Lunch 2025

[liuzhou]

After breakfast I felt hungry, so lunch came up a bit earlier than usual.

 

A home made beef burger on ciabatta. With a nice Rioja. 

 

 

Thinking about dinner, now.

 

 

[liuzhou]

Stir fried ostrich with enoki mushrooms. Served with rice.

 

 

 

[Steve Irby]

Lunch was spaghetti with a quick meat sauce made with Rao's Marinara.  Served with a couple of grilled links of homemade Italian onion sausage, Salsiccia di Cipolla.  The recipe for the sausage came from the Len Poli Sonoma Mountain Sausage site.  I've prepared a number of the sausage formulations over the years and they have all been excellent. All of the recipes open as pdf files so it's very easy to build a sausage library!

 

 

 

[Okanagancook]

Steve, incredible looking sausage!

[liuzhou]

Lunch was a bit of a disaster. I took some mushrooms - shiitake; jade gill mushrooms (海鲜菇 hǎi xiān gū) Hypsizygus tessellatus; and pig stomach mushrooms (猪肚菇 zhū dù gū), Infundibulicybe gibba and fried them with some shallot.

 

 

 

Then I attempted an omelette made with a goose egg, something I've done many times, but made a careless but critical mistake. It is my habit when making omelettes with chicken or duck eggs to add a splash of water to the beaten eggs - makes for a lighter result. However, it doesn't work with goose eggs - something I momentarily forgot!

 

Instead of making the egg fluffier, it weakened the walls of the omelette and it fell apart when I attempted to transfer it to my plate. It tasted great but looked like a train wreck. 

 

 

 

Well, at least I know what I did wrong.  😬

 

 

[johnnyd]

Yum Nua - Thai Beef Salad

 

[Smithy]

9 hours ago, johnnyd said:

Yum Nua - Thai Beef Salad

 

 

Details, please! It looks enticing. What sort of dressing did you use, if any?

[johnnyd]

14 hours ago, Smithy said:

 

Details, please! It looks enticing. What sort of dressing did you use, if any?

 

Yes!  Simple and fast.

2 tablespoons grated palm sugar (We buy it in six-pack discs)

2 tablespoons nam pla or any fish sauce

The juice of one lime

one or two thai bird chiles - available frozen, takes a minute to thaw in water, scrape out seeds

 

Make a bed of arugala baby lettuce, apply sliced shallots, tomato, cukes, leftover filet mignon, cilantro, mint if you got it.

 

Bon appetit