What's for Dinner #48 - the Drippy, Droopy, Doggy Days of Summer - August 2019

A chicken curry of sorts, although the recipe comes from Nigel Slater rather than a more reliable asian source. Basically chicken with garlic , ginger, onion, red chillis, mustard seeds, cumin, turmeric, coriander (gorund and fresh), tomatoes, garam masala and lime. Probably rice as the carb.

This year I’ve been cooking a lot of recipes from Slater’s Kitchen Diaries series, trying to broadly follow the seasonality of his recipes. This one, however, is dated 28 September (Kitchen Diaries 3) so I’m sort of ahead of myself. But after our recent highest ever recorded temperature in the UK, followed by very high rainfall, it already feels like autumn - wet and cold with the heat clicking on the last couple of mornings. And it’s only mid-August, FFS!

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no particular brand. just rice cooking wine and if I run out, I will use sherry if I have them
Often I buy the Qian Hu brand but if I see something else on sale, I would buy it
I have never tasted it , just add a small splash on my stir fry or bigger splash for marinades
I do not look into alcohol or sodium content either since not much is used.
They all come in 25 fl ounce size which last me 3-4 months

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I’m not familiar with this trend at all. However, we rarely eat out for Korean here in Boston and I generally don’t eat beef except once in a while when I get a craving.

You’ve piqued my interest though; I’m going to look it up.

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Thanks @TheCookie! It was. The chicken skin was nice and crispy, and the Brussels sprouts were nice and spicy.

Your chicken patty with the perfectly cooked egg looked awesome as well!

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They were just a wee bit TOO crispy. Yeah, I know, I know - how is that possible? LOL I ended up lowering the temp of the convection oven as I hadn’t started the tenderloin to roast so they didn’t burn, but I think they dried out a bit more than I prefer.

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This is a @mariacarmen trademarked acronym for my constant use of the full words when I make my baked potatoes. WAY easier to type TPSTOB.

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Good move. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: I was just curious because I need to buy more. I’m not married to any one brand and was wondering what other folks use. Thanks.

Thanks @paryzer!

Yah, I’ve been trying to leave them a little runny.

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I’m the same way @digga. My husband loves beef but I eat it when the craving strikes.

Yah, the cheese thing is becoming a thing. My son even ate some traditional food with melted cheese added when he was in Korea. But I’m thinking this trend is probably to please the western palate. :thinking: That little cup of melted cheese in my KBBQ photo was runny underneath like fondue. I had to admit it was pretty tasty.

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We had a garden vegetable plate last night. Green beans Greek style in tomatoes, sautéed zucchini and yellow squash - both these were from our garden and COTC. We were tired from a late night at the RS concert Wednesday, so worth it however! :tongue:

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You wouldn’t. It would be novel and cool for a few months, and then you would start to get quickly irritated at all the money and time and emotional energy you spend putting stuff in the ground and then raising it, only to see it get entirely decimated within minutes by critters who could care less about you. And then you might spend way too much time and money and effort keeping the damn things out of your yard because they’ve established the habit of visiting.

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Our deer don’t eat my herbs, but they do sit on them. And head butt into the woodier rosemary, breaking it all to pieces, during rutting season.

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They are beautiful animals but I don’t want them near me because of deer ticks. I lost one friend to complications due to lime disease. Another friend still has serious issues 10 years after contracting it. Not to mention they can devastate your garden completely. They have become a big problem in many areas since there are fewer native predators that cull the herds.

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I see it now.

It’s been trendy in Korea for at least 2 or 3 years now. The grill grate has a moat all around it, with sections for different ingredients. A big section is for melting the cheese. You can see photos on the web of different grill grate designs especially made for this kind of meal.

I could have eaten it when I was in Korea but chose not to and I’m a monstrous cheesehead.

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i thought it was for MY constant use of the words!! i think i out-butter you any day! :smile::kissing_heart:

Couldn’t agree more. My neighborhood has houses with relatively large lots nestled between patches of forest. Apparently their favorite environment. When we moved in 10 years ago, we might see a deer or two each week. Now we’ll see a dozen daily. It’s not fun anymore, because they do decimate our yard entirely. I don’t think we have lyme disease carrying ticks around here yet. So there’s that. People have been sighting cougars in the last year or so on their doorbell video feed, which is a new thing.

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Yikes! Okay! We’ll just be content to bring fruit for them to our Will Rogers Park. They come down when people are starting to leave and flip the tops off trash cans to scavenge (city deer :wink:). They’re not friendly but are used to humans and will come fairly close If we put fruit out and back-off. The kids love it.

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Ahhh… interesting.

Yep, I’m a monstrous cheesehead but have been avoiding it too. But it was sitting in front of me saying “Go on. Just try it”.

That’s exactly what the park looks like where we see them most.

:drooling_face:mmm