Dinner 2025

[Ddanno]

39 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

 

Yeah. I get that. I have friends here who will refuse to walk down certain streets because they contain fruit shops selling durian. I have no problem with coriander or asparagus pee, either. But other smells drive me mad.  

 

 

 

I found it weirdly frustrating. I felt like I should have 'grown into it' sort of like how my Ma would serve vile leather and onions when I was young, but once I tried a flash fried piece of liver with onions on toast I was converted forever.

 

There are very few foods I won't or don't eat*, so it feels like a personal failure on some level.

 

*Coriander isn't food!

Edited Sunday at 07:24 AM by Ddanno (log)

[Maison Rustique]

No recent pix from me either. Like @liuzhou, I simply don't feel like eating much when it is this hot. I eat a lot of fresh tomato with cottage cheese or just a small cheese sandwich. Weather is supposed to cool down a little next week so in anticipation, I bought some baking potatoes to eat with various toppings. I did pick up my first fresh peaches of the summer yesterday (only 2) which I will likely eat with some brie, either a cold plate or a grilled cheese. And one of our oldest Italian restaurants in the area are having a take-out special on Tuesday with around 20 entrees available for $15 each. I am planning to pre-order an eggplant Parm and go early to pick it up so I can sit in their friendly dark bar with a glass of wine to wait for it.

[KennethT]

Padang style grilled chicken.  It's first simmered in gulai which is basically the same ingredients as rendang but still soupy. 

 

Once the chicken was done, it was removed and I kept the gulai going until it thickened to what is called kalio - which was served on the side as like a dipping sauce. I put the chicken in the air fryer rather than actually grilling.

 

 

Served with sambal ijo...

 

Edited yesterday at 02:36 AM by KennethT (log)

[Honkman]

Ricotta Gnudi with Red Pepper-Salsiccia Ragu - one of those dishes were the flavors are spot on but the execution/texture wasn’t perfect. The gnudi barely kept their shape when briefly cooked in water and started to slowly disintegrate - not really sure what went wrong. The gnudi were made with drained ricotta, parmesan, semolina, egg yolks and nutmeg. For the ragu you puree grilled red peppers, tomatoes, walnuts, garlic, smoked paprika, red wine vinegar and olive oil and cook it with crumbled salsiccia. Finished with parmesan, walnuts and some basil

[weinoo]

 

Chicken scarpariello.  There's a wing and a leg on my plate (Significant Eater gets breast meat, carved because I'm such a nice husband), potatoes, Italian sausage, cherry peppers, onions, garlic, white wine, chicken stock, parsley.

[Paul Bacino]

Ckn Enchilada / purple potato/ pickled jalapeno/--sauce---ancho/cherry tomatoes/onion/garlic

 

 

 

[Katie Meadow]

4 hours ago, weinoo said:

 

Chicken scarpariello.  There's a wing and a leg on my plate (Significant Eater gets breast meat, carved because I'm such a nice husband), potatoes, Italian sausage, cherry peppers, onions, garlic, white wine, chicken stock, parsley.

Aww, you're so sweet. My husband is a nice husband too. He eats all the breast meat and the legs and leaves me the thights and the wings because that's what I like. Also I love Shoemaker's Chicken. Do you use only cherry peppers?

That's a good solution for someone like me who has a baby-ish dislike for bell peppers.

[C. sapidus]

Speaking of bell peppers . . .

 

Chicken stir-fried with lemongrass and chile, from Andrea Nguyen's 'Into the Vietnamese Kitchen'. I think this was the first recipe I cooked from this book, way back when I did my eGullet foodblog.

 

Anyway, marinate chicken thigh chunks with curry powder, fish sauce, and sugar. Stir-fry chopped lemongrass, shallot, and chiles (I used a mix of serrano and red bird chiles). Add the chicken and squares of red bell pepper (I also used Poblano chile, 'cuz why not), and sear on both sides. Simmer with coconut milk until reduced, and then finish with chopped cilantro. I also added garam masala, because the curry powder was not new.

 

Rich, aromatic, and full of flavor with some latent heat. I should make this more often. Jasmine rice and sliced cucumbers to go with.

 

 

Edited 16 hours ago by C. sapidus
Fix pic (log)

[Ddanno]

1 hour ago, Katie Meadow said:

Aww, you're so sweet. My husband is a nice husband too. He eats all the breast meat and the legs and leaves me the thights and the wings because that's what I like.

 

The real question is who gets the oysters? 😊

[weinoo]

3 hours ago, Ddanno said:

 

The real question is who gets the oysters? 😊

 

Always - the cook.

[Katie Meadow]

3 hours ago, Ddanno said:

 

The real question is who gets the oysters? 😊

Me. I'm faster. I get them before he knows they're gone.  In all fairness I don't think he thinks about it unless it's right in front of him. If you like the oysters it doesn't serve to broadcast it.   

 

[Neely]

Colds and flu like nasties have resulted in not much cooking going on here lately.

Tonight we had a nice pork chop, cabbage and bacon with zucchini and stewed apple. 

[liuzhou]

Succumbed to my annual pizza delivery, having missed two years. This is the only vaguely edible pizza in town. 

 

黑松露帕尔马火腿比萨 (hēi sōng lù pà ěr mǎ huǒ tuǐ bǐ sà), Black Truffle, Parma Ham Pizza. The promised 'basil' turned out to be rocket / arugula and came in its own plastic bag to be put on top and wilt in the residual heat.

 

 

 

It wasn't bad, but over-salted.

 

 

[Ddanno]

This forum needs an "I'm so sorry" reaction. That vague attempt at a "pizza" upsets me.

Edited 3 hours ago by Ddanno (log)

[Maison Rustique]

I wasn't really hungry. Started with some chips and salsa. Then had some sliced peach and half an almond croissant from my neighbor's daughter's bakery. Stuffed!

 

[liuzhou]

43 minutes ago, Ddanno said:

This forum needs an "I'm so sorry" reaction. That vague attempt at a "pizza" upsets me.

 

... and that's the best one!

 

Although, I've always thought pizza is over-rated.

 

 

[TicTac]

42 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

 

... and that's the best one!

 

Although, I've always thought pizza is over-rated.

 

 

Blasphemous!

 

But then again, you eat durian ice cream with a shovel, no less!

 

 

 

[liuzhou]

35 minutes ago, TicTac said:

Blasphemous!

 

But then again, you eat durian ice cream with a shovel, no less!

 

 

 

 

But I don't eat durian pizza!