Dinner 2025

[Ann_T]

Roast beef dinner tonight.

Sterling Silver Medallion cut Top Sirloin roast.

 

Skipped the Yorkshire puddings tonight and just kept it simple with

mashed potatoes, au jus, and buttered peas. And extra hot horseradish

[gfweb]

@Ann_T Beautiful, except I feel cheated out of the YP 😉

[Honkman]

Fusili al Pesto Trapanese from “Four Seasons of Pasta” - pesto is made with roasted almonds, basil, evoo, garlic and crushed red peppers and mixed before serving with peeled, deseeded, salted (to get rid of water) and diced tomatoes. Topped with roasted panko crumbs

[C. sapidus]

Heading back from Havre de Grace, MD, so I had to stop for crabcakes at Conrad's Crabs and Seafood Market. The fresh seafood looked amazing, wish I had brought a cooler.

 

 

Crabcakes with mustardy tartar sauce. Good, but maybe I should have splurged for the jumbo over backfin.

 

 

Crab dip - very rich, this would have been better for sharing

 

[weinoo]

8 hours ago, C. sapidus said:

Heading back from Havre de Grace, MD, so I had to stop for crabcakes at Conrad's Crabs and Seafood Market. The fresh seafood looked amazing, wish I had brought a cooler.

 

 

That Susquehanna delta is pretty awesome!

 

 

Marcella's Penne col Sugo di Funghi Coltivati.

 

Okay, it's Penne with Mushroom Sauce, a dish I've been cooking ever since I bought the book it's in - which looks like 1987. The book is not in great shape; the recipes still are.

[YvetteMT]

Chicken, mushrooms,  and a cheesy riced cauliflower with broccoli (attempt at more veggies for partner who loved it). Not pictured- the sweet potatoes that weren't done when I ate but were when partner did)

[Ann_T]

11 hours ago, gfweb said:

@Ann_T Beautiful, except I feel cheated out of the YP 😉

I kind of felt cheated too.  But I knew that neither of us was going to be hungry enough for the Yorkshires. 

[Raamo]

Hmm what to make for dinner... how about pasta.  Final jar of Tomatoes my wife grew last summer.

 

So sauce is San Marzano Tomatoes, Garlic, Onions, Basil, spices.  Plenty of fake parm from Wisconsin on top.

 

Bread is sourdough I let rise to be very fluffy and then my wife made into garlic bread and froze it.

We used to buy Texas Toast from the grocery store... but this is just as good and we made it!

 

Wine is a 2016 HDV Ysabel Pinot Noir   

 

[Honkman]

Kohlrabi and Soy Sauce-Seared Tofu Salad from “Ever-Green Vietnamese” by Andrea Nguyen - very nice mix of flavors and textures. The salad had coarsely shredded kohlrabi and carrots, rehydrated black fungus mushrooms, pan-seared tofu (which was quickly marinated in soy sauce), coarsely ground, toasted sesame seeds, cilantro and mint with a vinaigrette made with fish sauce, lime juice, agave syrup, serrano chili and garlic

[Maison Rustique]

It was fast food for me last night. Air-fried chicken breast strips and sauteed ginger garlic vegetables from a kit. Quick and easy and pretty tasty.

 

After supper, my neighbor popped over with one of her daughter's pastry boxes. So, peach croissant for dessert. Yum!!

[YvetteMT]

Sabatasso gf pizza (cheese). Added ham, mushrooms, olives, tomato and onion to my side.  Partners without tomato or mushroom. 

 

@Shel_B for your sister- the sabatasso is my favorite gf pizza. (3 pack at Costco is about $16 and it's a seasonal item).

Kirkland has a nice one full of peppers, pepperoni etc that while the cauliflower crust is good, has too many peppers for me but partner really likes it. 

 

[weinoo]

On 6/3/2025 at 12:38 AM, C. sapidus said:

 

 

Look what you made me do (though not quite as pretty as that one above):

 

 

Jumbo lump, however...

 

 

And we each ate one of these as well:

 

 

With tzatziki.

 

Edited Wednesday at 01:19 PM by weinoo (log)

[Shel_B]

57 minutes ago, YvetteMT said:

Sabatasso gf pizza (cheese). Added ham, mushrooms, olives, tomato and onion to my side.  Partners without tomato or mushroom. 

 

 

@Shel_B for your sister- the sabatasso is my favorite gf pizza. (3 pack at Costco is about $16 and it's a seasonal item).

Kirkland has a nice one full of peppers, pepperoni etc that while the cauliflower crust is good, has too many peppers for me but partner really likes it. 

 

@YvetteMT Thanks so much for the heads up.  I've a Costco run coming up and I'll take a look at the item. I don't know if my sister is a Costcoista.

[rotuts]

A standard favorite :

 

 

Linguini w fresh Campari , basil and garlic ( Dorot Fz ), Penzey's Tuscan seasoning , EVOO and butter , two eggs a la Carbonara , grated Tj's parmesan-ish , window green onions.

