Lunch 2025

[OlyveOyl]

1 minute ago, liuzhou said:

 

I love your salad picture!

Thank you, red cabbage is a good looker! An unusual combo but quite tasty.

[KennethT]

A traditional Indonesian padang classic - ayam balado. I'm sure when we're in Jakarta in July, I'll have something balado-ified every day.

[liuzhou]

鱼香肉丝炒面 (yú xiāng ròu sī , fish-flavour* pork slivers with fried noodles, 老干妈 (lǎo gān mā), Laoganma chilli crisp and deep fried tofu. Simple nut tasty.

 

*No aquatic animalia involved; it means cooked with flavours more often associated with cooking fish in Sichuan.

 

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 06:13 AM by liuzhou (log)

[Katie Meadow]

For my last meal before heading home to CA we went out to Lee's Bakery on Buford H'way, which is essentially one very long stretch of ethnic strip mall food,  including many Vietnamese. joints. Lee's makes excellent banh mi. They bake their own rolls. I was hoping to score an egg coffee, but they didn't make them, so I settled for Vietnamese iced coffee. In Oakland we used to get Viet coffee served dripping in a glass onto the sweetened condensed milk. About halfway through your meal all the coffee would be dripped. You stir it up together and then a second glass is provided with ice and you pour the coffee mix over the ice. Lately I 've noticed very few places do it that way any more, they just bring you a pre-mixed drink. Too bad. The other way is more fun to wait for and the coffee is always freshly brewed.

 

Our next meal will be dinner on the plane. If inedible as usual, you won't hear it from me. My opinion, not shaken in years, is that the best meal on a plane is the PB &J sandwich that you make yourself at you place of origin and which sits in your backpack for at least six hours until you are starving.

 

My next trip to Asheville and Atlanta won't be until October. If @gulfporterand any other birders are interested I saw two new birds to add to my list, both on Edisto Island: Laughing gulls and Boat-tailed grackles, both probably common on the east coast, but not on the west coast. Here in Decatur and all over the island the cardinals are screaming for their girlfriends, loud and louder. Sadly, my eyesight isn't what it used to be, so major birding in the Carolinas and GA is no longer happening. On the beaches on Edisto there were large flocks of pelicans flying back and forth all the time. So lovely.

 

I did learn one maybe useful fact about South Carolina wildlife, the difference between a Coral snake and a King snake. If red is next to yellow, it's a deadly fellow. If red is next to black you're all right, Jack. 

[Steve Irby]

Lunch was twice fried russets, bagged cabbage slaw mix dressed with sour cream, mayo and homemade sweet pickles which were served with fried turkey wings.  The wings were previously cooked sous vide and I gave them a quick fry to give a little color.   The potatoes and slaw were the star of the meal and the turkey got a passing grade but barely.  Thanks goodness that I fried them outside on my grill's side burner.  There was a lot of sputtering and cussing while frying the wings and I'll probably use about a half a bottle of Shout Out on the grease spots on my shirt.

 

  

[OlyveOyl]

Lamb patty with just enough hot sausage for a little mouth tingling.Griddled both the patty ( onions, garlic, green herbs, mustard, etc.) and the sourdough bread. The  sourdough got a swipe of tapenade, the patty got some melted Gouda.  Topped with tomatoes and snippets of chervil, lunch was served.

[liuzhou]

A little lunch

 

Stewed river snails, chicken and pickled bamboo

 

Crayfish with Ginger and Chilli

 

 

Edited Thursday at 01:24 PM by liuzhou (log)

[weinoo]

Pulled out the old plancha/mini baking steel, which is awesome since it only weighs 15 lbs., as opposed to the larger one at 25 lbs.

 

 

Jambon de Paris, comté, beurre, moutarde on Foxface's NY Deli Rye. Awesome.

[OlyveOyl]

Some sausage nibbles with a mustard dip for starters.

Followed by tortellini with a lamb, eggplant ragu.

 

A little clean out the fridge day.

[KennethT]

Indonesian style bison patties (v2.0) with sambal ijo

 

Cucumber pickle 

[Duvel]

Roastbeef with a sweet soy glaze and a (unfortunately broken and dispersed by the time of picture taking) raw egg yolk …

 

[weinoo]

21 hours ago, KennethT said:

Cucumber pickle 

 

How do you make your pickles?

[KennethT]

1 hour ago, weinoo said:

 

How do you make your pickles?

It's a quick pickle....  smash cucumbers, removing seeds.  For about a pound of cucumbers, I cover with about a tablespoon of sugar, mix well, then rest 10-15 min to draw out moisture.  Then drain well, and add a bunch of salt (I don't really measure, but probably a couple teaspoons?), about 1/2t MSG, 1/3t chicken powder, minced garlic and/or sliced shallots and 2T rice vinegar or lime juice or a combination thereof.  Let sit 5 minutes minimum, taste and add more salt if needed, then add the sliced chillies just before serving so they don't start wilting.

 

The Chinese YouTube chef, Wang Gang, once said that using the sugar first will keep the cucumbers crisp even once in the salt for a while and I find that it works well.  Since you wind up draining the sugar water, they're not too sweet - just to set off the vinegar.