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Dinner 2024


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Going over to see friends this evening. They say they are not making dinner but that doesn't mean there will not be a 5-course meal. Consequently, light dinner.

 

Plantains finally got good and ripe after a week on the counter. And yes, we prefer them "well done" :laugh:

 

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16 hours ago, Dejah said:

It's Mid-Autumn Festival, so we had moon cakes for dessert.
There are 2 varieties on the plate, but we prefer the 5-nut and seeds one. It's not as sweet. The tea is Japanese Toasted Rice green tea.

 

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A friend gives me mooncakes every year because she and her family don't like them. I give her mooncakes to someone else because I don't like them either.

This year I decided to make my own with my own recipe. Not bad results. Main idea was to use pistachio nut paste instead of lotus seed paste.

The pictures show progress of my skill in the making. the 3rd and 4th one look like mooncakes.

 

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This is a riff on devilled kidneys. I'm calling it "devilish kidneys".

 

Pork kidneys and shiitake mushrooms fried in butter and olive oil with French whole grain mustard, Worcestershire sauce, paprika, S&P.  Finished with coriander leaf and Chinese chives. Served over buttered whole meal toast.

 

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...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot"
Mark Twain
 

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Tonight I fired up the bbq for what is likely to be the last time this year. The weather here has been cold but after a couple of days of respite the rain is due to start over the weekend.

A couple of small sirloins on the bbq with a Mediterranean rub on them, 3 minutes a side.

Oven chips, last of the cauliflower that I knocked up last night and more petit pois. A little mustard mayonnaise on the side. Very enjoyable with a glass of red wine. 
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Early dinner with guests, I cooked osso bucco with , mashed potato and green beans. I made the gremolata to sprinkle on top and of course forgot it waiting in a container in the fridge. 
 

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Dessert was fruit salad with a shortbread biscuit. 
 

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Tonight's dinner included a pear and starfruit salad.  The pears were downed fruit from a neighbors tree and the starfruit came off the reduced for quick sell table (6/$1.50).  The salad ingredients included surprisingly hot serrano peppers, mini red peppers, red onion, walnuts and blue cheese.  The dressing was a pear preserve vinaigrette.  The preserves were prepared with the scavenged pears, lemons, oranges, cinnamon and candied ginger.

 

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Over the years my tuna salads have, uh, evolved. Tonight's had sauerkraut, sweet-hot pickles, mayo, horseradish, Poupon mustard, S&P, bird chiles, and a generous dollop of chile crisp. Probably equal parts tuna and sauerkraut+pickles. With cukes on potato bread.

 

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Dinner tonight was lamb chops on the BBQ, Smokey but still pink inside. I used the forgotten gremolata from yesterday’s meal to sprinkle on and flavour the chops. Lots of veg because you know “eat your vegetables”

 

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On 9/17/2024 at 8:10 AM, Paul Bacino said:

Here is a weird question,  who puts potato salad in their Gumbo?  My  Cajun  ( Louisiana ) friend said it is bomb ? Stirs it in

I've heard of it but I've never done it.

On 9/19/2024 at 11:50 PM, Honkman said:

Omelette (made with eggs, milk and sparkling water) with green beans, basil, parsley and scallions. Topped with roasted almonds and served with basil pesto.

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I had never heard of using sparkling water.  Googled and will be doing that next time I make quiche.  Thank you!

2 hours ago, Maison Rustique said:

I had a chopped salad with Saltines and butter--didn't have any bread. I'd forgotten how much I love Saltines with butter.

I love Saltines and butter!

 

It's been like two months since I've posted on this thread.  So much going on around here.  I need a major stint of calmness...which I'm not going to get because our hunter friend is coming this week lol.  Amidst all of the goings on I am learning my way around a new MacBook.  My old brain is still back in the days of a desktop PC and Lotus sigh.  I had to google how to get pictures uploaded here to EG.....yeah I need help lol.

 

Been doing a ton of huge salads and different versions of stuffed squash.  

 

Mexican stuffed squash with our Nirvana corn

 

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Fig galette for dessert

 

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Italian stuffed squash with cheesy green beans.  

 

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Salad and crustless quiche

 

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Smoked pork, okra and squash

 

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Wings

 

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Big salad with shrimp

 

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I've been making a number of 500g batches of dough for the fridge and then stagger baking over a number of days. Some with yeast and some sourdough.
One of the yeast doughs that had been in the fridge since the 17th was pulled yesterday and I baked a Italian Sausage and Mushroom pizza for dinner and with the remainder baked a batard.
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This dough made the best crust.
 
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Broiled tautog with a piccata style sauce, mashed potatoes and spinach.  My sister chose the tautog on the recommendation of the fish vendor, who said they are running though here right now on their way to Nova Scotia.  I don't think I have ever had it before, and we all really liked it.  It was a sweet, mild fish. 

 

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Tonight I cooked us Panissa, a risotto with borlotti beans, finely chopped salami and red wine

There are many variations on the recipe, and the traditional ingredients from Piedmont can be elusive, especially the salami and the red wine. 
The one I prepared tonight had tinned beans and a robust cooking wine. The salami was blitzed in a food processor and I started off with pancetta which gave up its fat to cook the onions in.

Very rich and tasty with enough leftovers for two midweek lunches.

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2 week long work trip means comfort food when I get home.  Temperatures below 60 mean something is being roasted. 

Roast duck with carrots and onion.  (Domestic duck, muscovy, and raised by my parents). Easily one of my favorite meals.

 

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Hunter, fisherwoman, gardener and cook in Montana.

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