Dinner 2024

[Paul Bacino]

Collard Greens Ramen w/ bone Marrow

 

[Shel_B]

36 minutes ago, mgaretz said:

Treated ourselves to some nice filet mignon from Costco.  Cooked SV then seared.  With baked sweet potato and steamed broccolini.

 

How long did it take to prepare the meat, from fridge to plate?

[liamsaunt]

I have not been cooking anything special the past couple of weeks, because covid has been ripping through my house. We all succumbed one day after the other one until we were all infected.  Argh.  Everyone's ok now though.  Here's a couple of things I made on the nights I actually cooked.

 

A NY Times recipe for chicken spiedie with buttered broccoli

 

 

My nephew grilled steaks that night too, for the red meat eaters

 

 

Mutter paneer and a vegetable korma I made with a huge zucchini my CSA gave me.  That turned out to be a decent use for it.  I did discard the seedy center

 

 

Ramen noodle bowl with mushrooms, spinach and jammy eggs, a comfort meal on the day I was feeling particularly ill.  

 

 

Chicken shawarma

 

[Tempest63]

We have a Tapas and Paella night coming up in September so I thought I ought to start practicing for the night. I cooked up this Paella tonight. Chicken, prawn and squid rings. Red pepper and peas, and a shortcut using shop bought passata instead of making a pukka tomato sauce.

I cook with an induction hob and cannot use a traditional paella pan so use this Le Creuset non stick paella pan. Unfortunately this means we don’t get much of a Socarrat on the base.

 

The recipe was an interpretation of one of the straight forward and simpler recipes from “Paella” by Alberto Herraiz. The book explores some of the traditional methods and recipes of cooking the dish, delving into the near science behind cooking paella.

 

A lot of the recipes in the book start on the stove before cooking in the oven which seems a little unusual to me. I always thought of paella as being a stove top recipe.

 

Edited August 18 by Tempest63 (log)

[mgaretz]

2 hours ago, Shel_B said:

How long did it take to prepare the meat, from fridge to plate?

They were 2” thick so I had them in the SV bath for 2hrs then a few minutes to sear. 

[Norm Matthews]

A few days ago Charlie asked me to make some more of the bulgogi I made earlier this month. Yesterday I was in Walmart and saw a two pound pork Picnic roast and thought that would be an ideal size roast for us, even with a couple days of leftovers.  Picnic and shoulder roasts are right next to each other on the pig and taste the same and picnic is easier to slice up.  Also yesterday I got some okra at the farmers market and fried it up today. I only see it at farmers market and mostly  only around August and September, so I try to make is a couple times a year. We also had rice and kimchi.

[YvetteMT]

While I do own a pretty board, it's just the two of us tonight and we ate sitting on the couch so, a cookie sheet wrapped in foil suffices. 

 

Coppa, prosciutto, salami x2, beehive cheddar, horseradish chive, and tomato basil cheddar. Smoked salmon dip.  Artichokes, blue cheese green olives,  baby dills, dill sauerkraut, and blackberries.

Not pictured- crackers and a really nice walla walla mustard.

 

[Shel_B]

Sonia's Armenian, and a very fine cook.  She made dinner and we had stuffed peppers, zucchini, eggplant, and grape leaves. After many years, she finally gave me her recipe for the filling.

 

Edited August 24 by Shel_B
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[Neely]

Braised soy pork with crackling over rice. Good to be cooking again. 
 

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

I'll catch up on the thread when I have more free time.

A few recent dinners.

Montreal smoked meat on a ciabatta roll, oven fries with sriracha, coleslaw and tomatoes.

 

 

I picked up some mussels on the way home and cooked them over this sauce (made the day before and refrigerated to mellow). No photo of the finished dish that was served with toasted ciabatta. 

Leftover mussels and sauce with beet greens, Italian sausage and orecchiette with a tomato, cucumber and Chioggia beet salad.

 

 

 

Edited August 20 by Senior Sea Kayaker (log)

[liamsaunt]

Somali spiced chicken and pepper saute over spiced rice, with flatbread.  The rice and chicken recipes were from NY Times cooking.

 

 

[Tempest63]

Pork chops in a garlic sauce tonight, pan fried new potatoes with steamed green beans and sautéed spinach.

Recipe for chops here

https://www.dontgobaconmyheart.co.uk/garlic-pork-chops/

Unusual for a UK site that the ingredients are given in cups. You see that commonly with US recipe sites but very rarely UK. Personally it doesn’t phase me either way as I use both US/imperial and UK/metric measurements.

 

Edited August 19 by Tempest63 (log)

[Tempest63]

15 minutes ago, liamsaunt said:

Somali spiced chicken and pepper saute over spiced rice, with flatbread.  The rice and chicken recipes were from NY Times cooking.

 

 

I really need to expand my repertoire to include more African recipes. The more I see these types of recipes, the more I realise there is so much of the worlds cuisine that I need to explore.

[Norm Matthews]

One store has crab legs for 9.99/lb. for people who have a discount card.  

[RWood]

Spaghetti with home made marinara, Trader Joe’s burrata filling and basil from the garden.

[YvetteMT]

Chicken, broccoli, wild rice and creamy mushrooms. 

 

[rotuts]

@YvetteMT

 

Nice .  Very very nice.

[liamsaunt]

Corn risotto with roasted pepper and asiago cheese chicken sausage and tomatoes

 

[gulfporter]

I fried up some veggie 'medallions' I bought frozen at a local tienda.  It's covered in Microwave Hollandaise which I hadn't made in years, but it came out great.  A few blackened shrimp atop.  Light meal as we had a big rotis chicken in Indian curry sauce for lunch. 

 

 

[Tropicalsenior]

10 minutes ago, gulfporter said:

It's covered in Microwave Hollandaise

Now that's something I would be interested in. Do you have a recipe that you would share?

[gulfporter]

I used this one (there are a zillion out there).  I used juice from half a large lemon.  I also short-cutted it by melting butter first, then adding everything else and microwaving in 15 second increments using a small whisk on it between zaps.  

 

https://www.farmlandfoods.nz/recipes/recipe/quick-and-easy-hollandaise-sauce

[Tropicalsenior]

48 minutes ago, gulfporter said:

I used this one

Thank you. Going to try it tonight with asparagus.

[Neely]

It was warm enough today to have salad as a main… 1st of the season. I poached sliced chicken breasts and there are new baby potatoes… chats

 

[Maison Rustique]

My food-gifting friend is on a salad kick now. (Still thankful it isn't drumsticks.) He brought me a huge container of a spinach/lettuce mix a couple of days ago. I had just sat down to eat a large salad I made for supper when the doorbell rang. There he was with 2 salad kits and a bag of brussels sprouts. I feel my nose twitching, my ears growing and my tail getting fuzzy.

 

Edited August 21 by Maison Rustique
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[weinoo]

 

My fake Puntarelle Alla Romana; using endive instead.

 

 

My fake veal piccata; using chicken instead.  With rice and broccoli (steamed above the rice for the last 5 minutes of rice cooking time).

 

Just one big, fake dinner.