Dinner 2024

[C. sapidus]

Mrs. C baked sockeye salmon fillets.

 

 

I cooked green beans with coconut milk. Flavors included onion, garlic, red chilies, galangal, curry leaves, lemongrass, crushed tomato, and brown sugar. Recipe from 'Cradle of Flavor'.

 

[Honkman]

Red lentil soup with curry powder, cumin and cinnamon. Topped with diced apples, scallions, jalapeno and olive oil

[CantCookStillTry]

I have titled tonight's dinner "For The Love/Loss of Greggs" 😅.

Steak Bake-Ish in a Guinness gravy.

 

 

Frick I love working with pastry in 36 degrees. Rustic ok. It's Rustic. 

 

[liuzhou]

Matsutake duck egg omelette.

 

 

 

 

[weinoo]

 

Chicken thighs cacciatore.  Braised baby artichokes and celery.

[Paul Bacino]

Thomas Keller Fried Ckn

 

The Brine:

 

 

 

 

The Breading!!

 

 

 

The fry and finish

 

 

 

The Dinner!!  A bit dark, but pretty good

 

[Captain]

Lovely French cut lamb shanks.

[Neely]

Dinner one night was these plump calamari rings bought frozen from Aldi. Bought these a few times and are always tender. 
 

Another meal below was a frittata made using up vegetables from the fridge. The dessert you can see at the top was avocado chocolate mousse. So easy… I just used the hand whizz to combine one avocado, pure cocoa to taste and a tablespoon of maple syrup. Whizzed till perfectly combined and silky smooth. I added a little fruit salad to the top and my husband ate it saying it was delicious… this after saying he wouldn’t have any the last time I made it. Good!!! A healthy dessert, makes you feel virtuous after eating. Hah!

 

 

[Norm Matthews]

It was so nice for the last two days that yesterday I got a slab of pork ribs to cook outside today.  Right after I got them prepped and in the refrigerator last night, I stepped outside to get the smoker ready and it had turned quite cold and very windy.  This morning it was colder and a light coat of snow on the car.  Fortunately by noon, the snow was gone and it had warmed up to the high 30's.  It helped greatly that I had the thermometer my son gave me for Christmas. It let me monitor the temp. in the smoker from my phone.  I never would have got that thing on my own but I have been using it a lot now. 

[mgaretz]

A couple of recent dinners.  Sirloin - I've gone back to SV with a sear - served with steamed broccoli.

 

 

Wings in the Speedi again, served with potato wedges made alongside the wings (they came out great) and steamed broccoli.

 

[C. sapidus]

Palak paneer with shrimp

 

[Honkman]

Quick and simple variation on chili with chicken breast, chorizo, red kidney and navy beans, onion, garlic, diced tomatoes, chili and parsley- topped with some sour cream and served with rice

[liuzhou]

Burger du jour.

 

100 grams patties salted and liberally laced with chilli flakes. Salted after cooking medium rare. Lettuce and tomato. No cheese; no sauce. By choice.

 

Served in a Baijimo* bun (as used for roujiamo** q.v.). This was the first of two.

 

 

* 白吉馍 (bái jí mó）
** 肉夹馍 (ròu jiā mó)

 

 

[PetarG]

On 2/28/2024 at 1:12 AM, liuzhou said:

I can't answer for @Dejah, but breadcrumbs in batter? Fish is either breaded or battered; I've never encountered breadcrumbs in a batter.

 

I always use simple but classic beer batter with fish. Flour, beer and maybe some bicarb. Seasoning. The end.

 

 

 

Ah, english is not my first language; I was under the impression that "batter" means any egg-flour-whatever mixture the meat/vegetable/cheese is rolled into.

 

But as I know now from baking, batter is just a very high hydration ratio (semi-liquid) dough.

[liamsaunt]

Leftover mashed potatoes from the weekend's turkey dinner got repurposed into last night's potato soup with leeks and bacon.

 

[Fiona So]

 

Scallop appetizer.

Sous vide scallops, balsamic caviar, dehydrated tomatoes, saffron beurre blanc and parsley foam.

 

Edited February 29 by Fiona So (log)

[Norm Matthews]

Charlie was making mac & cheese and garlic bread from the last of some French bread while I was taking a picture of the rest of the meal:  steak and corn on the grill, BBQ beans, and store salad bar salad.

[Dante]

Chicken Fried Steak with tots and sauteed chard

[C. sapidus]

Shrimp tacos with roasted chile Poblano rajas con crema. Rubbed and seared the shrimp with cumin, black pepper, and red Hatch chile powder that we brought back from New Mexico.

 

[Honkman]

Pasta with shrimps in a sauce made with dried tomatoes, tomato paste, scallions, garlic, parsley, basil, feta, heavy cream, dry vermouth and chicken broth

[C. sapidus]

Beer-battered halibut and our first corn of the year, courtesy of Mrs. C

 

[MaryIsobel]

52 minutes ago, C. sapidus said:

Beer-battered halibut and our first corn of the year, courtesy of Mrs. C

 

We are a good 5 months away from fresh corn but that and the halibut are mouth-watering!

[Neely]

Dinner was prawns / shrimp in a fresh tomato sauce. Something different was that I chopped and minced up some of the prawns to add to the sauce along with the prawns to make the sauce more substantial. It worked, I guess. 
 

[Kerala]

I returned home very late last night after a late visit at the end of the day. So...  I could cook something quick but unpalatable to the immediate household. Every cloud! I swung by Tesco's on the way. 

 

And they had... lamb hearts! Flash fried with white pepper, served with red onion,cucumber, ripe tomato,and two finely sliced red finger chillies. On a brown wheat wrap. A drizzle of olive oil, a squeeze of lime and a pinch of grey salt from France.

 

You know sometimes it's just you and your upper gastrointestinal tract, with no outside thoughts? Can be good or bad, of course. This was good; I completely zoned out for five minutes.

 

 

[liuzhou]

Shrimp (bought live) with coriander leaf and garlic chives, Thai fish sauce, Shaoxing wine, garlic,ginger, chilli. Rice.

 

 

 

Edited March 2 by liuzhou (log)