Last nighs dinner, was sugar snap peas in the Instant Pot, Baked Potato in Instant Pot, then to air fryer with sour cream, chicken Kiev cooked in the air fryer, and biscuits baked in the toaster oven. Sugar snaps were delicious!
Lovely. Nice to see you post here as well as on another sandbox. I go by the name of Audrey there.
I made pan-roasted salmon with tomato vinaigrette, with a Thai spin.
Salmon rub: paprika, turmeric, dried lemongrass, white pepper, cumin, coriander, mushroom seasoning, sugar
Tomato sauce: tomatoes, Makrut lime leaf, shallot, garlic, lime juice, rice wine vinegar, ponzu, sweetener, fish sauce
Garnished with holy basil and served with sweet toasted coconut rice. Ginger cucumber salad on the side. Tomatoes and herbs were from the garden.
Looks beautiful! Please share more about the ginger cucumber salad?
Thanks.
The simplest - rice wine vinegar, freshly peeled and grated ginger, salt, pepper, vegetable oil. A sprinkle of sesame seeds.
BF at the wok again, trying to rid our fridge of more veg. Ground pork stir-fry of his own design, with garlic/ginger/dark soy/shaoxing wine/oyster sauce/hoisin/bird chilies/Thai basil. quick-pickled carrot & daikon, steamed leftover sprouts and marinated in sesame oil and soy (excellent). also radishes in Thai sweet chili sauce. Jasmine rice. A+++.
so interesting that the recipe calls for chocolate!
and thanks for the explanations. good to know.
what was up, do you have any idea why it was so busy?
Well, we are five minutes from the first major beach on the Jersey Shore. Any day, weekend in particular, above 95 degrees and we’re expecting a slaughter. This past weekend was a brutal heat wave-- temperature hit 102 on my car dashboard. Yeah. Just wave after wave of hungry and thirsty tourists.
Before there was the Martini, there was the…Martinez? This late 19th century cocktail is one that I had tried only once before at a historic inn years ago and enjoyed, but kind of forgot about it. I saw a Liquor.com Instagram post yesterday which reminded me of it, so here we are. It is really quite delightful, like a Martini-Manhattan hybrid. Strong but light, floral, and slightly sweet. Goes down too easy. Great for summer sipping. Bombay Sapphire, sweet vermouth, Luxardo, Angostura.
Oh, yes, there was food too. I was off from my full time mundane job today but was asked if I was available to work my teaching job. It’s a different program we run in the summer, out on the beach with school/camp groups. We go over marine biology and maritime history. Anyway, today was hot and muggy. Disgusting, really. A three hour work day felt like forever. I got home and though I fully intended to cook something extravagant due to being home at a reasonable hour, I didn’t have any energy so I made a shrimp curry (had shrimp in the freezer, naan, a curry spice packet from the Indian market, and made basmati rice). It was good but have been overdoing it with Indian lately.
After a week of eating through my nephew’s NYC food wish list, dinner tonight was substituted by a HO-down in the form of a grazing food crawl that started at lunch and lasted several hours.
List of what we ate over here:
Pasta with pesto rosso (made from dried tomatoes, roasted peppers, pecan nuts, jalapeño, garlic, parmesan and olive oil) with some sautéed snap peas and topped with some burrata
Here is some explanation from the book:
I’ve also seen a recipe that adds Coca Cola to the mix:
Wow! Does he cook like this after a full day of work?
Last night’s dinner was stirfried chicken and broccoli served over rice noodles. My hankering for rice noodles continues…
It has been a while since I’ve joined in the fun here but could not resist sharing a picture of this delicious phyllo tomato galette I made on Sunday after harvesting a bunch of tomatoes. Reheated a couple of squares for breakfast and leftovers are just as good. Served with a cabbage slaw, roasted shishitos, and grilled peaches with pomegranate balsamic.
You’ve just posted a picture of my death row dinner
Last night was stuffed peppers. Two greens from the CSA, and then I had half a red and a little less than half of a yellow left over from another meal, so I stuffed them too. I much prefer the green peppers for stuffing. The red and yellow were too sweet and it didn’t taste right. I normally don’t put tomato sauce on my stuffed peppers, but I had some already made that I wanted to use up, so why not? On the side were roast potatoes with harissa spices from the Sahadi book (current COTM). Very simple, but the kind of thing you just want to keep eating.