Dinner 2025

[TdeV]

@Duvel. Excellent. Good man!

[Maison Rustique]

Are you sitting down? I almost cooked! I'm calling it Faux Cooking.

 

 

[patti]

Air fryer bacon wrapped shrimp, pecans, sweet and spicy Cornichons (chili crisp and sweetener of choice added to jar of your favorite Cornichons), pickled onions, white cheddar. 

[Honkman]

Veal-Cabbage Gulasch with Sage and “Spatzenknoedel” (Flour Dumplings) from an essen & trinken recipe - the veal gulasch is a mix of cubed veal breast, green cabbage, bacon, shallots, garlic, sage, flour, marsala wine, caraway seeds and bay leaves cooked in veal stock. Finished with some lemon zest and juice and a little bit of honey. The spatzenknoedel are dumplings made in franconia by mixing flour, eggs and milk and cooking some balls of the dough in water until they float. The gulasch is topped with some crispy fried sage leaves and a drizzle of the sage butter.

[Dr. Teeth]

Gumbo.   Probably with a number of hideously inauthentic qualities.   But I did try.   And the family loved it

[patti]

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And the family loved it.

 

The most important part.

 

It looks really good (from a native Louisianan)!

[zend]

Pan-seared carp (wild catch). Some people call carp "pig of the fishes". I believe they are right. Fatty and delicious.

Served with raw garlic, Romanian way.

 

[liamsaunt]

Saturday, sweet potato vindaloo from Meera Sodha's Fresh India cookbook. The sauce was delicious, but the potatoes never softened enough, even after tripling the cooking time.  We ended up scraping the sauce from the potatoes and just eating the sauce with the rice.  The sauce was good enough that I will make the recipe again, but not with sweet potatoes.  Maybe cauliflower would work better. I don't know if there was something wrong with my potatoes or if it was the recipe.  

 

 

 

Sunday, spaghetti with spicy turkey meatballs.

 

[zend]

10 minutes ago, liamsaunt said:

the potatoes never softened enough

As far as I recall, vindaloo sauce includes vinegar. Perhaps pre-boiling the potatoes would have helped? Vinegar tends to keep fixed the pectine that holds the potatoes' flesh together... My 2 cents.

Edited 2 hours ago by zend (log)

[rotuts]

@zend

 

very interesting

 

how do you serve the raw garlic ?

 

 

[zend]

1 minute ago, rotuts said:

how do you serve the raw garlic ?

haha... peel. eat. 🙂 no vampire near you - no wife or any other human being, either 🙂 

 

it's a very basic fisherman's dish, traditionally served by the lake/river where you caught the fish. (I must admit I cooked mine at home)