Dinner 2025

[FauxPas]

48 minutes ago, Duvel said:

Artichokes, homemade Italian sausage (very fennel forward) & chili oil …

 

I adore artichoke on pizza. My fave combo is artichoke, Feta, kalamata olives. But wow, yours just looks so amazingly good! 

[rotuts]

quite hot here , and will be for the next several days .  94 F now , indoors 78 f and humid

 

so , a salad.

 

mine starts w Tj spinach , Campari tomatoes , sauerkraut , Kimchi ( marketbasket ) .

 

added GE-IDS turkey ( initial version , no bacon wrap )

 

 

then a little EVOO , and a little of the saved pork drippings from the GE-IDS :

 

 

melted in the Micro 

 

 

added dried cherries , dried cranberries , and dry roasted pecans ( no salt )  

 

 

and  the Bottom-of-the-Bag generic mini shredded wheat.  dont toss this out , its very tasty , but you have to add it at the last minute to 

 

keep the crunch 

 

 

mixed

 

 

delicious.

 

tomorrow 1/2 as much , and 1/4 as much pork drippings.   very tasty , smoky , but a little goes a very long way.

[C. sapidus]

Shrimp and zucchini al mojo de ajo: Saute garlic and onion, blend with chicken stock. Sear shrimp in the garlicky oil and remove. Sear zucchini, add cilantro, Mexican oregano, and the garlic puree, and cook down. Add shrimp and leftover walleye, finish with lime juice, and serve over leftover green rice. Pretty tasty for a night when neither of us had planned a meal.

 

Edited Sunday at 10:48 PM by C. sapidus
Forgot lime, rude typo (log)

[gfweb]

Tonkatsu pork (with sloppy saucing) and sweet potato fries with a zesty bbq aioli.

 

Edited Monday at 02:42 AM by gfweb (log)

[blue_dolphin]

Copying @Duvel’s pizza and movie night with this puttanesca pan pizza with tomatoes, onions, anchovies, and olives from Pizza Night by Alexandra Stafford.

 

 

On the relatively small screen will be the recent Marcella documentary. 
It will air on PBS on JULY 11, 2025 as part of the "American Masters" series and will be available in their streaming services as well.

[Ddanno]

22 minutes ago, blue_dolphin said:

Copying @Duvel’s pizza and movie night with this puttanesca pan pizza with tomatoes, onions, anchovies, and olives from Pizza Night by Alexandra Stafford.

 

 

On the relatively small screen will be the recent Marcella documentary. 
It will air on PBS on JULY 11, 2025 as part of the "American Masters" series and will be available in their streaming services as well.

I'd devour it and ask for seconds, but that's a gorgeous focaccia if you ask me (you shouldn't ask me) 

[Neely]

In Ireland, the food in general was very different to what we had been eating in Provence… naturally!!. 

Lots of fresh seafood presented in a more ‘normal / ordinary’ way. 
 

Salmon and salad with mashed potato!

 

 

Seafood platter

 

 

 

 

And a Guinness of course

 

 

[liuzhou]

海鲜炒米粉 (hǎi xiān chǎo mǐ fěn), seafood fried rice noodles.

 

 

 

[Maison Rustique]

You all are killing me with these pizzas!! I might need take-out tonight.

[Ddanno]

28 minutes ago, Maison Rustique said:

You all are killing me with these pizzas!! I might need take-out tonight.

Yeah same, I've finally found a decent place near me that doesn't charge ridiculous prices (Hi Domino's you utter *&^£#×s)

[rotuts]

@neely  

 

your dinner look delicious .

 

that Guinness looks a little ' light '

 

Im not a fan , but I thought G was much darker.

 

at least it seemed to be to be , the last time I was in Ireland.

 

There is some fine eating in Ireland these days I hear ,

 

way back when , not so much.

Edited Monday at 01:50 PM by rotuts (log)

[Dejah]

I had poached a chicken for my brother, who just started dialysis. He had the ginger, scallion, sesame oil dip but missed the salt..."=(
The poaching broth was amazing, with just ginger and scallions. I used some to cook the rice that we had for supper.
To make it a quick supper for us, I opened a can of fried dace, and stir-fried some Shanghai Bok Choy wit a few shrimp.
                                                               

Fish again last night: Blackened Manitoba pickerel, homemade perogies by a friend, peas, and Cavendish sweet potato fries (hubby's request)

                                                    

Picked up Guy Fieri's Chipotle sauce for the fries.

[Ann_T]

Easy dinner tonight.

 

Chicken Souvlaki on the grill, served over rice

 

with fried zucchini drizzled with a yogurt sauce with garlic, squeeze of lemon and dill .

