Dinner 2024

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

3 hours ago, Smithy said:

Part of last night's dinner. I tried again to get the perfect sear on my steak over a charcoal fire without overdoing the interior. I missed again... took the steak out of the freezer too soon, I think. The flavor was good but there wasn't any pink inside.

 

 

The only time I've gotten the desired doneness and sear over an open flame was cooking a not-quite-thawed steak over a campfire. It was an accident then. When I've tried to plan ahead I've let the steak thaw too much and fluffed the result! Or maybe, as I speculated at the time, it was just dumb luck. 🙂

 

 

Just curious. How thick was that steak? 

 

 

[Smithy]

2 hours ago, Senior Sea Kayaker said:

 

Just curious. How thick was that steak? 

 

 

 

Just a bit shy of an inch thick. My ruler says the leftover bit is about 7/8".

[Miss K]

McCormick bag and season pork, rice, and canned greens.  
 

 

[Honkman]

Pan-asian inspired ground beef and vegetables stir-fry - Using a mortar you make a paste out of ginger, fresno chili, garlic and brown sugar and afterwards add some rice vinegar and fish sauce. Sautéed some broccoli, onion, scallions and tomatoes. In a second pan sautéed ground beef and added the vegetables and paste before adding sake and reduce it first a few minutes. Finished with some mint and served either jasmine rice.

[Ann_T]

Got a great deal on chicken this week.

 

Thrifty's, where I buy most of my meats had big roasting chickens on for buy one get one free.

So I bought four.  All weighing over four pounds, between $22 and $24 each.   So it ended up costing 

less than $48 for about $100 worth of chicken.

 

 

I left one whole and broke the remaining chickens down into legs, left one breast whole with the wings attached

and cut the other two whole breasts in half, with wings

 

 

and vacuum sealed and froze all but the whole chicken.

 

   

 

Last night's dinner was a roast chicken dinner,

 

 

with dressing, mashed potatoes, rutabaga, green beans and lots of gravy.

[Maison Rustique]

@Ann_T, your freezer must be ginormous!

 

Another hot weather/bad pain meal for me. Cottage cheese with a healthy glop of tzatziki (a delicious combo and went perfectly with tomato) and my sister and BIL's home grown tomato. Ate some potato chips with, but I was really wishing I had a nice hot, buttered biscuit.  (Too hot to even think about turning on the oven.

 

[Tropicalsenior]

43 minutes ago, Ann_T said:

So I bought four

So wish that we had a WOW emoji.

[Ann_T]

 

 

On 7/24/2024 at 5:57 AM, Maison Rustique said:

@Ann_T, your freezer must be ginormous!

I love my freezer. 

 

I replaced a small chest style freezer that didn't get used much with a LG freezer with shelves and drawers during Covid when

was buying and freezing more than in the past.

 

I recently bought the matching LG all fridge that Moe calls my bread /baking fridge.  

 

Our favourite way to use leftover roast chicken breast.

Hot chicken sandwiches on homemade bread, twice fried fries, peas and gravy.

[mgaretz]

The heat here continues, so cold dinner of tuna salad with carrots, celery, cucumber, red bell pepper and avocado.