Dinner 2024

[liuzhou]

炒粉 (chǎo fěn) - Stir fried, hand made, handcut rice noodles with pork, shiitake, mung bean sprouts, white chilli, garlic, Shaoxing and soy sauce.

 

 

 

Edited October 15 by liuzhou (log)

[shesmfoody]

My dinner for tonight, Nem Nướng - Grilled Fermented Pork Roll. It's one of the best dishes that I tried here in Vietnam.

 

Credit 📷 https://gowithguide.com/vietnam

 

[Shelby]

So many great looking foods going on around here.  Still plugging along in my little world lol.  Our hunter friend had to cancel his trip but has rescheduled for next week so no rest for the wicked (meaning me lol).  I've been bad about taking pictures.  Probably because my cooking is very uninspired lately.  But here's a few.

 

I get hungry for tuna pasta salad when the tomatoes are perfect so I made a bowl to go with salad night

 

 

 

Wings with okra, cucumber salad and cheesy cauliflower

 

 

 

My mom came to see me for several days including my birthday!

 

Stuff to nibble on after her long drive

 

 

Italian zucchini boats for dinner

 

 

Next day we opened these delicious pickled green tomatoes she made from her garden.  SO good.  She also made a batch of Grammy's rice-a-roni salad--neither of our husbands like it so it's fun to make when we're together.

 

 

 

I made bread

 

 

So dinner was BLT's

 

 

A few weeks ago I made a batch of enchilada sauce--I had some tomatoes to use up

 

 

So chicken enchiladas with RG beans

 

 

 

Apple galette drizzled with caramel sauce for dessert

 

 

For my birthday I didn't want to cook so we went to the big city and got a bunch of Popeye's chicken!  Got extra for my mom to take home for her and my step dad too.  

 

Reheated it in the air fryer.  Worked like a charm.

 

 

 

Deviled eggs to go with

 

 

Boston Cream Pie  one of my favorite desserts. Mom had it sent  

 

 

Had some chicken left over so chicken again along with broccoli casserole and this salad I made for the first time.  It's pretty good!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 15 by Shelby (log)

[Tropicalsenior]

43 minutes ago, Shelby said:

Boston Cream Pie

Always an old favorite. It was one of the first things that I ever learned to cook and I haven't made one in ages. Thanks for reminding me I may just have to make one.

[liamsaunt]

Jumping back in after two weeks away.  Sunday we had a spiced chicken and rice dish with roasted broccoli.  

 

 

 

And last night we had a spicy white bean stew with spinach, and some olive bread that I baked.  This went over better than I thought it would.  Everyone cleaned their plates.

 

[Tempest63]

I had a sleeve of Morcilla left over from Tapas night and found a Nigella beef and black pudding meatball recipe. 
I made it tonight and it was very good(as are most of Nigellas recipes). She suggests serving it with crusty bread or colcannon, for speed we settled for Penne.

 

https://www.nigella.com/recipes/black-pudding-meatballs

[RWood]

Vegetarian "crab" cakes. Used shredded hearts of palm. Good sub for crab, they were tasty. Hard to get dungeness in Georgia, and not a big fan of other types. Served with a lemony aioli.

[Honkman]

Red Kuri Squash Salad with Lamb Meatballs - Red kuri squash, cut in thin slices with the skin on, is baked in the oven with olive oil, mace, coriander and agave syrup. Lamb meatballs made with shallots, garlic, egg, cinnamon, paprika and panko. Vinaigrette is made by pureeing olive oil, white wine vinegar, cranberries and honey (and some diced green peppercorns and additional cranberries added in the end). Everything mixed together with dandelion greens and watercress.

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

@Shelby

I was running out of new ways to incorporate zucchini so thanks for the 'zucchini boat' idea.

 

[lemniscate]

23 hours ago, Shelby said:

delicious pickled green tomatoes she made from her garden

 

Oh gosh, I love those baby versions of the pickled green tomatoes.  A brand called Lehmann Farms out of the Midwest had those jarred in the stores around here.  I bought them almost weekly.  Then, poof, gone.   Can't find them anymore.  Nor can I find the jars of Bubbies large pickled green tomatoes either.  I don't know what happened.

[Shelby]

1 hour ago, Senior Sea Kayaker said:

@Shelby

I was running out of new ways to incorporate zucchini so thanks for the 'zucchini boat' idea.