[Neely]

@rotuts Yes it does look a bit pale for Guinness but I’m pretty sure we had Guinness at that place. Maybe just the way the light is shining on the glass. 

At another place I had seafood chowder which was creamy and delicious. By creamy I mean It was made with actual cream. It was served with brown soda bread. I found some of this famous Irish bread to be better than others. 
 

 

Fresh smoked salmon with salad

 

This was a glass of Lucozade for those who remember. 

 

 

 

Monks at the Pier Ballyvaughan, County Clare, Ireland

 

[Ddanno]

22 hours ago, rotuts said:

@neely  

 

your dinner look delicious .

 

that Guinness looks a little ' light '

 

Im not a fan , but I thought G was much darker.

 

at least it seemed to be to be , the last time I was in Ireland.

 

There is some fine eating in Ireland these days I hear ,

 

way back when , not so much.

 

That's definitely not Guinness, the foam is too airy and you can't shine light through it without a laser beam. I'd guess it's a dark bitter

[liuzhou]

@Neely

 

I'm 99.99% certain that isn't Guinness in your last picture. However, there is Guinness in your first.

 

 

[rotuts]

As I thought.

[Neely]

Sorry, but I guess that’s the way they serve Guinness in that pub in Ireland because it was definitely Guinness and as @liuzhou mentions that the small amount left in the glass in the first photos shows Guinness and that’s the same glass. The light is reflecting off the glass not through it. 

[liuzhou]

22 minutes ago, Neely said:

Sorry, but I guess that’s the way they serve Guinness in that pub in Ireland because it was definitely Guinness and as @liuzhou mentions that the small amount left in the glass in the first photos shows Guinness and that’s the same glass. The light is reflecting off the glass not through it. 

 

 

How unusual. I've been photographing Guinness for years on three different continents and never seen anything like that. It must be a peculiarity of the light rather than how the pub serves their Guinness. Coloured light, perhaps.

 

 

[Neely]

So you guys had me second guessing myself about the Guinness, so I got in touch with my son who lives in Sydney and asked him what we had to drink there. It turns out you were right, I did have a Guinness but the photo I had taken was of his Smithwicks beer brewed in Kilkenny. Hope that’s all cleared up now. 

[liuzhou]

15 minutes ago, Neely said:

So you guys had me second guessing myself about the Guinness, so I got in touch with my son who lives in Sydney and asked him what we had to drink there. It turns out you were right, I did have a Guinness but the photo I had taken was of his Smithwicks beer brewed in Kilkenny. Hope that’s all cleared up now. 

 

Thanks for letting us know. It was never a big issue. Irish pubs have that effect. Love them!

 

 

[liuzhou]

Miserable day. I awoke this morning at 6:30 and crawled to the kitchen around 7:00 to find I had no water supply. Now 8:30pm and still none.  A major city-wide failure. I've never known anything like it.

 

So no cooking. I managed to find  a tiny pocket of the city with a functioning watered restaurant and ordered this for delivery. I don't know what you call it but the restaurant and I call it a Sichuan flavour boneless chicken and salad wrap. They offer it sauced in four spiciness levels: un-spiced, mildly spiced, damn spicy and what I would call volcanic but for some reason, they call 'tequila'. I went for damn spicy.

 

And damn fine it was, too, despite its looks. 

 

 

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by liuzhou (log)

[Paul Bacino]

Bok Choy/Ckn tortilla

 

[liamsaunt]

I've been cooking and taking pictures, but have not been posting. So, apologies for the dinner photo dump!  A clean out the fridge dinner of stir fried chicken, peppers, garlic scapes, and bok choy with lots of scallions and cilantro

 

 

There was an old bag of pretty stale potato chips in the pantry, so I crushed them up, coated chicken with them, and served it over a big salad. 

 

 

My CSA gave me about three pounds of spinach, so I made it into a pasta sauce to use a bunch of it up in one meal.

 

 

Another clean out the fridge dinner of roasted peppers, broccolini and cherry tomatoes with feta over garlicky orzo

 

 

We had fajitas another night.  No pictures of those, but I used the leftovers to make big salads on the day it was 101 degrees here.  Steak salad for husband, niece and nephew

 

 

and chicken salad for my sister and me.

 

 

Last night I tried a NY Times Cooking recipe for grilled honey-lemon-tahini chicken thighs, served with rice pilaf, flatbread, and yet another salad.  I thought I had finally made a good dent in the salad greens from my CSA, but they dropped off a box this morning with seven more heads of lettuce in it...