja while they still had the Octoberfest menu. 

 

 

So I could try the sauerbraten.  Which was quite good, over red cabbage with Semmelknödel (and I think I see a piece of roasted winter squash as well).

[liamsaunt]

14 hours ago, C. sapidus said:

Stir-fried Brussels sprouts with oyster sauce, fish sauce, soy sauce, turkey stock, garlic, white pepper, and bird chiles. Recipe from ‘Pok Pok’, surprisingly.

 

That sounds really interesting.  I have that cookbook, though have not looked at it in a long time, and I have brussels sprouts from my CSA right now. This might make an appearance later this week.

 

My nephew requested that I make Moroccan meatballs with arugula for dinner last night.  He said he used to make it with elk while living in Montana, and it was a favorite meal for him and his roommates.  We cannot get elk here as far as I know, so I used beef instead.  I also made vegetable "meatballs" for myself and my sister from roasted eggplant and mushrooms since we don't eat red meat.  This is my plate, with the vegetable balls.  I thought it was fine.  He was happy, and that's the most important thing.  I was out of couscous, so made rice pilaf instead.

 

[Shelby]

2 hours ago, dans said:

@Shelby That rice salad looks good. What's in it besides rice?

Here's the recipe out of my 30+ year old very stained book:

 

 

I always add more of everything except the mayo.  Needs some salt and pepper too, IMO.

 

 

We had venison chili last night--no pictures because you've seen it all before lol but for dessert I made brownies, topped them with marshmallow fluff and ghost peeps.  Torched the marshmallow so it was kind of like a smore

 

 

 

[lindag]

2 hours ago, dans said:

@Shelby That rice salad looks good. What's in it besides rice?

If you like rice salads, you might like this one too.

 

Hot German Rice Salad

1 Cup Uncooked Rice
8 slices Bacon
1/3 Cup Sugar
1/3 Cup Vinegar
2 Tbsps Water
2 Tbsps Chopped Green Peppers
2 Tbsps Pimiento
1 Tbsp Chopped Onions
½ tsp Salt
½ tsp Celery Seed
1 Hard cook egg, sliced

Procedure
1. Cook rice.  Cook bacon, crumbble.
In sauce pan, combine 1/4 cup bacon drippings, rice, sugar, vinegar, water, green pepper, pimiento, onion, celery seed and salt.
Cook and stir til liquid is absorbed.
Add bacon, toss.  Garnish with egg.

[heidih]

1 hour ago, liamsaunt said:

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That sounds really interesting.  I have that cookbook, though have not looked at it in a long time, and I have brussels sprouts from my CSA right now. This might make an appearance later this week.

 

My nephew requested that I make Moroccan meatballs with arugula for dinner last night.  He said he used to make it with elk while living in Montana, and it was a favorite meal for him and his roommates.  We cannot get elk here as far as I know, so I used beef instead. 

 

I've been ordering ground elk from Wild Fork at suggestion by KennethT. Getting ready to order again. I really enjoy it.

 

[C. sapidus]

 

Thai tuna salad (yam tuna) from ‘Pok Pok’ - Canned tuna tossed with cherry tomatoes and sliced lemongrass, shallot, cilantro, Chinese celery, and scallions. Gently warmed dressing of fish sauce, lime juice, palm sugar, slivered ginger, sliced garlic, and sliced green chiles. Yum

 

 

Shrimp paste relish (nahm prik gapi) – toasted shrimp paste, garlic, bird chiles, and palm sugar, all bashed up in the mortar and finished with lime juice and fish sauce. Rich, complex, funky, and makes everything it touches better. Sadly, no one else in the family agrees.

 

Jasmine rice with coconut cream, water, salt, and palm sugar.

 

[heidih]

22 minutes ago, C. sapidus said:

Jasmine rice with coconut cream, water, salt, and palm sugar.

 

I often cook rice with coconut milk/cream. Was the palm sugar cooked with or stirred in?

[C. sapidus]

7 minutes ago, heidih said:

I often cook rice with coconut milk/cream. Was the palm sugar cooked with or stirred in?

 

Dissolved the palm sugar in the water/coconut cream mixture before cooking the rice.

 

Coconut rice has long been one of younger son's favorites.

[heidih]

9 minutes ago, C. sapidus said:

 

Dissolved the palm sugar in the water/coconut cream mixture before cooking the rice.

 

Coconut rice has long been one of younger son's favorites.

Goes well with everlasting cucumbers;

[dans]

@ShelbyThanks.  I thought it looked a lot like Rice-a-Roni. 

 

@lindagThanks This sounds interesting too.

[Ann_T]

I had a small roasting chicken that I had intended to roast Tuesday for a roast chicken dinner with all the sides.

We ate lunch late and neither of us was hungry for a big dinner.

I went ahead and roasted the chicken anyway and Moe ate the two small legs

and we saved the breast meat for hot chicken sandwiches which we had for dinner last night.

 

Baked a loaf of homestyle white bread for the sandwiches.

 

[liamsaunt]

Black bean soup with pickled onions

 

[weinoo]

 

Penne w/ mushroom tomato "ragu." Endive and arugula salad.  Red.  

[Deephaven]

Wagyu zabuton, mashed, broccolini, wedge salad

 

[C. sapidus]

 

Shrimp with scallions and fresh fenugreek leaves (methi). Water-based sauce well-flavored with lemon juice, ginger, garlic, serrano chiles, cayenne, turmeric, and basil. Shrimp marinated with turmeric, cayenne, lemon juice, and salt before poaching in the sauce.

 

Cauliflower with ginger, cumin, cayenne, and garam masala.

 

Basmati rice scented with cardamom, bay leaf, cloves, cinnamon stick, and a little ghee.