Dinner 2024

[gulfporter]

White bean chicken chili.  Pretty much it all came out of one can or another.  Used a frozen piece of Costco rotis chicken breast.  I did caramelize some onions and garlic before throwing in the canned and jarred items.  Topped with sour cream and cilantro.  For fast food, quite satisfying on a chilly day.  

 

 

[Shelby]

1 hour ago, rotuts said:

@Shelby

 

Fantastic Stuff !

 

on top of your Plate , you are.

 

 

I might have missed it , but 

 

what are those tasty looking PorkProducts 

 

helping out the cabbage rolls ?

 

just asking .

Ribs--Ronnie cold smokes a rack of them and I like to poke a few in with the cabbage rolls  

[rotuts]

@Shelby

 

I thought so .

 

2 racks next time .

 

Vac the extra .  same amount of work

 

next time the racks go on sale .

 

just saying.

[MaryIsobel]

3 hours ago, Shelby said:

Ohhhh beautiful collards!  We didn't grow any this year and now I'm wishing we did.

I also have a bag anellini that I bought with that same intention and haven't gotten around to it.  Yours looks delicious.  Your nephew is wrong lol.

Gorgeous.  Puts me in the mood to get my Christmas decorations out.

This looks delicious.  Adding that to menu ideas for this week.  

 

You'd think that I fell off the trying not to eat many carbs wagon by what I'm about to post, but I've been trying I swear.  A lot of meals I haven't been taking pictures of because they are just too boring.  It's becoming harder, too, without all of the garden vegetables to choose from.

 

Roasted chicken, stewed tomatoes and scalloped potatoes.

 

 

Cabbage rolls--omitted the rice.  I should have used an additional egg or maybe tried some riced cauliflower in them....they were a little dry although the sauce was excellent.

 

 

 

Served over riced cauliflower

 

 

PIZZA.  I could have inhaled this whole thing

 

 

SV'd lamb chops, "rice" pilaf and salad.  The pilaf was actually really good.  Ronnie said he liked it better than real rice.  Ok, maybe he was being nice lol

 

 

 

Jalapeño cheese sausages, cauliflower Mac and cheese, sautéed peppers and onions and salad

 

 

 

We've tried the low carb/no carb thing but honestly, I could eat 4 litres of salad but if I don't have carbs with it,  still feel like I'm starving.

[Norm Matthews]

Charlie asked for Martini Chicken and I tried a bread roll recipe.  The Parker House rolls will go in my Thanksgiving folder for probable future use .  The big roll was lleft-over dough after I had filled the tray. The pasta and sauce are not part of the original Martini recipe.

[Kerry Beal]

Last night I was the keynote speaker for a fundraiser to raise money for the residence that is being built by LUSO - the Portuguese charitable organization that runs the day program that Kira attends.

 

There was an opportunity for vendors to sell various products before the dinner (the mercado) - lots of jewellery - some interesting socks, some live edge boards that were as smooth as silk, Portuguese wine and alcohol, a Tupperware vendor which I quite enjoyed checking out. There was one vendor who had dipped pretzels, liquorice etc - might get an EZtemper sale out of that - we shall see.

 

 

They call it the Compass Club - and their little giveaway was a cute chocolate box with a compass attached. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Didn't get pictures of the wines - the rose was my favoured one. I was exhausted and ready to leave by the time the port was served so I really didn't do it justice. 

 

 

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

@Shelby

My vote goes to the lamb dinner. Looks great.

 

[Smithy]

14 hours ago, Kerry Beal said:

some live edge boards that were as smooth as silk

 

Everything looks and sounds wonderful except this, which I can't make out. Would you please explain "live edge board"? Thanks so much for posting, and I hope you get that sale.

[mgaretz]

59 minutes ago, Smithy said:

 

Everything looks and sounds wonderful except this, which I can't make out. Would you please explain "live edge board"? Thanks so much for posting, and I hope you get that sale.

 

A live edge board is one that still has bark along two edges.  Like this:

[Dante]

Savoury Dutch Baby with walnuts, roasted red peppers, feta, and mushrooms

[Dante]

Pork Country Captain over bulgur

[Honkman]

Cottage Pie - ground beef, onion, garlic, carrots, mushrooms, Worcestershire sauce, tomato paste, marsala wine, thyme, bay leaf, flour, cornstarch are cooked in beef broth and get topped with mashed potatoes (made with butter, milk, egg, scallions) and heated under the broiler.

