What is/was for dinner?

[Mellofello808]

Watched a video that seemed intriguing involving over poached fish. This is fresh Cod seasoned, and poached in wine wrapped in parchment paper. It is cooked topped with fresh lemon slices, olives from the bar at whole foods, shallots, and halved cherry tomatoes.

Baked to 135 fahrenheit, and then finished with butter.

Slice of rustic olive loaf toast on the side.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Watched a video that seemed intriguing involving over poached fish. This is fresh Cod seasoned, and poached in wine wrapped in parchment paper. It is cooked topped with fresh lemon slices, olives from the bar at whole foods, shallots, and halved cherry tomatoes.

Baked to 135 fahrenheit, and then finished with butter.

Slice of rustic olive loaf toast on the side.

It looks amazing, and, I have to assume - since you posted about it - that it tasted delicious, as well.

In any case, for my part, I have cooked fish wrapped in tinfoil in the oven - drizzled with olive oil, and yes, shallots and cherry tomatoes also featured, and it was subsequently served with, rather than cooked with, lemons - or else have prepared fish by poaching the fish in (rather than on) a mild poaching liquid.

 

[BotchQue]

I got a meat grinder for Xmas, and took my first swing at making my own ground beef.

Cool! I just got one too, Cabela's had their 3/4 hp model for $50 off and I bought one. May be overkill for what I do, damn thing weighs 46 lbs! Along with the sausage stuffer tubes it came with a nylon auger for those tubes, hopefully that will work much better than my KitchenAid attachment (which ground meat fine, but the stuffer was NG).

 

[Mellofello808]

Went to a Chinese new year celebration in my city. Ended up getting Jai which is a dish they eat at this time of year consisting of several different types of mushrooms, beans, cabbage, glass noodles, and other veggies in broth, cooked fresh in a big cauldron.

Then we also spotted a place making hand pulled Szechuan noodles. I ordered the cumin, and Lamb which was delicious, but I have never had such a cumin forward dish.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Went to a Chinese new year celebration in my city. Ended up getting Jai which is a dish they eat at this time of year consisting of several different types of mushrooms, beans, cabbage, glass noodles, and other veggies in broth, cooked fresh in a big cauldron.

Then we also spotted a place making hand pulled Szechuan noodles. I ordered the cumin, and Lamb which was delicious, but I have never had such a cumin forward dish.

Hand pulled Szechuan noodles, eh?

Yum.

 

[Mellofello808]

Hand pulled Szechuan noodles, eh?

Yum.

Yup they had the dough ready, cut off a chunk, and pulled them fresh to order, then fried them right there in a giant wok.

Sichuan is fast becoming my favorite regional Chinese food. China is such a large place that the cuisine varies widely across the country. For so long we have only had "Chinese" restaurants in the west that mostly only served a westernized variation of Cantonese cuisine.

Its good to see that there is more nuanced options opening that proudly serve regional food.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Yup they had the dough ready, cut off a chunk, and pulled them fresh to order, then fried them right there in a giant wok.

Sichuan is fast becoming my favorite regional Chinese food. China is such a large place that the cuisine varies widely across the country. For so long we have only had "Chinese" restaurants in the west that mostly only served a westernized variation of Cantonese cuisine.

Its good to see that there is more nuanced options opening that proudly serve regional food.

Sounds delicious.

You have reminded me that this is a cuisine that I also love.

Actually, just reading your description of the hand pulled Szechuan noodles (along with salivating over the image you posted) was positively mouth-watering.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Dinner shall take the form of Pasta All'Amatriciana, this evening.

 

[anika200]

Hotdog + drink from Costco (ohh yes) Chicken Jalfrezi + long grain rice from Costco (ohh yes)
Later on I might keep it simple and have soup with 2 slices of bread and butter (tasty)

Of course you get a thumbs/like for saying "ohh yes" so many times in one post, my guess is you have Costco stock???

 

[BotchQue]

I awoke to a rainy, cold and miserable February day yesterday, but the "Food Wishes" ewetube channel came thru with a Portugeuse recipe "Caldo Verde", literally "green soup". Made a quick run to the market for Kale and Linguiça (which they didn't have so I picked up a pound of sweet Italian sausage).
Pretty simple recipe, brown the sausage and remove, soften the onions/garlic in the grease, add bone broth and sliced potatoes, boil until the 'taters are falling apart, mash, add a buttload of kale (the "green") and the sausage back, simmer until its good. It was very good yesterday; like most soups it was fantastic today (also snowy and dreary)! This one's a keeper.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I awoke to a rainy, cold and miserable February day yesterday, but the "Food Wishes" ewetube channel came thru with a Portugeuse recipe "Caldo Verde", literally "green soup". Made a quick run to the market for Kale and Linguiça (which they didn't have so I picked up a pound of sweet Italian sausage).
Pretty simple recipe, brown the sausage and remove, soften the onions/garlic in the grease, add bone broth and sliced potatoes, boil until the 'taters are falling apart, mash, add a buttload of kale (the "green") and the sausage back, simmer until its good. It was very good yesterday; like most soups it was fantastic today (also snowy and dreary)! This one's a keeper.

