What is/was for dinner?

[D.T.]

We're doing this dish, there's a number of variations, where we do almost like a pizza/calzone/sub, but swap the dough/bread for a huge poblano pepper. Tonight it's sort of "pizza style", we also do these in a Philly cheese version, they're delicious and pretty healthy (we try to source super lean proteins, etc.)

 

[uvafan1]

I prepared this entire meal on my pellet grill...was delicious!

 

[Gutwrench]

I drive by this old guys place all the time, he seems 80ish when I see him out working in the garden which has gotten less often and last year I only spotted him once. He has 8 horseradish plants in his garden. Hopefully when I stop in this week he will be there, the plan is to get a couple roots to grow here before they are gone.

I ground some horseradish in the basement of a small farmhouse once. Big mistake on my part

 

[0388631]

I ground some horseradish in the basement of a small farmhouse once. Big mistake on my part

Is there nothing else to do in farm country? Don't ever tell people what you did with fully grown corn cobs or empty husks...

 

[LizKat]

I ground some horseradish in the basement of a small farmhouse once. Big mistake on my part

Yeah every set of instructions for putting up your own horseradish that I ever saw that's not oriented to a food processor starts out with "Do this in a well ventilated room, or outdoors..."

"Outdoors," my grandmother used to tell my granddad when she saw him bring a big ol' root in the house to grind up. "Out.. now!" She'd serve up some of it along w/ roast beef dinners, but wanted no part of preparing and preserving it.

Commercially... well some actually wear gas masks which isn't a bad idea.

https://newyork.seriouseats.com/2014/04/pickle-guys-horseradish.html​

 

[dannyyankou]

We had sausage and peppers tonight. Nothing better than spicy sausage with peppers and onions on a roll.

 

[0388631]

Yeah every set of instructions for putting up your own horseradish that I ever saw that's not oriented to a food processor starts out with "Do this in a well ventilated room, or outdoors..."

"Outdoors," my grandmother used to tell my granddad when she saw him bring a big ol' root in the house to grind up. "Out.. now!" She'd serve up some of it along w/ roast beef dinners, but wanted no part of preparing and preserving it.

Commercially... well some actually wear gas masks which isn't a bad idea.

https://newyork.seriouseats.com/2014/04/pickle-guys-horseradish.html​

Horseradish, whether fresh or jarred, is an excellent expectorant and also great if you need your sinuses cleared during allergy season. Of course, I'm not that much of masochist when it comes to food so sniffing fresh cracked pepper is my go to if I've not got medicine on hand.

 

[Gutwrench]

Is there nothing else to do in farm country?

No there isn’t. Not really. Life was trial and error out there.

 

[dannyyankou]

I tried to make this for breakfast today-

I regret not taking pictures, but it turned out almost exactly how it did in the video. What a cool concept. I'm no chef by any definition, and I'm shocked at how simple it was too.

 

[D.T.]

I ground some horseradish in the basement of a small farmhouse once.

Is there nothing else to do in farm country?

I don't think "Grind some horseradish ..." means what you think it means

 

[D.T.]

Meant to post these, made some delicious wings this past weekend - I got this idea from one of our favorite places in / when we go to Pittsburgh. Bought whole (local grocery in house green product), cut, then cooked in the air fryer (if you used it for nothing but wings it would be worth it). Tossed in classic Franks (with a little butter melted in ... then ... tossed in parmesan cheese. The trick is to put them in nice and hot and wet, heap on the cheese then sort of shake them around, a few passes, they just suck up all the cheese you add.

So good

Saucing

Parm Toss

Glamour Shot

 

[LizKat]

Horseradish, whether fresh or jarred, is an excellent expectorant and also great if you need your sinuses cleared during allergy season. Of course, I'm not that much of masochist when it comes to food so sniffing fresh cracked pepper is my go to if I've not got medicine on hand.

I love wasabi, so "western wasabi"--which in the West is often made up of regular horseradish plus some spinach powder or food coloring and mustard, due to the Japanese plant's scarcity and cultivation issues-- is certainly on my go-to list for clearing away a sense of nasal congestion. Anyway it's an excuse for making some amateur California rolls... but I sometimes just put it on refrigerated leftover rice. Works like a charm, as long as I have plenty of the rice at hand in case I get carried away. A little of any horseradish does go a long way.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Salmon fillets, cooked in olive oil, with sliced oranges, mustard seeds, star anise, several cloves of garlic, sea salt, black pepper, a dash of fish sauce, and a dash of soya sauce.

To be served with rye bread, and a salad of cherry tomatoes, cucumber and sliced oranges, dressed with salt, black pepper, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar.

 

[LizKat]

I like salmon with dill flavors, but the orange sounds like a nice switch-up!

