What's for Dinner #47 - the Halfway Through The Year Edition - July 2019

You have some new york transplants behind that restaurant?? :joy: although, $42 for a cauliflower is a new one to me. Hope they sang to it and spoon fed the seedling organic homemade beer…!

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Sadly true of many places.

Same old grapefruit segments.
Recycled corn in salad with salsa, mayo, cumin, espelette. DH’s favorite panko crusted snapper.


Choice of tartar or chili sauce.

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Rubbed salmon over pesto-Parm zucchini, COTC with the PSTOB, and the last of the kale Caesar and pasta salads. Toddler ate 1/3 of my salmon and 1 1/3 ears of corn.

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A well brought up tot!

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He acted offended by the zucchini :joy:

Seriously, though, we all went out for a prix fixe fancy Italian tasting-menu meal last night, and he did so great! He tasted everything - including grabbing a handful of purslane off the platter and consuming his weight in straciatella cheese. Our biggest struggle dining out right now is getting him to focus on actual food and not obsess over playing with straws or water bottles. Toddlers!

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Dinner tonight was 2 pork chops for my son ( left marinading from a couple days ago when I marinaded 5 quick frying sesame oil, DS, cider vinegar, rice wine, and five spice) that was quick fried. Then, he had a bowl of cucumber marinaded in soy sauce, cider vinegar, sesame oil and mirin.

I made a deep dish tomato pie, followed the recipe but I added roasted poblano to it, did not skin the tomato but just salted it and drained it on colander for 20 minutes, pat it dry. I used 1 cup each of aged cheddar and jack cheese with pepper and half a cup of mozarella . Lined the bottom of the deep dish pie crust purchased from HT with cheese, prefaced in oven for 10 minutes.

I used 4 tomatoes ( red, Cherokee and yellow tomatoes) but I guess they were larger than what the recipe calls for. So, perhaps it does not look as good .

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That pie looks delicious! I always support cucumber salad.

Thanks for the link. This looks like upcoming country lunch.

Ooooo! It’s time for tomato pie! I might try that one!

I like this one from Vivian Howard.

Southern Tomato Pie

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Happy Birthday, glad you’re all celebrated out! :laughing:

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Rib eye in the Gordon Ramsey style, and bucatini with pesto I made last week. Green salad with BC Marie’s dressing . Steak was a little on the tough side for some reason… Bucatini obsession continues.

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A Beyond Meat burger with American cheese, onions, and tomato in an English muffin, and some sweet potato garlic fries.

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Re-purposed stuff. (Smoked country style ribs, pulled within an inch of their life*, roasted cherries, Savoy cabbage slaw with blue cheese, marinated tomatoes)

  • “No-more-wooden-hangers”, only in this case no fatty bits.
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And how did it taste? They can taste “meaty” and savoury but what about the texture?

It’s getting more popular now but so far I’m not a fan of imitation meat.

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The texture was actually pretty meat-like. The patty was minced and constructed in a way that resembled the texture of ground beef. Didn’t quite have all of the aromas of cooked beef though.

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Looks pretty damn good to me! Yum.

Forty two dollars for a “Whole Cauliflower Royale with Cheese”??? Oh HELL NO.

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reminds me I should have D’artagnan’sduck breast tonight!

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It tasted pretty good as the tomatoes were just right, very sweet but it did not look like the picture which showed more cheese etc.