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Post by Don Cuevas on Mar 1, 2012 0:45:53 GMT
I'm inspired by your post at #5609. I'm going to take a few pics of our Treasure Chest of Glass Bottles and Jars. There's also a large, woven reed basket dedicated to holding the leftover plastic bottles and jars. But the one for glass is much bigger.
The pics may have to wait until daylight, but I'll try it now.
DAYLIGHT! ~Bad photos, boring subject and poor lighting. Just note that the wooden chest is about 4 feet long and the basket about 2 feet cubed. It's hard to throw away reusable good containers.~
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2012 18:29:22 GMT
As winter begins to grind to an end, I will be sorry to see this dish disappear when Belgian endive does. Tonight, in honour of Belgium, I will call it chicons au gratin instead of endives au gratin, since I was complimented in Mons over my mastery of the Walloon vocabulary in spite of my French accent.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Mar 1, 2012 18:37:48 GMT
I don't believe I've ever eaten an endive, except the curly, bitter variety.
Yesterday, while in Pátzcuaro Mercado, I was very tempted by some beautiful leeks, at $7 pesos each. But I wasn't inspired enough to buy some, and so, left them behind.
Today's late lunch/early dinner will be romaine, tomato, avocado and cheese sandwiches on freshly baked challah.
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Post by hwinpp on Mar 2, 2012 3:43:17 GMT
Had dinner at a Khmer Surin restaurant yesterday, which is the last Khmer enclave in Thailand. They speak a very old fashioned Khmer and aren't understood well by people in Cambodia unless they come from the northeast. Here's what we had. Deep fried tofu, a bit pale Mango salad with smoked fish Grilled chicken Fish amok And the desserts we didn't order...
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 2, 2012 3:52:30 GMT
What a lovely presentation. I don't know what fish amok is, but I know I want some!
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Post by hwinpp on Mar 2, 2012 13:31:43 GMT
It's Cambodia's national curry. The 'meat' is interchangeable so you also get chicken or pork amok.
It's available everywhere in the region, the Thais call it hormok (my girlfriend does a good one), the Malaysians and Indonesians call it otak- otak.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2012 13:59:03 GMT
Yes, I have warm memories of amok.
I don't feel like doing any grocery shopping after work, so my mental inventory of what is in the refrigerator tells me that I will be experimenting with smoked herring... visions of potatoes, sour cream, chopped chives are slowly appearing in the crystal ball since they are on hand as well... I don't think I'll starve.
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Post by imec on Mar 2, 2012 16:16:36 GMT
God that curry looks good HW! I love seeing all the fresh Basil in there and the pretty splash of coconut milk/cream! Grilled chicken looks tasty too!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2012 18:17:56 GMT
Since it's not cold anymore, I was happy to eat just a sort of semi warm salad. It consisted of grated carrots, fennel and red onions, to which I added fried lardons and small goat cheese pellets, which I had rolled in bread crumbs and grilled a bit in the oven. Balsamic vinegar and olive oil, as well as ground pepper and a bit of cilantro completed the plate.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 2, 2012 18:55:11 GMT
*mooooan!* That would be criminally good!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2012 19:05:08 GMT
It was, actually.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Mar 2, 2012 19:31:00 GMT
Early lunch: caponata tostadas, strong provolone cheese, black beans with cheddar and more tostadas. Cheap Chilean vino tinto to wash it down.
ZZZZZZZ
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Post by imec on Mar 3, 2012 14:58:08 GMT
That does look good Kerouac! I'd even be tempted to trade it for the crab and Asian pear salad I made last night.
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Post by amboseli on Mar 3, 2012 15:22:53 GMT
Mmmm, lovely chicons au gratin. In a rich sauce, as I can see. The kids asked for lasagne al ragù, so that's what I'll prepare for tonight's dinner. And a cheesecake with cuberdons for dessert.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 3, 2012 16:18:51 GMT
But amboseli, isn't it andijvie in Dutch? Is there another colloquial word in Flemish?
Don Cuervas, blanched endive (that is grown in the dark, like white asparagus) has a subtle bitterness that is very pleasant indeed. I'd think you would find it when you are visiting the Northeastern US. It is very common here in Québec. Is also an excuse for eating ham and a rich cream sauce! If you don't want to indulge in that, it is also good in winter salads. There is also a red-leafed kind, very pretty in salads.
I love "crottins de chèvre" (Kerouac's cheese turdettes) and of course hwinpp is another category all together, up there in food porn land.
