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Post by spindrift on Apr 16, 2009 21:47:34 GMT
Poor lady....Lucky lady to have you though.
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Post by hwinpp on Apr 17, 2009 5:44:47 GMT
I had steak and eggs last night. Good!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2009 5:54:55 GMT
I don't think I have ever had steak and eggs in the same meal.
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Post by tillystar on Apr 17, 2009 9:08:51 GMT
Last night was Beef Bourguignon with celeriac mash, tasty.
Tonight will be beer and chips.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Apr 17, 2009 9:19:06 GMT
Last night we had toasted pan telera, a Mexican sort of French roll, spread with avocado, sliced tomato, and some crumbled queso fresco. Lunch was a medium size coctel de camarones y calamares and an order of crisp, brown French fries, just the way i like them, at our fave restaurant www.pbase.com/panos/mariscos_la_guera. The restaurant also comped us a large order of guacamole, probably because we're such good customers and I'd brought the staff 2 dozen home made kolaches. It was an avocado kind of day. Breakfast at home with a friend: corn pancakes with a little chopped cilantro in them, crisp bacon, freshly cooked black beans; queso fresco, salsa verde, honey, the last three to be applied al gusto. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2009 14:37:03 GMT
tilly,I want to eat at your house. Your meals sound so comforting.
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Post by Jazz on Apr 17, 2009 21:13:32 GMT
Tonight, I'll try Kerouac's 'gratin dauphinois' with a green salad (baby spinach, bok choy, watercress and walnuts) and a little trout.
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Post by hwinpp on Apr 18, 2009 7:22:23 GMT
The way I used to have it in Australia was just a couple of fried eggs on a steak. The problem when it's served this way, is how do you salt and pepper the steak without moving the eggs? In the end I just salt and pepper the eggs and hope. As a side you nearly always got peas and carrots and roast potatoes or chips. This morning I went to the market to buy the ingredients for tom yam. It's actually not that much. Lemongrass, (kaffir) lime leaves, galingale, limes, fresh and dried chiles, chicken wings (or whatever else you're using, prawns, pork or fish). Have to add, I like mushrooms too, the trumpet shaped, whitish ones:  |
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 19, 2009 15:53:14 GMT
(late) lunch was: lamb with black pudding - prepared by the butcher. with wilted young swisschard and some bulgur wheat.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2009 16:04:55 GMT
I had two excellent artichokes (and nothing else) for lunch, so tonight I need meat!
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Post by spindrift on Apr 19, 2009 17:38:56 GMT
All this talk of fried eggs and steak has made me hungry. Tonight, therefore, I'll fry eggs and eat them with black pudding accompanied by Cranks wholemeal bread.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Apr 19, 2009 23:48:53 GMT
For our mid-afternoon main meal (comida), with two guests, we had a fairly complex lasagna, with homemade Italian style sausage, tomato sauce, bechamel seasoned with nutmeg and white pepper; and a light layer of chopped, cooked fresh spinach and some cut up roasted sweet red peppers.
I did cheat and use "no boil needed" lasagna noodles, but passed them through simmering water first as they were getting a bit old.
For openers we had a romaine lettuce and watercress salad, with fresh orange slices and kalamata olives, with sweet sliced onions. The dressing was a light orange juice, lime juice, white wine vinegar and olive oil vinaigrette, with a little hot paprika, salt, sugar and poppyseeds.
I an continually amazed at how seemingly simple meals can get so complicated in the details.
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Post by hwinpp on Apr 20, 2009 3:37:39 GMT
Don, you don't live out in the sticks, do you? Seems you can get a lot of stuff. Or do you need to get to the next big town? What are Mexican sausages and hams like? Do they have them? Are they more beefy or more porky?
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 20, 2009 21:25:02 GMT
 Guess I'll have a sandwich of cold cuts and cheese, or maybe a bowl of cereal AGAIN.  Moved. Stove not hooked up. Hate this.
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Post by gringalais on Apr 20, 2009 22:03:50 GMT
We are trying to eat light dinners during the week, so it will be a big mixed salad, veggies with some quesillo mixed in - after a long yoga session . I will be glad to have done the yoga, but getting up the motiviation to do it is going to be the problem today. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2009 5:08:55 GMT
I made spaghetti sauce, but I discovered that I was out of spaghetti so I used it on penne.
