Supper

[small h]

A little kitschiness for the spooky season - scary skull mushroom pizza. Also regular ol’ margherita pizza that somehow contracted in the oven. And chilled cucumber/avocado/yogurt soup with poached scallops.

 

 

 

[Wilfrid]

Simple because I am tired. Salmon with crunchy skin, white wine butter cream sauce, mushrooms in red wine with rosemary. 

[Wilfrid]

Looks the same as the above. I know. I cooked a large and fatty pork roast and it came out right.

[small h]

A sazerac as I admire my mise en place.

Deviled eggs, oysters rockefeller with sorrel from the balcony, low country seafood chowder. And now you know what I’ve been up to today.

[maison rustique]

My Medicare provider sends free meals after you've been in the hospital. Just tried one. They arrive fresh but you can freeze for longer storage. I am impressed with the varieties they sent. Just had this one.

Was it great? No but it wasn't the worst thing ever either. Broccoli was crunchy and flavorful. And it was more than I could eat!

 

[small h]

Homemade diner dinners are the best dinners. Tile fish oreganata, lemon rosemary potatoes, cucumber salad with mint. 
 

[small h]

[Wilfrid]

Daube de chèvre. A couple of pounds of goat, seared in duck fat, then slow cooked for hours in red wine with onions, olives and orange peel.

First night serving was very fatty. Overnight, the fat elevated to that white disk that is easy to lift off. Next servings were better. Saying goodnight to it tonight (might eat some fish tomorrow).

[rozrapp]

My birthday was last Thursday (October 24th). Since the weather was not conducive to having an outdoor meal at a restaurant, I prepared a celebratory dinner at home.

https://thewizardofroz.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/at-home-2024-my-birthday-dinner/

[small h]

Razor clams broiled with herbed panko. Braised romanesco stems with other herbs (part of my “waste nothing” vow). The clams were killer. The stems…well, they’re gone. And I’m alive.

 

[MitchW]

Sometimes, in these days of doom, a need for comfort food arises. Hence...

Chicken soup...with matzoh balls.

Soup from scratch, stock made with various frozen parts and an old hen (a gallina).  And the matzoh balls were as light as a feather; I actually thought they would fall apart, since the "dough" was so wet, even after resting in the fridge for an hour. But they stood firm, and are delicious.

 

[StephanieL]

I made the Gigantes Plaki recipe from the new RG book, using the Royal Coronas; because I wanted it to be a main rather than a side dish, I added lots of feta on top before baking. I'm lucky enough to live near a store that sells several varieties of feta; I went with a creamy French sheep's milk variety.

[Wilfrid]

I have all I need for nachos but was too tired to make them (like it’s hard) so I just ate half of the pernil that is destined for them. Yes, just that.

[maison rustique]

I'm still not eating much at all. My sis and BIL were here yesterday and we went out for lunch. I had a burger and actually ate half of it. Then, naturally, I wasn't hungry for supper. So, supper was a nuked bag of popcorn (half of it) and a hunk of cheese.

[Wilfrid]

On 11/2/2024 at 9:24 PM, Wilfrid said:

I have all I need for nachos but was too tired to make them (like it’s hard) so I just ate half of the pernil that is destined for them. Yes, just that.

Got around to making them. I really like them and so easy (as I pick up pernil with rice and beans from Amanecer just up the street). Mr Tortilla low carb chips with black truffle and salt, tossed with the pork and a few beans and grated cheese and chopped pickled chilis. Baked and served with some sour cream on top.

Rice donated to my daughter. 

[voyager]

Pasta fazool.   Something I craved but which husband has previously not liked.  He has two refills. I ask, “So how is it?”   VERY good.

I give up!   But as the saying goes, if this were a job I could quit, I’d have been fired long ago,

[bloviatrix]

Fridge drawer pasta. Made a sauce using up some sad looking veg.

[MitchW]

A couple of recent dinners, or at least parts of recent dinners...

Everything poached chirashi.  Wild gulf shrimp, Hokkaido scallops, Alaskan sockeye and Ikura.  Rice finished using as many chemicals as possible with this product:

Roasted broccolini alongside. A few nights later...

Penne with porcini and cremini.  Salad alongside.

[StephanieL]

Seared lamb shoulder chops, roasted parsnips and delicata squash, and Japanese eggplant cooked with pomegranate molasses, served over pureed RG Yellow Eyes and topped with pomegranate seeds and chopped parsley. 

[small h]

Kale minestrone with pistou.

Tuna salad on almost the last of the balcony lettuce.

Today's theme was "use up the celery." Between these and The Byproduct, the celery...is gone.

[MitchW]

Stir-fried beef with sugar snap peas, carrots, garlic, ginger, scallions, oyster sauce, etc.

[MitchW]

Large scallops over linguini.  Pan sauce made after searing the scallops with (more) butter, olive oil, garlic, white wine, lemon, pasta water. The pasta was almost as much of a highlight as were these really rare-in-the-middle scallops.

[bloviatrix]

Last night - LEO. Never fails to delight.

[StephanieL]

I made the famous NY Times Crispy Gnocchi With Brussels Sprouts and Brown Butter, and it lived up to the hype.  I followed the recipe to the letter and it all came together really well.  The only change I made was to sprinkle aged Grand Padano on the top rather than Parmesan, simply because that's what I had.  Russian River's Robert Saison to drink.

[Wilfrid]

Determined to eat a little lighter this week I have a couple of pounds of belly pork goulash in the crockpot including a couple of bones. Defiantly, I added half a cup of Rancho beans. Small white ones, they’ve been out of the bag and in a jar forever.

Probably a little puddle of Vacherin to follow. I have had nothing since the duck egg over easy and breakfast sausage this morning. Unless you count the burger.