Three pieces of Top Round Steak, Yukon Gold potatos, baby Carrots. Six hours on low. Thought I had over seasoned the meat with White Pepper and Cajun spice, but did not. Wound up fork tender.
(I’ve never had this cut cook up well for me. But I keep going back to it because of the price. So now I know, it’s Crock Pot food)
With our final beer can chicken leftovers Mrs. P made a deconstructed chicken taco using the same ingredients as yesterday’s chicken tostadas plus shredded smoky beets (from Fairway Markets) plus blue corn tortilla chips, from Trader Joe’s. We had air fried mini peppers on the side. It all went nicely with a 2012 Alta Vista Cabernet from Argentina, which is a nice inexpensive every day wine.
Leisurely bus ride from Shizuoka to Yokohama-Shi. Being transported on the Shinkansen is fun, but our hotel check-in is officially 3pm. So a slow poke bus was cheaper and better timing.
Upon arrival at 1pm, our hotel kindly accommodated our early check in request. Yes! Friday night resto hopping, here we come!
A Ferris Wheel and amusement park right across the canal. Roller Coaster, yeah!!
No worries. Although the restaurants were filling up and spilling into the street, we scored a couple of sunken seats in a Robotayaki Restaurant. The chefs do their magic and the pass your dishes across the wide bar on paddles.
A tart for me. A couple of 50% off Sashimi for She. Oh yeah, some Suntory Whiskey. My wife continues her goal of trying EVERY SINGLE TYPE of supermarket sake.
Happy to share good times!! We love Osaka also. Seems like you can walk down any street and have your difficult choice of ramen, tempura, sushi, pastries and so much more.
Very late dinner. Skinned and portioned a side of both of steelhead and salmon. By time I was done vacuum packing all the fish it was late but had two belly meat strips that I wanted to smoke. Poor planning since I didn’t preheat the smoker
i haven’t been home all week for dinners, and tonight the BF cooked. a really tasty meat sauce over cheese-stuffed shells from our local deli that’s closing soon. i need to buy some more. on the side, he pan-grilled zukes, put out some olives, and made a little salad of tomato slices in a vinaigrette, topped with blue cheese. simples. especially for me.
I tried your method for duck breast tonight, starting it in a cold skillet. The skin came out crunchier than ever before. I was a bit disobedient as far as the oven is concerned, because the oven was already in use at another temperature. So after the prescribed times, I just covered the pan and let it sit for 5 minutes. In the end there was no pink inside at all. I was a bit disappointed, but my wife was thrilled to death. Or perhaps to life! Next time I’ll make sure the oven is free, and I’ll do it on a smaller burner.
dinner was seafood cataplana
made sofritto with 2 andouille chicken sausages that I browned initially, ( had to remove the casing bec it is porcine).
this is added to one small red onion that was shredded and cooked in EVOO til it was caramelized, a few small shredded carrots cooked towards the end of caramelizing onions , and tomatoes. Added them
to the cataplana with shrimp, wild pacific cod, chicken broth, oregano, smoked Spanish paprika, home made chicken broth to which a pinch of saffron was added, a tin of anchovy in EVOO, on medium heat tile team came out- total time 8 min. served with crusty sliced french bread.
As usual, my poms sit on chair and wait for food. Luna is not in the picture somehow
Mom had a good day.
I had a good day at Wegmans.
And dinner turned out better than I expected during prep.
Bonus.
I picked up some turkey tenderloins at Wegmans today and threw together an orange juice, grated ginger, garlic, honey, dried thyme, dried parsley and salt and pepper marinade for one of them.
Tenderloin was roasted for about 45 minutes at 350°, spooning some of the marinade over top, along with a sploosh of white wine.
The marinade was reduced and I added a cornstarch slurry to help thicken it for a sauce.
Some leftover pappardelle was heated up and tossed with a bit of the sauce and butter, with the turkey tenderloin slices with a couple of spoons of sauce on top and green beans alongside with butter and some of my friend’s Salter’s Point Provisions Cape Ann Blend finishing salt on top.
I was hanging out with my favorite six (and a half!!) year old last night, pasta with butter is the default parents aren’t home meal since it’s a sure thing
He wasn’t interested in the mandarin orange but did accept an apple instead.
I had an apple with him and the other half of my lunch bagel after he was asleep (sorry kid no way was i going to share!!) A fantastic dark pumpernickel with regular tofutti cream cheese from Absolute Bagels
Picked up a few things in chinatown today, i was on my way to meet friends and not able to buy too much
Made a bean sprout banchan mashup of sorts with some of my new black vinegar, soy, sesame seeds, and scallions
Side of steamed greens that are like bok choy with more fluffy greens- no idea what the real name is! Added a little soy and sesame oil after the photo
The baking mushroom cookies were very tempting, absolutely no idea what that could be, they were in between the same cookie with more normal flavors like sweet potato and red bean. Anyone familiar with these? Are they actually savory not sweet?
We treated our friends, who recently celebrated their 40th anniversary, to a spectacular dinner at Laurel and Sage. The husband is an amazing chef, and always takes good care of us, so we were happy to be able to return the favor. We also have our 8th anniversary coming up on the 27th. Below is a link to the writeup with pictures.
I’m normally just outside Boston but B, spring onion, and I are in Iceland for our “annual” trip (this is our 4th time here since late 2017, so I guess it’s more like biannual). After many expensive and/or disappointing meals out during our first 2 trips, we usually head straight to the nearest Bonus (discount) supermarket, a bakery, and cook at home. I stock up on beans and Linda McCartney products which even B likes. This time, I made a big pot of veggie chili as soon as we settled in. Plan to make a veggie shepherds pie with the remaining crumbles. During the last trip, I made a decent potato, corn, veggie sausage (also McCartney) chowder.
ETA: And, of course, we always purchase a box of wine at Keflavík Airport as soon as we deplane ~4:15 am.