[gulfporter]

Gojuchang Sheet Pan Dinner.  

 

 

[rotuts]

same sort of Dinner as before :

 

 

Tj's bagged spinach , just wilted in the micro , but w a drizzle of EVOO  ( TJ's du Jour )

 

\and some lemon-garlic seasoning .  just a little

 

TB's recently cooked , 

 

in this version :  Spice Trekkers Byriani whole spice mix ,  lightly toasted , ground 

 

TJ's brown jasmine rice , and dried cranberries and cherries 

 

and lightly toasted ( well before , and saved )  walnuts .

 

diced red and window green onions . a decent amount of these 

 

tasty .

 

the ST byriani mix , was , very byriani for me !

[Captain]

A lovely roast chicken dinner with gravy.😘

[AlaMoi]

tonight was beer-battered-butterfly shrimp . . . salt/pepper/curry - veddy good stuff . . .

 

[YvetteMT]

Elk roast done in the oven with carrots, onions, potatoes. Gravy with mushroom and onion. 

 

lubed up

 

[Neely]

 

We had crumbed flattened chicken breast with scalloped potatoes, broccoli, and roast pumpkin...that‘s the pumpkin with the skin facing… didn’t eat the skin this time, sometimes do, sometimes don’t. 

 

 

[Honkman]

Potato Salad with Pears and Radicchio - potatoes, peas, shallots, pears, radicchio and manchego are mixed with vegetable broth, olive oil, white wine vinegar, dijon mustard and lemon juice. Served with the obligatory wiener wuerstchen

[liuzhou]

Mala fried rice with beef and squid and fried dried daikon radish. Sichuan flavours.

 

 

 

[liamsaunt]

Some recent dinners.  Friday we had local bay scallops over angel hair in a lemon sauce with toasted panko

 

 

Saturday was fish and chips, made with hake. 

 

 

 

Monday I wanted a big plate of veggies, so we had a NY Times recipe for roasted root vegetables in a creamy coconut sauce with brown rice.  I used two kinds of carrots, harukei turnips, watermelon radishes, fennel, and red onions for the vegetables.  Topped with some cashews for crunch.

 

[Steve Irby]

Grilled pork chop dusted with Penzey's Revolution spice blend then finished with a soy-satsuma-honey glaze. 

 

 

[Paul Bacino]

Little tuna salad---soy/ wasabi dressing  i also a a local Greek dressing too

 

[Norm Matthews]

I  was thinking back to the first time I had a taco. I was a teenager in Kansas City and an elderly couple was selling them out of their apartment.  You knocked on the door, came in and sat down while they made them for you.  When mom learned how to make them at home, there was a wire form that held the corn tortillas in hot oil while they were cooking.  

 

I wondered if they still made those taco shell forms.  They do but they aren't shaped like the old ones.  They are more open than regular shells. I got one and today when I asked Charlie if he had any ideas for supper and he said "Tacos",  I used it  and their shape makes them  harder to eat.  I'm going to use up the rest the corn tortillas as flat tostada shells.  And when I have fried up the last of the corn tortillas, I'll go back to getting the store bought taco shells.   Anybody want a 'taco' shell holder?

 

Edited November 20 by Norm Matthews (log)

[DesertTinker]

50 minutes ago, Norm Matthews said:

I  was thinking back to the first time I had a taco. I was a teenager in Kansas City and an elderly couple was selling them out of their apartment.  You knocked on the door, came in and sat down while they made them for you.  When mom learned how to make them at home, there was a wire form that held the corn tortillas in hot oil while they were cooking.  

 

I wondered if they still made those taco shell forms.  They do but they aren't shaped like the old ones.  They are more open than regular shells. I got one and today when I asked Charlie if he had any ideas for supper and he said "Tacos",  I used it  and their shape makes them  harder to eat.  I'm going to use up the rest the corn tortillas as flat tostada shells.  And when I have fried up the last of the corn tortillas, I'll go back to getting the store bought taco shells.   Anybody want a 'taco' shell holder?

 

Yeah, that’s a much more open vee shape than I recall from when my mother got a “taco making” set in the late ‘70s, the sides were maybe an inch apart at the top of the shell. Maybe you, or Charlie, could bend them to be more closed? Unless they’re stainless steel, I suspect that whatever plating is on them would crack and peel, so maybe not a great idea.

Edited November 20 by DesertTinker (log)