As it's Cinco de Mayo, my dinner will be chorizo con queso and carnitas rancheros from my new favorite Mexican joint.
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Roasted vegetables - carrots, courgettes (zucchini), aubergine (eggplant), cherry tomatoes, onions, red pepper, two heads of garlic, - served with basmati rice, and sautéed fillets of red mullet.
Dinner is Nasi Goreng (Indonesian Spicy Fried Rice), based on a Gordon Ramsay recipe:
Grated galangal (around two thumbs), and a head of garlic (minced), plus a chopped chilli pepper, and several chives - (Chinese chives) - chopped are sautéed; then three eggs - (organic, free range, already whisked) are added to the pan, and scrambled.
That is when the day old rice is added and fried and stirred fully through; then, a well is made in the rice (and egg), and a generous tablespoon or two of both sambal oelek and rendang paste are added to this well, and fried off, the rice and egg (and spices) stirred through until thoroughly mixed. At that stage, two tablespoons of kecap manis (sweet soya sauce) are added and stirred through.
This was served with poached trout (in stock, slices of lemon, and chopped French onions), and cucumber salad (with salt, sugar, black pepper and freshly squeezed lime juice).
Grated galangal (around two thumbs), and a head of garlic (minced), plus a chopped chilli pepper, and several chives - (Chinese chives) - chopped are sautéed; then three eggs - (organic, free range, already whisked) are added to the pan, and scrambled.
That is when the day old rice is added and fried and stirred fully through; then, a well is made in the rice (and egg), and a generous tablespoon or two of both sambal oelek and rendang paste are added to this well, and fried off, the rice and egg (and spices) stirred through until thoroughly mixed. At that stage, two tablespoons of kecap manis (sweet soya sauce) are added and stirred through.
This was served with poached trout (in stock, slices of lemon, and chopped French onions), and cucumber salad (with salt, sugar, black pepper and freshly squeezed lime juice).
GF just got off a plane from Chicago.
She brought me a slice of Chicago deep dish from a place called Capris, in Hyde Park.
I don't know how people can eat this much cheese. Tapped out at less than half a slice.
She brought me a slice of Chicago deep dish from a place called Capris, in Hyde Park.
I don't know how people can eat this much cheese. Tapped out at less than half a slice.
ObligatoryGF just got off a plane from Chicago.
She brought me a slice of Chicago deep dish from a place called Capris, in Hyde Park.
I don't know how people can eat this much cheese. Tapped out at less than half a slice.
GF just got off a plane from Chicago.
She brought me a slice of Chicago deep dish from a place called Capris, in Hyde Park.
I don't know how people can eat this much cheese. Tapped out at less than half a slice.
And there appears to be no shortage of tomato sauce or puree either...GF just got off a plane from Chicago.
She brought me a slice of Chicago deep dish from a place called Capris, in Hyde Park.
I don't know how people can eat this much cheese. Tapped out at less than half a slice.
Yah, that much cheese is going to be a pizza for ten at least. Maybe when I was 20 it would have been amazing.
Are you serious, poached trout and the focus is on the rice??? Must be very good rice.
looks so delicious!
Are you serious, poached trout and the focus is on the rice??? Must be very good rice.
The poached trout was delicious - but did not require much by way of preparation.
Usually, with fish, I serve potatoes in some form (there is a reason why fish'n'chips is such a classic), but, that particular evening I craved rice with fish.
So, Nasi Goreng - which is complicated and time-consuming - was prepared to accompany the fish.
Cucumber with salt, sugar, and lime juice is an absolutely delicious side dish, by the way.
Dinner was simple but tasty: An omelette, made from free range, organic eggs, seasoned slightly with sea salt, chopped parsley and chopped French onions, (both organic), cooked lightly, in butter, in the French manner, served with toasted French rye bread.
Pottering around, preparing chilli con carne.
This is a dish I spend a lot of time on, a relaxed sort of cooking for a rainy day.
The meat (browned) - organic, environmentally aware & ethically reared, purchased from the people who reared the animal in question - has been in the oven for the best part of the past hour; browning it in batches - and seasoning it (ground coriander, ground cumin, smoked hot paprika, anchovies dissolved in olive oil, sea salt, black pepper) and preparing the stock (stock, coffee - a mug with brown sugar dissolved, Worcestershire sauce, a little kecap manis, tomato puree) took a further hour.
In an hour or so, around five or six onions (organic, etc) and a minced head of garlic shall be sautéed until soft, then added to the casserole.
As will a tin of San Marzano Italian tomatoes.
Organic red kidney beans will be added an hour later, again.
Rice shall accompany.
This is a dish I spend a lot of time on, a relaxed sort of cooking for a rainy day.
The meat (browned) - organic, environmentally aware & ethically reared, purchased from the people who reared the animal in question - has been in the oven for the best part of the past hour; browning it in batches - and seasoning it (ground coriander, ground cumin, smoked hot paprika, anchovies dissolved in olive oil, sea salt, black pepper) and preparing the stock (stock, coffee - a mug with brown sugar dissolved, Worcestershire sauce, a little kecap manis, tomato puree) took a further hour.
In an hour or so, around five or six onions (organic, etc) and a minced head of garlic shall be sautéed until soft, then added to the casserole.
As will a tin of San Marzano Italian tomatoes.
Organic red kidney beans will be added an hour later, again.
Rice shall accompany.
Lamb casserole over 'tatters and veges..... warming seasonal tucker as winter sets in down-under.
Looks really warming, you can never go wrong with Lamb.
Somehow I made this amazing pizza the other night for dinner.
It is fried asian style greens (garlic, red pepper, fish sauce) with a sweet red pepper and KimChi sauce along with a couple cheese blend on a simple flat beer crust.
It was a great combo that won over my skeptical wife, hahaha.
It is fried asian style greens (garlic, red pepper, fish sauce) with a sweet red pepper and KimChi sauce along with a couple cheese blend on a simple flat beer crust.
It was a great combo that won over my skeptical wife, hahaha.
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Have several stove-top
steamers .... here's a photo of the largest one I have 'doing its thing' with two good-sized turkey drumsticks and some veggies.
My monthly treat tonight. Trip to the fish and chip van. Had to work real hard this week though as I'd put a couple of lb on. Ended up at 11 stone 4lb so no issue with a treat as that's the lightest I've ever been as an adult.