What's For Dinner #111 - the "I Got A Rock" Edition - October 2024

[Saregama]

Tonight’s dinner was Salmon burgers from COTM NY Times, lemon rice, and steamed broccoli.

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Last night’s dinner was Indian food at a place I have been to try for a long time.

My favorites were a soft goat kabab, goat curry, and fish steamed in banana leaf.

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October - December 2024 COTM + COOKING FROM thread: NEW YORK TIMES COOKING (website & cookbooks)

SALMON BURGERS A big THANK YOU to @MunchkinRedux for the rec, without which I would probably never have tried this recipe. I saw some “salmon strips” at Hmart, which appeared to be the bottom of the fillet that’s sold for sashimi, plus a few small mini-fillets that are probably the end trim. So I didn’t feel bad chopping them up, haha. I mostly followed the recipe, but I skipped the capers because I didn’t have them, added scallions, and a bit of zhoug because it needed something in place of …

GOOD EATS NYC 2024 (A Blanket Thread)

BAAZI Have been meaning to go here for a while. This is what the Awadh folks opened, I believe (but they were thwarted by the pandemic and closed and reopened again some time later). Plan was actually to go to Lungi, but turns out they are closed on Tuesdays, go figure. Glad we ended up here, though. Lovely room, delicious food (phew), great cocktails! We’ll be back. There was a fun amuse bouche of a single pani puri served as a shot glass of the spiced water with the crunchy ball of a puri …