ok, I'm back on schedule this week. I've been trying to do one cold dish a week during the summer, and last night was a very nice Vietnamese Chicken salad-cabbage, red onion, basil, cilanto and a lime juice/fish sauce dressing. Next week it's a Cobb salad with salmon. Friday is Mexican pork chops with a chipotle sauce. Along with that I'm having a potato/cheese frico, a recipe I'm testing for America's Test Kitchen. Next week pork tenderloin fajitas and after a very long wait, chicken cordon bleu. What are you all up to?
started the weekend early last night at the St. Ann's Fest in Norwalk. Drank some wine, had good sausage and peppers heroes, wife had ziti and meatballs with St. Ann CLubs famous sauce. Cannolis, tartufo, saw lots of friends from town we haven't seen for a while.
Just got back with Mrs. in CT from Shop Rite. Having grilled mackerel steaks tonight. Mrs. on the job with orzo salad and sauteed broccoli rabe. And a bottle of Gavi.
Steaks with Bobby Flay potato salad, and an arugula salad as well. Joel Gott cab
TBA for Sunday may eat at Ripka's at the beach concert again. The Fairfield Counts Big Band playing.
Have a great weekend.
Saturday, I am doing a little cheat meal making char siu pig wing’s that I bought from Nueske's, planning on doing it with Asian cucumber salad with pickled ginger, garlic, onion, rice wine, sambal and scallion. With spicy Momofuku ramen noodles.
Sunday, my wife requested breakfast for dinner, so I am doing fried GF eggs, with bacon from the same place above, smashed crispy baby potatoes, and I have some pumpernickel bagels from Ess-A-Bagel in the freezer so maybe split one for us both.
Hope everyone has a nice weekend.
I still have Mongolian beef left over so I'll use it to make nachos. Adding Pico, black beans, banana peppers and of course cheese.
Sunday dinner is a 1 pot seafood pasta using shrimp an lobster. Maybe throwing in mozzarella pearls too. Of course serving it with Texas toast
Sounds like a couple of busy days. Good luck with the cookoff
started the weekend early last night at the St. Ann's Fest in Norwalk. Drank some wine, had good sausage and peppers heroes, wife had ziti and meatballs with St. Ann CLubs famous sauce. Cannolis, tartufo, saw lots of friends from town we haven't seen for a while.
Just got back with Mrs. in CT from Shop Rite. Having grilled mackerel steaks tonight. Mrs. on the job with orzo salad and sauteed broccoli rabe. And a bottle of Gavi.
Steaks with Bobby Flay potato salad, and an arugula salad as well. Joel Gott cab
TBA for Sunday may eat at Ripka's at the beach concert again. The Fairfield Counts Big Band playing.
Have a great weekend.
St. Ann's sounds like San Gennaro in Little Italy. I went once, it was fun. I didn't realize mackeral were big enough to cut into steaks. It's a pretty oily fish, do you have to cook it any special way? I've got several flay potato salad recipes but haven't made any. He's got SWern from his Mesa Grill, with no eggs, and a Texas style that does have eggs. I like eggs in potato salad. I've been using Aaron McCargo's recipe for years (Big Daddy on Food Network) but I'll give Flay a try one of these days. Enjoy the concert
All good stuff, I'm with you on "yum"
Saturday, I am doing a little cheat meal making char siu pig wing’s that I bought from Nueske's, planning on doing it with Asian cucumber salad with pickled ginger, garlic, onion, rice wine, sambal and scallion. With spicy Momofuku ramen noodles.
Sunday, my wife requested breakfast for dinner, so I am doing fried GF eggs, with bacon from the same place above, smashed crispy baby potatoes, and I have some pumpernickel bagels from Ess-A-Bagel in the freezer so maybe split one for us both.
Hope everyone has a nice weekend.
Hey, Scott, all is good, thanks. I finally made pizza this past week after a long hiatus. I've got 2 slices left over, but I don't know if I'll end up eating cause of the carbs. I just copied an Asian recipe for smashed cucumber salad that I'll make in the near future.
I still have Mongolian beef left over so I'll use it to make nachos. Adding Pico, black beans, banana peppers and of course cheese.
Sunday dinner is a 1 pot seafood pasta using shrimp an lobster. Maybe throwing in mozzarella pearls too. Of course serving it with Texas toast
hey, DG. Smashburgers with sliced onions pushed into one surface is big these days. I don't know if you've tried that. How did the Mongolian beef turn out? Maybe you've had better experiences than me, but I usually don't like the way fresh mozz reheats in leftovers. Seafood pasta with Texas toast is a new one for me :)
hey, Chuck. Mrs. in UT are big fans of olive dishes and eggplant. I find that if I serve those ingredients to guests (throw in marinated artichokes too) they're not crowd favorites. Their loss :) Haven't heard of bread stuffed with eggplant parm. You make it up or you found a recipe? Probably not something I'd do myself cause of the bread, but it sounds good. You just made me decide to throw a veggie sandwich onto my calendar-roasted eggplant, red onions, red peppers, provolone, garlic aioli. Sometimes some mushrooms.
