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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 25, 2009 21:45:11 GMT
Sounds kinky.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2009 21:53:37 GMT
They'll just have to wait and find out when the time comes.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 26, 2009 2:44:05 GMT
I had eggplant tonight -- some small ones from my garden, roasted, peeled, and smushed. They were seasoned with a pulverized mixture of garlic, salt, basil, & lime juice, which I mixed in with the hand mixer. Then I added olive oil, black pepper, & chopped parsley.
With it I had a salad of new white onion, tomato, lettuce, a little cheese, & toasted sesame seeds (ahem) dressed with a little chipotle mayonnaise & some balsamic vinegar.
The above with hot tortillas constituted a feast. It would have been better yet with more olive oil on the ganoujy thing and with pita bread, but I'm being strict right now.
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Post by tillystar on Mar 27, 2009 10:52:33 GMT
Last night I had "Honeyed Pork Stew"
It was a recipe out of the paper and was amazing. I have added it to the recipe section.
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Post by happytraveller on Mar 27, 2009 11:57:22 GMT
I think tonight I am just going to order pizza. I so don't feel like cooking. Blah.
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Post by tillystar on Mar 27, 2009 12:50:38 GMT
We are ordering pizza tonight too ;D
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Post by gringalais on Mar 27, 2009 14:37:03 GMT
We are going out to dinner. My husband's co-workers are taking us out to celebrate the wedding and also the birthday of a former co-worker. We are going to a place called El Peyo, which is known here as a "picada" basically a traditional restaurant that serves good food at reasonable prices, so it is typical Chilean food.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 27, 2009 17:02:10 GMT
Tilly, that pork stew does look amazing!
Gringa, do you cook Chilean food at home too?
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Post by gringalais on Mar 27, 2009 17:28:41 GMT
Sometimes, bixa, more in the winter I make some of the soups like cazuela and carbonada. And of course we haver typical barbecues frequently and I make the pebre, which impresses most Chileans.
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Post by bazfaz on Mar 27, 2009 17:35:14 GMT
Tilly, that pork stew seems like a distant cousin of cassoulet. It sounds good.
No dinner for us tonight. We got back from lunch some time after 6 pm. The lunch at friends' house was a jolly occasion but the food was dire.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 27, 2009 17:53:38 GMT
That's it -- cassoulet! I was trying to remember what the pork stew reminded me of. Yes, a little bit barbecue-y, but that wasn't it. Whatever, I want to try it. Are dried haricot beans a type of small white bean?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2009 18:27:42 GMT
In my mind, they are on the greenish side, but I use just about all dried beans interchangeably, until we start getting to categories like chick peas.
When I was in New York, I bought a few bags of navy beans for variety, because that is a variety that one doesn't see in France, just as flageolets are not found in the United States. (I can't resist telling you that the name flageolet has its root in the word flatulence.)
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 27, 2009 19:49:18 GMT
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Post by tillystar on Mar 27, 2009 22:30:19 GMT
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Post by bazfaz on Mar 28, 2009 10:10:29 GMT
For the second day running we are out to one of those all afternoon lunches that leave no room for supper. This time it is an outing with the choir Mrs Faz sings in. It is going to be in a ferme auberge so it should be much better than yesterday's disappointment.
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Post by bazfaz on Mar 28, 2009 16:32:33 GMT
Our meal was good though not brilliant. Everything came off the farm (so they said). There was a platter of charcuterie; then duck breast with assorted vegetables; then floating island (I think of this as being something children are given but the French love it). There was a raspberry aperitif then red wine from St Chinian. There were lots of songs afterwards. The only English in the choir were Mrs Faz and the president; they sang There's a Hole in My Bucket, translated into French.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2009 18:25:45 GMT
What were the bad items from the previous meal? I have been in a few dreadful French 'potluck' situations, so I wouldn't want foreigners or even Americans to be ashamed of some of the things that are prepared for collective meals in their own countries.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Mar 28, 2009 20:19:46 GMT
We had an impromptu New England style Clam Chowder I'd made yesterday, sour rye bread toasts, and I had a sort of garlicky, horseradish-y cabbage slaw, made without oil or mayo.
