Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Supper -- what are you cooking?

Prime Rib

Made Prime Rib, mashed potatoes w/ cream & butter, corn and homemade bread.:p
Homemade french vanilla ice cream for dessert.:bounce:

Yesterday I made curried monkfish in a saffron mussel broth. The mussel broth (with leeks, carrots, celery, fenugreek, cilantro, cream, LOTS of white wine in which the mussels were cooked, bay leaves, fresh thyme, saffron, etc etc...) was really, really good. The monkfish.... beuh. First time I cook it, and I'm not a fan.. but then again I couldn't get the cooking right.

Today we made some chocolate chip cookies, they're good.

But tonight we can't be bothered so dinner's going to be a big romaine lettuce, and some great cheese we bought. And chocolate chip cookies for dessert! :D

Still on the beet kick.


made some beet barley-sotto with some goat cheese and made the rest of the rosemary/thyme bread in the fridge.

That beet sure gives anything a beautiful red color. Never seen raviolis like that before, or barley for that matter. WoW!

Tonight I'm making tortilla de patata with rib-eye for me, filet-mignon for my better half. Feel-good comfort stuff.

Problem is: there are only 5 cookies left. And two of us.

Heidi made souffle pancakes this morning. Yummy! :)

Chicken

Tonight is grilled chicken, steamed broccoli, fresh spinach and a simple salad. It's a beautiful day down here and I want to be outside not in the kitchen.:D

Tonight is home made roasted butternut squash and spicy toasted cashew ravioli's with chichen sausage and a white bean truffle "sauce" with a touch of sage.

Tomorrow I'm going to be making sushi, got some fresh yellowfin (in the end I was too cheap to get the bigeye) and on the menu will be tekka maki, some california rolls with real crab and a refreshing seared tuna salad with "asian" sesame dressing.

I had two corned beef briskets that the tag said 'use or freeze by May something.'. Since we really enjoy this meat in sandwiches, I decided to cook them both, make corned beef & cabbage for dinner, then slice up the rest and freeze in portions for sandwiches. HubbyDearest was so happy, he even ate the cabbage. :lol: I did all this in the pressure cooker [naturally], doing the meat first -- 35 minutes at 15psi, with natural pressure drop & remove the briskets. Then while the meat rested, I steamed the carrots, potatoes & cabbage over the cooking liquid 4 minutes @ 15psi, and natural pressure drop. Pure perfection! :lips:

Tonite, its pasta ( Penne ) and burritos & a mixture of halal merguez sausages(all veal), ground beef & ground lamb, with @ glass of red wine, for me its @ feast

PS Mind blowing mexican salsa :lips:

being the second night of Passover tonight, I made rice based Udon Noodle stir fry with a misoyaki based sauce instead of soy sauce.

A different Easter dinner

Tonight was a very different Easter dinner for us. None of the kids were coming by so hubby and I had some fried shrimp, a salad and some fresh strawberry shortcake I thru together. Much different then the usual big ham or pork roast with all the trimmings that we had for the past almost 40 years..........OMG did I really just say 40 years!! How fast the time flies. Guess we are entering a new stage of life at this point in time, can't say I like it too much tho, but I guess it's better than the alternative. Hope everyone had a great dinner.:D

Lol Oldschool...yeah my digital camera does the same thing. My stapler only runs out of staples shen I'm using it....how does that happen????:look:

We had some vegetarian/pescetarian friends for dinner last night. They were tasty...low fat content though :crazy:

Started with:

Dips - cream cheese & chilli sauce with cream cheese and onion crackers
Hummous dip with pita crisps sprinkled with paprika (pita bread cut into wedges, sprayed with oil, sprinkled with paprika, baked till crisp)
Mini quiches with creamy mushroom, egg, onion and cheesy filling
Vegetarian Spring Rolls

Main - BBQ'd kebabs - both types with quartered mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, red onion, spring onion stalks, green capsicum squares, both marinated in lemon and olive oil.

Veg. option had marinated tofu.
Pescetarian had chunks of barramundi.
Took only few minutes (could spend lots of time with guests) - so nice

Also did pizzas, one with mozarella, sprinkle of parmesan grated and oregano. Topped with some torn basil after cooking.

Other with cheddar, parmesan, roasted red capsicum slices, red onion diced, sliced mushrooms portabello, pickled halapeno chilli discs, smoked paprika and oregano. Spicy but yum

Salad of mixed lettuce leaves and herbs, cherry tomatoes, couple of chopped avacado, mayo and sour cream dressing (half/half)

Rice papers softened then filled with mung bean sprouts, very finely sliced mangetout, carrots, spring onion stalks, glass (vermicelli) rice noodles, swipe of sweet chilli sauce, wrapped like a spring roll, chilled then sliced in half on the diagonal and served on long lettuce leaves for wrapping and crunching

Soda bread and salted butter

For sweets:

Made chocolates fudge - can of sweetened condensed milk (250 ml) with 300 g dark belgium chocolate, some pulverised pistachios, touch of vanilla essence.