Damn -- I was really in the mood for spaghetti!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2009 19:58:46 GMT
I had my jar of rollmops for dinner. They were SPECTACULAR.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 23, 2009 20:53:28 GMT
I made spaghetti sauce, but I discovered that I was out of spaghetti so I used it on penne. *childish sniggering* Penne in Mexico -- & I assume other Spanish-speaking countries -- is called plumas (pens). Pene is penis, so your sentence above provoked a jejune chuckle. And since I am addressing you, I might as well tell you how much I hate you because you had rollmops and I didn't.  The plumber came and hooked up my stove day before yesterday. I celebrated by having seashell pasta seasoned with smushed garlic, green chile, oregano, & cider vinegar. With it I had cabbage cooked with anise seeds, garlic, and olive oil. Good! |
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Post by lagatta on Apr 23, 2009 21:40:38 GMT
bixa, that is because Spanish doesn't have the sound distinction between one n and two, which we have in Italian. Pene is also penis in Italian, but penne is the plural of penna. And it is LA penna, Le penne, and IL pene, I peni. Penne has the same meaning in Italian as plumas in Spanish.
I bought some lovely fresh minced/ground chicken at the same Maghrebi butcher's where I bought the lamb neck I mention in another thread, so I made up a kind of kefta mix (meatballs without egg, sometimes using couscous or bulghur as a binder) with the chicken, some finely-chopped red onion and garlic, flat parsley, aromatic spices etc. It makes enough for a LOT of tiny meatballs, but I don't feel like making them all tonight - I'll finish cooking the rest early tomorrow morning if I don't have urgent work.
These are typically shallow-fried a bit then cooked through in a tomatoey mixture of some kind - saffron can come into play too, if you are making something special for company. They are lighter than lamb or other "meat" meatballs.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 23, 2009 22:19:33 GMT
The meatballs sound wonderful -- I love small "fluffy" meatballs that allow the sauce to soak through.
If you're in the mood one day, please post some Maghreb recipes in The Galley. I love food from that region, but know nothing about cooking it.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Apr 23, 2009 23:54:18 GMT
Guess I'll have a sandwich of cold cuts and cheese, or maybe a bowl of cereal AGAIN. Moved. Stove not hooked up. Hate this. I was thinking you must have moved, judging from your relative lack of posting activity lately. I had a nice sandwich for lunch: avocado, tomato, cheddar cheese on challah. |
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Post by Don Cuevas on Apr 23, 2009 23:58:37 GMT
"Penne in Mexico -- & I assume other Spanish-speaking countries -- is called plumas (pens). Pene is penis, so your sentence above provoked a jejune chuckle."
Imagine ordering penne arrabiata* in a Spanish speaking country. Or in salsa de vodka.
* Red hot or raging.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 24, 2009 2:02:30 GMT
Yikes!
The word that came to mind was "penicillin".
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Post by lagatta on Apr 24, 2009 12:56:45 GMT
Don, or "alla puttanesca"...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2009 16:45:59 GMT
Tonight I will probably have steak tartare. Another raw meal after yesterday's rollmops is probably indicative of the unexpectedly warm sunny weather that we have been having.
And that means that I will probably be eating soup tomorrow night when it all ends.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2009 20:27:48 GMT
I did indeed have steak tartare, but I discovered too late that I was out of Worcestershire sauce, which is a necessary ingredient. So it was a frustrating, inadequate meal.
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Post by Jazz on Apr 26, 2009 21:22:16 GMT
Turnips, trout sauteed with lemon, butter and garlic and a fresh salad...baby spinach, bok choy, steamed green beans, videlia onion and chick peas. This is notable because of my Turnip Triumph! A few days ago I decided to see what I had missed with turnips. First, I steamed cubed turnips. Then, I sauteed them lightly in chicken broth with some cream and grated gruyere cheese. Yum!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2009 21:31:02 GMT
The moment I saw the word 'turnip' I had to look twice at who was posting, because I remembered that it was a vegetable that you didn't think you liked, even though you said that you had eaten a couscous stew in Paris which obviously contained them.
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Post by hwinpp on Apr 27, 2009 3:56:49 GMT
I did indeed have steak tartare, but I discovered too late that I was out of Worcestershire sauce, which is a necessary ingredient. So it was a frustrating, inadequate meal. A simple lack of Worcestershire sauce made it frustrating and inadequate? You do have high standards, Jack! I'd have thought it very adequate with just salt and pepper and some raw onion rings! Here's what I had on 22nd:  1. A can of Fanta 2. 1 jug of beer 3. Goat stir fried with red ant eggs 4. Clams in tamarind sauce 5. Stir fried water mimosa 6. Duck web salad 7. Two bowls of rice |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2009 7:22:24 GMT
Prices have gone up since I was in Phnom Penh -- or probably you just go to classier restaurants than I did!
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Guess I'll have a sandwich of cold cuts and cheese, or maybe a bowl of cereal AGAIN. 
