Should I bring beer?

Wecome to the Cellar, Flickster. :D

Brisket (part II)
 

Total cooking time 14 hours

Scenes from the cutting board

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Sounds Good!

and, Thanks!

:cool:

Yesterday, 'dinner' was a barbeque with the family in my Bro and SiL's back garden, for mum's birthday. Very lovely food, including peri-peri chicken, spare ribs and sardines.

Today, mum and I drove into town and got a full Sunday roast dinner at The Barum Top Inn. It's a wetherspoons pub, but I don;t care; I love it. What's best about it is it has a really good choice of vegetarian food, including as an alternative to roast meat: a portabello mushroom, chickpea and seed nut roast. Served in the same way as the standard roast dinner, with roast potatoes, veg, stuffing balls, yorkshire pudding and gravy.

Mum had jam sponge pudding for afters, I had profiterroles with chocolate sauce.

Deelish and no washing up to tackle afterwards :)

The dinner sounds good Dana...especially the creme puff.
*drool drool*
The sponge thing not so much :P

A store here sells something called a pudding ring. I don't imagine the taste is similar. The heavy texture of it is gross.

Sponge puding is like a rich, slightly heavier yellow cake served warm. Usually with hot custard.

a calzone. tasty.

Parm Encrusted Talapia ,
Shells and cheese with garlic ,
Black Eyed Peas

Yesterday : scallops sauteed in olive oil with a pinch of salt and pepper, a few drops of Tabasco sauce, garlic and chive

Oooooh. Scallops. Haven't had those in years. Not since I made them to a Gary Rhodes recipe (Brits will understand how many years ago that makes it :P).

During the week, I work in Paris (France not Texas) but on week-ends I'm at home near Brest by the sea (in Brittany - a province of France).

If someone is interessed, I'll translate a few recipes from home

Yesterday was tacos - my favorite! Today will be pork loin, mac and cheese, and a salad.

If tacos were really your favorite, you'd have them tonight too. I'm gonna...

Yes, put them here. :thumb2:

But don't translate them and then Urban can have a Gorillagasm. Make sure there's lots of Au Jus. :p:

Ain't that saucy ? :)

Nice job, Flickster. Oven? Smoker?

But I want them to last! Taco Salad for lunch today and thinking of a taco pizza tomorrow.

Tonight is the pork loin and mac and cheese again.

Pot pies

Jacket/Baked potatoes with chicken in gravy-type sauce. not that white "gravy"

jinx had tacos again tonight

Smoker, kept at about 250 - pecan wood - total time 14 hours

Really does look wonderful...

Tonight, I had tacos.

Roast Beef, Roast Spuds, Yorkshire Pudding, Mushrooms, Asparagus and Brussels. Being served RFN :D

want

roast beef

Grilled Salmon
 

Basically, followed this recipe

Asian Grilled Salmon

So Easy yet So Good

Teamed it up with some grilled zucchini


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Nice pics up there.


Yesterday it was a giant chief salad with eggs,cheese,deli ham, faux crab,tomato,celery and cheese bread kaiser rolls.

Angelfood cake for desert with strawberrys.


Today it was spaghetti with whole wheat pasta and ground turkey into the sauce.

my husband has deemed the roast beef pic good enough to have sex with LOL!!

Tonight we had Hamburger Helper- it's what the kids wanted.

Leftover chicken piccata, warmed and sliced on a romaine lettuce bed, with red onions, ripe tomato slices, kalamata olives, feta and blue cheese and bacon bits. Greek dressing over it all.

for lunch we had steamed corn on the cob with butter

followed by Baked potatoes with butter, cheese, sour cream, baked beans, green onions, regular onions, chives and bacon. With a mixed lettuce and heritage tomato side salad.

Then rounded it off with fresh home-baked scottish shortbread smothered with whipped cream and strawberries. I didn't gt a pic until it was all over, though..... :yum:

I made my own version of the buffalo wing. I fried them crispy brown and before I pulled them out of the skillet I brushed them with a mixture of Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce and hot sauce. Baked baby red potato on the side with celery sticks.

For desert I made a small batch of chocolate cupcakes with homemade chocolate icing. I didn't know homemade icing would be so so good.:yum:

Shrimp Sauce Piquant. Shrimp from the GULF, of Siam, whatever!
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Dinner tonight will be shrimp from the grill, Israeli cous cous and corn on the cob (if I can get it thawed/cooked by the time the shrimp is done).

We are having beef and shrimp ka-bobs, with macaroni salad and basimati rice tonight. With whatever extras my best freind and hubby bring. Its Litha tonight! So even on a Monday, we celebrate :)

That sounds WONDERFUL for ya.