 

as good as its always been.

Edited Wednesday at 02:59 PM by rotuts (log)

[Ann_T]

14 hours ago, Maison Rustique said:

 

After supper, my neighbor popped over with one of her daughter's pastry boxes. So, peach croissant for dessert. Yum!!

Your daughter's pastry box is really something.   I think I would start with that peach croissant. 

Roasted a small rack of pork. Just two bones.

 

[Neely]

I’ve had no reliable WiFi for a month but hopefully now can post some of the food I’ve been eating in Europe. 

 

We had a meal in Harry’s Bar Venice which is on the Grand Canal just around the corner from St Marks Square ( a sentence I don’t use everyday!!  Smile ). Harry’s Bar is an iconic restaurant in Venice and has been going for nearly a century with its prime being in the 1930’s, 40’s, and 50’s with the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Peggy Guggenheim, Katherine Hepburn, Truman Capote to name drop a few, eating there. 

It seems still as exciting and busily high end as it used to be, with superb service. 

 

Below…We had drinks to start followed by steak tartare and prawn and calamari tartare

 

 

below… I had this dish which is quite famous in Venice and to this restaurant in particular… Creamed dried cod with polenta. I liked it very much, salty and creamy… I never liked polenta much but after this one, I now can say I like it

 

 

 

 

Below… my son had this ravioli dish

 

 

Below…

one of the desserts, 

 

 

 

Below… the actual kitchen is so tiny that the meals are presented onto customers plates in the restaurant by the waiters. 

 

 

Below, very blurred photo but you can just see that there is a little white dog in a ladies handbag in the restaurant. 

 

 

I will post some Breakfast photos under the Breakfast heading

The photos aren’t very good at showing off the food because I didn’t like to make a fuss of taking food photos and just quickly snapped where I could. 

 

[Dr. Teeth]

BLT made by Mrs Dr Teeth.   Benton’s bacon and sourdough bread from a rather good French bakery near us.   Tomato was only ok.   Still a bit early in the season.  

[rotuts]

the direct sibling of the Linguini w Campari , is 

 

 

Linguini w Pork Ragu ' iPot'   how that is made is in the iPot thread.

 

Linguini , Pork ragu , some butter and EVOO , and one egg , a la Carbonara   TJ's Parmesian-ish , window green on ions.

 

I make sure to use enough hot pasta water so the mix-up looks like this :

 

 

note there is a little sauce , if you will , around the edges.

 

fantastic stuff.   and as you can see , in the manner of Italy , it's about the Linguini .

 

 

 

[Steve Irby]

Looks like it's been a good week for pasta!  Tonight's dinner was homemade cheese ravioli with Italian oyster mushrooms topped with parmesan reggiano.   

 

[C. sapidus]

On 6/4/2025 at 9:19 AM, weinoo said:

 

 Look what you made me do . . .  Jumbo lump, however...

 

 

No, look what YOU made ME do . . . also jumbo lump.

 

To be fair, elder son was visiting . . .

 

[TdeV]

On 6/3/2025 at 8:15 PM, Raamo said:

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Bread is sourdough I let rise to be very fluffy and then my wife made into garlic bread and froze it.

 

Looks very inviting!

How did your wife make the garlic bread?

[Honkman]

Chile and Tangerine Braised Lentils with Wiener Wuerstchen from “Full of Flavor” by Maria Elia - puy lentils are cooked with onions, carrots, celery, serrano chili and garlic in a mixture of vegetable broth and fresh tangerine juice. Once cooked, finished with more tangerine juice and zest, parsley and sour cream. Served with some wiener wuerstchen

[Dejah]

Thank you fellow eGulleteers for the welcome back!
I've been trying to cook every other day. Don't want to overdo it but OH! Feels so good to be back in the kitchen!
Neighbors have been fantastic: Derek's smoked baby back ribs, corn bread, and Caesar salad. He's a land surveyors and often gets home late. I've often left meals on his porch, so I really appreciate his reciprocity!

 

Another friend brought dessert! Red Velvet cake - so good!

                                                                                       

One of our sons live in St. John's, Newfoundland. He flew home to be with Dad while I was in the hospital. He works as IT and can work from anywhere. Luckily, his head office is in Winnipeg, where the hospital is. He loves lamb but his family doesn't. So we collaborated on a lamb dinner before he headed back home.
                                                                                      
 

My brother was in the city and brought me dim sum home for supper! I SO enjoyed the chicken feet! The small ribs were simmered in black bean sauce, so I sauteed some Roma beans together with the ribs to warm them up.

                                                                                        

Tonight, I combined some beef meat balls (pulled out of freezer meant for a meal 2 days ago!) with tofu and egg plant for MaPo tofu. Lots of rice was consumed.

                                                                                         

 

A local abattoir and meat store had smoked chicken advertised. 1/2 chickens for $3.99. Picked up one for my brother, one for our eldest son, and one for us. Supper will be easy!