Dinner 2024

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

Pan fried shrimp, green beans, zucchini and green onion tops with garlic, ginger and chili crisp oil.

Side of garden tomatoes. These are black cherry, red cherry and gold nugget, picked about 15 minutes before eating and still warm from the sun, with a light touch of salt.

With my choice for Nova Scotia's craft beer of the summer: Nine Locks Brewing Bohemian Raspberry Weisse.

 

[liuzhou]

(Con)fusion food perhaps.

 

Pork tenderloin (Chinese) marinated with garlic (Chinese), chilli (ditto), non-pareilles capers (French), black olives (Spanish) miso (Japanese) and coriander leaf (Chinese), white wine (Chilean). Served with rice (Thai).

 

 

 

[weinoo]

 

It's a pretty good tomato (and corn) season here in the Northeast.   Pasta w/raw, small heirloom tomatoes, basil, and mozzarella.

[Alex]

I seldom, if ever, post in this topic, but I'm proud of the menu we concocted for tonight's gluten-free dinner with two good friends.

 

Ham and Swiss

La Quercia Coppa Americano, Mrs. Dog’s mustard, Simple Mills almond crackers

Meyer lemon French 75

  

Caprese salad

Buffalo milk mozzarella, local + our tomatoes, our basil, Roi olive oil, Maldon sea salt

 

Marcella bean salad

Smoked salmon, local zucchini, local Paula Red apples, our chive blossoms, our parsley, toasted almond slivers

Fennel pollen vinaigrette, garlic oil

Greywacke Sauvignon Blanc 2023 (Marlborough, New Zealand)

 

 

 Tawse Riesling Icewine 2013 (Niagara Peninsula VQA, Canada)  [We were too full, sad to say. Once was a time...]

 

Pawpaw cheesecake

Simple Mills pecan cookie + Costco pistachio crust

Michigan honey-lavender ice cream

 

 

Edited August 26 by Alex
to add info (log)

[YvetteMT]

@Alex as someone that has to eat gluten free, your meal sounds superb!  Too often GF feels like an imposition and a spread mimicking gluten filled foods. Your dinner is fantastic, please do share photos!

[Dejah]

Some meals while peeling and slicing mountains of apples from a neighbor's sole tree! Thank goodness for the apple peel and slice unit!
Over the course of 2 days, I made 9 of these 5 x 9 foil pans. All gone to friends and family except for 2 small bowls for ourselves.
 Canadian Cheddar Cheese Apple Crisp. Recipe was from a label on E.D Smith apple pie filling many years ago.

                                                                   

 

Chicken legs on sale - easy meal with Shake'n'Bake BBQ seasoning, fresh corn and a salad with watermelon and feta and a few stray blueberries

                                                                   

Sampling of the apple crisp with ice cream

 

                                                                   

 

Beef, Tomato & Egg stir-fry

 

                                                                  

 

Creamed salmon and Mac'n'Cheese

 

                                                                

 

One of my hubby's favourite dishes, the first traditional Chinese dish I cooked for him 58 years ago! Steamed ground beef & Sechuan preserved veg

 

                                                                              

 

Another of hubby's favourite desserts: Durian pancakes

                                                                    

 

We have a small restaurant in the city that makes the best prime rib. We are friends with the Greek owner and chef, who is 79 years old and still going strong.

We went out with family visiting from Burnaby, B.C, and they always want to go to Albert's for prime rib. We all ordered the "princess cut" 12 0z, but we always seem to get the "Queen Cut" 16 oz! Half came home for our supper tonight!

 

                                                                                 

 

                                                                                                                NO dessert was needed!

 
 

 

 

 

[Alex]

6 hours ago, YvetteMT said:

@Alex as someone that has to eat gluten free, your meal sounds superb!  Too often GF feels like an imposition and a spread mimicking gluten filled foods. Your dinner is fantastic, please do share photos!

 

Thanks, Yvette. Unfortunately, we were too involved with eating and drinking and talking, so I'm afraid it'll be up to your imagination...

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

Dinner cold plate beginning at 6 o'clock: garden cherry tomatoes, coleslaw, baguette, gravlax with fresh dill, pickled herring with some added Chioggia beet to absorb some flavour from the brine and radishes.

 

 

[Ann_T]

Moe and I have been together for 51 years.

Yesterday  we celebrated our 45th wedding anniversary, with a lovely bottle of Italian wine and Bistecca Alla Fiorentina.

The Porterhouse was cooked on the grill,

and served with roasted potatoes, zucchini and fried mushrooms.