 

I'm constantly on the lookout for ANYTHING to use up zucchini lol.

[lemniscate]

1 minute ago, Shelby said:

I'm constantly on the lookout for ANYTHING to use up zucchini lol.

Pasta Grammar zucchini episode.   Eva's amazing.

[johnnyd]

Taquitos with blasted cotija cheese last night

 

 

[Ann_T]

@Shelby, I love when you do one of your catch up posts.  A feast for the eyes.

 

Fish counter didn't have fresh halibut yesterday so I bought fresh Steelhead.

 

Prepared it like one of my favourite salmon recipes.

 

Fish is topped with a mixture of julienned celery, carrot, lemon zest, chopped shallot, garlic and parsley,

topped with a little white wine, loosely covered with a piece of foil

 

and baked at 500°F for 10 to 15 minutes depending on the thickness of the fish.

[johnnyd]

6 minutes ago, Ann_T said:

Fish is topped with a mixture of julienned celery, carrot, lemon zest, chopped shallot, garlic and parsley,

topped with a little white wine, loosely covered with a piece of foil

 

I love steelhead. Ima going to have to do this. I'd stop at the garlic though, you had enough going on.

[Ann_T]

40 minutes ago, johnnyd said:

 

I love steelhead. Ima going to have to do this. I'd stop at the garlic though, you had enough going on.

That is what is good about a recipe. Can always be adjusted to suit ones on taste.

I've been making this recipe the same way since 1978.  It is an Umberto Mengh's recipe.  

[C. sapidus]

Tom kha soup with crab, halibut, and shiitake mushrooms. Bruised galangal, lemongrass, shallot, bird chiles, lime leaves, and cilantro stems in chicken stock and coconut milk, simmered and then strained. Finished with palm sugar, fish sauce, lime juice, cilantro, and chile jam to taste. We had planned crab cakes but our houseguest was sensitive to gluten, so we changed direction.

 

 

Maple-glazed sweet potatoes with a syrup of maple syrup, butter, orange zest, orange juice, and brown sugar. Guest had a nut sensitivity so we skipped the walnut topping.

 

 

[johnnyd]

1 hour ago, Ann_T said:

It is an Umberto Menghi's recipe.

 

Went looking for it to see how much garlic in the recipe. Didn't find it but his Seafood Cioppino looks incredible.

[Ann_T]

9 minutes ago, johnnyd said:

 

Went looking for it to see how much garlic in the recipe. Didn't find it but his Seafood Cioppino looks incredible.

I just use one.   Because with everything else, one seems to be enough.  

[C. sapidus]

Boys used to request chapli kebab ("slipper burgers"), or as they called it, "spicy burgers." Wagyu ground beef with minced onion, chiles, ginger, garlic, cilantro, and spices. Mrs. C made baby bok choy with peanut sauce (also good on the spicy burgers)

 

[Neely]

Dinner last night husband cooked a beef curry which we had with the ubiquitous green beans, a  version of raita and pappadoms. We do the pappadoms in the microwave 3 of them for 60 seconds works out quite good and crispy and not oily like fried. 
 

Edited October 18 by Neely (log)

[Neely]

Hi @Shelby your Moms pickled baby green tomatoes sound like a very good idea. I usually have lots of little baby green tomatoes at the end of season and other than make green tomato pickles I hadn’t done anything with them except throw them out after they had worn out their welcome. Pickled is ideal. 

[Maison Rustique]

Pretty sure I posted a recipe here at some point for Tomolives--little brined green tomatoes. I believe I got the recipe here years ago. They taste just like olives. I'm still hunting for my recipes since my PC burned up or I'd share it again..

[Smithy]

5 hours ago, Maison Rustique said:

Pretty sure I posted a recipe here at some point for Tomolives--little brined green tomatoes. I believe I got the recipe here years ago. They taste just like olives. I'm still hunting for my recipes since my PC burned up or I'd share it again..

 

Could it have been this one by @HungryChris? Or at least based on it?

 

Or this one by @RWood?

[Katie Meadow]

11 hours ago, Neely said:

Hi @Shelby your Moms pickled baby green tomatoes sound like a very good idea. I usually have lots of little baby green tomatoes at the end of season and other than make green tomato pickles I hadn’t done anything with them except throw them out after they had worn out their welcome. Pickled is ideal. 

BLFGT. Bacon, lettuce and a fried green tomato sandwich.  So very nice.