Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Supper -- what are you cooking? - Page 27  

McM...are you that guy I saw a TV segment about that photographs everything he eats? :) Great pictures, though.

Home made tamales, pinto beans and spanish rice. Did the beans and rice in the new pressure cooker. yummy.

simple dinner tonight

tonight i had a rare chance of making dinner with my
26 year old son.

we made hand wrapped wonton with a
ground pork/shrimp/green onion/minced garlic
filling, in a chicken broth, garnished with
green onions, and "egg noodles".

to make the egg noodles, scramble some eggs
and thin out slightly with a little bit of water.
add a thin layer to a pan and swirl, like making a crepe.
when hard fried on both sides, remove from pan
and stack until eggs are used up.

thin slice the eggs like fettuchini and twirl to garnish.

Tonight will be left overs, maybe. But I've been in the kitchen preparing for tomorrow...black eye peas with ham (onion, carrot, potato, celery, garlic too), served with corn bread. Some call it Hoppin' John. I dunno...I'm not South'rn. Made the day ahead, so the flavors marry :lips: . I did it in the 10 qt pressure cooker so there's plenty for the freezer too.

1 meaty ham bone
1 pound black eye peas, sorted (I found a pebble in mine), and rinsed
3/4 cup diced or thin-sliced carrots
1/2 cup each diced onion and celery
3 or 4 clove garlic minced
1&1/2 cup diced potato
seasonings to taste: pepper, bay leaf, etc. But hold off salt until cooking is done, since the ham will give up a good deal of its salt, and if using, the stock or broth will also have salt.
broth, stock or water to cover solids by 2" (here is the reason for the large cooker, because the beans foam, so if using pressure, it cannot be more than half full). The finished product is 5 quarts of soup.

"Sweat" the veggies, add all else and bring to the boil
Stir well, lock lid in place, bring up to full pressure, then reduce heat and pressure cook 10 minutes.
Remove from heat and let pressure drop naturally. Edited to include: When you can take off the lid, stir in a can of diced tomatoes. I run them in the blender first, but that's optional.
As with any soup, it's always better the next day.

yesterday went out..but for lunch I had the polenta terrine I made a few days ago.




just had breakfast....nothing to nurse a new years day like a basic greasy one.

Had a nice bit of beef roast and yorkshire pudding. Haven't made puddings for a while, I'm a little oiut of practice. Could have been better but still turned out great, smothered in pan gravy. Did some asparagus lightly fried in butter with lemon juice drizzled over. Good stuff, a nice holiday meal.

mjb.

We enjoyed the black eye peas soup with the ham. I made corn bread to go with it... and OOPS... I forgot to put in the egg called for in the recipe. Mums the word, it turned out okay--no one noticed. :look: The leftover soup is going into the freezer for a jiffy meal some other time.

"Once in a Blue-moon" meal here tonight. pan fried chicken, mashed 'taters, skillet gravy, peas and biscuits. I think it's been close to 7 years since I made home-made fried chicken, I mean the bone in kind. We do breaded and sautéed chicken breasts quite often for schnitzel since the DW and DD do like that very much.

Had to make home-made buttermilk for breading and biscuits it was so much spur of the moment.:look:

Actually everything turned out rather nice. Legs and thighs with skin removed, flour mix was made up of AP flour, potato flour, touch of corn flour, and ground thyme, rosemary, basil, oregano, cayenne pepper and sage as well as Lawry's season salt, a bit extra paprika, garlic powder and onion powder.

Had some cream of mush soup left over from the weekend so that was tweaked into the pan gravy (no 1/2 and 1/2 in the house).

Stuffed cabbages on the agenda for tomorrow and marinated and roasted pork tenderloin for later this week. The weather is gonna get a bit nasty around here toward the end of the week so Chicken and Dumplings may be in order if we get that freezing rain the weather guessers keep threatening us with. After this week it's back to less than extremely comfort food. ;)

room service.

at least it's not bad. but I hate seeing "kobe burger" on menus.....

I made Greek-style meatballs in egg-lemon sauce and a green salad.

