I’ve always wanted to try Cilbir - Turkish Eggs in Garlic Yogurt. Since I wasn’t in the mood to go to the grocery store and I had everything needed on hand I decided to make them for dinner. Cilbir is essentially poached eggs served on top of garlicky yogurt and drizzled with a an Aleppo Pepper infused olive oil (or melted butter that some recipes called for. I went with the olive oil). I made an amalgam of a couple recipes. The hardest part was getting pretty poached eggs.
You vant pretty? You ain’t gonna get it schatzi, but if you vant stomach filling deliciousness it’s a pot of Leberknödel Suppe aka liver dumpling soup. The dumplings are a mix of bread, milk, egg, ground beef liver, onions cooked in butter until soft, and marjoram with salt and pepper to taste. The beef stock is a light one where the bones were not roasted and plenty of aromatics were added. I’ve always called this liver for people who don’t like liver. It’s very mild and the sum of the parts make it subtle. I need to make this more often. It has been years.
Didn’t mean to create confusion with my Miyokos fan-dom! Miyokos in block form is cashew milk based, in the tub oat milk based. Since the only sensitivity concern here is lactose, I use both - the block for baking, cooking, things that require weighing/measuring, the tub mostly for spreading or adding a spoonful. Great to find Miyokos after years of seeking a good non dairy option.
Last night dinner was a Mushroom & Onion Quiche. I added a very small amount of leftover bacon. I chopped it up and threw it in – just for a little bit of flavor. I deleted one of the eggs and used a low cholesterol mozzarella cheese to reduce the cholesterol. It turned out pretty good and Sunshine said she enjoyed it; so I guess it was a win.
Ladies night with my gal pals (big group yesterday ) at the gay bar. I had the shrimp lettuce cups & jalapeños with pimento cheese, but decided to take a picture of my friend’s twist on a Caesar instead. Good eats, great drinks - among them a dry AF Botanist martini, a Sidecar, and a Naked & Famous nightcap.
Roasted salmon and shiitake mushrooms with sage over crispy potatoes, adapted from the ATK cod recipe that has been one of our favorites. I drizzled everything with a little homemade rosemary oil at the end.
Copper River sockeye salmon, blackened on cast iron. A New York Times recipe for lemon and herb pasta salad (I’ve made it several times). Garden greens in homemade Caesar dressing.
I bought a piece of pre-cooked unagi at 99 Ranch and the BF made us deconstructed maki, with tamago, avo, baby persian cukes, nori, ginger, and scallions, over rice. He also made trumpet mushrooms with a soy/ginger/brown sugar/etc. sauce, and homemade miso soup with dashi sachets i got. The unagi’s texture was a little mushy (not his fault, that’s how it came) but everything was still delicious.
Lately we have been doing a lot of takeout, which is abnormal. Indian food again, since we were in need of comfort.
Today we said goodbye to our dear Lawrence. He brought us equal parts joy and mischief over the last 12 years (he was approximately three when we got him, so 15 YO), and always kept things interesting in the house. When I was teaching children, he was a little celebrity. They were always asking to see pictures of him and hear about his antics. Even now teaching adults, he made his way into my lectures for various historical comparisons (or quite literally walking across my laptop while on Zoom). We named him after Civil War general Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, and man, this cat had a fighting spirit. He used all of his nine lives over the last couple of months. There were a few times we thought he was at the end, but he managed to rally and stay with us. Lawrence did mellow out in recent years and became quite gentle and began to enjoy being held and petted. All of us are going to miss him so very much and I know it is going to take a while to get used to not seeing him sleeping on the couch or trying to grab food from my plate.
Here’s some pics of the little guy.
Tonight’s dinner could have been liquid as far as I was concerned but BF suggested something comforting and I needed something spicy. Indian it was.
There was whiskey.
I’m hoping to cook something tomorrow.
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ChristinaM
(Hungry in Asheville, NC (still plenty to offer tourists post Hurricane))
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I’m very sorry for your loss. He was a beautiful cat who clearly had a long and happy life. I think that thought can be a little comforting while trying to deal with the grief. Sending you well wishes
) at the gay bar. I had the shrimp lettuce cups & jalapeños with pimento cheese, but decided to take a picture of my friend’s twist on a Caesar instead. Good eats, great drinks - among them a dry AF Botanist martini, a Sidecar, and a Naked & Famous nightcap.
