Dinner 2023

[liamsaunt]

I am making Thai pineapple rice for dinner tonight.  I'll be sure to add extra pineapple.  I hope you are feeling back to yourself soon @liuzhou

 

Last night, a repeat from last month since their season is short: Cape Cod bay scallops on angel hair pasta with lemon sauce and crunchy panko-chive topping

 

[TdeV]

On 2/13/2023 at 4:43 PM, gfweb said:

Apple corn bread cake

 

Also from you: "It was an old Gourmet recipe.  My wife says no cornmeal in it...maybe there should be.  Apple pieces are scored and placed in the batter. Turbinado sprinkled on top."

 

 

Dear @gfweb, could you please give us more detail about this recipe?

[gulfporter]

Rack of lamb with caramelized Brussels sprouts and cherry-chipotle dipping sauce. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dcarch]

Made dinner for two.

SV/smoked lamb chops.

I will go back to the store and buy more lamb chops 😍

 

dcarch

 

 

[gfweb]

1 hour ago, TdeV said:

 

Also from you: "It was an old Gourmet recipe.  My wife says no cornmeal in it...maybe there should be.  Apple pieces are scored and placed in the batter. Turbinado sprinkled on top."

 

 

Dear @gfweb, could you please give us more detail about this recipe?

[rotuts]

@gfweb 

 

excellent.

 

what book is that ?

 

it looks very familiar 

 

I checked Amazon

 

indeed :  

 

I bought it , 2000's

 

they didn't include imbedded 

 

20 Y trackers , then

 

they can't tell me where mine is !

 

 

 

Edited February 15, 2023 by rotuts (log)

[Duvel]

Far too seldom I have the opportunity to enjoy dinner in our company restaurant. Luckily, tonight I had such a treat …

 

Menu of the day (plus accompanying wines):

 

 

Gruß aus der Küche: avocado tartare with goat cheese praline …

 

 

Tuna with quail egg …

 

Sweet corn soup with scallop …

 

 

Fermented mushroon risotto …

 

 

Beef fillet with coffee crust …

 

 

Banana bread dessert …

 

 

And a housemade gin and cream praline to go with the coffee (that I decided not to drink, so I’d be able to sleep) …

 

 

 

Edited February 15, 2023 by Duvel (log)

[rotuts]

@Duvel 

 

stunning

 

pleased you 

 

have enjoyed this .

 

the Menu

 

and Pics

 

brought us along .

 

thank you

Edited February 15, 2023 by rotuts (log)

[Anna N]

4 hours ago, rotuts said:

they can't tell me where mine is !

Another bonus of the Kindle version. I have yet to lose one!

[rotuts]

@Anna N 

 

indeed

 

I have ePub versions now

 

w other  Berry , Crumble , Pandowdy 

 

books.

 

I have not yet

 

on my iPad 

 

found the ' Click ' button

 

that Bakes , Cools 

 

anf Politely 

 

alerts me 

 

when ready to 

 

Inhale.

 

 

[MaryIsobel]

36 minutes ago, Duvel said:

Far too seldom I have the opportunity to enjoy dinner in our company restaurant. Luckily, tonight I had such a treat …

 

Menu of the day (plus accompanying wines):

 

 

Gruß aus der Küche: avocado tartare with goat cheese praline …

 

 

Tuna with quail egg …

 

Sweet corn soup with scallop …

 

 

Fermented mushroon risotto …

 

 

Beef fillet with coffee crust …

 

 

Banana bread dessert …

 

 

And a housemade gin and cream praline to go with the coffee (that I decided not to drink, so I’d be able to sleep) …

 

 

 

i want to work at your company! What an amazing menu.

 

[MaryIsobel]

My husband requested "chili mac" tonight. I don't think I've made it in 15 years, since our daughters were in high school and I was always prepared to feed more than our family. I bought the ingredients and will induldge him with the caveat that for the rest of the week we will be eating veg-centric meals.

[rotuts]

@Duvel 

 

Id like to 

 

just be Engaged 

 

to Absorb that Kitchen

 

in all aspects 

 

that get me 

 

to My Plate .

 

over time , Years and Years 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tropicalsenior]

34 minutes ago, Anna N said:

Another bonus of the Kindle version. I have yet to lose one!

Nor do you have to dust them or wipe the spills off them.

[Captain]

Leftover rice and chicken drumstick whipped into Fried rice and Chicken Satay.

Very nice.