Sweet Potato Gnocci with Roast Chicken and Fresh Mozz sausage I made over the holiday break (I got an antique meat grinder and sausage maker for Hanukah) and a nice White Truffle Vinaigrette.

big hearty breakfast

finally had a day off after working four weeks w/o a day off
and staying at work until midnight or 1am.

last night i had boiled some potatoes in their jackets and
let them cool off in the fridge.

this morning i wanted a big breakfast so i cubed the potatoes
before frying them (they crisp up better this way than when
cooking them from raw). i also cubed up spam (their new
bacon flavor ... yum!!), chorizo, bratwurst, and mortadella,
and fried them up with the taters.

then i topped them with a couple of eggs over medium so
there was plenty of yolk to drip over the cubes. yum!!

Wow..incredible breakfast foods...Sunday..going out for breakfast, probably a little dive diner that has a dish on the menu that I like..dinner is still up in the air, but maybe I'll make something snazzy.

I'm going to do a roast in the ol' crock-pot today for dinnner. I have been told that parsnips are the secrect to a great pot roast, so I'm going to put some onions, carrots, a little celery, and two small parsnips in to cook with a sirloin tip roast (on sale yesterday for half price - score!). I'll also add a bay leaf, from my new Turkish collection, and try not to go overboard on the salt and misc dried herbs.;)

Filet, some carrots with a little butter/balsamic, and some spatzle.



I tell ya, it sounds silly, but these steaks are part of a tenderloin I picked up on supersale at shoprite, for like 23$ for the whole tenderloin, and while it's certainly not Kobe, the lady and I agree these are some of the best filets we've ever had, and these have been even pulled from the freezer.


(and the carbonara from last night)

a citrus/ginger marinaded duck breast and a roasted cashew + marinade sauce. with some jasmine rice and a pork bun.....vegetables...we don't need no stinkin' vegetables.



a manhattan 2:1 with rittenhouse and antica formula, regans orange bitters and a flamed orange twist for me....

sazerac for the misses with 1:1 saz rye and cognac , a cube of sugar, a teaspoon of water and a lucid rinsed glass..

I'm almost embarresed to say what I made for dinner last night after seeing this but, Pan fried pork chops, mac and cheese with fage instead of butter and milk, and peas.

I had McDonalds dollar menu the night before.


yeah. like the dollar menu. Like pretty much 1 of each thing on it.

I had a applewood smoked gouda grit souffle with cherry smoked brown sugar habanero bacon in it and a peach schnapps creme brule and a glass of ice wine. Me and my wife both loved it and **** even my 3 year old ate it a liked it.

Where did you have the souffle?

I simmered some chicken and shallots with some Patak's vindaloo curry paste, hand rolled some whole wheat flour dough into thick noodles and let them cook in the broth. This was Canadian-made "paratha" flour. Turned out good for a one-person meal. Veges? I'll have some tomorrow.

Burp

Last night I roasted a chicken, a fairly small 3+ pounder. Served it with a sauteed mushroom, white wine pan reduction, some rice with the nice, flavorful 'roasting rack' veggies [carrots and onion ] diced up and mixed in. Leftovers tonight, the chicken parts heated in an earthernware baking dish, basically a terrine. Whisked up a simple roux based chicken gravy to douse the bird bits and leftover rice mix.

I've said it before, I'm saying it now, I'm sure I'll say it again. Culinary wizardy, flamboyant presentation, exotic ingredients have their place but sometimes they just can't compare to a simple piece of chicken and an honest puddle of gravy.

mjb.

Roasted chicken and Cobb Salad with a nice Avocado Vinaigrette

Made it out of the cheese grits

tell me more about chickpea soup?

Beef meatballs in dried mushroom/beef stock gravy open face on a 1 inch thick piece of pumpernickel bread and some Au gratin potatoes with cheddar and parmigiana.

after 7 days of cleansing/detoxing, just a salad with a coupla cubes of cheese. :(

I did bake my first loaf of bread though for tomorrow for lunch! came out awesome. I'ma post a separate post about it

my first loaf of bread.

I did enjoy a southern delicacy while I was in Chattanooga this past weekend... A sackful of Krystals with cheese, fried pickles and a chili cheese fries. Now that's good eatin

Lunch, NRatched made some egg salad and the light whole wheat bread I made last night...



exciting huh?