Dinner 2024

[YvetteMT]

Mac n cheese.  Rummo GF pasta, gruyere and medium cheddar for cheese. 

[Shel_B]

Red Lentil and Vegetable Soup with carrot, leek, celery, minced serrano, garlic, dried roasted garlic, parnip, gold potato, chunky zucchini, green cabbage, Reggiano rind, fresh ground Kashmiri and chipotle peppers cooked in a homemade brown chicken stock. A little for dinner tonight (sprinkled with some parseley) and the rest stored for later in the week.

 

[Honkman]

One of these dishes which taste as planned by the texture/visuals went into the wrong direction - Beef Stew with Potato Crust

You braise diced beef chuck with onions, tomato paste, paprika, caraway seeds and marjoram. Add some carrots and braise a bit more. Add some red peppers and braise until you have only a little bit of nice viscous braising liquid left. In parallel, you make mashed potatoes with milk, manchego, ghee and nutmeg and top the stew with it before baking it for 20 minutes. Instead of forming the expected potato crust, the mashed potatoes became more liquid and mixed with the braising liquid. The flavor of the dish was great (and as expected) but the texture was obviously quite different than planned

[Shel_B]

8 minutes ago, Honkman said:

Instead of forming the expected potato crust, the mashed potatoes became more liquid and mixed with the braising liquid. The flavor of the dish was great (and as expected) but the texture was obviously quite different than planned

 

 

Why do you think you had this failure? Have you done this before with success?

[Maison Rustique]

The last couple of days I have made potato soup and black-eyed peas (Rancho Gordo) with collards. The BEPs are for New Year's Day--I will take them to Topeka--but I'll be putting some of both the soup and the BEPs in the freezer. And I took a photo of each when I first started but failed to take any of the finished products. I guess I can't multi-task taking pix and cooking anymore. 🙃

 

I've mentioned many times that I have friends who bring me food all the time. I was able to return the favor and took them some potato soup yesterday.

[liamsaunt]

We spent most of this week using the leftovers from Christmas dinner in other meals.  The main course at Christmas for the meat eaters was a rib roast.  Leftovers from that showed up in a sandwich with truffle butter, arugula and parmesan

 

 

Non beef eaters had a fluffy egg sandwich with chipotle aioli instead

 

 

Another night we had miso salmon ramen bowls with napa cabbage and assorted mushrooms in a light veggie miso broth.

 

 

Nephew hates salmon so he had more of the leftover beef, thinly sliced, in his instead, with a broth I made using the leftover beef jus plus ginger, garlic, and szechuan peppercorns. He said it was good. I did not taste it of course.

 

 

Another night I baked a loaf of crusty bread

 

 

And served it with a soup I made to use up all the leftover twice baked potatoes and spinach.  Everyone commented on how tasty it was.  Too bad I will never be able to make it again haha!

 

[rotuts]

@liamsaunt

 

fine looking food.

 

your salmon , w the char , and hopefully on the rare side

 

always looks perfectly inviting 

 

Happy New Year 

 

[YvetteMT]

Mountain lion* in peanut sauce w/ peppers, onion, baby corn. Served with rice. 

 

 

*yes mountain lion aka cougar aka puma aka catamount. There is a hunting season here,  this was an adult male taken by my partner.  The meat is very similar to pork in texture and flavor and is highly regarded by most hunters as a favorite. They are known to carry trichinae so no med rare steaks.

[Kerala]

Kind of a lull through the holidays but still pretty good.

A big pork chop, oven chips, spinach with crushed macadamia nuts and a pinch of chilli flakes, sauce basically cream to deglaze the pan.

[Honkman]

23 hours ago, Shel_B said:

Why do you think you had this failure? Have you done this before with success?

Yes - I have done cottage/sheppard’s pie variations several times and that’s the first time it happened. Not sure why but perhaps I should have cooked done the braising liquid even more

[Honkman]

Zucchini and Feta Pasta with Za’atar Breadcrumbs from “Anything’s Pastable” - you pan-fry zucchini slices until they get nice color. 1/3 of the zucchini get pureed with pasta water, lemon juice and zest and butter to build the sauce. You mix the sauce with the remaining zucchini, pasta, sautéed garlic, red pepper flakes and feta. Finished with za’atar breadcrumbs (sautéed panko mixed with za’atar)

[Paul Bacino]

 

 

Pizza--sausage/ burger/ ham--Provolone cheese

 

 

[Tempest63]

We had our adopted pensioner and another friend who has had a turbulent couple of years around for new year lunch today.

We cooked goose and pork belly. One of our local supermarket chains was selling six duck legs for the price of four, so knowing how much goose fat I would get I bought six and made duck confit for dinners over the next few weeks.

I’m considering a cassoulet if I can find some Toulouse sausages locally.

I often stock up from the ginger pig when I am at Borough Market but a trip into London is not under consideration until I return to work next week.

 

https://boroughmarket.org.uk

 

Edited 18 hours ago by Tempest63 (log)

[gfweb]

@Tempest63 I can get a goose for $120, which is a  lot of money for just a few servings.  I'm sure everywhere else in the world sells it for about $30.

 

Envious.

[Ann_T]

It has been our tradition for 50 plus years to have lobster or Dungeness crab on NY Eve. With a bottle of champagne.

This year we had to do something different because both lobster and crab are high in sodium.

I made one of Moe's favourites -

 

I bought a beautiful piece of Sterling Silver beef tenderloin

 

and made Grilled beef tenderloin kabobs.

Served with rice, steamed green beans and fried mushrooms.

And instead of champagne we had a lovely bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape. A gift from Matthew.

[TicTac]

Adding to the traditional new years spreads, our smorgasbord - highlights include the smoked trout spread, smokey potato soup w crispy smoked turkey and cabbage and an epic double cured gravlax - 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Double cure really firmed up and intensified the super fresh salmon - money shot:

[C. sapidus]

Mrs. C said we had some cooked ground chicken in the fridge, so I volunteered to make keema. Did all the prep: chopped onions, ginger, garlic, chiles, and cilantro. Measured black cardamom, cinnamon stick, ground coriander, ground fenugreek seed, and garam masala. Opened a can of coconut milk.

 

Went in the fridge to find . . . very little ground chicken. 

 

Sooo, dinner was keema-flavored spinach and peas.

 

I did add some gelled chicken stock from making Mexican food last week. It all worked out.

 

Edited 11 hours ago by C. sapidus (log)

[Dejah]

On 12/29/2024 at 1:12 AM, Katie Meadow said:

@Dejah so happy for you having all your family for the holiday. I'm coming to your house next xmas eve. You had me at wonton buffet. 

Come on up!

[Dejah]

The rest of the 2024 story!
BBQ Pork ribs in the oven, siu choy, quick pickled mini cukes, Jasmine rice

                                                                 

 

Pickerel Fish'n'Chips with our usual curry gravy and malt vinegar. Peas seems to be usual veg!

                                                                  

 

Last meal of 2024: 4 hour oven-braised Thai Coconut Curry Lamb Shanks with carrots and celery. Jasmine rice and fresh mint sauce to cut the richness of the coconut milk. Paratha was useful in sopping up the gravy!