[Kim Shook]

Crap.  I’m ready to un-alive myself (as they say on the Instagram 😄).  I am SO incredibly far behind on this thread due to health and other issues and in the last couple of days, I got within FIVE PAGES of being all caught up.  I took a break last night to cook dinner and have a nice evening with my Valentine and woke up this morning to find that my *&**&& computer closed down WORD on me.  It auto-saved my notes, but not up to the point I quit.  Oddly, it saved them only up to day before yesterday.  Grrrrr.  Being so far behind and having such a LONG recitation of meals, I won’t comment on much, but please know I’ve loved perusing all of y’all’s wonderful meals. 

 

@Shelby – I will have to look for that boudin brand at Walmart – less spicy sounds really good to me.  And brava on those roast potatoes.  They look absolutely perfect!

 

@Raamo – sorry to hear about that second infection just as you’re exiting COVID!  Hope you are now completely better.    

 

@RWood – those baby blooming onions!  Wow.  I love cippolini onions and those look amazing.

 

@Dejah – your SIL sounds like me some years ago – I only wanted the crispy stuff.  Now I love it all – rice noodle crepes are a favorite. 

 

Going WAY back – January 27^th was Jessica’s Birthday.  We were supposed to have a big shrimp themed dinner that night with her closest cousin and then go up to Washington for a food and museum weekend.  I ended up not being able to walk due to cartilage problems in one knee and I also was starting a terrible head cold or upper respiratory something.  They wouldn’t go without me, so we are postponing the dinner and the trip until I’m better.  We still needed a somewhat celebratory dinner and Jessica chose pho at a new favorite place.  Pork wontons:

 

Shrimp spring rolls:

 

Banh Khot:

 

My seafood fried rice:

 

Jessica’s seafood pho:

 

Mr. Kim’s pho tai chin (steak and brisket):

 

I was still feeling awful at the end of January, but I was trying to put something decent on the table.  I pulled some stuff out that I’d stocked in the freezer to try out.  It was a mixed bag.  Lidl orange chicken:

The chicken was ok, but the orange sauce was tasteless.  Also from Lidl, fried rice:

This was actually pretty good and very easy to make – just tossed in a sauté pan frozen and cooked until hot.  I added some soy and white pepper and some leftover protein wouldn’t have gone amiss.  I will buy more of this to have on hand. 

 

Bibigo frozen mandu:

 

Trader Joe’s green onion pancakes and some shrimp spring rolls that Mr. Kim picked up on his way home:

 

Plate:

 

A few nights later was breakfast for dinner:

Buckwheat pancakes, mandarin oranges, mini quiche (frozen), and sage sausage. 

 

Jessica made dinner a couple of nights.  This one was soup:

Corn chowder w/ paprika oil, garlic toast, and crudité.  The soup was wonderful.

 

One of my efforts:

Salad, grilled cheese, and leftover rice mix. 

 

Another one of Jessica’s meals.  She made the entire thing and did a great job.  Hoisin glazed pork loin:

This was amazingly tender.  She actually made this last night, but it ended up being so late that we decided to put this dinner off until tonight.  This was cooked to 140F last night and reheated at 250F for about 45 minutes until it reached 120F.  This is a Cook’s Illustrated method that I found for reheating whole roasts and it worked amazingly well.  She also served Blistered Soy Miso Sugar Snaps:

They look a little floppy in the picture but were actually nicely crisp and a bit charred. 

 

Brussel sprout and broccoli slaw:

Slaw is a bit of a misnomer – this was more of a stir fry with a soy-based sauce. 

 

Honey Garlic potatoes:

These are a work-in-progress.  She got the recipe from some youtuber she follows.  They are supposed to be crisp with a sticky glaze, but they were just swimming in liquid, as you can see.  They tasted very good, though so she’s going to make some adjustments and try again. 

 

Napa salad topped with toasted almonds and ramen noodles and dressed with a garlic vinaigrette:

Everything was very, very good.  The meal was a little soy heavy, though.  Almost every dish had the same flavor elements of soy, garlic, honey.  And, of course, you ended up with a bit of a salt overload.  But the bottom line is that each dish was pretty much successful. 

 

 

A few nights ago (I’m definitely much better):

 

Honey-mustard chicken, rice, and miso sugar snaps. With a pita:

The chicken was really good cut up and stuffed into the pita!

 

On Sunday dinner was Super Bowl goodies.  Sweet Piggies:

Little pigs in a blanket cooked in a brown sugar and honey butter sauce.  Jessica’s pork and shrimp egg rolls:

She did an amazing job – especially considering these were her first try at them.  She used the leftover Brussels sprout and broccoli “slaw” from the other night.

