We enjoyed another excellent dinner with our friends at La Lupa in Manalapan, NJ, including Snake River Farms American wagyu skirt steak, 48 day dry aged KC strip; black bass; crispy cacio e pepe potatoes; warm brownies with hazelnut ice cream. It all went great with some excellent red wines. I apologize for the quality of the photos. It was really dark in the restaurant and it was hard to get any decent photos. Most of them were blurry. I did the best I could with them.
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Leftover meatloaf is one of my Top 10’s
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Whole chicken on the grill, with a simple two-day dry brine of salt and pepper. Wanting leftovers for a particular soup dish, I did not do my usual mesquite smoke. I did pull a little leftover lemon-sauce from the freezer, and offered that for drizzling. Romaine with Caesar dressing and lots of parm.
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Love that lemon sauce!
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Oh man, that eggplant looks so good, I’d have braved shards to eat it, too.
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Oh holy gods, that all looks so good-
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Tried the NYT gochujang butter noodles tonight - a total hit! i halved the recipe, more or less, and the only change I’d make is maybe add a little parm regg - i think it would work really well with the garlicky/tangy/sweet/spicy buttery noodles. We inhaled this - should have made the full pound of noodz! Pork belly slices marinated all day in gochujang, Korean rice syrup, garlic, gochugaru, soy, mirin, sake, and a splash of apple cider vinegar, and then quickly wokked. Really good! Cukes got a rice wine vinegar/mirin/sugar/gochugaru treatment.
Also made a slow cooked Japanese beef dashi stew that’ll be dinner another night this week.
And, last but not least, made garlic confit and then made aioli with some of it.
Felt good to spend most of the day in the kitchen!
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i don’t want to admit how long i’ve had this particular slab of tamarind paste! and I’ve used it in other recipes but usually just as part of a sauce, not as a marinade, so yeah, i think it was overkill, i would use less next time.
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gorgeous!
Pacific Northwest Grilled salmon… again…but this time with a side of roasted mushrooms; various artists.
I hope to make mushroom larb out of the leftover mushrooms.
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Oh, man. That looks and sounds soooo good!
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When I cleaned out my fridge last week I found a few condiment jars with 2017 expiration dates. They dated back to our time in DC and I was reluctant to trash them as there are no replacements available here.
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oh man, i had cans i threw out recently (mostly tinned seafoody things) that were at least 25 years old. i shit you not.
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thanks, it really was!
mushroom larb! do tell!
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Chicken legs on the Traeger. Barbecue sauce. Store bought potato salad and coleslaw. Tired of the lousy weather. Its dug in like a tick . What the heck. I want camping food. Cheers
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I found gyro meat from my favorite Turkish grocery store in the freezer and decided to make Iskender Kabob for dinner. This led Mr Bean and The Sprout make toum, the Lebanese garlic sauce. Served with toasted bread, spiced tomato sauce, tzatziki and tabouli.
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A few years ago my mom tried to give me an entire spice rack of matching jars that had been around since I was a little girl. The herbs were all faded to a soft gold… i gently refused.
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I like your wine glass. I have a framed Gilroy Garlic Festival poster from the 1970s. I can’t take a picture of it; it’s downstairs in my storage locker …
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