Dinner 2024

[C. sapidus]

Caldo de siete mares: farewell meal for one of our houseguests. The soup had shrimp, catfish, and bay scallops (so, maybe dos mares plus a river?) with chayote, zucchini, and potatoes, simmered in chicken stock with a pureed and fried spice paste of guajillo chiles (toasted and soaked), garlic (roasted), Mexican oregano, cumin, and black pepper. Served at the table with cilantro, chopped white onion, and lime wedges.

 

Arroz verde al Poblano: jasmine rice fried with white onion and garlic, then steamed with a blended mix of roasted chile Poblano, cilantro, parsley, and chicken stock.

 

Edited yesterday at 05:57 PM by C. sapidus (log)

[C. sapidus]

House guest requested African food so this was the best I could do.

 

Yassa (chicken with lemon mustard sauce): Chicken thighs, slashed and marinated with pureed garlic, habanero chile, oil, S&P). Chicken was grilled then simmered in a sauce of onion, grainy mustard, olives, lemon juice, and habanero chile. Seems like an unusual combination but really good.

 

"Vegetarian" Joloff rice: Slowly sauteed onion with diced carrots, sliced red bell pepper, crushed tomato, and tomato paste. Added chicken stock. basmati rice, and a bay leaf. When the rice was done, folded in peas. Will make again.

 

[RWood]

Pizza, pizza. Pepperoni, castelvetrano olives, Vidalia onion and a Margherita. 

[Neely]

Dal Chawal… Lentils and rice. I was going to hand blend these French lentils to make a more traditional Dal but they turned out quite tasty so I left them as they were. Served with pappadoms and a dollop of quince jam for sweetness. Comfort food.
 

[liuzhou]

Tonight, I made an experimental dish of fried rice with prawns and shailan ham from Hunan. I described that more in this post back In September. It also contained garlic, chilli. Shaoxing wine and Chaoshan fish sauce. Finished with coriander leaf/cilantro and Chinese chives. I slightly over-salted it because I forgot the ham and fish sauce are a bit salty, but didn't ruin it.

 

I'll certainly repeat. The shrimp and ham nicely complemented each other.

 

 

 

Edited 8 hours ago by liuzhou (log)

[weinoo]

11 hours ago, C. sapidus said:

House guest requested African food so this was the best I could do.

 

You're a much better person than I...if I had a house guest who requested anything other than what I was already preparing, they'd be going to a restaurant.

[C. sapidus]

1 hour ago, weinoo said:

 

You're a much better person than I...if I had a house guest who requested anything other than what I was already preparing, they'd be going to a restaurant.

 

Ha. Request was in jest - she also asked for Antarctic food. I said we had ice in the freezer.

[YvetteMT]

Last night was bear pasta.  Spicy Italian black bear/pork sausage,  onion, mushroom Raos marinara over Rummo gf pasta. (Mozzarella hidden between the two). And Brazi bites cheese balls.

 

 

Couple nights ago was on my own for dinner so prepared chicken curry that I added shrimp to.

[Okanagancook]

7 hours ago, Neely said:

Dal Chawal… Lentils and rice. I was going to hand blend these French lentils to make a more traditional Dal but they turned out quite tasty so I left them as they were. Served with pappadoms and a dollop of quince jam for sweetness. Comfort food.
 

I am curious about how you cooked your poppadums?

[gulfporter]

Still good grilling weather here in Tucson.  And another Costco lamb rack.