Today I'm probably going to make some tabbouleh; weather finally got to looking springlike outdoors here, so the idea of a tabboleh salad seemed festive. I'm short on fresh mint this early in the local season so some dried will have to do but everything else I have at hand, even enough parsley.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I like salmon with dill flavors, but the orange sounds like a nice switch-up!

Today I'm probably going to make some tabbouleh; weather finally got to looking springlike outdoors here, so the idea of a tabboleh salad seemed festive. I'm short on fresh mint this early in the local season so some dried will have to do but everything else I have at hand, even enough parsley.

The orange (and lemon, if I had it) were delicious with the salmon; cooking an already oily fish in olive oil sounds counterintuitive, but it worked wonderfully well (the slices of orange cooked with it looked lovely and tasted wonderful), and kept the salmon nice and moist and juicy.

One of those meals that was easy to prepare, looked brilliant and tasted delicious.

 

[0388631]

I don't think "Grind some horseradish ..." means what you think it means

I've got it on good authority he did that in the corn fields his family grew. I'm sure the local hands wondered why there was ranch dressing here and there at times.
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I love wasabi, so "western wasabi"--which in the West is often made up of regular horseradish plus some spinach powder or food coloring and mustard, due to the Japanese plant's scarcity and cultivation issues-- is certainly on my go-to list for clearing away a sense of nasal congestion. Anyway it's an excuse for making some amateur California rolls... but I sometimes just put it on refrigerated leftover rice. Works like a charm, as long as I have plenty of the rice at hand in case I get carried away. A little of any horseradish does go a long way.

I've had the real stuff before. It's very nice tasting but I suspect it wouldn't fly with many people outside of Asia simply because they've gotten used to "wasabi," and it's a damn shame, too. There is an indoor farm in the UK, I believe, who grow traditional wasabi root for restaurants to use, I think. I saw it on YouTube years ago.

 

[LizKat]

I've had the real stuff before. It's very nice tasting but I suspect it wouldn't fly with many people outside of Asia simply because they've gotten used to "wasabi," and it's a damn shame, too. There is an indoor farm in the UK, I believe, who grow traditional wasabi root for restaurants to use, I think. I saw it on YouTube years ago.

UK grows a lot of hydroponic watercress too, or so a friend traveling abroad once emailed me. That's a much more mildly spicy brassica than horseradishes or some other mustards, and --depending on the type of fertilizers used in the hydroponic operation-- can be a safer green than those taken from the wild where the plants can easily pick up liver flukes, for example if near any dairy farming or feedlot beef ranching. Can even grow watercress at the end of your kitchen table, root it from some bought in the supermarket (but dunk it in water for an hour or so first to drown any mustard or flea beetles which are attracted to it and breed like rabbits with wings). Make a great addition to salads when you run out of interesting greens.

 

[0388631]

UK grows a lot of hydroponic watercress too, or so a friend traveling abroad once emailed me. That's a much more mildly spicy brassica than horseradishes or some other mustards, and --depending on the type of fertilizers used in the hydroponic operation-- can be a safer green than those taken from the wild where the plants can easily pick up liver flukes, for example if near any dairy farming or feedlot beef ranching. Can even grow watercress at the end of your kitchen table, root it from some bought in the supermarket (but dunk it in water for an hour or so first to drown any mustard or flea beetles which are attracted to it and breed like rabbits with wings). Make a great addition to salads when you run out of interesting greens.

Before it was found out by a swath of vegans, there used to be some really nice wild watercress here that was delicious and pungent. Can't find it now.

 

[Mellofello808]

Used my 65,000 btu wok burner on to sear my steaks.

Came out pretty good.

 

[AngerDanger]

MOAR SUSHI!!!!!

Spoiler: My BRILLIANT avocado pit removal technique

Spoiler: Ingredients

Spoiler: Unwrapped

Spoiler: Single piece

 

[dannyyankou]

Pizza Friday tonight. It’s become a quarantine tradition, we’ve been doing it for 5 straight weeks now.

 

[LizKat]

Pizza Friday tonight. It’s become a quarantine tradition, we’ve been doing it for 5 straight weeks now.

I would like that with or without a quarantine any time. Settling for fake pizzas laid out on a pita and run under the broiler meanwhile. Can be pretty good as long as I don't compare it mentally to the real thing.

 

[dannyyankou]

I would like that with or without a quarantine any time. Settling for fake pizzas laid out on a pita and run under the broiler meanwhile. Can be pretty good as long as I don't compare it mentally to the real thing.

There’s nothing a bunch of cheese can’t fix, that’s my life motto.

 

[Mellofello808]

Leftover steak sandwich

 

[I7guy]

Grilled on the BBQ, NY strip steak, grilled zucchini, grilled purple asparagus, caramelized onions and mushrooms. Desert: vanilla peanut butter sundae ice cream.