Leftover (from lunch) Korean spicy chicken with rice and cabbage salad. And an IPA.
Anthony Bourdain’s beef Bourguignon tonight, with mashed potatoes, strawberries, and the rest of the wine I used in the stew.
Tonight will be a chili size with extra onions, washed down with a large margarita.
I was going to make chef salad last night, but I was too tired so my husband went and got us Whataburgers.
So tonight will be chef salad with the boiled eggs and bacon I cooked last night. I might need to make more bacon, though.
Always.
Last night my gf made Brown Butter Sage Butternut Squash Raviolis. She thought there was turkey sweet sausage in the freezer, but we only had hot sausage. The meal critique blasted her meal, because the hot sausage totally over powered the delicate brown butter sage sauce.
After a visit to my favourite little deli, dinner tonight will once again be cabbage rolls in tomato sauce, stuffed with beef and rice. One of my faves!
As a sandwich lover, I also got some great sandwich makings for lunch and possibly even for dinner. I was happy to see that in their cold cuts section, nothing I saw was mass-market. It was all stuff that was sliced in-store from quality bulk product, then vacuum packed. I got preservative-free oven-roasted turkey, smoked turkey with sundried tomato, two packs of Montreal smoked meat, and their always-excellent tuna salad. Smoked meat is traditionally served hot on rye bread, but I prefer to have it on toasted onion buns with lots of Dijon mustard!
Mmm, finally cool enough to justify heating up the house by making chili, so my wife made pork green chili. She stubbed her toe, it was even better than she normally makes it.
Poblano peppers grown locally, stuffed with rice/cheese/etc and baked. Served with “meat pies”, something I made up. I made some ground steak burgers, sous vide them medium rare, then wrapped each burger with some caramelized onions in a Grande Biscuit, and baked.
My Sweetie and I did a full-on Greek night, with chicken souvlaki on the grill, a Greek spinach and rice dish (spanakorizo) and a simple Greek salad.
We both like to cook, and with my kitchen skills and his grilling skills combined, we can put together a nice menu!
Taco pie here, with a side of cornbread and blueberry cobbler for dessert.
I keep playing around with making stuffed poblanos and I’ve found the perfect approach. I use a sharp knife to cut a window through which I eventually stuff the pepper. Spray with Pam. Preheat air fryer @400, then air fry the peppers for a minute and a half, blistering them a bit. Allow to cool, then stuff and bake.
Yesterday was a rainy Sunday. My gf spent the day making a huge pot of vegetable soup.
I’ve been enjoying the goodies from my last trip to my favourite deli. The stuffed cabbage rolls were excellent as always, and so was their store-made pizza, heavily loaded with cheese, pepperoni, mushrooms, green peppers, and – unusual but perfect for my taste preferences – lots of rings of red onion. It wasn’t the thin crust that is fashionable these days, but had a delicious light bread-like crust. Perfect! My only complaint: what possessed them to make their pizzas rectangular? You need a geometry textbook to figure how how to slice it!
The Montreal smoked meat is great, as always. Each pack makes two thick hot smoked meat sandwiches on toasted onion buns (a single one is a full meal for me). Would love to have another for dinner tonight but have to use up the tuna salad while still fresh, so dinner tonight will be tomato bisque with tuna salad sandwiches.
That sounds lovely! It’s been gloomy and rainy here, too. I may elevate my home-cooking ambitions soon and make a homemade pot roast.
In Honor Of…ah, who am I kidding? I was stoned and hungry. Redneck/Bachelor/Starving Student Fish & Chips: Gorton’s frozen fish sticks and Ore-Ida frozen fries. With store-brand tartar sauce!
Scallops Florentine here tonight, with some asiago cheese bread I’d picked up at the store about a week ago. Blueberries as a side.
Grilled Albuquerque Turkey breast cutlets served with polenta and sautéed delicata squash. Iced vodka to drink.
I made a kind of hamburger and rice casserole with cheese on top. Sautéed mushrooms and onions, browned beef, cream of mushroom soup 'cuz I was lazy - whisked with beef stock, raw long-grain rice, and frozen peas-n-carrots. Mixed that all up and into a 9x9, foil on top at 350° for 45 minutes. Took the foil off, added shredded Mexican cheese blend on top. Back in the oven until melted. Served with a side salad.
Turned out ok! Still needed salt, but I was afraid of too much salt because of the mushroom soup. (I did taste for salt, but after I added the rice! Kinda crunchy, doncha know.)
My biggest failing in the kitchen is due to my inability to “taste” salt. If I make a dish and am happy with it, my final step is to have my gf taste it. She adds salt usually, then I’m good.
I was in the mood for crab stuffed flounder, but for some reason my grocery stores seldom carry flounder filets. So, I made faux stuffed flounder using tilapia and it turned out very good.
On a faux kick, I made faux fries using eggplant that I cut into steak-fry planks. I ran them through an egg wash, then panko/Parmesan breading. Cooked them in the air fryer.
Dessert was faux apple pie. Earlier this week I made a huge pot of applesauce. There was a huge bag of apples downstairs (turns out they were pick-outs from the apple orchard, meant for the horses). I simmered the applesauce for hours, concentrating the sweetness.
I lined ramekins with flour tortillas, then spooned in applesauce and spices. Folded the tortillas over the top, added a bit of butter, and baked.
Sauvignon Blanc to drink.