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That sounds absolutely delicious.

 

[Mellofello808]

A friend lamented that he couldn't get a good California style burrito. I noticed that the restaurant supply store Chef Zone started bringing in the massive tortillas, so I invited him over for giant steak burritos.

Each one is packed with steak, beans, cheese, and veggies.

 

[Mellofello808]

Following the Mexican theme, I made tres leches (3 milk) cake. Which actually has 5 different types of dairy butter in the cake, condensed milk, evaporated milk, whole milk, and heavy cream for the homemade whipped cream on top.

All mixed with fresh ground cinnamon, nutmeg, and a touch of vanilla, with 2 layers of fresh strawberries.

Delicious

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Those Mexican dishes look absolutely delicious.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I awoke to a rainy, cold and miserable February day yesterday, but the "Food Wishes" ewetube channel came thru with a Portugeuse recipe "Caldo Verde", literally "green soup". Made a quick run to the market for Kale and Linguiça (which they didn't have so I picked up a pound of sweet Italian sausage).
Pretty simple recipe, brown the sausage and remove, soften the onions/garlic in the grease, add bone broth and sliced potatoes, boil until the 'taters are falling apart, mash, add a buttload of kale (the "green") and the sausage back, simmer until its good. It was very good yesterday; like most soups it was fantastic today (also snowy and dreary)! This one's a keeper.

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Perfect cold weather, winter, eating.

And, as luganica can be difficult to lay hands on, Italian sweet sausage (fennel and chilli?) can be an excellent substitute, and one well worth keeping in mind.

 

[anika200]

Super Bowl Chow, Buffalo Chicken Dip/Spread, really salty acidic and cheesy. Now we just need the beer and the game.

 

[Mellofello808]

My friend recently got a pizza oven, but doesn't know how to operate it, so we spent the whole super bowl pumping out pizzas as I taught him how to work with dough.

We cooked many gourmet pizzas throughout the day, but towards the end we started getting silly as everyone started getting full.

As a experiment I ended up making a cheeseburger pizza, with a ketchup base, and American cheese. It was actually pretty phenomenal especially after we added pickles at the end.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

My friend recently got a pizza oven, but doesn't know how to operate it, so we spent the whole super bowl pumping out pizzas as I taught him how to work with dough.

We cooked many gourmet pizzas throughout the day, but towards the end we started getting silly as everyone started getting full.

As a experiment I ended up making a cheeseburger pizza, with a ketchup base, and American cheese. It was actually pretty phenomenal especially after we added pickles at the end.

Looks absolutely delicious, and I am rather envious at the idea of having one's own pizza oven.

Wonderful.

 

[Mellofello808]

Looks absolutely delicious, and I am rather envious at the idea of having one's own pizza oven.

Wonderful.

I have one at home as well. It is great to be able to make your own pies, especially since the price of decent pizza is now over $20 per pie.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I have one at home as well. It is great to be able to make your own pies, especially since the price of decent pizza is now over $20 per pie.

I would love to be able to prepare my own pizza, the sort that one could prepare in a pizza oven (as a domestic oven will never be hot enough).

Have you ever made the Flammekuche, sometimes spelt (in German) as Flammenkuchen, the pizza/tart from Alsace, and parts of east France and west Germany?

It uses crème fraîche, or fromage blanc, as the base, with sautéed onions and lardons of bacon as the topping.

Done properly, it is delicious.

 

[AhmetRyzen]

I ate Arby's 3 hours ago.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I have one at home as well. It is great to be able to make your own pies, especially since the price of decent pizza is now over $20 per pie.

I daresay that the classic pizza (good quality tomatoes, mozzarella) will always find favour, but, having your own pizza oven must allow ample opportunity for experimentation.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Has anyine any good pancake recipes that they might care to share?

The fact that Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday, have fallen this week has brought this to mind.

 

[Mellofello808]

Got a great deal on some local grass fed, grass finished steaks. So we had filet mignon, with a side of bone in ribeye for a friend's birthday dinner. Also made scalloped potatoes, and roasted brussel sprouts.

Reverse seared in the oven, and then seared on a 600 degree flat top, and finished with garlic herb compound butter.

Very delicious

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Got a great deal on some local grass fed, grass finished steaks. So we had filet mignon, with a side of bone in ribeye for a friend's birthday dinner. Also made scalloped potatoes, and roasted brussel sprouts.

Reverse seared in the oven, and then seared on a 600 degree flat top, and finished with garlic herb compound butter.

Very delicious

That looks absolutely mouth-watering and quite delicious.