Hallo. Long-time lurker, first-time poster. I had a good laugh that this is a thread rolling since 2004, at least. That's pretty incredible. That being said, since I'm eating dinner and this is a food thread:

i'm eating chicken breasts pan-cooked in soy and fish sauce, soju, garlic, and green and red onions over white rice. It's surprisingly good for something I just sort of.. pulled out of the fridge and dumped stuff that was sitting on the countertop into.

hi winslow, welcome. Why are you sad? we have older threads than this one still running I think. Sometimes trolls resurrect them for us and we take it as a challenge! :lol:

It would be dangerous indeed to cook some of the things lying around on our countertop :eek:

I had to look up soju. Nice!

A variation on this: http://amberveggies.blogspot.com/200...ology-pie.html
I am going to use chicken instead of beef. I have tried it the beef way and it was GOOOOD. Let's hope the chicken turns out well, too.

You seasoned it with both soy and fish sauce?? Hmm....I didn't think those two would mix well.

Just a little dash of fish sauce mixed in to add an extra shot of savoury kind of taste. I've never really cooked with it before, but it's got a bit of anchovy salty funk to it that's not too bad in moderation. it added a little undertone that was fairly nice.

Don't worry, it's mostly just a name. :) Yeah, I've been poking around here off and on for quite some time(several years, even) and seen some ancient threads, which I really appreciate compared to a lot of other more, err, "trendy" sites where threads happen for about 24 hours and then die off, never to be heard from again. I like rolling conversations, it really gives a nice sense of continuity and community.

Sundae_girl: soju is pretty darn good and is great to cook with. To be honest, I prefer cooking with it to drinking it, although on plenty of ice with a good twist of lemon it's pretty good too.

Nice meeting you all in actual text now, by the by. I need to hop over to Home Base too and see if I can find whatever happened to that guy who bought the hot dog cart!

i coulda sworn i replied to this once. Yeah, i used both a shot of soy sauce, and just a few drops of fish sauce for a little extra savoury hiding on the back-end. I've never really cooked with it before. It smells HORRIBLE out of the bottle, but tastes decent. To be truthful I think I still just prefer anchovies (one of my favorite foods EVER, right there.)

also to sundae_girl re: soju: it's pretty good stuff! I prefer it for cooking mostly, but on the rocks with a good twist of lemon it's not terrible either.

Thankfully, the dangerous things in the house live properly away from the kitchen :D

tonight: fish fry from a diner. some sort of white fish, hushpuppies, fries and cole slaw. bad for me, but tasted pretty darn good.

Is this where I order a pizza?

We are having having Homestyle bake w/chicken mashed potatoes and biscuits.

tonight was hot pot. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hot_pot
If you've never had it, it's one of the most fun and tasty casual kind of dinners you can do. My favorite part is, of course, grilling the super thin-sliced meats around the outside of the soup pot, and concocting a dipping sauce to my own taste. Plus looking at all the weird tentacles and crap on the buffet next to the cut up hot dogs, vegetables, fish, and other assorted goodies.

we had tomato sangwishes and corn on the corb!

Spag Bol.

I've been on a 21 day "purification" diet (I can assure you it hasn't helped my thoughts in the least) that is mainly eat as much fruit and vegetables as I want: a mix of raw and cooked, a couple of protein smoothies a day, and lots of water. after day 11 or so you can add a small amount of chicken. So tonight is officially day 15 and unofficially day 24 (I had a week of one toe in the water so to speak) and I bought a chicken at the farmer's market from a friend's farm. roasted with yams, steamed broccoli and zucchini fried in butter.

I love chicken.

I also lost 14 pounds despite sitting on my less fat ass in front of the computer. Amazing what not stuffing my face with bread will do.

Tonight it's pork chops with pears. Plus some veggie side, but I haven't committed to what kind yet.

Those peeled asparagus were awesome. I'd never tried peeling them before.

New York Strips were on sale - $2.99lb we had 2 each.

Thanks! I stole the idea during my one outing to a fancy restaurant in the last year. :)

Leftovers! The perils of being single and liking to cook.

leftover what? ravioli in a can?

i kinda miss those days. a buddy and i lived across the block from one another, wanted to share wi-fi. we needed directional antennas. so we bought two of those giant ravioli cans of chef boyardee and sat down and over the course of a day, we demolished them. may have shared with some passing visitors too, i forget now. breakfast, lunch, and dinner, though. cold out of a can. it was.. glorious?

It's funny to listen to stories from the Days of Yore when part of the story includes sharing "wi-fi"!

;)

Tonight is probably going to be either cold sesame noodles - i have a killer recipe if anyone is interested. it's cheap and delicious - or mabo dofu, which is ground pork, tofu, and peas in a varyingly spicy sauce (depending on how to you make it). Unless I go off completely and grill some chicken or something but that's pretty unlikely given that it's 4785398758462872 degrees out and i just made chicken to put in the noodles.

also, in case anyone wondered: i love food. :D

Ooh, I'd like your sesame noodle recipe, and if you're feeling generous, your mabo (mapo?) dofu!

Arigato!