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Re: What's for dinner tonight? « Reply #5820 on May 1, 2012, 11:39am »
I was really happy with my dinner last night: slow cooked large chicken leg with one large potato, one large onion, two cloves of garlic, one lemon, some olives, some black pepper, some cumin seeds, one bay leaf, some turmeric. towards the end of cooking, I added some rice and water for it. and minutes before serving, I added spinach leaves.
Re: What's for dinner tonight? « Reply #5821 on May 1, 2012, 4:45pm »
Lagatta, that sounds delicious! Hope you felt better later on to finish it off. Certainly understand the stress of tax time. I did ours on Sunday. I delayed filing as long as possible!
Tonight, I am going to make chicken cordon blue and a field green salad with some scallions, tomato, cucumber and some croutons. I just make a simple dressing of olive oil, lemon, salt and fresh black cracked pepper. Maybe I should have my husband stop on his way home from work to pick up a bottle of wine...
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Re: What's for dinner tonight? « Reply #5822 on May 1, 2012, 10:59pm »
Comida today was a Spanish inspired soup of alubias (big white beans), potatoes, cabbage, onion, garlic, chorizo Español, bits of smoked pork chop, plus stock and some pimentón de la vera. Very good, but 4 hours later, I'm hungry again, despite having eaten two bowls of soup. So I'm having some just baked sourdough whole wheat bread with butter and sea salt. Wish I'd had it with the soup.
I forgot to mention the sofrito of onion, garlic, celery, carrot and sweet red pepper with which I started the soup making.
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Re: What's for dinner tonight? « Reply #5823 on May 2, 2012, 5:46am »
I had two artichokes for dinner and am always amazed that I don't want anything else after that, since the actual quantity of food consumed is not all that much. Perhaps the effort involved in eating artichokes merely uses up the time my brain has decided is appropriate for a meal and I am instructed to move on to some other activity.
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Re: What's for dinner tonight? « Reply #5825 on May 2, 2012, 11:25pm »
Really, we had a 12 noon lunch at a food court restaurant near the Morelia, Mexico, Home Depot. (Cornflakes at 8:00 a.m. does not cut it for me.)
"Emilio's Grill" offers grilled meats, some seafood and most of all, a variety of burgers. We chose the 200 gram Angus Burgers, which like all of Emilio's burgers, comes with some decent, properly cooked French fries. There is also a nice condiment bar where you can dress your burger. I put on pickled jalapeño slivers, guacamole sauce, but there's more. All this for $70 pesos. It's a good combination, with two strips of bacon, lettuce, tomato (a nice slice, too), onion slivers, mayo (I could do without their mayo) plus more condiments in jars and squeeze bottles on the counter.
We walked out well satisfied. I may try their arrachera next time.
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Re: What's for dinner tonight? « Reply #5827 on May 4, 2012, 4:57am »
I had brandade de morue, real comfort food. (It is sort of a salt cod shepherd's pie which one generally buys ready made and just heats up -- that's even more of a comfort.)
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Re: What's for dinner tonight? « Reply #5828 on May 4, 2012, 4:31pm »
I had the thrill and pleasure of meeting and dining with fellow APIASer Cristina a couple of nights ago. Unfortunately, the 2 (actually more) places I wanted to take her were booked solid because of Jazz Fest. We did dine at a local restaurant called Luke and had a fine meal and most of all great company. We shared an appetizer, an Alsatian onion tart I forget the name of. Cristina tried the crawfish bisque and seemed to enjoy it. For entrees I had a local lamb dish with a slight curry flavor served over couscous with a medley of fresh vegetables and Cristina had a duck dish that looked yummy. We shared a very good dessert,a large slice of cake with a blueberry marmalade and creme fraiche. Next time will be dinner at our house with my husband's fine NOLA repertoire.
That sounds really excellent, casimira, but apart from the "crawfish bisque" the items do not sound as local as I personally would crave.
No stuffed crab, fried flounder, jambalaya, seafood gumbo, hush puppies....?
Actually ,almost all the foods you mention were offered on the menu. (No hush puppies or jambalaya I don't think). http://www.lukeneworleans.com/menus/menus.html All the real popular places in town were booked solid as mentioned. I went with the lamb because it is something I don't eat real often and I had heard they did it really well,and it was local,something one doesn't see too often in the grocery where we generally shop.