Tomorrow we go to lunch with a friend to the Restaurant Cha Cha Cha in Pátzcuaro.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2009 20:37:45 GMT
I over ate at the restaurant at lunch, and even though I do have a certain amount of hunger tonight, I simply could not decide to actually make some sort of meal. So I just nibbled some goat cheese and some herb cheese spread, but that is not a real meal and I expect to wake up famished in the middle of the night.
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Post by bazfaz on Mar 28, 2009 21:12:36 GMT
Yesterday's disappointing meal was hosted by two British ex-police (they are married).
There was a cold cucumner soup (I am not a great fan of soup at lunch); then some plain roast turkey breast with overcooked vegetables; the cheese selection was at the lower end of the supermarket range; but (being British) there were three sweets. There was a very light chocolate cake that was the best thing in the meal.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2009 21:35:41 GMT
Yes, there are a number of reasons to be disappointed by that. At least the last part of the meal was a sort of compensation.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2009 22:29:07 GMT
Tonight we are having a soup Chicken Caribe which was originally created by Bixa some 30 odd years ago and featured most prominently in MrC. and I getting together. Mr.C. does a fine rendition of it. Will have a salad and some nice bread with it. Lite fare.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 28, 2009 22:39:26 GMT
Mmmm ~~ I'm torn between showing up at Tillystar's or at the House of C.
It is hot here and has been annoyingly windy all day, rattling the metal doors of the house. I think this will be a salad night, which will be fine as I have curly romaine and fresh tomatoes and other pleasant ingredients.
Lunch today was also last night's supper: a soup of toasted garbanzo powder with zucchini in it along with the green beans in tomato sauce I learned from Baz and some tortillas.
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Post by bazfaz on Mar 29, 2009 10:05:53 GMT
I'll be glad when there are enough posts so that this thread goes on to a new page. I am quite perturbed when it opens up with Bixa's post at the top which reads in its entirety: Sounds kinky.
Food related: tonight there will be a starter of a little prawn omlette (that is to say the omlette is small not the prawns); roast beef and potatoes, leeks in red wine; then some buche de noel that has been maturing in the freezer for three months
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Post by Don Cuevas on Mar 29, 2009 10:16:43 GMT
I'm interested in how you make a prawn omelet, Baz.
I have had revuelto de gambas y ajetes while in Spain, which seems related.
Do you prefer your omelets runny inside or firmly set?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2009 10:22:47 GMT
I'll be glad when there are enough posts so that this thread goes on to a new page. I am quite perturbed when it opens up with Bixa's post at the top which reads in its entirety: Sounds kinky. I've been thinking the same thing. So here is my attempt to provide material to change the page. I'm still on lunch: fresh beef ravioli topped with sour cream and chopped uncooked red onion and parsley. |
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Post by bazfaz on Mar 29, 2009 10:54:48 GMT
Don, Mrs Faz cannot abide runny eggs. It has to be a flat well cooked Spanish style of omlette. So the prawns, garlic and chilli will go in a pan with olive oil, the beaten egg poured over, a lid put on the pan - and cooked gently until the egg has set.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Mar 29, 2009 11:18:01 GMT
I don't care for runny eggs, either, but "soft" is nice.
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Post by auntieannie on Mar 29, 2009 12:00:19 GMT
last night, since we had volunteered all day at a big green idea event in town, we stopped at the chippie en route (they are polish) and we had chips - he with a large sausage and I with an actual piece of chicken. We needed all the carbs! we'll make a kind of chilli later.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2009 15:30:22 GMT
Coming back from returning the rental car at Gare du Nord, rather than taking a Vélib, I walked back through the Indian neighborhood and stopped in one of the Indian supermarkets of the Faubourg Saint Denis. My mission was to renew my supply of curry powder, which I did (I bought 'hot Madras'), but I also bought a little packet of chicken biryani mix (rice and spices) for 1.50€.
I think I will try it tonight, since I do have some chicken to cook.
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