Grilled Mahi Mahi (from Dirk's) grill-roasted fingerling potatoes, grilled asparagus

Marinade is cilantro, soy, sesame oil, chili flakes, garlic, ginger, and I mixed some of the extra (un-raw-fish-tainted) marinade into butter, which can go over any or all of the 3

Got a nice deal on a 4lb pack of pork spare ribs from Fresh Farms the other day. Baked 'em for an hour, then mixed up a sauce and poured it on 'em while they baked for the next hour and a half. Sooo easy! My husband and boys think I am a genius (and they're huge Gates fans from when we lived in KC). Ate it with some 312 and oven fries and a macaroni/veggie salad I whipped up... I guess I'm feeling ready for summer!

- Cook au vin bread with roasted-garlic butter
- foie gras creme brulee with pears poached in red wine and star anise
- seared salmon with olive-oil potato puree, sauteed spinach with pine nuts, and caper-raisin emulsion
- dessert brought by dinner guests

Ratatouille...pizza (1/2 zucchini lemon, 1/2 acorn squash & arugala)... Indian spiced sweet potato fries

Grilled Sardines with lemon, parsley, garlic, sea salt and evoo! Grill time is finally here...yea! By the way, if anyone lives in the Bensenville area you can call ahead and order fish for a pick up at Fortune Fish House(I didn't know this as I thought they were only wholesalers). The sardines for tonight came off the jet on Wednesday with eyes a poping and still smelling like the sea...yum! There are some great fish houses in Chicago but for the ones out in the Northwestern suburbs a short drive and a wait to pick up is well worth it.

http://www.fortunefishco.net/cmsimple/

Grilled steaks, sauteed greens, sugar snap peas
raspberry tart, strawberry rhubarb pie (both from TJ's)

Chimichurri grilled chicken; potato/zucchini gratin, steamed asparagus with goat cheese and strawberries sauteed with blood orange juice and garnished with fresh mint over vanilla ice cream.

Since I smoked and grilled all day yesterday, today seemed like a good day for chicken kiev. Made the garlic butter filling , made it into a block, & tossed it in the fridge this morning before going to the park.

Pounded out the chicken breasts, rolled and breaded them. In the frisge now firming up. Served with rice, a nice romaine salad9(might try a wedge salad interpretation(gorgonzola, onion, egg, bacon, green pepper cucumber), and some Leseur baby peas(my daughter loves them, and so do I). Plus probably some bread and butter.

should be a good Sunday supper before the Hawks game. Drinking Chivas and High Life...

Making homemade red sauce with fresh oregeno, garlic, onions, homemade beef stock and a bit of red wine. I also seared up some big beautiful meaty beef neckbones in olive oil and put them into the simmering sauce this morning. I got a loaf of bread from the Fresh Farms bakery (neckbones are from there too) and will be serving this alongside some green beans--which I plan on cooking with a bit of olive oil, sea salt and pepper.

Wife and Daughter are at Fiddler on the Roof tonight so it's "boys night"
featuring a 3" thick strip steak (roast really) on the grill/oven
garlic mashed potatoes & Haricot Vert sauteed in clarified butter.
My two buddies are bringing a mess of bottles, mostly older CA cabs and an Italian merlot. chilling a Pinot Gris from Ca for starters with some
gougères I've got prepped for the oven.
Photos to follow...

Lamb loin chops from Joseph's food mart with a garlic & rosemary merlot reduction, oven roasted root veg & fresh baked bread.
It was pretty darn good if I do say so.

Tuna with asian seasonings on the grill tonight

A nice piece of pot roast in red wine left over from yesterday, with chunks of carrot, parsnips, and halved baby Yukon golds that were all roasted with the meat, plus basmati rice pilaf made fresh today with dill and baby lima beans. That pot roast gravy sure went well with the pilaf, as did a glass of beaujolais Morgon from Georges Duboeuf. But that was four hours ago, and now I'm hungry again ...

Brined center cut pork chops on the grill with homemade spiced cherry bbq sauce (for SO) and lemon/olive oil/rosemary (for me). Sides were fresh green beans saute'd with almonds and garlic and grilled new potatoes, fennel and onion.

grilled chicken

mhill95149 wrote:grilled chicken

Knees firmly together, a modest chicken if ever I saw.

G Wiv wrote:

mhill95149 wrote:grilled chicken

Knees firmly together, a modest chicken if ever I saw.

too funny, I had the same thought.
just needed a piece of toast...

Poulet Basquaise!

Breakfast for dinner

Pasta rigatoni with white wine, garlic, leeks and anchovy sauce, fresh zuchini, baby tomato and olives with good fresh grated parmesan. Green salad with a fresh herb vinagrette.

Hi,

I made Chicken Fricasee. It had a subtle sauce to highlight the chicken's flavor. When I read that, I should have moved onto something else. It was the fussiest meal prep for a dish that underwhelmed me.

I hope our Leftover King will demolish it before I am tempted to eat it again.

Regards,

Looks like we all ate a lot of chicken tonite

Ours was roasted leg quarters with sweet onion and fresh artichoke heart slivers with salsa verde over crispy green rice (a bit more salsa verde, cilantro, chicken broth, sour cream, cumin and black pepper). Sounds weird I know but that's what happens when I cook and watch Top Chef at the same time...it tasted great though!!

Lamb...

This thread (which I enjoy) is like watching a science fiction movie for me because it is so far removed what my weeknight meals as to provide a view into some sort of parallel universe. While I do cook on the weekends (even then not what's posted here), I'll be having tuna salad on rice cakes tonight, a typical week night meal.

Jealous Jonah

Jonah, we all have (the moral equivalent of) tuna on rice cakes night, we just don't post about it

I just tried to speak up for the great silent majority.

Jonah

results from tonight...

C&D farm lamb loin roulade: deboned and flattened the lamb, seasoned with S&P and lemon, stuffed with saute'd spinach, green onion, garlic, panko breadcrumbs and pine nuts and glazed with lemon, olive, fresh rosemary and thyme. Served over a bed of saute'd spinach with lemon vinaigrette and roasted new potatoes.

Followed the instructions for posting the pic--tried both Shutterfly and Facebook--neither worked. ARGHHHH!!

Disappointment with a side of food poisoning.

I made a beautiful chicken vegetable soup and left it to cool for an hour - and forgot it all night on the stovetop

It wasn't the Ad Hoc one, with all that work, but it was a two day affair, making the stock one day, then soup the next.

Sigh.

leek wrote:Disappointment with a side of food poisoning.

I made a beautiful chicken vegetable soup and left it to cool for an hour - and forgot it all night on the stovetop

It wasn't the Ad Hoc one, with all that work, but it was a two day affair, making the stock one day, then soup the next.

Sigh.

Just curious, would this be safe to eat if you boiled it for a good long while?