Speaking of artichokes..... my husband made a local favorite for another guest in town staying with us. She is vegetarian and loves,loves my husband's stuffed artichokes. She was so excited she had one for breakfast this morning!!!
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Re: What's for dinner tonight? « Reply #5833 on May 6, 2012, 4:12am »
Casi beat me to it! We had a wonderful dinner and Lüke was a perfect choice. The reason for the perceived lack of traditional NOLA cuisine is because it tilts toward Alsatian foods, with a hat tip to NOLA. Even if our entrées weren't so Alsatian either...
In addition to my crawfish bisque (which was my first ever crawfish - and awesome - texture of lobster in the perfect bisque base. Still dreaming about it...) we had shared a flammenkuche which was quite good and the only dish where I felt comfortable sneaking a photo:
Taken with my phone, so sorry about the quality.
As Casi mentioned we had lamb and duck entrées, which aren't traditional regional dishes but were really very good.
The best part was the company, however. So very nice to meet a lovely Anyporter! And she very helpfully pointed out examples of manhole covers that I could take pictures of. As soon as I figure out the recent changes to photobucket (ie, how to resize), I will finally have a contribution to that thread!
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Re: What's for dinner tonight? « Reply #5836 on May 7, 2012, 10:21pm »
Today, at home: hand patted, garlic crusted hamburgers accompanied by lettuce, tomato, onion, avocado and slices of home cured kosher style cucumber pickles.
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Re: What's for dinner tonight? « Reply #5837 on May 8, 2012, 1:27pm »
For the record, Sunday night while out with out of town company, hush puppieswere served with the bread at the start of the meal Kerouac. I thought of you and wished that I had my camera with me to have photographed them. Do you know btw, how they became to be known as "hush puppies"? (without looking it up!!!!)
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Re: What's for dinner tonight? « Reply #5838 on May 8, 2012, 7:59pm »
Sunday night, I had curried vegetables and roti with pineapple coconut juice and a side of fried plantain. Monday night, I had chicken cesar salad, accompanied by a glass of wine and followed by tiramisu and fresh peppermint tea. Tonight, I had fish and chips.
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Re: What's for dinner tonight? « Reply #5839 on May 8, 2012, 8:32pm »
I had freezer surprise, which turned out to be my excellent leftover beef tongue. I cut up an onion and a tomato into the mix and also threw in a bit of leftover rice. It was excellent.
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Re: What's for dinner tonight? « Reply #5843 on May 10, 2012, 9:28pm »
I was thinking about my desire for a steak, too, but then I remembered that I had salmon tartare defrosting in the refrigerator. I boiled a few potatoes to go with it and chopped some green onions, and dinner turned out just fine.
Steak perhaps tomorrow. Or maybe fish again, because I have been instructed to pick up a surprise gift in the local covered market, which is apparently being held for me at one of the fish stands. This was left, it seems, by one of our wonderful members from South Africa, who was delighted that a complete stranger would keep the package for me.
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Re: What's for dinner tonight? « Reply #5844 on May 10, 2012, 10:18pm »
Oh, too bad you couldn't meet her. Guess you were working?
I bought something Kerouac might know, as a Magrebi butcher's. It is called "liver sausage" and the fellow at the counter, whose French was very basic, said it was all liver (beef) except for the spices. It was just a couple of curled sausages, and not expensive. I was a bit leery, asked the fellow at the cash who seems to be one of the managers, and he said it was liver mixed with "meat" and not strong-tasting at all. We'll see.
Those are for tomorrow though - someone gave me a little duck tourtière, so I'll have that with some green vegetables.
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Re: What's for dinner tonight? « Reply #5847 on May 14, 2012, 6:45pm »
Tonight, however, was a totally classic salad with stewed gizzards. Most of us do not stew our gizzards ourselves, since gizzards and chicken livers in vacuum bags are among the most common products that you can find in the refrigerated section of French supermarkets. All you have to do is punch a few holes in the bag and microwave it for about 3 minutes. Mmmmm.
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