AncalagonTheBlack Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 (edited) I usually buy the Mutti brand, no idea if it's Mafia free ! Same issue with olive oil Edited September 20, 2023 by AncalagonTheBlack Phylum of Alexandria and Sophelia 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phylum of Alexandria Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 Very no-nonsense dinner last night. Has anyone ever had "butter rice?" It's something that Japanese families sometimes eat as an easy indulgence. Three components: a bowl of rice, a slab of butter, and a dash of soy sauce. May not sound appetizing, but it is simple, quick, and delicious! AncalagonTheBlack 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deedles Posted September 21, 2023 Share Posted September 21, 2023 Quick supper. Prawns and squid rings flash fried with green beans, baby corn, carrot, broccoli, red cabbage, pak choi and spring onions (veggies bought together and cooked for longer. Some child, coriander and soy sauce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted September 21, 2023 Author Share Posted September 21, 2023 21 minutes ago, Deedles said: Some child, coriander and soy sauce Which one did you sacrifice? Or did you only use a finger? Jaenara Belarys, Deedles and Phylum of Alexandria 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deedles Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 On 9/21/2023 at 7:11 PM, Fragile Bird said: Which one did you sacrifice? Or did you only use a finger? Settled for their tears! And chili Fragile Bird 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luzifer's right hand Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 On 9/20/2023 at 7:41 AM, AncalagonTheBlack said: I usually buy the Mutti brand, no idea if it's Mafia free ! Same issue with olive oil With luck your tomatoes are only produced in China with massive use of pesticides that are illegal in the EU and only repacked in Italy as organic tomatoes. That was the topic of the last tomate related documentary I have seen. My last documentary was about worthless certificates on bananas. I actually had one of the brands mentioned by name at home. No ethical consumption under capitalism as they say. AncalagonTheBlack and Larry of the Lawn 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sw33t Summ3r Ch1ld Posted September 25, 2023 Share Posted September 25, 2023 We had Rib-Eye steak and a baked potato. The steak was so tender that it was ridiculous. I'm glad Mom decided to make it because it was delicious and really hit the spot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted September 25, 2023 Share Posted September 25, 2023 Chugged together what I had yesterday. Onion, bulgur, tomato paste, tin of kidney beans, some parsley. Oh, used some harissa to spice it up a bit. Unfortunately I had no garlic. Worked out perfectly adequate. Nothing exceptional, but also not bad either. Saturday's ingredient use it before you lose it was a bit more satisfying. Chickpea, coconut milk, tinned chopped tomatoes, onions, chili peppers, curry and masala powder. Thus some chickpea curry with rice as a side dish was born. dog-days 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phylum of Alexandria Posted September 25, 2023 Share Posted September 25, 2023 Dinner was okonomiyaki, which was delicious as always. For dessert, my wife came up with the idea of yaki imo (baked Japanese sweet potato) ice cream. Fantastic flavor. The first attempt didn't get the texture right, but yesterday we started with a chilled custard and that gave perfect texture and flavor once it was run through the machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dog-days Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 (edited) The muesli experiments continue. I might make a movie about that with Ryan Gosling and Mahershala Ali. The Muesli Experiments. This morning the extra ingredient was canned rhubarb. I'd hoped for something like stewed, fresh rhubarb; the bright red shiny stuff softened in a pan by someone wholesome on Saturday morning TV, and which they claim to have taken from their garden. Actually, this was grey and none of the texture had survived the canning process. It was edible with the addition of ginger, but was still not exactly enjoyable. Won't be adding rhubarb again unless my future life features an allotment and a kitchen. Edited October 2, 2023 by dog-days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 I am doing a 41/2 hour smoke of a 4 lb rump roast. About half way through so I did a second basting and reloaded the smoker with some hickory, coals and lemon water for the steam pan. This is smoking pretty good looked moist, probably just kick back and watch the rest of late nite football contest as theres not a lot to do but wait the time at this point. For sides I have the steamer loaded with sweet potatoes, Mini Bells, and from my garden cauli and handfuls of nice green beans, will fire this up in the last hour of the journey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted October 16, 2023 Author Share Posted October 16, 2023 My friends who I regularly have Sunday dinner with decided they wanted brisket. The brisket went on the barbecue for slow smoking Saturday morning, then got transferred to a very low oven to finish off on Sunday morning. It was very tender. but so rich, I could barely finish. I was asked to make a birthday cake, because my friends' daughter-in-law, who is 7 months pregnant, was turning 34. With 11 for dinner their ovens were busy (they have a stove with dual ovens that I really like, I think I'll buy a dual oven stove the