Sounds like a perfect day to me.
Had some bits and pieces of things to use up today, and felt like something easy after my long run this morning. Settled on Baja-ish roasted tofu and cauliflower tacos with guacamole, and cabbage and carrot slaw. Cilantro, lime, various hot sauces. Zucchini on the side. The picture is just horrific, but the tacos were startlingly good for being cobbled together. Couldn’t decide on a beer to have as an appetizer, so I made an executive decision to go with a Manhattan instead, even though it didn’t really ‘go’ with dinner.
The two best uses I’ve found for sourdough discard are pancakes and waffles, both recipes available on King Arthur.
Last night was stuffed artichokes (I grew them) which was a new prep for me. After simmering they went on the grill with some chicken Italian sausages. Side salad. We both liked the artichokes but decided they were not worth the effort. Oh well.
We continued to support our local restaurants by having excellent takeout from Corso 98 in Montclair. It was a perfect evening for al fresco dining. We enjoyed an excellent beet salad, crab cakes, crispy fried whole branzino, and filet mignon, with flourless chocolate hearts and java chip ice cream (not pictured) for dessert. It all went great with an awesome 2012 Chateauneuf Du Pape.
Reading all day and a good dinner? Sounds great to me!
Greek night - again! Stifado with homemade bread. Used leftover whey from yogurt making; bread was nice & tangy, but needed something. Maybe a T of additional sugar, a little less salt, or a longer rise. Dunno ETA, it was liberally slathered with butter after photo. In HO parlance, TPSTOB.
Ribs, collard greens, and baked rosemary fries. The ribs came from Texas via my imperfect produce box. Nice and smokey. I cooked the collard for several hours with bacon and onions. Bourbon for DH and a glass (or two) of Malbec for me.
That pork is flat out gorgeous.
Yeah, unfortunately both of which I don’t care much about. BF likes waffles but he rarely eats bfast and we don’t have a waffle iron anyway.
Happy weekend!
Tonight was takeout Italian again - Neapolitan pizza, lasagna, arugula salad, tiramisu. I roasted some cauliflower to go with.
Last night I tried a new GF pizza crust for the kids. 3 medium pizzas and the 4th portion turned into a little boule. Best yet, but I now have the flours to make my own flour blend from scratch so that will be the next try.
It’s quite simple to make, but so good. The recipe I used suggested heating up pandan leaves with coconut milk, I couldn’t find right now. But I would say it was still delicious.
We love sticky rice and mango. Your composition is better than any restaurant. I use pandan extract that I bought ages ago in an Asian grocery store. I’m sure it’s all fake but it does impart a nice flavor.
Actually, been to SE Asian many times, but I have no idea the taste of pandan leaves on its own. Some says it is kind of like vanilla but less strong. I’ve never come across pandan extract, will try to see either frozen pandan leaves or extract is available.
Andrea Nguyen adviced against using the extract though.
I just tasted my extract plain. It is vanilla-like but more floral. Maybe closer to Tahitian vanilla extract than Madagascar but without the alcohol burn of extract. I think there’s a coconut background flavor. Having never knowingly tasted real pandan I’m not sure how chemically the extract tastes compared to the real stuff. Maybe I can find the leaves someday and do a taste test.