Dinner 2025

[C. sapidus]

For SIL's last meal here we went out to Wye Oak Tavern, a Voltaggio restaurant in a de-consecrated abbey.

 

Instead of getting mains we dined on appetizers and sides. Started with coddies - salted cod brandade, cauliflower tartar sauce, cauliflower giardiniera (not pictured)

 

Rest of the meal, from top left:

 

House salad - iceberg lettuce, carrot vinaigrette, lime yogurt, chickpea crunch

Shells & cheese - toasted panko, aged cheddar, chives

Spiced sweet potatoes - pomegranate molasses, lime yogurt

Broccoli rabe - broccoli chimichurri, crushed red pepper, crispy garlic

Crab cake - shishito emulsion, blue corn tortilla, buttermilk lime crema

Smoked beet pastrami - gruyere cheese funnel cake, thousand island dressing

Macaroni - dry aged beef bolognese, fontina fondue

 

My favorites were the sweet potato and broccoli rabe. After a little walking around we stopped for a flight of ice cream - roasted strawberry, caramel crunch, butter pecan, and honey graham.

 

Edited Wednesday at 05:57 PM by C. sapidus (log)

[blue_dolphin]

2 hours ago, C. sapidus said:

Instead of getting mains we dined on appetizers and sides

My favorite sort of dining out - excellent choices, too!

[Ddanno]

5 minutes ago, blue_dolphin said:

My favorite sort of dining out - excellent choices, too!

It's one of mine too, I've often picked four starters I want to eat before getting down to the main courses on a menu

[Duvel]

8 hours ago, rotuts said:

BTW :  what are these antenna used for ?

 

 

II havent seen these in quite a while .

 

probably not for getting Cooking Shows, as the Locals seem to have cooking down pat.

Yeah … as @Ddanno said: terrestrial TV (and/or radio) reception. Unlikely to be useful anymore, but who knows ..!?

[Norm Matthews]

Charlie had dental work yesterday and the dentist put him on a soft food diet for the next couple of weeks.  I decided to make Italian Wedding Soup for dinner. It isn't something you might think of making in the middle of August but the meat balls are small and soft, plus It's nutritional and tasty.

[rotuts]

@Norm Matthews

 

Italian Wedding Soup is my second favorite soup , after Bean w Bacon.

 

You IWS looks perfect .

[liamsaunt]

Chicken katzu, rice, salad

 

[Norm Matthews]

5 hours ago, rotuts said:

@Norm Matthews

 

Italian Wedding Soup is my second favorite soup , after Bean w Bacon.

 

You IWS looks perfect .

Thank you.  Italian Wedding Soup ranks high with me too. If gumbo qualifies to be called a soup, then it's my favorite.

[Norm Matthews]

The second day of his soft food diet was chicken thighs baked with peaches, basil, dry sherry, garlic and fresh ginger. I didn't post the recipe on my blog because both of us agreed that is wasn't worth making again.

[Honkman]

Broccoli Soup with Shrimps and Rice - broccoli gets cooked with ginger, garlic, scallions, jalapeño and soy sauce in vegetable broth. Quickly seared shrimps get added in the last minute. Served with rice

[Dante]

Polish Beans, Breton Style, over rice

[Dante]

French Tacos, side of steamed corn

[rotuts]

@Norm Matthews

 

I agree with you .  Gumbo , unfortunately , has GBP in the mix.

 

just imagine how much better g would be W/O GBP's

 

 

[Maison Rustique]

@rotuts, GBP???

 

Nevermind--green bell peppers--just figured it out.

Edited 2 hours ago by Maison Rustique
Just figured it out. (log)

[rotuts]

Another layer dinner :

 

Mise

 

kimchi // sauerkraut // Campari // red onion // window green onion  light sprinkle of Penzey's Pico

 

 

eggs from the refrig , warming to room temp on the counter .  humid day it seems

 

 

TJ's Fz Naan-ish , generic ( USA ) swiss .  its been in the crisper a while , ' extra flavor '

 

 

30 second Micro.  Naan starts frozen.  cheese refig.  I like this swiss for sadwiches :  melt to a very nice ' chew ' 

 

and is a bit nutty .

 

 

careful torching

 

 

soft scrambled eggs w butter .  Most here can see this is not an omelette .

 

 

Mise on top.

 

what ever you want to call this , its delicious and now in the regular rotation .  N.B. the bit of jus from the mise.  soaks in nicely 

 

w this type of bread .  all ingredients very readily available.  seasoning on the Mise might change , but not by much.

 

Edited 56 minutes ago by rotuts (log)