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Post by amboseli on Mar 3, 2012 17:08:51 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2012 18:54:42 GMT
And then there's curly endive, whose official name is chicory.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 3, 2012 20:48:13 GMT
amboseli, à la Bushism I "misremembered" - witlof or witloof of course! That is a very bizarre thing to forget, not as if I'd never bought it or seen it in markets. There was even a Belgian restaurant here called "Le Witloof" - probably that is a bizarre mix of French and Flemish... It was a very good, small restaurant - think it was killed by a huge rent increase.
As for supper, I once again cooked some hulled barley and have prepared it with various finely-chopped vegetables (not leek this time, more reddish with red onion, tomatoes and a red sweet pepper, as well as mushrooms) and pre-spiced lamb kefta from a butcher at Jean-Talon Market. That is made in advance but I may not eat anything after the nibbles and wine awaiting me at a neighbour's, as his nibbles are usually more copious than the suppers I make for just myself. I might also add in some white cannellini beans.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2012 20:58:36 GMT
I am now totally hooked on the frozen rösti from Dia, so that is what I had for dinner after adding a huge amount of chopped garlic and some grated cheese. I have also noticed that potato dishes are the only ones that give me satisfaction in a vegetarian meal. If there are no potatoes, I feel unfed at the end of the meal.
In any case, the frozen rösti from Dia are vastly superior to the vacuum packed German rösti that I have bought at Auchan Luxembourg in the past.
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Post by auntieannie on Mar 3, 2012 22:22:31 GMT
how do they compare to the Migros roesti, K2? If I remember well, you enjoy them?
tonight was a chicken leg with veggies (slow cooked for hours in the slow cooker) with some couscous. more for tomorrow!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2012 23:00:25 GMT
They are better than the Migros product as well, even though I treasure the "special offer" rösti spatulas that I obtained a few years ago when buying the Migros stuff.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Mar 3, 2012 23:04:24 GMT
Yet another fresh and simple salad. No cheese, no meat. Yawn!
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 4, 2012 1:08:48 GMT
Stir fry ~~ see the shark fin melon thread.
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Post by hwinpp on Mar 5, 2012 4:21:03 GMT
I'm going to a wedding this evening. The reason why I'm here now. Will post ;D
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Post by imec on Mar 5, 2012 4:35:54 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 5, 2012 6:38:58 GMT
Hey -- great that you hid those little white paper boxes before taking the pictures! What's the shrimp dish? It looks particularly interesting.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Mar 5, 2012 10:52:52 GMT
Lunch, no dinner yesterday: Tacos dorados, a plate of 6-8, crispy rolled bean and cheese filled tacos dorados surrounding a scoop of spicy guacamole, on a bed of lettuce leaves, swirled with crema and sprinkled with a rather goaty queso fresco. There was a bowl of salsa verde nearby, but it was really unnecessary. (This was at the popular restaurant, "La Surtidora", in Pátzcuaro.) This dish is a deal at $36 pesos. Oh, and a cerveza Negra Modelo also. Other photos: picasaweb.google.com/doncuevas/LaSurtidora
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2012 19:40:16 GMT
The weekend was rather cold so I made a sort of stew with turkey meat, canned tomatoes, potato, onions, mild Moroccan chilis, a chopped carrot, and quite a bit of chopped garlic, with white wine added as a cooking liquid. It turned out to be so good that after two meals, I finished the last bit at breakfast this morning. Tonight, since nobody wanted me to make brussels sprout juice on that other thread, I boiled them and sautéed them with lardons, garlic and parsley butter. I boiled a few smoked sausages to eat as well, with a healthy ration of mustard.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 7, 2012 1:31:07 GMT
I'd just finished the last of my quite nice lettuce/onion/lotsa tomato salad liberally sprinkled with crackling when I saw the killer pictures of the sausage with perfectly prepared brussels sprouts & enough good mustard. Despite the fact that I just ate, I want some of that stuff NOW.
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Post by hwinpp on Mar 7, 2012 4:43:09 GMT
I thought I'd posted here? Was congratulating Imec on those noodles! They'd have been gone in seconds if I'd been there Ok, here's the wedding. Biggest wedding I've been to in Cambodia, with 135 tables, that equals to 1350 guests! Appetizers, pork naem, fried egg fish (+), fried peanuts, pickled pig ear (++), fried fish cake, artificial crab (-), in the middle boiled veggies with white cut chicken (+) Beef nuom, tasted different from the usual beef salad (+) Pork knuckle farcie (+++), excellent, and I've never seen it at a wedding Another one I've never seen at a wedding, herbal chicken, don't know how else to describe it, soft and tender enough to eat with chop sticks (++) Picture in the restrooms Seafood stir fry Final filler, tong yam, fried rice, grapes
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