Tonight’s dinner was a repeat of last Saturday - bbq’d ribs, mac 'n cheese and COTC.
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I picked up #1 son at Dulles upon his return from Mexico City. Dinner was, naturally, tacos. Lamb tongue turned into lengua tacos. Plus yet another batch of Pati Jinich’s cooked salsa verde.
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Keema spiced cottage pie from The Pie Room. South Asian spices in a mince and peas cottage pie. The mash on top really is that yellow from turmeric and an egg yolk mixed in. Delicious! Will absolutely make again.
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Yum. I love Keema and will check this recipe out
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Sunshine just asked if @John has posted a picture of this week’s pizza, yet.
John’s pizza is the topic of discussion for Saturday night.
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We enjoyed another excellent dinner at Drew’s Bayshore Bistro in Keyport, NJ, including gigantic crunchy panko crusted soft shell crab with fries; spicy marsala shrimp; Cajun jalapeno and garlic meatballs with chipotle cheese grits; tomato panzanella salad. It all went great with a couple of excellent cabernets.
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Fish and chips with minty mushy peas, dilly tartar sauce and a beer. Fish was beer battered, chips were frozen fries. Apéritif was a London dry gin martini rocks.
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Travel-weary company for dinner. We had smoked salmon sandwiches on toasted, homemade focaccia, with cream cheese, pickled onions, and garden cukes (just like the one in the New York Times).
For dessert, sour cherry crumble.
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Both of these pizzas I enjoyed.
One with a Ricotta and a
pecorino base . Topped with prosciutto , Kadota and mission figs . Baby arugula to garnish.
The other . Tomato base . Topped with gorganzola. And Agostino Recca anchovies.
Cheers.
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Beautiful Pizza(s), John!!
Sunshine can’t decide which pizza she likes better and requested a slice of each!!
I didn’t know she liked anchovies on pizza. I guess I’ll be making one for her at some point.
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We’re going with ‘pizza Sundays’ now because Saturday is always taken up with house chores, etc. Jazz Sundays here, pizza for dinner. Chill time.
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Good to hear my friend at the pub, meet another friend from my posse & share some parmesan truffle fries.
Poker was fab in that I finally got my groove back & won big 
, whereas PIC did terribly. We ordered Indian, none of which was photogenic enough— neither in the takeout containers nor on the plate — to take any photos, but tasty. Good saag paneer, vey good baingan bharta, some strange doughy stuff in a cream sauce our host ordered (the pakora he wanted wasn’t available), and chicken biryani.
I’m hosting the final potluck for my local cooking group today before we leave for Philly at the end of the month. We have 15 eager home chefs who have RSVP’d, and I’m very much looking forward. Always such great good & fun company 
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*great Food. Great, good food 
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I assume that’s lower a Case “P” on purpose. 
Not really, though I doubt it was some fancy di reggiano 
But there’s many cheeses I (and others) don’t capitalize — like cheddar, or taleggio, or pecorino. We either capitalize ALL cheeses or none!
Early dinner for me. I had picked up a 2.25 lb. spoon roast (aka top sirloin) at Market Basket awhile back and wanted it out of of my upstairs freezer.
Minced CSA garlic, minced fresh rosemary, dried thyme, s/p, and olive oil for a rub about 4 hours before cooking.
I went with a cook method that has been deemed best for these roasts on a local food board to me: pull from fridge 45 minutes before putting in the oven; preheat oven to 500° for 30 minutes, roast for 5 minutes per pound (in this case, 12.5 minutes), then turn the oven off and leave in the oven WITHOUT peeking for 2 hours for a perfect medium-rare. (You don’t know how hard it was for me not to open that oven door and only use the oven light!)
Roasted baby potatoes (par-boiled for about 5 minutes, drained, then tossed in olive oil, s/p, garlic powder and herb blend and roasted in the convection toaster oven at 375° for 30 minutes at regular heat, and then 20 minutes at convection heat.
Steamed green beans, and a brown gravy with chicken stock and beef bouillon simmered together with a flour slurry of flour, s/p, dried thyme, and dried minced onion, Worcestershire sauce, and water.
Wine.
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Last night at my sister’s i made the NYT’s coconut baked fish, using Icelandic cod. Recipe called for a tablespoon of honey, which i thought was maybe too much, even though the coconut milk was unsweetened, but with the lime juice, ginger, turmeric (which I added more of, because I love it so), chili flakes, and cilantro, all cooked down, it wasn’t too sweet at all. I made it stove top instead of in the oven, seared the fish after patting off the marinade, blistered the tomatoes separately, reduced the marinade, and stuck the whole thing under the broiler for a couple minutes. AB FAB, over jasmine rice, with unpictured corn on the cob on the side. Would 100% make again, with maybe a little less honey. Maybe. i also ended up scraping part of my corn into the dish - delicious.
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