Took out two gorgeous fat ribeyes for our main course and am now pondering what sides I can make without leaving the house. I have some cremini mushrooms, so perhaps I’ll saute those with some cognac and cream for a sauce, or I could make a mushroom soup with dried porcini. I have stuff for a quick salad as well.
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One of those days where we had barely finished with lunch and were already planning dinner.
Weird weather…warm, sticky, cool, sun in, sun out…Maycember day 
Partly because of the weather but mostly because we passed “Yonkers Miasarnia” on our way home,
we decided to stop in and pick up a few things. Husband picked freshly made jalepeno with cheese and red skin potato with roasted garlic pierogies…I rolled by eyes at his choices but they ended up being surprisingly delicious. Also picked up a good mustard and some very good pickles. As always I had to refrain from buying half the store. He had his pierogies with grilled cocktail franks…I had left over, over cooked London broil from last nights dinner. At the moment we are in the house with the AC on!
EDIT: Fresh house made pierogies / cooked at home
http://yonkersmiasarnia.com/menu-catering/
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Thank you so much for sharing this place - it looks amazing! If all goes well, we’ll be moving to Yonkers in a couple of months. The sellers need to get their shit together on our contract so we can get a closing date lined up and start amassing a list of places to try when we move!!!
I am crossing my fingers for you…
The Polish Deli is off the charts good too
more prepared items than Miasarnia… be prepared to point
last time I was there I was the only person to speak and
understand English
http://www.polishdeliyonkers.com/?ln=en
The neighborhood is a little scary but the immediate area around the store is okay.
I have been to a couple of Polish Deli’s in NJ that were recommended on CH…
Not one even came close to being as good as this one!
Two local treasures IMO
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We went with the ribeyes, garlic scape pesto pulled from the freezer, and a salad that I dressed with a quick dressing made from the beef drippings, sherry vinegar and leftover roasted cherry tomatoes. The ribeyes were PERFECTION. An excellent way to make up for the crap steak dinner we had last week at Quality Meats. Wine is an Italian rosato from my tasting the other night - it had plenty of body to stand up to the beef!
In the pan, featuring my husband’s feet (every food picture he takes has his feet in it as well).
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Tonights group meal: Two full wagu briskets sliced directly off the smoker and eaten as an appetizer off the cutting board. Disappeared as fast as it was sliced. Dinner was pork ribs, pulled pork, collars, Mac and cheese, cole slaw and for dessert, one of our members and his wife made banana fosters. Got to eat well if you are going to drink well
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Scoobie, I haven’t had dinner yet and this just made my salivary glands do a little envious dance. Damn 
Have fun, kiddo.
lovely! you’re my hero!
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oh no! i had a similar experience in Lyon of all places in 2014. saddest days ever. same thing, had to leave a full plate of food, and you KNOW the french won’t let you take that shit home. Sorry your trip is being cut short. hope by the time you read this the bug is well dead.
doing the catch-up thing again… we’ve done a lot of eating out, interspersed with cooking (some with friends, some for my reviews, some with the BF; some overlap there.)
back last week, maybe Saturday, fresh fava and goat cheese stuffed chicken breasts, pureed cauli with some beet greens.
i finally made the spanakorizo, with greek meatballs. that rice is killer. garlicky tzatziki on the side with fresh peas added.
then we went out to a new burger place - really good burger with jalapenos and onion rings. nice and messy, just like i love them. tater tots. yums.
more greek - leftover spanakorizo, with added feta this time, and and I made lemon & oregano chicken.
then out again for a place i’m revewing - pupusas! went with 2 GFs and we did a sampler platter. such gooey goodness!
i made short ribs in a vaguely asian marinade, slow cooked, basmati rice, and broccolini braised with chicken broth, garlic, ginger, drizzled with hot chili oil. broccolini was ab fab.
then back to the pupusa place for the second visit, and i got the yuca frita and chicharron plate. died and went to porky heaven. we also split a chorizo pupusa.
again out for review for bfast this morning, which we rarely do, i had a hangtown omelet, at an old diner by my house. it was wonderful, much better than the famed version at Tadich Grill.
and tonight I made a spicy basil chicken dish with asparagus and oyster sauce, and dry fried cauli with tons of sichuan peppercorn. both dishes had copious amounts of bird eye chilis, too. nice and hot.
tomorrow night I’m prolly going to make lingua’s lemony linguini, along with a small rib eye we’ll share (since there can be No. Dinner. Without. Meat. Chez. Nous.) and i think i’ll finally make those parm red peppers biondanonima told me about!
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Nice looking steaks - and feet biondanonima!
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Wow! The pics are amazing - and an inspiration for my WFD for the next coming week - thank you for that!!
Burgers with jalepenos and onions - my favorite - and the sloppier the better. Reminds me of Hut’s in Austin, Tx - my first ever burger with jalepenos and still my all time favorite.
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Upcoming…fillet steak. It’ll need a dollop of mustard but nothing by way of sauce. Mrs H will cook it as I am useless at it.
Alongside…Potatoes Nicoise…a Delia Smith recipe from more years ago than I care to recall…so long ago, it’s not on her website any longer…https://twofatvegetarians.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/recipe-potatoes-nicoise/
And…peas
To finish…Appleby’s Cheshire cheese
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thx, acsss!
After last nights party with that fabulous porky pig it’s going to be squid ink linguine and clams with a simple romaine salad .
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No good natural lighting for photos today. Actually, no natural lighting. It’s horrible and I don’t even want to bother.
Spicy soup with ray wings cut up in chunks. I used a Thai chili paste and fish sauce to season the prawn broth. Froze half kilo worth of bbq’ed prawn shell to make this soup.
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WFD: ~ Chicken Baked with Red Onions, Potatoes, and Rosemary.
Red onions sliced into wedges, tiny red potatoes left whole, unpeeled cloves from 2 heads of garlic are placed into a roasting pan, seasoned with rosemary and S & P, sprinkled with balsamic vinegar, and drizzled with olive oil. After the chicken is seasoned with S & P the pieces are snuggled into the vegetables. Roast for about 45 minutes. Serve.
I usually place the chicken atop a simple green salad so the juices from the chicken mingled with the vinaigrette, a brilliant Ottolenghi idea.
~ Sugar Snap Peas with Lemon Butter. Sugar snap peas; ghee; lemon zest, S & P.
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Photos really aren’t necessary, ya know. Some of the very best cooks here never post photos
Thank you for the Potato Nicoise recipe.
I would never have thought to do this … I am definitely making this
as I love left over potatoes from stews and roasts hot…cold…room
OK, that’s weird. I must have linked to your specific post within the thread started by sck. Either way, the pic is funny!
