Escargot, Grilled Rib-Eye, Twice Baked Potatoes.
My gf made a Thai chicken dish. The chicken meat was first processed to a ground meat consistency. Served over rice.
I made some almost vegetarian two-bean chili. Had some black beans and white northerns lying around and didn’t feel like running out to the store in this foot-and-a-half of snow weather so I could make real chili, so a meatless chili-like-substance had to do. And it turned out quite nice. I let it simmer away while I shoveled the piles of snow, a task which felt positively Sisyphean at times. Turns out, I ended up going to the store anyway to grab some sour cream for the chili, and some pączki for Pączki Day/mardi gras.
Scrounged from the fridge: a berry-kale-avocado smoothie, and a mixed greens salad with vinaigrette, gorgonzola, and bacon. On my doorstep I found a surprise box of chocolate-caramel turtles, so that’s dessert.
Early dinner tonight: a braised short rib meat pie, from the same place that I got the wonderful wild mushroom and roasted garlic lasagna. I had frozen it and then thawed in the fridge, and now in the oven covered in foil (contrary to baking instructions, but I like my meat pies with a soft crust – I’ll remove the foil for the last 10 minutes). May or may not bother to make some quick 5-minute fries to go with it. If I’m still hungry there’s more baked French onion soup, the stuff that makes me audibly moan when I consume it!!* All perfect for a cold and wintry late afternoon and early evening.
* Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi had nothing on this stuff!
Shrimp & grits. And Vieux Carré cocktails.
Leftover cheese tortellini baked with chicken breast, shallots and broccoli deglazed with meyer lemon juice. Made a cheese sauce with old cheddar, asiago and mascarpone. Manhattan for dessert.
A local boutique sheep farm is shutting down. They sold mostly to restaurants that sourced their ingredients locally, and those trendy restaurants are all shut down due to the pandemic. I know the owners of the farm, so we got a freezer filled with lamb at a good price.
Wednesday night I made a tagine using two of the lamb shanks. It wasn’t bad, but there was a lot of leftover sauce.
Last night I used the sauce. I defatted it, the got it simmering. I added a small eggplant diced, then another eggplant chopped. Later I added lentils, then pasta.
Last night’s meal was actually better than the tagine.
Oooo Doggie! Thanks to @kayaker I made my first foray into sous vide, but I used a ziploc bag and a straw as my ersatz vacuum sealer.
Tonight’s feast was sous vide bison ribeye seasoned with alder smoked sea salt and ground black pepper. Finished it in the pan with brown butter and garlic, then made a chianti pan sauce with a dash of herbes de Provence. Sides were jacket russet potatoes with butter and plain greek yogurt and steamed green beans seasoned with sea salt and tarragon.
Splashed out and had chocolatinis for cocktails and aforementioned Chianti with dinner. Too full for dessert.
Tonight was boeuf bourguignon with mashed potatoes and fruit. Tomorrow will be crab and lobster ravioli with vodka sauce and a salad. Probably some sort of bread too. I went on a bread-making spree so I’ll figure that out tomorrow.
That’s just awesome.
Been eating frozen soup from the superbowl soup cooking frenzy and other assorted frozen stews over the last week.
Hopeing to get some cow grilling over the weekend
I was going to have shepherd’s pie, but I wasn’t all that hungry, so I just had a salad and a cupcake.
That’s how you know you made a great meal. Sounds fantastic!!
Chicken soup. I’ll use the rest of the “corned” chicken I made the other day and add potatoes, carrots, and noodles to some stock I made that’s currently in the freezer.
I hear that’s good for the soul… Sounds delish!
The cow has be salted, grill warming up.
Picked up an Indian combo: chicken biryani, kebabs, samosas, vegetables, pita. It was enough for lunch and dinner both. Oh, and some banana bread laced with cognac for dessert.
We picked up Indian food truck dinner from Billu’s Indian Grill last night.
Chicken Vindaloo, Gobi Manchurian, and Lamb Kebabs.
If you are in western Pennsylvania and like Indian cuisine, look up Billu. He’s a good guy.
Bodega sandwiches and hash browns tonight, with some fruit on the side.
Grossly overpriced fish & chips tonight. But I keep doing it.
It’s like this. One of the local stores has started producing a line of fresh prepared dinners, all at the same price. I think I mentioned before the grilled stuffed chicken breast with fettuccine alfredo and broccoli. They’re all very good and mostly a pretty good value, except the fish & chips, which is just four pieces of fried haddock with fried wedge potatoes and a small container of tartar sauce. But I keep buying it, because the fish so just so good.