 

Crudité and green onion dip:

 

A very wet, but very tasty Buffalo chicken dip:

 

Jessica’s Crab Rangoon dip/casserole with egg roll wrapper chips:

 

Plate:

 

There were also slow cooker meatballs which I forgot until we were too full to eat any!  @racheld says that with any major meal there is always one “forgotten thing”.  This time it was the meatballs. 

 

Valentine’s dinner was SV filet mignon w/ a pan sauce and béarnaise, chili-glazed shrimp(made with sweet chili sauce), roasted cauliflower, baked potatoes, crusty bread, and salad.  There was also a purchased crème brûlée cheesecake, but we were too full to even think about that.  Steaks were SV at 130.5 for 2 hours.  Out of the water bath: 

 

Seared:

Perfect doneness for us.  Plate:

 

Salad and bread:

 

 

I discovered a new (to me) market and went yesterday to shop for Mr. Kim’s Valentine’s day gifts.  It’s called Europa Market & Deli and it stocks lots of German and eastern European goods.  Fully stocked deli, flown-in NY bagels and delicious sounding sandwiches and soups.  They also had leberkase which @Duvel has me obsessed with.  For Mr. Kim, I got D’Amour salami (heart shaped!!), cocktail pork sticks, cook cheese (from what I could discover it’s just a cheese sauce that you can dip things in), eucalyptus candy, and some ginger-strawberry tea:

The leberkase is most likely just for me – unless I can convince Mr. Kim its pate 😄. 

 

[TdeV]

Gosh Kim, what a delicious spread!

[rotuts]

@Kim Shook 

 

so many delicious dishes !

 

I do gravitate

 

to a casserole dish 

 

that looks cheesy , w a proper 

 

crusty top !

 

that just means , Id get to those dishes First 

 

and when others notice ,

 

I would be able to take my time 

 

and devour all the rest 1

 

so how did that leberkase do ?

 

Ive never ha it

 

yet.

[Kim Shook]

13 minutes ago, rotuts said:

@Kim Shook 

 

so many delicious dishes !

 

I do gravitate

 

to a casserole dish 

 

that looks cheesy , w a proper 

 

crusty top !

 

that just means , Id get to those dishes First 

 

and when others notice ,

 

I would be able to take my time 

 

and devour all the rest 1

 

so how did that leberkase do ?

 

Ive never ha it

 

yet.

My plan is to fry it up with eggs for breakfast.  I've got some good German bread in the freezer, so if I can dig that out, I'll add that to the menu.  

[SusieQ]

5 hours ago, Duvel said:

Far too seldom I have the opportunity to enjoy dinner in our company restaurant. Luckily, tonight I had such a treat …

 

Menu of the day (plus accompanying wines):

 

 

Gruß aus der Küche: avocado tartare with goat cheese praline …

 

 

Tuna with quail egg …

 

Sweet corn soup with scallop …

 

 

Fermented mushroon risotto …

 

 

Beef fillet with coffee crust …

 

 

Banana bread dessert …

 

 

And a housemade gin and cream praline to go with the coffee (that I decided not to drink, so I’d be able to sleep) …

 

 

 

Was this all one meal for one? Looks absolutely amazing. 

[KennethT]

 

Massaman curry made with a curry paste my friend brought back from Thailand.

[btbyrd]

Chicken noodle soup.

 

Roast chicken consommé, pulled oyster mushroom and chicken thigh, egg noodles, spicy sesame kale, 64C egg yolk, crispy chicken skin, chive.

 

 

Oyster mushrooms sauteed in chicken fat. Similar texture to the chicken thigh meat.

 

 

Garnishes:

 

Raw thigh skin, scraped and salted and fridged overnight:

 

 

Crispified:

 

[Duvel]

7 hours ago, Kim Shook said:

The leberkase is most likely just for me – unless I can convince Mr. Kim its pate 😄. 

I literally do not know any man who doesn’t like Leberkäse. Maybe you sell it to him as bologna 🤗

[Duvel]

3 hours ago, SusieQ said:

Was this all one meal for one? Looks absolutely amazing. 

Yes - the other three had the same (fixed) menu. You can choose a la carte, but this menu has a far better value and it comes with matching wines. My company (despite doing chemicals as a main business) is one if the biggest wine dealers in Germany, so you get really nice stuff at a pretty decent price - also in the restaurant 🤗

[&roid]

1 hour ago, Duvel said:

Yes - the other three had the same (fixed) menu. You can choose a la carte, but this menu has a far better value and it comes with matching wines. My company (despite doing chemicals as a main business) is one if the biggest wine dealers in Germany, so you get really nice stuff at a pretty decent price - also in the restaurant 🤗

We do some medical work for a German plastics company over here in the UK. They really look after their employees well… not quite this well though! Great looking meal @Duvel