Dinner 2025

[liamsaunt]

20 hours ago, Tropicalsenior said:

Everything you make always looks great but I get a special twang of envy when I see your flatbread. Try as I might, even with your recipe I can't get it to look like that. Do you use much grease on your griddle? Do you use oil or butter or what?

 

I do not use any oil on the griddle.  I cook the bread in a dry cast iron skillet, and then run butter over it when it comes off.  

 

4 hours ago, KennethT said:

What do you use to truffle your m&c?

 

In this case, I used some canned Urbani truffle cream sauce that my sister gave me in my Christmas stocking.  I think she bought it at Eataly.  The mushrooms on top are just roasted blue oyster mushrooms with truffle salt on them.

 

Last night, we had coconut fish curry with cod (and broccoli that I added to veg it up a bit), and rice with dill. lemon, and butter.  Both the curry and rice recipes are from Meera Sodha's Made in India cookbook.

 

[KennethT]

1 hour ago, liuzhou said:

 

By apple eggplant, do you mean the first one in this post? They can be eaten raw, just like apples.

Yes, the first ones.  They also had the middle ones but like you, I wasn't a huge fan since they can be bitter - but I think that's what they like about them - especially when a curry has some palm sugar in it like most do.

[liuzhou]

4 minutes ago, KennethT said:

Yes, the first ones.  They also had the middle ones but like you, I wasn't a huge fan since they can be bitter - but I think that's what they like about them - especially when a curry has some palm sugar in it like most do.

 

Yes. I do sometimes use the small bitter ones to counteract sweet stuff. But generally I do have a relatively high bitterness tolerance.

[Norm Matthews]

Charlie asked for Korean fried chicken.  We had it with rice, kimchi and pork bulgogi that was left over from a couple days ago

[liuzhou]

晒兰 (shài lán) ham and shrimps with green 樟树港辣椒 (zhāng shù gǎng là jiāo), zhangshugang chilli and red 指天椒 (zhǐ tiān jiāo) pointing to heaven chillies, garlic, ginger, Shaoxing wine and Chaoshan fish sauce. Served with rice and  stir-fried snow peas.

 

 

 

 

Edited 14 hours ago by liuzhou (log)

[gulfporter]

23 hours ago, Maison Rustique said:

I also got caught up in Googling Chili ash sauce. I found many recipes and know I'd never make it. If weather ever gets better, I'll try visiting a Mexican market and see if I can find a jarred version.

 

Ceniza = Ash    

Found this on AMZN MX   https://www.amazon.com.mx/Karai-Mx-Chile-Habanero-ceniza/dp/B0DC8YXJXJ/ref=sr_1_9?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.jnVlt_alJfm_gMugIIrzGi5C0ydRmV3tahytUwCSbKI7Vjaw1T_zVOc8C5gAAaljmgwTlYXR-54TBCqNfA1vWzNTC1aRPa0fJBWSppurypda6mlISEQMWuIqkv2Ak9w3kPYFhmJpZobov3leHkoB9Fbpzg1hSXiQAzW6zsLI39vCyqfDIlf0IXLvhy7sCtyHiCoVnh8iTKVehYdJWBcDfDRHUogmAA5pOY2wjozpYMGJHD6OdiHa_puwXCgI_tNAGOAedDlvQG82BnHMVu3TC_rmfzvuRjlYvZmRPtyTeMfWeWiO1ngBtcrkS_oMAbS0FKMyaEl1IIrFa6DbJ8CAqAJiwE_aBQBvEod9HlrLsXq910GFjmzkhoXfxAQ3vdQd0i4xpXivCxcn2A14cVtoV5HbpHqr7qTYuQsEI0zzoJDWb0REjGQmLWs8c670_P0p.Itp8F0M2oiijBedVIngdpCL0qMfSvzIUIgC1Q2-u77s&dib_tag=se&keywords=chile+habanero&qid=1736687063&sr=8-9&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.de93fa6a-174c-4df7-be7c-5bc8e9c5a71b

[gulfporter]

Chicken and Cauliflower in a Pumpkin Coconut Curry.

 

 

[Shelby]

@Norm MatthewsThat Korean chicken looks delicious

 

@liuzhouAs usual the shrimp look just out of the ocean --so fresh

 

Of course, the holidays are responsible for making us cheat more on the not trying to eat a lot of carbs thing sigh.  I'm trying to get back on track-ish lol.  It's really hard, especially in the winter with no garden, to think of new dinner ideas.  I'm wearing out google lol.

 

Venison meatloaf, low carb brown gravy over mashed cauliflower and canned beans

 

 

Salad and vegetable soup

 

 

 

Cabbage going south so an Asian-ish salad

 

 

Along with @JAZ's Ramen with Pork and Snow Peas from her Super Easy Instant Pot Cookbook

 

My apologies to Janet, I had to change it a bit because I had no snow peas so I subbed broccoli and I had a yellow bell pepper going south so I used that too.  I used carb free noodles that were added at the end after cooking.  Good stuff!

 

Oh and I also over cooked the eggs sigh.  

 

[TdeV]

On 1/10/2025 at 5:01 PM, Margaret Pilgrim said:

My method, actually a dumbed down version of French Laundry, is similar to  yours but Iet the meat marinate overnight in the wine and veg combo.   As you say, outstanding!

 

Below is the FIRST post:

 

On 1/7/2025 at 4:41 PM, gulfporter said:

https://littlesunnykitchen.com/instant-pot-oxtail/

 

I've used this recipe a few times.  My changes are:

I use 8 to 10 carrots, cut in 1 to 2 inch chunks

I use a really large onion, large size chop (not diced)

I use 4-5 garlic cloves, halved

I use 1 cup hearty red wine (whatever I have on hand, usually Tempranillo, Carmenere, Red Zin)

I use 1 1/2 cups beef broth or chicken broth 

I use much more cracked black pepper than called for, to our taste

I set the Instant Pot for 55 minutes; let it depressurize naturally (allow at least 35-40 minutes)

When I open the Instant Pot, I either:

Remove the oxtails and veg then set the Instant Pot on High Sauté until liquid is reduced quite a bit, almost by half.  

Or, drain off the liquid from the Instant Pot into a saucepan and boil it down stovetop to about half.    

 

My one gripe about Instant Pot is the amount of liquid I'm left with, but my pot has Warning!! do not underfill with liquid.  So that's why I end up reducing the liquid afterward. 

 

@Margaret Pilgrim, googling doesn't turn up Thomas Keller's recipe for oxtail. Particularly the part about marinating overnight. Could you please offer some clues?

 

[liuzhou]

2 hours ago, Shelby said:

 

@liuzhouAs usual the shrimp look just out of the ocean --so fresh

 

Yes. I buy them live. They were still kicking until minutes before they hit the wok.

[Shelby]

11 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

 

Yes. I buy them live. They were still kicking until minutes before they hit the wok.

I know.  Rub it in why don'cha

 

 

 

 

[RWood]

Still freezing here, so soup mode. Made a quick corn chowder.