next time. My current stove is now 16 years old, how time flies, so it doesn't owe me anything). I had bought apples to make a French apple cake, but my friends, who have apple trees on their small farm, said they'd had enough with apples for now and asked if I could make something different. I decided to make a lemon cake and found some recipes for lemon cake with lemon curd between the layers and a lemony icing. I combined a couple of recipes because I liked parts of one and parts of the other. I hadn't made my decision yet on Saturday and so when I went to the grocery store, bought everything I thought was mentioned, but totally missed the fact one called for cake flour instead of all purpose. I had to dash out on Sunday to buy cake flour and was worried I wouldn't finish on time. I also bought a pint of raspberries and used them to decorate the cake, placing raspberries about 3 cm apart around the edge to use as a cutting guide, and placed the rest around the base. That worked out perfectly. As I was making the cake I wondered if I had made a terrible mistake. The cake was made using the "reverse creaming" method, which I had never heard of, just thought the recipe was a bit weird. Some of the ladies at dinner were surprised, since they said they never got good results with those recipes. The cakes I usually make call for creaming butter and sugar first, then combining dry ingredients, then alternating additions as you mix the batter. Reverse creaming calls for combining the dry ingredients, then adding the butter, mixing it with the flour and sugar, then adding the eggs (egg whites in this case) and then buttermilk and lemon juice and some vegetable oil. I was afraid it would be a disaster, but instead it turned into a lovely lemony sponge cake. The author said the edge would turn brown and hard and recommended cutting the edge off the layers, also a good idea in this case. As a final touch, I knew two of the guests would be a young couple, a Canadian fellow who married a Polish girl who he met while they walked the full length of the Camino de Santiago. They got married in Poland and then honeymooned in Georgia, a place a lot of Poles go to on vacation apparently. I found out about the history of wine making in Georgia during a previous dinner. I always associated wine making with Greece and Rome and didn't realize Georgia is considered the cradle of wine production. Apparently they produce red wines so sweet the liquor board in Ontario refuses to buy them because most of us would consider them appalling, but which Chris, the young man, enjoys and really regrets he can't buy them here. I found a Georgian white at the liquor store and bought it for the dinner. The lady in the wine store said it was a fairly dry white, which made it drinkable in her opinion. It was quite good, a little sweet, amber colored, hit the spot. Zorral 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sw33t Summ3r Ch1ld Posted October 28, 2023 Share Posted October 28, 2023 We had Taco Soup made from leftover ground beef enchiladas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 Tried something not prepared before for last night's dinner: baked on a sheet pan in the 400° oven, kale, sliced pears and sweet Italian sausage -- a one dish meal. With couscous, and a loaf of Italian bread dipped in some of that magnificent Spanish olive oil, and a bottle of dry white Sicilian wine. The key is the 'dressing' with which the destemmed and chopped kale must be 'massaged': white wine (very dry), whole grain mustard, crushed black pepper and olive oil. Partner declared it a keeper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 4 hours ago, Zorral said: Tried something not prepared before for last night's dinner: baked on a sheet pan in the 400° oven, kale, sliced pears and sweet Italian sausage -- a one dish meal. With couscous, and a loaf of Italian bread dipped in some of that magnificent Spanish olive oil, and a bottle of dry white Sicilian wine. The key is the 'dressing' with which the destemmed and chopped kale must be 'massaged': white wine (very dry), whole grain mustard, crushed black pepper and olive oil. Partner declared it a keeper. Sounds great apart from the pears. I fucking hate pears Fragile Bird 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 (edited) Been with wife 15 years. Anniversary Dinner is loads of booze and some crisps. Apparently 15 years is crystal. So we are either drinking expensive champagne or smoking meth. Edited November 21, 2023 by BigFatCoward kissdbyfire and Larry of the Lawn 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 Vegetarian Chili (con couscous). kissdbyfire 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted November 21, 2023 Author Share Posted November 21, 2023 18 minutes ago, BigFatCoward said: Sounds great apart from the pears. I fucking hate pears If you look up Kale, Sausage and Pear recipe, the recipe from the Washington Post comes up. The author suggests some alternatives to pears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kissdbyfire Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 16 minutes ago, A Horse Named Stranger said: Vegetarian Chili (con couscous). Yummi!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 47 minutes ago, Fragile Bird said: If you look up Kale, Sausage and Pear recipe, the recipe from the Washington Post comes up. The author suggests some alternatives to pears. I've gotten lots of good ideas and recipes from the WaPo over the years, including this one. Fragile Bird 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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