As it was Easter, got my rabbit moulds out and melted some dark chocolate mixed with some plain chocolate. They both went down well, some percolated blue mountain stlye coffee.

Visitors brought a yummy dark iced chocolate cake (about to have left overs with coffee...drool :) )

It was a great night - had some varied beers and some local Tasmanian white wines...
that night goes down as a favourite. Plus they just dropped around some of their homegrown apples as a thankyou (they smell so much better than supermarket types).....feeling very warm and fuzzy now

Last night I did a roast pork tenderloin which I had first marinated in garlic, soy, ginger, honey, finely chopped Rosemary, fennel seeds and black pepper. I served it with olive oil roast potatoes, parmesan roasted broccolli and swede & carrot puree. The pork was moist so needed nothing more than the reduced in the pan marinade.
As it was Easter we had Champagne. Any excuse!:bounce:

It was just the four of us and we've been eating pretty healthy for several months so decided to have a southern dinner like my grandmother or mother would cook. Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, stewed tomatoes (my homegrown cooked down slowly until thickened, seasoned simply with salt and pepper) over homemade biscuits (made with lard like my grandmother's), and corn. Dessert was a strawberry pie like you'd find at Shoney's restaurant, the one made without Jello and a dollop of lightly sweetened whipped cream on top.

I miss living in the south, nothing better than Sunday meals, oh soooo good but soooo bad for you.

It was delicious. Since I didn't want to smell grease in the house, I decided to cook the chicken on the old propane grill side burner and I hit the perfect temperature. That was the best I've ever made. Les said after eating healthy for so long, that dinner, while very good, did not agree with him. I even heard the kids (15 yr old daughter and 9 year old son) talking about how they overate and had tummy aches last night. lol

Simple salad

Last night I was in the mood for a simple salad plate for myself, hubby was on duty so he didn't get to eat with me. I cooked up a little bacon and grilled a pounded chicken breast then mixed it all with some spring greens mix, tomatoes and carrots, tossed on a little vinegrette and enjoyed myself. Hot weather is on the way to the south and it's time to cook some lighter meals.:bounce:

HubbyDearest said he felt a cold coming on, so I made chicken noodle soup and crusty homemade bread. :lips:

I'd feel a cold coming on 24/7 if I got that! Sounds delicious.That and french onion soup and I'm a happy girl.

baked some babka coffee can style for the family for easter friday night till about 1:30...yeah, my family requests the sprinkles...heh.



tonight, experimented with the KA meat grinder and some chuck...came out good for a first time. Some margaritas. Ended up using some gross Patron silver I had leftover as I want it out of my cabinet already. Didn't wanna ruin the good stuff. Just didn't feel right...









I think maybe a little too fatty? nah.

last night made a ragu sauce with some left over ground beef, and some sweet italian sausage that I browned up REAL well.

The other night I needed a cork or stopper for a bird bath (working in the yard all day!) The guy at the store suggested using a wine cork and kill 2 birds with one stone. Drink the wine plug the bath! Brilliant idea. After a long hard, but cool day in the yard a nice Chianti got my juices flowing. I decided to go with whatever I found at the store since I had nothing in mind. Perhaps a veal or pork cutlet, instead I found Lamb Shanks at half price.:D Got some fresh made gnocchi (remember too late in the day and too tired to make it myself) Got the pressure cooker out (yeah I know not classic style, but technically the same) and made Lamb Shank Osso Buco with Gnocchi. It was perfect and hit the spot! Granted the flavor development wasn't quite there due to the pressure cooker, but what it lacked in deep flavor it made up for in expediency.

Just ate it... baked potato with green chili chicken stew from crockpot with: red and green peppers, onions, hatch green chili salsa, chicken, cumin, chili powder and lime. So good, fast and easy.

Tonight I knocked it out of the park with such a simple dinner...just one of those nights where the food was good. Probably just the warm weather and the grill helping my "i hate ****ing winter" depression.

morel mushroom risotto




grilled redwine marinated lamb t-bones (an excuse to open a bottle of shiraz)

money shot

Whoa! That looks fantastic!

Weekly pizza night

Hubby bought this little pizza oven that goes to some high temps, was delivered today so had to try it tonight. His was with canadian bacon and mine with mushrooms and carmelized onions. Quick cook time on them was a bonus.

I usually think only of dinner when I think of the Mediterranean Diet. What are some good BREAKFAST foods that fit the health profile of the Mediterranean Diet? Joe.