Linguini, langustine, and organic broccoli in garlic butter.
Potatos and onions browned with bacon.
Maybe some fried rice with smoked sausage and mixed veg.

I'm trying to clean out the fridge.

For our New Year's day dinner, I'm going to make bamee noodles with barbecue pork and egg rolls. And I'm going to peer pressure my husband into making his version of sweet and sour sauce - it's way better than when I make it.

Stuffed peppers. I'll serve with pasta. I also have some meatballs baking in the oven.

I'm making what Binko made Very inspiring!

Brunch, not dinner, but I made pork chops in a Serrano pepper cream sauce with scrambled eggs and home fries.

Making today for dinner later in the week - lentil veggie soup

1 lb lentils
some leftover beef stock
a leftover pork bone
sherry
vinegar
water
can chopped tomatoes
onion, garlic, celery, carrots, parsnip, turnip, potato
bay leaves, thyme, marjoram
salt and pepper

Will taste and adjust seasonings later tonight, and put it in the fridge.

Neckbones in red sauce. Meaty porky neckbones browned in olive oil and simmered for hours in home made red sauce.

Ecuadoran Bean Stew
http://laylita.com/recipes/2010/01/24/m ... bean-stew/

Spicy Braised Sweet Potatoes
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A big tossed salad

Three Citrus Curd
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Not tonight, but a couple days ago...

Pork Heart Banh Mi
The setup:

Pork heart marinated for a few hours in soy, ginger, garlic, sriracha, and sesame oil.


Accoutrements: Quick-pickled carrot and radish, cucumber, fermented jalapeno, lettuce, and a fish sauce/sriracha mayo.


Two minute sear on each side, then another 5 minutes in the oven at 450.


Medium-rare.

And, the payoff:


The heart had a slight mineral, offaly funk that was absent from some pork heart I've enjoyed more in the past (looking at you Rob Levitt), and the Italian baguette wasn't quite right for calling the sandwich a banh mi, but it made an interesting and satisfying meal.

--Rich

Last night snagged a good sized Mahi Mahi, wild caught in Peru, did some in the oven and some pan cooked. Oven Mahi turned out GOOD, did some asparagus and white rice....was nice!!

Making a hearty, stick to your ribs beef stew with onions, shallots, potatoes, peas and a warm crusty french bread to soak it up. Debating making a pumpkin pie either tonight or tomorrow (since my office is closed).

Braising a massive pork shank* with chicken stock, morita and pasilla chiles, onion, garlic, thyme, cumin, smoked paprika, bay leaves, and... yes... a smoked pork hock. No pictures, or else I'd show off how sexy my braised pork shank w/ braised pork hock is.

-Dan

* finally getting through the last of my frozen half Berkshire hog from Willow Creek Farm

dansch wrote:Braising a massive pork shank* with chicken stock, morita and pasilla chiles, onion, garlic, thyme, cumin, smoked paprika, bay leaves, and... yes... a smoked pork hock. No pictures, or else I'd show off how sexy my braised pork shank w/ braised pork hock is.

-Dan

* finally getting through the last of my frozen half Berkshire hog from Willow Creek Farm

sounds really good dan,

and thanks for reminding me I need to replenish my own Berkshire & Duroc supply(time to head towards Peoria pretty soon).

Nothing fancy here...a pot of navy bean soup with a Scott's country ham hock and also some diced Scott's bacon. Celery and onion. Water. Telicherry black pepper. Can't wait...

jimswside wrote:

dansch wrote:Braising a massive pork shank* with chicken stock, morita and pasilla chiles, onion, garlic, thyme, cumin, smoked paprika, bay leaves, and... yes... a smoked pork hock. No pictures, or else I'd show off how sexy my braised pork shank w/ braised pork hock is.

-Dan

* finally getting through the last of my frozen half Berkshire hog from Willow Creek Farm

sounds really good dan,

Thanks Jim. It smells great - we'll see how it tastes in about an hour. I forgot to list salt-cured anchovies - I tossed a couple in when softening the onions and garlic in the fat that rendered off the hock during browning. For some reason I've become obsessed with adding anchovies to everything... they're a perfect salty/umami-bomb (not unlike adding a splash of fish sauce to something).

-Dan

made potato & leek soup today.
chef sven mill's recipe.
it turned out great


6 cups of peeled and diced potatoes
3 cups of shredded spring onions (leeks)or sliced thin
2 1/2 cups of water
2 1/2 cups of milk
2 1/2 cups of cream
1/2 tsp of tarragon
1/2 tsp of chopped rosemary
1/2 tsp of chopped thyme
4 tsp vegetable stock
3 tsp butter
1 cup parsley
melt butter iin a large sauce pan and saute the potatoes and the spring onions until golden. add the water, vegetable stock, thyme, tarragon and rosemary. let come to a boil and allow to softly boil for about 15 minutes/or until the potatoes feel soft. add the milk and the cream and boil up quickly, do a taste check and add some salt and black pepper until you have the taste you desire. add the parsley before serving and mixing. if mixed warm use a rod mixer. if mixed cold use a bench mixer. can be served unmixed. .

My wife was not sure how long her commute home was going to be so I figured I'd SV some steaks
and when she was close I'd fire the rest of the meal..


2.5 or 3.5 hours at 129˚ to 133˚ then nice and hot cast iron pan

Costco Choice NY strips
My daughter said "yea, not as rich as the ones you usually cook…"

Quite true but can't eat prime all the time….

the end to a perfect day
Pinewood derby (2nd place design) Snowshoe hike with wife and then a nice dinner

once (maybe twice) a year wine and crab cakes

leftovers!
turkey curry with broccoli

Pan roasted salmon marinated in soy, ginger, garlic, rice wine vinegar, and sesame oil; reduced the marinade for a glaze and finished under the broiler. Served with jasmine rice and wilted spinach.

my first try at Rosti

mhill95149 wrote:my first try at Rosti

I'd eat that!

last night: filet, crab legs, crab fettucini alfredo, garlic bread....

tonight: Pollo en su jugo, roasted jicama, flour tortillas, jalapenos, avacodos, rice, black beans.

A big-ass roast capon, scented with home-grown rosemary & bay, roasted with whole shallots & fingerling taters, and some Brussels sprouts on the side (roasted separately). Smells fabulous in here. As much as I love somewhat complicated and very spicy meals, it's great to do a high-return/minimal-effort dinner like this now and then.

Delicious batch of cream of tomato soup (or 2% lowfat milk of tomato soup, to be more precise) with fresh basil still growing in a class on my windowsill from a cutting from my summer plant.

Pork tenderloin roasted with mojo criollo, onions, carrot and garlic served over a bed of arugula with a side of diced purple potatoes. Made for a pretty plate

Tonight, after a salad, I've made the meatballs and pappardelle from Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc Cookbook. After that, poached pears with homemade cinnamon ice cream.

Since #1 daughter is out this evening, we will have our "red meal" on the 15th instead...
tonight it is meatless Monday

Sweet-and-sour beef cabbage borscht (made with flanken and a veal marrow bone). For dessert, rice pudding improvised with leftover basmati rice from Khan's (it's tough living 3 blocks away ), milk, cream, coconut milk, sugar, cardamom, raisins, almonds (didn't have any pistachios, which would have been better), and sugared ginger slices--nomnomnom, as Cookie Monster says.

Bayou Beef stew served over long grain rice, perhaps some bread and butter.

What are you making for dinner tonight - Breakfast Edition:


Chorizo and egg on baguette, Ronna's pickled green tomato and jalapeno slices.

--Rich