I’ve been Little Miss Hannah Homemaker today. :::curtseying:::
Wanted to put up the prolific deck chives and basil before the impending nor’easter comes though overnight into tomorrow. So I brought in both herb planters from my deck and made 1.5 cups of pistachio pesto with the basil (holding back the garlic and olive oil until I use each 1/2 cup container), and 2 logs of chive butter that’s currently chilling in the fridge to be sliced later (no picture because the logs of butter look rather rude. ) All to be frozen for later use.
There were still WAY more chives to purposed, so I THEN dried the remaining half cup in my toaster oven at very low heat to use later.
THEN I made apple crisp using 3 of the heirloom apples I got in Maine last weekend. The tart and crispy King of Tompkins County apples were the winner in flavor over the Grimes Golden, which were rather bland after the slight honey-ish taste.
DH gota wild hair to make charcoal-grilled beef köfte from Gaza Kitchen with homemade part-ww pita bread. I made a salad of baby lettuces, carrot ribbons, grape tomatoes, cucumber, pistachios, and dill with sumac and pomegranate molasses vinaigrette. I also made tahini-yogurt sauce and herbed yogurt sauce. Served with shatta and lemon wedges, it was all excellent. Honey-pecan bars for dessert.
Happy turkey day to the Canadians. My dinner from the pricey butcher included turkey (white and dark meat), mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, stuffing and gravy. I had cheesecake for dessert.
I was all set to make pork and sage pelmeni tonight, but was distracted by this week’s GBBO signature-bake opener: plaited savory pies.
I used KAF’s blitz puff pastry for the dough. For filling: ground pork, caramelized Spanish onions, maple syrup, fresh sage, salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper, all buffered by a slick of apple jelly.
Aside from making enough to feed a family of eight (we are two), I’m pretty pleased with this initial attempt. Served with roasted carrots, buttered peas, and pork-and-onion gravy.
Apples, sage, onions, carrots, and peas from the garden.
Fancy Sunday night dinner for my sister: NY strip steak with blue cheese compound butter, miso creamed spinach, SK garlic-butter mushrooms. Not shown: baguette for mopping up. Gratuitous pics of fireworks a neighbor set off last night - it was quite a show which we thoroughly enjoyed.
Mrs. P made blackened tuna steak (using a Cajun dry rub), with pickled ginger and soy and wasabi sauce. She also made roasted delicata squash with rosemary, sage, and thyme from the deck, topped with hot honey and fresh shaved Parmigiana Reggiano. We had a nice cabernet to go with it. We started off with homemade guacamole and espresso martini (not pictured).
For dessert she made Ben and Jerry’s Cannoli ice cream topped with walnuts, reduced balsamic and hot honey.
Dinner tonight was seared and roasted chicken thighs, leftover tortilla Espanola, and salad of mixed greens with radish, green onions, gold nugget tomatoes, and cucumber dressed with jalapeño ranch. Sauces were aioli and chimichurri rojo. Gin martini to start and non alcoholic Prosecco so we wouldn’t fall down.
I felt like making lasagna, so I made lasagna. Ground beef and pork for the meat layer. Ricotta, egg, spinach, feta, and romano for the cheese layer. Fresh egg noodles. From the oven, where it puffed up high for some reason (eggs in the ricotta mix?). I haven’t seen this before.
NYT recipe for baked fish (I used snapper) and tomatoes in a coconut/turmeric sauce that someone here was kind enough to share and even gave me her tips, and my stupid brain can’t remember her name! So sorry! And she even suggested the curry leaf, which I added, as well as basil, and we had it over jasmine rice at my sister’s last night. Very good, but I’d probably use something other than snapper next time. My sister said the leftover sauce was great over noodles today. If someone can please remind me of her name so I can thank her properly?
And tonight, for me and the BF, I made a NYT’s slow cooker garlic hoisin chicken. Surprisingly good for what sounded to me a slightly odd pairing of ingredients (hoisin, balsamic, tomato paste.) I halved the recipe but I’d make more of the sauce next time since it was so tasty, and I’d like it a little saucier. For myself I also made a little cabbage and garlic stir-fry. All a little beige but quite good!
This morning I made a Sicilian almond torte that turned out really great - so light and moist! A friend said it was his favorite thing to have in Sicily so I looked for a recipe and found it very easy to make, especially for this non-baker. BF LOVED IT.
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) All to be frozen for later use.
So sorry! And she even suggested the curry leaf, which I added, as well as basil, and we had it over jasmine rice at my sister’s last night. Very good, but I’d probably use something other than snapper next time. My sister said the leftover sauce was great over noodles today. If someone can please remind me of her name so I can thank her properly? 