Not bad for a worknight dinner.

Edited August 26 by Ann_T (log)

[lindag]

Congratulations!  Good wishes to you both.

[rotuts]

@Ann_T

 

congratulations x 2 !

 

one congrats is for mighty fine Beef port !

[Honkman]

Beef Bourguignonne by a recipe from Gordon Hamersley’s “Bistro Cooking at Home” - beef gets marinated overnight in red wine, onions, carrots, garlic, bay leaves, thyme and peppercorn. After searing the meat, it braises for 3+ hours at 275F with bacon, pearl onions, carrots, flour, red wine, beef broth and tomato paste. Cremini mushrooms and garlic get seared separately and added to the stew at the end with watercress. Served over spaetzle.

[Neely]

Dinner last night was rack of lamb quite rare which we enjoyed with salad and roasted sweet potato.
 

[Tempest63]

On 8/26/2024 at 2:58 PM, Ann_T said:

Moe and I have been together for 51 years.

Yesterday  we celebrated our 45th wedding anniversary, with a lovely bottle of Italian wine and Bistecca Alla Fiorentina.

The Porterhouse was cooked on the grill,

and served with roasted potatoes, zucchini and fried mushrooms.

Not bad for a worknight dinner.

Many, many congratulations, and a great meal to celebrate with. Nice and pink, well cooked!

[Tempest63]

Tonight was Koftet Roz, an Egyptian meatball recipe made with Beef, large quantities of fresh herbs, and ground rice. We saw the recipe in the current BBC Good Food magazine and it was a new dish, new variant on meatballs, so I had to give it a go.
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/sohas-koftet-roz-egyptian-rice-meatballs

 

I made it with lamb mince instead of beef, as that was what I had available, the sauce recipe looked a little bland for my tastes so I upped the garlic, added a finely chopped red onion and some Za’athar, black pepper and Maldon sea salt. 
 

The final dish was very agreeable with nice, tasty, soft meatballs and a great tasting sauce. We served it with plain steamed basmati rice.

 

 

The full dish in the frying pan.

 

 

 

Served with Dishooms, plain steamed basmati rice.

Edited August 28 by Tempest63 (log)

[Kerala]

Carrot thoran. Trial run for Onam family meal at my sister's.

 

[Captain]

Lovely Lamb shanks, creamy mash with a red wine tomato sauce.

[YvetteMT]

BLTs and corn again.  No bread this time. 

[C. sapidus]

Just returned from a 5-week road trip to Oregon, the Bay Area, Hawaii, and points between, so I'm not even going to try to catch up. Arrived home to an "empty" fridge but managed to scrape together a tasty green curry with shrimp, spinach, and peas, supplemented with garlic and ginger paste, lemongrass, tamarind, and dried Thai chiles.

 

 

Lots of nondescript food on the trip - hotel oatmeal, fast food, etc. - but we ran across some good food trucks. The highlight was khao soi, which I have always fancied but never previously enjoyed:

 

 

Food trucks we enjoyed along the way:

 

 

And interesting Thai food on the beach in Hawaii:

 

 

Edited August 28 by C. sapidus (log)

[liuzhou]

Chicken with almond mushroom, 姬松茸 (jī sōng róng), Agaricus subrufescens. Garlic, chilli, miso, coriander leaf.

 

 

Pre-prep mushrooms

 

 

Edited August 30 by liuzhou (log)

[gfweb]

Pan roasted branzino with caper/tomato compote.

 

[mgaretz]

A couple of filet nights in a row.  My wife is having stomach issues and steak is one of the few things that she feels like eating, which is fine with me!  Here is one with corn:

 

 

[C. sapidus]

Ground lamb, chorizo, and mushroom tacos. Blended sauce of toasted pasilla chiles, roasted garlic, honey, cumin, black pepper, and chicken stock. Topped with white onion, cilantro, and crumbled feta. Pasilla chiles make such a rich, flavorful sauce.

 

 

Green bean and white onion salad with a dressing of olive oil, tomatillo salsa, lime juice, and cilantro.

 

[rotuts]

over here 

 

https://forums.egullet.org/topic/166284-i-bought-a-panini-press-now-what/page/3/#comment-2432519

 

 

Yum !

[weinoo]

 

The usual plating disaster:  Seared yellowfin tuna (dusted with La Boite's Lula blend) over a market salad (lettuce, heirloom tomatoes, cucumber, sweet onion) with a soy/ginger house-made vinaigrette.  Fancy Japanese rice.