Dinner 2025

[blue_dolphin]

On 11/3/2025 at 8:41 PM, Honkman said:

Pasta Fagiole (Variation 3) from Six Seasons of Pasta by McFadden - nice variation which gives a more rustic touch to this dish. Hot Italian sausages are formed in patties and seared hard to get a good crust with some smashed garlic, red pepper flakes and tomato paste. Once you add hand-crushed tomatoes, pinto beans and rosemary, you break up the patties and garlic and mix it with farfalle and a parmesan-pecorino mixture. Served with some panko crumbs and olive oil

That looks good! Your choice of farfalle made me laugh.  A quote from McFadden in Six Seasons of Pasta: 

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One noodle shape you should never use, however, is farfalle (bow-tie pasta). I hate it as it is impossible to cook correctly….Please just pick another shape.  End of rant.

 

[Smithy]

My best friend is visiting from San Diego, and we have a series of delicious recipes queued up for dinners while she's here. Last night it was a New York Times recipe for Lemony Greek Chicken, Spinach and Potato Stew (gift article in the link). Delicious, and easy. Ground chicken, onions, garlic, lemon juice, chicken broth, frozen spinach, and seasonings (oregano, dill, rosemary, salt, red pepperf). Topped with crumbles of feta cheese. 

 

To go with it, we chopped celery, red bell pepper, red cabbage, and kalamata olives, and tossed them with her preferred vinaigrette: red wine vinegar, red balsamic vinegar, olive oil, mustard, garlic.

 

It was all easy and delicious, and we had plenty of leftovers. She's having some for lunch as I write this, and notes that the stew has thickened noticeably. Sorry the pictures didn't come out well, but the dinner is worth commemorating anyway.

 

Edited to add: the flavors are even better, and the stew thicker, the next day.

 

 

 

[MaryIsobel]

On 11/4/2025 at 2:14 PM, Dejah said:

1st time seeing these in the store, so I took the plunge: Bison Back Ribs @$6.95 per lb. Looked like a fair bit of meat on the big bones, but I couldn't really check as they were double bagged and cryovac.
Slow and low oven for 4.5 hours. Still a bit of chew but I like that! Slathered with a glaze then boiler.

Messy meal but enjoyable. I was able to manage 2 ribs and hubby had 3. Still another meal - into the freezer.

 

                                               

Our local Co-Op has ground bison but I've never seen ribs - I'll have to ask for them.

[Honkman]

14 hours ago, blue_dolphin said:

Your choice of farfalle made me laugh.  A quote from McFadden in Six Seasons of Pasta: 

I haven’t read the whole book yet and so didn’t see his remark about farfalle but we actually like farfalle as it has slightly different textures and tends to keep sauce quite well

[Honkman]

Pork Cutlet with Garbanzo Salad - salad had garbanzo beans, arugula, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, feta and parsley with an olive oil- lime juice vinaigrette. The thin-cut pork cutlets were pan-seared with red onions, garlic and fresno chili and for the last few seconds sprinkled with parsley, basil and mint

[Maison Rustique]

We have a new place near me. Aromatic Nepal is quite the step up for Liberty the home of restaurant chains/fast food. I hope they will make it because it is fantastic. I have a friend who is Nepali and had asked his advice on what to order for an authentic experience. He recommended starting with Momo and having the Special Thali platter, so I did. I failed to take a photo of the Momo. One of my friends ordered Chicken Biryani, which is shown below. It was huge! And my platter was just fantastic. I completely devoured the soup since I knew it wouldn't transport easily, but brought home a lot of other stuff, so will be eating Nepali for a couple of days. They have some fun Himalayan-themed cocktails/mocktails and a small but decent wine list. It is going to be a favorite place!

 

 

[liuzhou]

 

5 minutes ago, Maison Rustique said:

We have a new place near me. Aromatic Nepal is quite the step up for Liberty the home of restaurant chains/fast food. I hope they will make it because it is fantastic. I have a friend who is Nepali and had asked his advice on what to order for an authentic experience. He recommended starting with Momo and having the Special Thali platter, so I did. I failed to take a photo of the Momo. One of my friends ordered Chicken Biryani, which is shown below. It was huge! And my platter was just fantastic. I completely devoured the soup since I knew it wouldn't transport easily, but brought home a lot of other stuff, so will be eating Nepali for a couple of days. They have some fun Himalayan-themed cocktails/mocktails and a small but decent wine list. It is going to be a favorite place!

 

 

 

 

 

Many, many years ago, I found a Nepali restaurant in London. Returned many. many times.

Years later was lucky to visit Nepal. Wonderful food.

 

 

[Maison Rustique]

49 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

 

 

Many, many years ago, I found a Nepali restaurant in London. Returned many. many times.

Years later was lucky to visit Nepal. Wonderful food.

 

 

 

And I haven't been there but from the videos and photos I've seen, it is a gorgeous place!