I like how you think. The Sprout once asked me to cut the crust off her toast and I told her she’d have to learn how to do it herself. Fortunately(?) she never bothered to try.
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We did Oktoberfest tonight. Chicken Schnitzel, mushroom gravy, German potato salad, and asparagus (needed to get some green on the plate. Also some German wine.
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Lobster rolls for dinner at my sister’s. Frozen tails, quickly blanched and then butter poached, on brioche buns (they didn’t have the split-top hot dog buns at TJs.) So fricken good. Living large with buttah. With these really great truffle chips (with actual truffle pieces.)
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I helped my daughter make reverse seared chicken breast with Mole Rojo sauce, mostly on the side.
I used ATC video again, Goya Adobo seasoning under the skin a few hours before cooking, I could have gone bit darker on the sear. And “harder” (less tender, juicy) according to daughter
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I LIKE it! 
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We had another outstanding dinner at Cafe Panache in Ramsey, NJ. They moved to fully indoor dining this week at 25% capacity. They were being charged about $7,000.00 a month to rent a tent, and it just wasn’t worth it to invest any more money for any sort of heating for another week or two before it became too cold to dine outdoors.
We enjoyed an excellent eggplant tomato timbale with seared shrimp in chive oil; escargot; pumpkin ricotta moon shaped pasta; awesome venison chops, perfectly charred on the outside and medium rare on the inside, with hen of the woods mushrooms in a juniper sauce; panko crusted halibut with wasabi sake coconut milk. We enjoyed the delicious coconut cake with caramel sauce for dessert. It all went great with an excellent Chateauneuf Du Pape.
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Wow.
Escargot and Wild boar Bolognese …
AGNOLETTI are half moon pasta - similar to a ravioli …
Absolutely some amazing dishes and bottlings !!
Have a lovely evening and hope all is well.
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Big mustard fan. These are splendidly superb.
Do you prepare some dishes with Dijon Mustard or just use on sandwiches or for dipping charcuterie ?
Enjoy !
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Now this sounds wonderful and perfect for the seasonal weather we are now having.
Thank you for posting your recipe.
I love monkfish which we call "Rapé " (pronounced RA PAY) …
I love sleeping in.
The boyz, however, take great affront to my wishes and chose to try to wake me up multiple times this morning from 7 a.m. on to serve breakfast to their fuzzy butts.
I am, after all, their servant, first and foremost. Despite having an automatic dry crunchy food dropper serve them at 8 a.m. Ohhh, NOOO. That won’t do for their highnesses. They want what they want when they want it. And that is usually NEEEOOOWWW! With a scratch at the covers or a pat on my nose.
So an early afternoon nap was in order before the Pats/Niners game. The Pats look like they think it’s the Year 2000 PB. I turned it off at the half. Looks like I didn’t miss anything. Pffffttt. It was a nice 20 years while it lasted.
Dinner was country-style pork ribs, cooked low and slow in the oven, bathed with TJs Brown Sugar BBQ sauce in the last hour.
Roasted Herbs de Provence potatoes and steamed broccoli alongside, with some wine.
And the boyz had better let me sleep in tomorrow as I have nowhere I need to be! (Wishful thinking, that)
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Shrimp treated with some of my favorite things (butter, garlic, onion, parsley, lemon, dry vermouth). I made scallops like this a couple weeks ago, but these were much better.
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A bit of catching up after a long week. This weekend was lots of baking and freezer stock up.
Kielbasa and onions, with veggie couscous.
Ina’s updated spinach artichoke dip, Caesar salad with left over fried chicken bits. The dip is in her new book and was really good.
Also made Ina’s chicken pot pie soup to deliver to the folks. Kept two servings for us. This was delicious. A few puff pastry crouton toppers.
Today was day one of a sourdough loaf, so yesterday I used a bit of the discard to make sourdough cinnamon buns. KA recipe. A little drizzle of sour cream frosting finishes them off. Had one today and loaded the rest into the freezer.
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Thank you!
I love your pasta dish with caviar and Champagne.
Take care and stay safe!
Tonight we took the tunnels through Manhattan into Queens to dine at iconic red sauce Italian restaurant Parkside with some friends. We enjoyed broiled double cut Colorado lamb chops; whole branzino; crispy veal cutlet special; chicken; hot cherry peppers; octopus; shrimp and green bean salad; jumbo lump crab cocktail; arugula salad; soppressata and cheese, and excellent pork rolls to start.
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I am not a baker, but these baguettes turned out absolutely wonderful. Super crunchy outside, but not roof-of-mouth ripping. Followed this very easy recipe (link down below), introduced by someone in our FB food group. I did buy a special contraption for the bread a couple weeks ago, and it worked great, but you don’t need it. AND i did buy the wrong flour for the bread, and it didn’t matter (should have been bread flour instead of AP.) These are perfect baguettes!
We devoured one, before, during and after dinner. The recipe makes four thin baguettes, which I’m sure we’ll go through in no time.
We could have eaten just bread and butter for dinner, but I had a pork chop I’d brined overnight in buttermilk, garlic, spices, herbs, then rubbed with a bourbon smoked paprika, habanero sugar, fennel pollen, and some other stuff. We split that, still plenty left over. Cauli was roasted with indian-ish spices (turmeric, cumin, ground ginger, etc.), tossed with cilantro. Also, salad with ranch dressing i made with the leftover buttermilk, mayo, garlic, scallions, and a mix of fresh and dried herbs.
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Made pizza dough yesterday. Tonight I used it for a flatbread, and while not photogenic, it was delicious. Toppings were roasted delicata squash, spicy salami, buffalo mozzarella, red pepper flakes, oregano, parmesan, and olive oil. And wine.
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I envy your dining experiences. We live on outermost Cape Cod. Many restaurants aren’t open, even seasonal ones. Becoming tired of cooking for ourselves, but that’s going to continue for quite awhile.
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Tonight was a solo fry fest for me.
I’ve been craving some indian street snacks. This evening I made batatavada - potato balls / fritters - in the style of my great aunt who was famous for them (she snuck them into the hospital after someone had a heart attack… you know, for everyone else, and maybe the patient would be hungry too).
Boiled, mashed potato spiced with onion, garlic, ginger, chilli, cumin, coriander, and fresh herbs. Then dipped in seasoned chickpea flour batter and fried. So. Very. Delicious. And reminded me (happily) of my great aunt and my grandmother too - they were very close all their lives.
Since I had started down the deep frying path, I also decided to try my hand at jalebis - a skinny, crisp indian version of funnel cake if I must describe it that way, even though they are nothing alike in flavor or texture, lol. I had seen a recipe from someone, so I cut it back to a quarter, used a small ziplock bag for the batter - which was only a semi-disaster. Surprisingly the results were pretty good - I’ll try a real (yeasted) recipe next weekend, but these were polished off when everyone else got home.
A pretty good Sunday night nosh, though not particularly healthy.
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They looked splendid! Especially with AP flour.
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