Dinner 2025

[sartoric]

There is virtually nothing authentic about this Thai green chicken curry, but it’s how we like it with potatoes and spinach. 

[Duvel]

Abendbrot …

 

 

[sartoric]

Despite the heat here, I needed room in the freezer section, so the osso buca had to come out. Served with mash and garlic asparagus. 
 

[Honkman]

Very simplified Cassoulet from Dinner by Recipetin - made in the oven with pork sausage, bacon, cannellini beans, cherry tomatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, thyme, rosemary, bay leaves, tomato paste, white wine, chicken broth. Topped and finished with a mixture of panko crumbs, parsley and olive oil and quickly browned under the broiler

[C. sapidus]

Pakistani recipes tonight, from 'Curry Cuisine'

 

Special chicken curry (Desi murgh): Slowly saute sliced onions until dark golden brown, remove, and puree. Saute garlic and ginger paste, crushed tomato, Greek yogurt, cayenne, turmeric, cumin seed, ground coriander seed, cloves, black cardamom, and curry leaves  (sub for bay leaves). Add chicken thighs and water and simmer. When the chicken is done, uncover and simmer until the oil separates. Finish with cilantro.

 

Mixed vegetable curry (Subzi curry): Saute onion, garlic, crushed tomato, turmeric, cayenne, and cumin seed. Add cubed potato, cauliflower florets, and water, and simmer until done. Finish with cilantro. Recipe should have had ginger slivers but I used it all up on the chicken. Oh, well, it was popular.

 

[Smithy]

Twice-baked potato, roasted vegetables, smoked salmon. After I took this picture I topped the potato and vegetables with shredded cheddar. White wine. Christmas dishware!

 

[Honkman]

Detroit-Style Pepperoni Deluxe from Peter Reinhart’s “Perfect Pan Pizza” - white flour dough (bread flour, instant yeast, salt, water, olive oil) refrigerated for 18 hours. Then put into the pans with his “panning and dimpling” method over an hour, added first half of cheese to dough and second raise for four hours. Pizza is topped with crushed tomato sauce (flavored with oregano, basil,garlic and red wine vinegar), pepperoni slices, more cheddar cheese, pickled pepperoncini and a last layer of pepperoni slices. After baking, finished with a little bit of his secret sauce (pureed red bell pepper, pickled pepperoncini (and some of the brine), garlic, red wine vinegar and olive oil)

[Neely]

Corned beef or also known as silverside with potatoes, carrots, broccolini and a mustard sauce. Fresh small dinner bread rolls were also on the table. 
 

[CantCookStillTry]

I jumped on board the current viral Aussie trend and made "Centrelink Oysters" Kilpatrick for the boys. 

It's a Dimmie / Dimsim ( Think they may be a uniquely Aussie Chinese dumpling fast food thing ) with a sauce presented like an oyster 🤷‍♀️. 

 

 

***Salt by the way ..  the flavour is just salt 😅

Edited yesterday at 09:49 AM by CantCookStillTry (log)

[Dejah]

We have winter!
Still cooking, just lazy in posting 😉

Sweet & Smokey Sheet Pan Chicken. Tried a new Cavendish chips shape taters. Air-fryer, and the crispiness depends on how long they are cooked.                         

                                                

Steamed Black Bean Garlic Pickerel with the new shipment from Lake Winnipeg.

                                                

 

Spent 2 days making joong - late this year as I didn't have a " joong bee". It was solitary session, but I enjoyed the quiet and easy pace. I surprised myself by turning out 66 joong! Families will have good eats over Xmas. My 12 year old granddaugher will have a dozen to take back with her to Newfoundland. It's her favourite Nana Joong!
I'm the only one in our family who makes these now, but my daughter and DIL have made them with me, and my instructions are all documented on a webpage.

                                                                   

 

Tried something new from a Weight Watcher's group" Carne Aasada. 

 

                                                        

 

When life is busy, one pot meals are great! Yaki Udon Noodles

                                                       

[Dejah]

My old boilng joong set up. an old turkey deep fryer burner outside died, so I had to boil the joong on my stove: 16 packets at a time! It was easier topping up the pot with hot water tho' instead of running outside. Added lots of humidity and and a couple of facials. 😊

                                                                       

 

I prepped the leaves 3 days before, and the rest of the ingredients day before. Couldn't find uncooked salted egg yolks this time, so had to use cooked ones. Now, what to do with all the cooked egg whites?

                                                                     

                                                                      

[Neely]

Centrelink oysters Kilpatrick…Hilarious @CantCookStillTry. They look delicious and I’ll be serving them at a small party I’m having on the 23rd. Salt plus. 

[Smithy]

Scallops Supreme, recipe from the Sunset Cookbook: Food with a Gourmet Touch (eG-friendly Amazon.com link). 

 

I love scallops, when they're properly cooked. It's hit-or-miss whether I cook them properly. I've had a couple of hits, and a couple of misses. Tonight I decided to try a new recipe, with these scallops I bought last June. I thawed them and dried them carefully while deciding what to do with them, then hit on this recipe from the Sunset cookbook.

 

 

Oops! After committing myself to this recipe I realized that it called for 2 pounds of scallops, and I only had 1 pound's worth. I soldiered on. The basic recipe is to mix cream, white wine, lemon juice and seasonings, and pour them over the scallops before adding bread crumbs and butter. I thought I'd use only half the liquid and use the rest later. As I poured, I decided it wasn't important. I was probably using too big a baking pan.

 

After the scallops are mostly cooked, you can broil if desired. I turned up the heat, but my oven is out of sorts right now. Changing racks was enough.

 

 

Excellent flavor. My darling used to complain that he thought scallops were too dry. He wouldn't have thought so with this recipe.

Edited 13 hours ago by Smithy
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[Ann_T]

On 12/4/2025 at 5:05 PM, sartoric said:

There is virtually nothing authentic about this Thai green chicken curry, but it’s how we like it with potatoes and spinach. 

I would be so happy with this green curry.

 

[patti]

A few recent dinners:

 

Pot roast and gravy with mashed cauliflower and a few cornichons.

 

 

Seafood gumbo

 

 

 

Tortilla pizza with ham, olives, mushrooms, red bell pepper.

 

 

Asian inspired shrimp and almonds, roasted Brussels sprouts.

 

 

 

Another tortilla pizza, this time with sausage crumbles,  mushrooms, red bell pepper, olives.