Dinner 2025

[C. sapidus]

More meals for the boys' visit:

 

Bombay curry: Marinate boneless, skinless chicken thigh chunks with garlic-ginger paste. Make the spice paste of garlic, ginger, dried red chiles, peanuts, cumin, coriander, white poppy seed, canela, cloves, and turmeric. Saute onions and curry leaves, add the chicken and spice paste, and then simmer in coconut milk and chicken stock. Halfway through remove the chicken (to avoid overcooking) and add halved baby potatoes, Finish with tamarind juice. Sambal ulek to spice it up as desired.

 

Braised Savoy cabbage: Saute minced onion with sliced jalapeno, sequentially add ginger-garlic paste, cayenne, turmeric, crushed tomato, and sliced Savoy cabbage. Braise until done. There were fights over this.

 

Mrs. C made a delicious loaf of sourdough bread.

 

[Honkman]

Pasta with Cauliflower - cauliflower, red bell peppers and onions are sautéed and then briefly stewed in some vegetable broth. Cream cheese and parsley are added and mixed with the cooked pasta

[dcarch]

For those of you who live in cold areas and who have planned/invited big holiday parties, you may find the problem of where to keep all the food and leftovers.

 

For me, I have found that my car parked on the driveway, the trunk makes a very good roomy refrigerator.

 

Happy Holidays to all and Happy new 2026!

 

dcarch

[Duvel]

After a leisurely 11h drive, with brief stops in Bourg-en-Bresse …

 

 

 

… and Avignon …

 

 

… we arrived in the small village north of Barcelona that my parents-in-law call home - still in daylight. As usual, noone expected us, so we had to live from the fridge (which luckily contained cold beer) …

 

 

 

We brought fresh goat cheese, Rocamadour and St. Maure from Avignon …

 

 

Embotits (or cold cuts) from the fridge …

 

 

… and pickles.

 

 

Wine & brandy and a pleasant night sleep, too 🙏

[TdeV]

Your young man is terribly handsome, @Duvel. 

[C. sapidus]

Boys are home and invited friends over, so I BBQed pork butts for 12. Mrs. C made potato salad with bacon and chorizo, I added mustardy Cole slaw and BBQ sauce. Potato rolls to go with. 
 

[Tropicalsenior]

Carlos's girlfriend was here for dinner tonight. So I made a seven layer lasagna yesterday and had it in the refrigerator ready to bake. I'm glad I had it ready because yesterday afternoon I came down with the mother of all colds. I guess that's my Christmas present.

I found ricotta for the first time in about 4 years and went a little overboard on that but otherwise it was pretty good.

Served it with green beans and bacon.

Watermelon, green salad and homemade bread, no pictures.

[MaryIsobel]

4 minutes ago, Tropicalsenior said:

Carlos's girlfriend was here for dinner tonight. So I made a seven layer lasagna yesterday and had it in the refrigerator ready to bake. I'm glad I had it ready because yesterday afternoon I came down with the mother of all colds. I guess that's my Christmas present.

I found ricotta for the first time in about 4 years and went a little overboard on that but otherwise it was pretty good.

Served it with green beans and bacon.

Watermelon, green salad and homemade bread, no pictures.

That looks delicious. Sorry about your cold - A friend and I went to a concert last night - Johnny Reid. It was a great get together but people coughing and sneezing were freaking me out!

[sartoric]

Another dish from the “things in a bowl “ series. This is homemade turkey wontons in bone broth with bok choy. It’s topped with mung bean sprouts, coriander, green onions and fresh chilli. 

[liuzhou]

49 minutes ago, sartoric said:

Another dish from the “things in a bowl “ series. This is homemade turkey wontons in bone broth with bok choy. It’s topped with mung bean sprouts, coriander, green onions and fresh chilli. 

 

Beautiful bowl of wontons in soup. I've never heard of turkey wontons but why not? They don't do turkey here in any way.

[Ann_T]

I roasted a small rack of pork for dinner last night, just because I wanted pork gravy to serve tonight with our Christmas Eve Tourtiere .

 

Nothing better than rich pork gravy.

[liamsaunt]

Roasted salmon with melting cherry tomato sauce over spinach 

 

[rotuts]

@Duvel

 

that chicken was wrapped in burlap ?

 

@ 30.20 euro's a kilo ? for the burlap ?

 

hope to see pics of that roasted .  please