Braised Short Ribs Ragù. APRIL FOOLS!!!
All day yesterday I kept smelling deliciousness wafting from the kitchen. I asked my gf what was going on and she told me she was cooking some beautiful short ribs.
Around 7 pm I asked when we were eating them and she told me tomorrow. It’s a two day ordeal.
So, we had leftovers. A dish my gf’s German mom’s side of the family calls Irish Noodles. Basically wide Polish noodles, potatoes, and diced up ham in a bit of sausage gravy.
Today was a salad from a place that claims it sells Italian street food. I’d beg to differ on that intrepretation, but I did enjoy the salad, which had mixed greens, some very good sliced strawberries, avocado, roasted corn, a little grated cheese and some sort of chopped nut/Craisin type topping. There was also dressing on the side but I didn’t add any of that since there was already so much going on in the salad itself.
Damn, what a meal! Since my gf was putting so much effort forward, she decided to break out the pasta maker and make her own noodles.
In the saga of using up the Easter ham: Chicken cordon bleu and roasted asparagus in a creamy mustard sauce.
Looks scrumptious!
Weather cooling down and got the Footy on tonight, so set up a chicken curry in the slow cooker at lunch time, ready for dinner tonight.
Did a big grocery shop today so got a fridge full of fresh veges and a couple of scotch fillet steaks and pork chops to fill in the next few nights.
You guys put really serious effort into your cooking. Can I come over and stay at your place for, like, about a year or so? I promise to take good care of Kizzy, Simi and Loki and give them loving scritches!
Meanwhile, in my more mundane household, I did a big batch of breakfast sausages in the oven, just because the oven method was really the only feasible way to do such a large batch. It made a tasty sausage but didn’t brown it very much. I froze the rest, and I’ve discovered that if you heat up a good heavy frying pan with at least three or four tablespoons of olive oil (it takes more than you may think) and roll the frozen sausages around in the hot oil, they get nicely browned and crisp at just about the same time as the interior warms up. Much, much better than the commercially pre-cooked crap!
A few years back my daughter lived with us for a few months while her fiancé, now husband, found them a place to live. It was a great time.
After the first few weeks she approached us and told us that she felt kind of bad about how we were going overboard to make her great meals. We told her we weren’t doing anything special.
This was brunch today – spinach and ham quiche. (Yeah, I did end up making a crust, although I used Anthony Bourdain’s savory pastry dough rather than the more complicated one from the quiche recipe, and I made it the night before).
Saturday night we went to a friend’s restaurant for dinner. He is a foodie and has an amazing kitchen staff.
Possibly the best pork chop I’ve ever experienced.
16 ounce double bone pork chop / cherry miso mostarda /yam puree / candied carrots.
Last night my gf prepared Scallops & Dumplings, one of my favorite meals she makes. She uses the same recipe Yvette’s Restaurant in St Martin uses for their Conch & Dumplings, but replaces conch with scallops (we cannot get good conch in western Pennsylvania).
We finished off the ham on Friday with ham fried rice, as planned. Ate on it for most of Saturday, as well.
For Sunday, we made skirt steak fajitas, and enjoyed the leftovers this evening as well.
Chicken-fried steak.
Yesterday was shrimp tacos made with cilantro slaw, tequila, nopalitos, peppers, and salsa.
Mmmm, one of the best meals. I’m going to have to convince my sweetie to let me make it and some fries soon.
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I don’t get it. It’s just a beef schnitzel. Get a chicken parma at an aussie pub and then you’d be going Mmmmmm.
Yeah, I never understood chicken fried steak.
One Sunday, my daughter wanted to make beef noodles (Taiwan style) and as we can’t get the noodles here, but made by hand. Having a pasta maker would really help, but it was a fun afternoon.
My gf could have rolled out and sliced her noodles. She got out the pasta maker and used it just to make more work for me cleaning the kitchen (which she utterly destroyed). 
Smart gf. Dump the hard work on someone else!
It doesn’t look like much, but it wasn’t bad.
Those noodles look delicious!