Dinner 2025

[Maison Rustique]

I literally had a shiver down my spine when I read snake. Can't even.

[liuzhou]

1 hour ago, Maison Rustique said:

I literally had a shiver down my spine when I read snake. Can't even.

 

Many people here are the same, but it doesn't stop them eating them! I wrote more about the local snake eating here.

 

 

 

[Margaret Pilgrim]

I don't see a great difference between snake and eel, which is delicious.

[liuzhou]

55 minutes ago, Margaret Pilgrim said:

I don't see a great difference between snake and eel, which is delicious.

 

But do you taste the difference? I like both. But not all eels taste the same, either.

[Honkman]

Mushroom and Kimchi Mapo Tofu from Ottolenghi’s Comfort - nice vegan variation on mapo tofu with diced mushrooms (button and shiitake), kimchi, tofu, scallions, garlic, ginger, shaoxing wine, doubanjiang, light and dark soy sauce, sichuan peppercorn, vegetable broth, corn starch and toasted sesame oil. Served over rice

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

Pan fried panko coated haddock on baguette with baby spinach and sriracha mayo. Served with pickled beets, fermented sour green cherry tomatoes, pickled red onion and pickled zucchini ribbons. With an Annapolis dry cider.

Finished with a Cape Breton 'Pork Pie', a small locally popular tart, which doesn't contain any pork but is a sugar bomb. Way too sweet for my taste.

 

 

[Ann_T]

 

Last night's dinner, our traditional roast beef dinner.

And for dessert, I baked Portuguese Custard Tarts (Pasteis de Nata).

[liamsaunt]

Penne with carrot sauce. I sauteed yellow and orange carrots, onion, and garlic, then cooked them in a quart of corn stock I had in the freezer, then pureed it in the Vitamix with some butter and salt.  I added some chopped raw arugula at the end. Four out of five diners enjoyed it, and one grumbled that there was no point in eating carrot sauce when you can just have tomato sauce. Oh well, I have decided that I cannot please everyone. I just try and rotate who is going to be annoyed 😂

 

[rotuts]

@liamsaunt

 

looked interesting and tasty to me.

 

Tomato sauce can get a bit predictable and thus boring.

[YvetteMT]

2 hours ago, liamsaunt said:

Oh well, I have decided that I cannot please everyone. I just try and rotate who is going to be annoyed 😂

 

 

Amen!  As my mom (who was NOT a cook) used to say "eat it or make yourself a bologna sandwich".

 

I think its a beautiful dish and plan on trying similar (without a vitamix). I'll need to add a protein for any chance of it going over well but I think the sweetness of the carrots would be fabulous as a sauce.

[Shel_B]

This will be dinner tonight: 

Cabbage, Pancetta and Onion Soup, Soueupa alla Valpellinentze

https://www.americastestkitchen.com/recipes/12611-savoy-cabbage-soup-with-ham-rye-bread-and-fontina?

 

I riffed on the recipe by adding thickly sliced Yukon Gold potatoes to the mix as the recipe reminded me of some cabbage and potato dishes I had back in the '60s. Carol, my then GF, put together a simple dish of boiled potatoes and cabbage with a little butter, S&P.  We were sleeping on the floor, on a bare mattress, in an empty house in preparation for moving to the new place together. We had no cash on hand and scrounged some change from somewhere, and she put the meal together for us. Those were the days when you could buy the ingredients for less than a dollar. Since that time, I've always enjoyed a cabbage and potato dish now and then.

 

I picked up some Fontina Val d'Aosta to use as a topping, and it was too soft to shred with the grater I had, so I diced the cheese and sprinkled it atop the dish. The rye bread was made by a local bakery. The pancetta is my favorite from the local sausage maker. Beef stock, homemade.

 

Can't wait to dig into it ...

 

Edited 6 hours ago by Shel_B (log)

[C. sapidus]

Pakistani meal tonight, from 'Curry Cuisine'. I have been looking for a good Pakistani cookbook and forgot that this one has a few recipes.

 

Palak gosht (spinach and lamb curry): Sautee onions until browned. Add garlic and ginger paste, crushed tomato, cayenne, cumin seed, and turmeric, then saute until the oil separates. Add stewing lamb and water and braise until the lamb is almost tender. Add spinach and braised until tender, then remove the lid to reduce. Top with minced jalapeno and ginger. Would make again.

 

Basmati rice: I did this "properly" - rinse the rice, soak 30 min (2:1 water:rice), and then drain, reserving the soaking water. Fry black cardamom, cinnamon stick, bay leaf, and cumin seeds in ghee, add the reserved water, bring to a boil, add the rice, simmer uncovered until the top is rife with steamy air holes, and then cover and finish over very low heat.

 

Podina (mint) raita: Greek yogurt with minced mint leaves and jalapeno. House guest prefers not-too-chile-hot so this came in handy.

 

Edited 5 hours ago by C. sapidus
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