As to the eggplant parm stuffed bread pretty much every Italian deli in NJ and I think NYC area makes it or other types (spinach/mozz, pepperoni etc.) I grew up buying/eating the stuff, but for tonight I just used the leftover eggplant rolled jelly roll style into a rectangle of pizza dough.
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so pizza Friday is being moved to tomorrow. For tonight, making Puttanesca with Bucatini. Just got done rough-chopping a ton of Castelvetrano and Kalamata olives. (I always go heavy with these for this sauce- I’m heavy-handed with the anchovies too…) Made a loaf of homemade eggplant Parm stuffed bread to go along with it. Easy way to use up some leftover eggplant.
hey, Chuck. Mrs. in UT are big fans of olive dishes and eggplant. I find that if I serve those ingredients to guests (throw in marinated artichokes too) they're not crowd favorites. Their loss :) Haven't heard of bread stuffed with eggplant parm. You make it up or you found a recipe? Probably not something I'd do myself cause of the bread, but it sounds good. You just made me decide to throw a veggie sandwich onto my calendar-roasted eggplant, red onions, red peppers, provolone, garlic aioli. Sometimes some mushrooms.
Tonight, more mundane. Blackened fresh Alaskan cod loin, roasted broccoli, all over wild rice - none of that from the garden, but the salad is.
Tonight, more mundane. Blackened fresh Alaskan cod loin, roasted broccoli, all over wild rice - none of that from the garden, but the salad is.
Hey, Del. Glad to see you're putting that garden to good use. Nothing mundane about blackened fish. Have you ever tried growing cod in the garden?
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last night I made Del's from-the-garden risotto, with fresh picked tomatoes, corn kernels, poblano peppers and garlic all from the garden. Pretty good if I do say so myself (and vegetarian for those in the family who observe that).
Tonight, more mundane. Blackened fresh Alaskan cod loin, roasted broccoli, all over wild rice - none of that from the garden, but the salad is.
Hey, Del. Glad to see you're putting that garden to good use. Nothing mundane about blackened fish. Have you ever tried growing cod in the garden?
Our farmer neighbor has a pond, but it would be hard to call it Alaskan cod if it came from right next door ...
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In comment 16560740 Del Shofner said:
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last night I made Del's from-the-garden risotto, with fresh picked tomatoes, corn kernels, poblano peppers and garlic all from the garden. Pretty good if I do say so myself (and vegetarian for those in the family who observe that).
Tonight, more mundane. Blackened fresh Alaskan cod loin, roasted broccoli, all over wild rice - none of that from the garden, but the salad is.
Hey, Del. Glad to see you're putting that garden to good use. Nothing mundane about blackened fish. Have you ever tried growing cod in the garden?
Our farmer neighbor has a pond, but it would be hard to call it Alaskan cod if it came from right next door ...
Is he west of you? People call toothfish Chilean sea bass, so you can call it anything you want :)
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started the weekend early last night at the St. Ann's Fest in Norwalk. Drank some wine, had good sausage and peppers heroes, wife had ziti and meatballs with St. Ann CLubs famous sauce. Cannolis, tartufo, saw lots of friends from town we haven't seen for a while.
Just got back with Mrs. in CT from Shop Rite. Having grilled mackerel steaks tonight. Mrs. on the job with orzo salad and sauteed broccoli rabe. And a bottle of Gavi.
Steaks with Bobby Flay potato salad, and an arugula salad as well. Joel Gott cab
TBA for Sunday may eat at Ripka's at the beach concert again. The Fairfield Counts Big Band playing.
Have a great weekend.
St. Ann's sounds like San Gennaro in Little Italy. I went once, it was fun. I didn't realize mackeral were big enough to cut into steaks. It's a pretty oily fish, do you have to cook it any special way? I've got several flay potato salad recipes but haven't made any. He's got SWern from his Mesa Grill, with no eggs, and a Texas style that does have eggs. I like eggs in potato salad. I've been using Aaron McCargo's recipe for years (Big Daddy on Food Network) but I'll give Flay a try one of these days. Enjoy the concert
smaller scale obviously but yes the same principal. My father that neighborhood, Grand St. between Mott and Elizabeth. Lots of good memories from there.
Mackerel was great, just salt, pepper, a touch of garlic powder, olive oil and fresh lemon juice.
Sunday, my wife requested breakfast for dinner,
The best I could do today was breakfast for lunch-scrambled eggs and Drew's tasso ham