We enjoyed another fabulous dinner at James on Main in Hackettstown, NJ including tuna carpaccio with grapefruit, pinenuts, and avocado puree; duck leg confit with homemade chorizo sausage in a watercress puree; black bass with miso and coconut curry; short ribs; an amuse of salmon roulade with radicchio, pomegranate and red onions; flourless chocolate cake and sticky toffee pudding. It all went great with an exceptional 2013 red blend and 2005 Syrah.
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So like a bacon schmear? If so, be still my heart!
Or does it separate out after cooking? Or do you form it into a thin patty? Inquiring minds…!
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We roughly cut up some slices of bacon and processed them to a paste in the food processor. Then cooked it in a pan for 4-5 minutes to render some of the fat but not that it gets in any way crisp (still pinkish color). Next we drained the bacon paste in a fine-meshed colander (you can use the fat to make the caramelized onions) and cooled the bacon paste to RT. Once it is cooled down we carefully mixed it with ground beef and made the patties. This way you get very moist patties on the grill with a nice balanced mix of beef and bacon flavor
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Quiet day.
Easy dinner.
Shrimp Scampi, using Penzeys’ Florida Lemon-Pepper seasoning, minced shallots, garlic and white wine for a “sauce”, Basmati rice, and asparagus.
Wine.
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I combined two Maangchi recipes to make a braised pork belly and kimchi dish with potatoes, but no tofu. Made with a paste (gochugaru, gochujang, minced garlic/ginger, sesame oil, s&p) that you rub the meat, potatoes and onion in, but then i added a bunch of my chopped kimchi (pretty sure it’s over a year old). Super homey, spicy, warming dish.
also made Serious Eats’ chicken chile verde in the Instant Pot for tomorrow’s dinner.
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White chicken chili.
Right recipe, wrong picture.
I’m going to try @mariacarmen 's aka Serious Eats chile verde next time.
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Dinner at an Irish pub in PA tonight. We had a so-so lunch here a couple of years ago, but this was very good! For appetizers, we shared spinach dip and curry shrimp. As for meals, mom and I each had corned beef Reubens (one of the best I’ve had) and BF had the Irish bacon cheeseburger with Jameson sticky sauce. And yes, that’s curry sauce for our fries! Despite saying they were short-staffed and to please bear with them, service was friendly and excellent.
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Sundays are often a good time for longer cooking projects but work is crazy in the moment and so we had to rely on something fast - Spaghetti Carbonara (this variation added raw garlic with egg-cheese mixture and it gave the dish a nice subtle background flavor)
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Love asparagus! For us, asparagus means spring here, you mostly see them during that period. So just curious, are yours imported or local green house?
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H brought home some fresh scallops in shells. Made 2 dishes with them. The delicate white flesh went to sashimi.
The remaining coral and the lace like frilly membrane became a delicious risotto. Broth was made with some prawn shells and heads. Used Ricard to cook the rice with shallot and garlic, added the broth and the frilly thing while cooking the rice. Seaweed salt, red Kampot pepper, Yuzu butter as seasonings, tossed with grated 20 month old Comté and the last shiso from garden.
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Stunning!
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Thanks. Time consuming to clean, but the scallop sashimi was really good.
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I always end up eating half the scallops I intend cook before I even take out a pan. Raw scallops is one of my favorites. I wish I could get them with still in the shells but even the fish places that have their own fishing boats always sell them shelled.
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Asparagus season is briefer than brief in the New England area - so anything outside of probably a 4 week window in the Spring means imported. Usually California. It’s just something I’m wiling to pay a bit extra for, as it’s just me eating it.
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I recently decided to take a chance on these after spending too much on lousy “fresh” asparagus from Stop & Shop. I am not a zap-it-in-the-microwave cook, but these were surprisingly fresh and delicious. Followed directions on the bag. I did have to trim a bit of woody stems off of the bottoms once they were done, but DH & I were so impressed we have 2 more bags in the freezer…https://www.birdseye.com/plain-vegetables/steamfresh/asparagus-spears
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For here, asparagus in autumn would mean coming from South America, but they are expensive and often skinny. For the non fresh choice, I prefer frozen than conserve in liquid version.
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Lovely meal, especially the stew.
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