What's for Dinner?

[ibglowin]

Carraba's Steak (filet) Marsala with a side of garlic smashed potatoes and a caesar salad. Dang this stuff is da bomb!

 

[geek]

King fish, eggplant lasagna, "Moro" (rice) and salad.
Plus my Australian Traminer Riesling.
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[sour_grapes]

My goodness, Varis, you always seem to have a truckload of awesome looking victuals going!

 

[Boatboy24]

Carraba's Steak (filet) Marsala with a side of garlic smashed potatoes and a caesar salad. Dang this stuff is da bomb!

I suggested Carraba's to the Mrs tonight. Got shot down.

 

[geek]

My goodness, Varis, you always seem to have a truckload of awesome looking victuals going!

Remember, 5 with the kids...

 

[CGish]

My wife found price reduced two pack of filet mignon at Aldis the other day. She knew I have been wanting to try this cut in the sous-vide, so she bought it. Here is the results of an hour and a half in the sous-vide at 131 degrees followed by a quick sear in a smoking cast iron pan. It cut like firm butter and tasted like a little bit of heaven.





We paired it with steamed veggies, baked potato, and a 2007 Tobin James Petite Sirah.

 

[ibglowin]

What! How can that be! Especially with the 20% off your entire order coupon they have out! We had one in ABQ until the mortgage economy meltdown in 2008. They closed it down as it was the only store in NM. So every chance I get when I am in SA I try and hit them up. All the steaks are grilled over oak in a wood fired grill.

I suggested Carraba's to the Mrs tonight. Got shot down.

 

[ibglowin]

Hey, and the "food" looks pretty good as well!

My goodness, Varis, you always seem to have a truckload of awesome looking victuals going!

 

[sour_grapes]

Hey, and the "food" looks pretty good as well!

Hey, Mike, that was not nice to Varis, to put "food" in quotes like that!

 

[geek]

Not a truckload this time.
Mongolian food.

 

[sour_grapes]

Well, well, what have we here.....

 

[JohnT]

Paul,

I give that a "Like" with a 10X multiplier!!!!


Question: Did you break the lobsters apart before you cooked them??

 

[JohnT]

Three members of my family have February birthdays. As a celebration, Each February, we meet and go out to dinner. This year it was out to the Hibachi Grill (much like Benny Hannah's where they cook the food in front of you while doing entertaining tricks).

 

[JohnT]

One more thing..

I never have time to shop and cook a decent meal during the work week. I usually cook big on the weekends, then live off a leftovers..

Unfortunately for me, may vacation ate up 2 weekends, and last weekend was spent going out with the family.

In short, I have not been able to cook for THREE WEEKS!!!

I feel like I am going into withdrawal! I have been mostly subsisting on crappy frozen foods from the supermarket. Here is what is in store for me this week..

-Frozen tortellini with frozen meatballs and jarred sauce. (I should get 2 meals out of this).

-Digorno's frozen pizza

- Really cheap frozen salisbury steak (I will actually need to "Cook" some fake instant mashed potatoes

- Peanut butter and (homemade) strawberry jelly sandwich with progresso chicarina soup.

PRAY FOR ME!!!

This Saturday, I plan to cook something (anything) special.. I am thinking a nice filet with sautéed mushrooms

 

[Boatboy24]

My parents came by yesterday and brought dinner. Dad and I labeled and foiled the 2014 Zinfandel, then we had Ina Garten's hearty vegetable soup with some bread I made. This soup is simply awesome!

http://www.barefootcontessa.com/recipes.aspx?RecipeID=912&S=0

(sorry, only bread pics)

 

[sour_grapes]

Paul,

I give that a "Like" with a 10X multiplier!!!!


Question: Did you break the lobsters apart before you cooked them??

Thanks, John.

Actually, we had ONLY claws! My friend likes lobsters, but loves claws. She asked us, if she brought claws to our house, would we cook them for her for us all to eat? "Ummm, YES!" You can buy claws (separate from the tails) at our local fish-house. We gorged ourselves. I then made lobster stock with all of the shells.

 

[Boatboy24]

Thanks, John.

Actually, we had ONLY claws! My friend likes lobsters, but loves claws. She asked us, if she brought claws to our house, would we cook them for her for us all to eat? "Ummm, YES!" You can buy claws (separate from the tails) at our local fish-house. We gorged ourselves. I then made lobster stock with all of the shells.

I was wondering about that - that claw meat is to die for!

 

[geek]

Ribs, corn, mash potato and asparagus.

 

[sour_grapes]

Actually, we had ONLY claws! My friend likes lobsters, but loves claws. She asked us, if she brought claws to our house, would we cook them for her for us all to eat? "Ummm, YES!" You can buy claws (separate from the tails) at our local fish-house. We gorged ourselves.

What I did not mention was that this was our second-best dinner of the weekend!

On Saturday, I invited some new neighbors and some old neighbors over for dinner. I made a prime rib roast, using a reverse sear (a la Kenji Alt-Lopez). Also made a killer au jus with tons of meaty soup bones and a cabernet reduction. We also had a salad with Savoy cabbage, baked potatoes, ginger/citrus glazed carrots, and a broccoli/cheese/cream puree. Unfortunately, there was a miscommunication, and one of the families did not show up. Those of us who remained waited, and waited, and finally contacted the others, who revealed they thought the dinner was NOT scheduled for that night. Sigh....

Partly as a result of the confusion, consternation, and running around, I have no pictures. But trust me, it was gooooood. Needless to say, we have leftovers out the ying-yang, but that is a good problem to have! To make this post hew to the topic of this thread, we had delicious leftover prime rib for dinner tonight.

 

[CGish]

Made Orange Chicken tonight. Vacuum marinated the chicken in the orange sauce, then put the chicken in the sous-vide for a couple hours at 134 degrees.

Paired it with jasmine rice, steamed vegetables, and a smoked porter.