Cabbage, celery, green onion, avocado, hard boiled eggs, imitation crab, mayo, sweet relish, salad supreme seasoning, and freshly ground pepper.
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Finally getting around to posting dinner from last night at 9 Elm in Danvers, MA with a couple of friends. First off, very cute place! 2 rooms and a small bar, very comfortable seating. They were busy when we got there, so we had to wait a bit beyond our reservation time. No biggie.
We started with drinks and apps: one got a Grey Goose Vodka & Soda and a Caesar Salad which was very good…the dressing was a bit tangy, which I liked with my small taste. With my other friend, I shared a lobster ravioli with a corn velouté sauce which was oh-so silky smooth and SO good! She got an Orange Cosmo (vodka, orange liqueur and cranberry), and I had a very nice Balletto Vineyards Russian River Valley chardonnay.
Their two mains were a Pan-Roasted Salmon with a plain Risotto, and a Lemon-Dijon Beurre Blanc. (I had a small taste, and it was excellent), and Pan-Roasted Duck with a Bacon & Butternut Squash Risotto with an Orange Soy Reduction. So good!
Their two choices were definitely better than mine…I went with the Rigatoni Bolognese, made with lamb, veal, pork, San Marzano tomatoes, and cream. This bowl was insanely huge! The sauce was just a bit too thin/saucy for a bolognese, IMO (the one time I made a bolognese, it seemed “thicker” then theirs) but it was still good, with a slight hint of a bit of heat…but maybe that was the freshly cracked black pepper I asked for on top. There was enough to me to come home with a takey-outie container that will be a lunch.
We shared a Vanilla Crème Brûlée (no pic) which was insanely good!
A wonderful relaxing night, just what I personally needed as I’m starting to get into my hibernation mode. It was wonderful to see the ladies, and hope we can do it again soon to keep me out of any winter doldrums.
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Snacky dinner of bites & bobs, courtesy of our buddy’s holiday HH.
Shrimp cocktail & shalami.
Hot-smoked salmon, cheeses & a skrompshiss artichoke dip.
Chive dumplings (chumplings? 
) and GF crackerz
My PIC’s slowly getting better, but I canceled another holiday open house an acquaintance hosted late afternoon, so as to not overdo things just yet. There’s a poker game to attend tonight, after all 
, and I actually have plans to catch my friend’s first set with her band before joining in the fun.
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Needed some late night dinner around midnight in Berkeley after a concert. There are a few pocha places close by in Oakland. Picked To the Moon https://tothemoon0301.com for a quick dinner. Overall good food though the bibimbob could have been a bit hotter (they have a lot of other (perhaps even more) interesting dishes but most of themstrong text are quite large sized and these pocha places are often better with a larger group)
Banchan
Korean chicken wings - soy and garlic
Bibimbob with pork
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I was kind of missing my Mom today. 
So when the recipes of her Fail-Safe Company Chicken and Orange-Clove Rice popped into my brain as I was doing errands, I knew it was dinner.
Then I panicked when I got home because I couldn’t find the recipes I thought I had posted online…just mentions of them. Finally found them in a 3-ring binder I had made 30+ years ago. Phew! It’s one of 2 recipes in which I use part of a can of Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup. (The other is a Hamburger Stroganoff.).
Two of the chicken thighs (on sale at MB) were used tonight, and I added some green grapes and a peeled Satsuma mandarin as Mom used to do (although she used canned mandarins back in the day). Steamed green beans alongside.
There was wine.
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This looked so good! I had to try it. I no longer have a NYTCooking sub, but someone pasted an image of the page (link below; please let me know if this is not accurate?). I did make with the leeks, but think it’d be fine with onions, too (certainly easier than using leeks).
I made about a 2.5X recipe (feeding 8 people) but otherwise followed the recipe as written. Everyone loved it. Thanks much for the inspiration!
We put it over a minor amount of pasta (regular pasta for 5 of us, GF for the 3 GF folks), and I made 2 loaves of bread, one GF (for the GF-ers, of course) and one regular for the rest of us.
This is some serious comfort food. My wife asked when I thought we could do it again.
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That looks right. Here’s a gift link: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020828-lemony-shrimp-and-bean-stew?unlocked_article_code=1.8k8.76yS.IfXV8Tab-XLP&smid=ck-recipe-iOS-share
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Many thanks!
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Busy day today, so didn’t cook.
WFD was leftover ‘zaw from the freezer, and romaine in a Caesar dressing. No photos.
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Momofuku Tingly Chili Wavy Noodles. I added shrimp sauteed with ginger, garlic and chili crisp and green onions. I loved the noodles but not the sauce, too much 5 spice which I don’t like. I used half and added tamari. Pickled veg.
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Focaccia Saturday. Genoa style. Topped with tomatoes and kalamata olives. Baked a little more than last week .
Served along smoked pork loin and salad. Cheers. Truth be told. Not as good as last week .To crunchy. I love this challenge. Next week I will be trying a Tipo 0 flour arriving Tuesday. Yes !!
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I bought 6 of the 5-packs of Momofuku noods when my local store had them bogo, and 2 weeks later, another suite of them (so we have toooooo much), and we are still working our way through them a year later.
Overall we like them, but some of the sauces are too strong. I like (like you do) adding other stuff to them, whether that’s more proteins or veg or both.
They’re crazy expensive for what they are, but at bogo they’re okay priced.
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WOW!! That is stunning!!
Can I use the word “stunning” to describe food??
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Sunshine was helping me dig the big chest freezer for ideas when she saw a 1 pound roll of pork sausage. She exclaimed “MEATLOAF!!”; I told her that I had already made a meatloaf a few weeks back. Her response was “So, what!”
With that approval, I made another sausage meatloaf. When I took dinner to Neighbor #2, I started to explain, but she cut me off and said she loved meatloaf.
So, I guess we give the people what they want… More Meatloaf – along with some mashed potatoes and peas.
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We enjoyed another outstanding dinner at Cafe Panache, in Ramsey, NJ, including lobster-crab cakes; rice cracker crusted tuna loin, coconut basmati rice, and orange shoyu reduction; venison and pear agnolotti; garlic shrimp, avocado, and chipotle aioli; lobster bisque with mussels; fantastic chicken liver parfait, port wine gelee, cornichons, fig jam and crostini. It all went great with a couple of excellent Cabernets.
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Dinner was Tyson’s lightly breaded breast meat chicken “strips”, steamed and buttered red potatoes, and pickled vegetables some gin drinker taught me how to make (although I don’t plate them as meticulously as aforementioned gin drinker). Chicken was surprisingly tasty, tender, and moist. I ate only half of the chicken and spuds but finished the veg because I wasn’t that hungry.
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I got my 5 pack at Grocery Outlet. They were $2.97 and it was senior Thursday so I got another 10% off. I will definitely be going back for more, if there are any left.
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