Picture Thread: What's For Dinner?

[Shaun @ Tru6]

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Originally Posted by vash

[vash]

Tada!

[vash]

I boiled it and ran it thru my ricer.

[john70t]

(my weak attempt at Indian w/o looking at recipe)

Step 1: Nuke and brown a single chicken leg a little bit. Pull off most skin before adding. I could have marinaded this.
While that's frying nuke some mini potatoes a couple minutes to get them started. I should have cut those in half.
Mix a few Tbs Shan brand Achar Gosht (very strong spicy and woody texture) with coconut milk.
Add carrots, taters, cherry tomatoes, vidalia onion.
Cook covered 380deg about 25-30 minutes until boiling. YMMV.


Step 2: Using a serrated steak knife, pull the meat off the bones and freeze those for later.
Add half a bag of spinach and some frozen red peppers for color.
Cook uncovered another 15-20min. YMMV


Step 3: Complete meal in one. Pretty easy and hearty for all day.

It was good but the carrots were overcooked and the small potatoes unflavorful and chewy at the center. It was spicy enough but needed deeper flavors like a dash of turmeric/cinnamon/clove Indian spices, or some mango, or perhaps half chicken stock instead of all coconut milk. Something more.

[vash]

i have never microwaved cooked anything. wow!!

okay, maybe a few coffee mug cakes. but NEVER a chicken.

[john70t]

Just warmed it up from fridge temp about 40 seconds while the pan was waiting.
I was not actually full cook the thing!!
I ate too much boiled rubbery chicken as a kid so I learned a little sensibility.

Hey, I'll try those mug cakes someday. I also got a killer recipe for popovers will post later.
You guys are some true gore-mays and professional photographers here.

[javadog]

Made a Cuban sandwich for lunch today. The dogs were pissed that nothing was left for them but the lingering smell of hot ham, grilled bread and melted cheese. They had high hopes, for a while.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

I have so little time to cook these days here's my new favorite thing: choice grade meat. You just can't beat a $6/lb porterhouse. Especially grilled rare over glowing coals with some BBQ sauce that caramelizes on the grille; it's just sublime. A nice wedge to even things out and a juicy, round cabernet is a must.

[vash]

More wok time.

Salt spicy shrimp and Chinese broccoli with beef.

[javadog]

Very nice. It seems that the wok has changed your life, somewhat. Chinese food, cooked well, is a wonderful thing.

A pasta dish that I just made. Flowers with goat cheese, baby arugula and walnuts:

[vash]

^ damn ! That looks freakin perfect.

[javadog]

Today's lunch, green papaya salad:

[Baz]

Originally Posted by javadog

Today's lunch, green papaya salad:

Nice! Recipe, please?

[javadog]

One of these salads is made to taste, but I'll give some approximate quantities...

20 oz shredded green papaya
4 oz green beans, trimmed and cut in half
15 - 25 cherry or grape tomatoes, halved or quartered
1 TB dried shrimp, re-hydrated in water
2-3 green Thai chilies
I large garlic clove, crushed and minced
1/4 cup palm sugar
3 TB lime juice
2 TB fish sauce
1/3 C salted, roasted peanuts

It's generally made with a large mortar and pestle but you can make the dressing in a food processor and mix it all up in a bowl.

Basically, make a paste out of the garlic, chilies and dried shrimp, add the sugar and liquids to combine, until the sugar has been dissolved. The green beans and tomatoes are lightly crushed. Combine everything together.

I tend to like a little more fish sauce, chilies and peanuts in mine, than what I've listed above. In Thailand, you might find it a little sweeter; I limit the sugar to what's listed above to limit my sugar consumption. I sometimes add a little grated carrot, or omit the tomatoes.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by javadog

One of these salads is made to taste, but I'll give some approximate quantities...

20 oz shredded green papaya
4 oz green beans, trimmed and cut in half
15 - 25 cherry or grape tomatoes, halved or quartered
1 TB dried shrimp, re-hydrated in water
2-3 green Thai chilies
I large garlic clove, crushed and minced
1/4 cup palm sugar
3 TB lime juice
2 TB fish sauce
1/3 C salted, roasted peanuts

It's generally made with a large mortar and pestle but you can make the dressing in a food processor and mix it all up in a bowl.

Basically, make a paste out of the garlic, chilies and dried shrimp, add the sugar and liquids to combine, until the sugar has been dissolved. The green beans and tomatoes are lightly crushed. Combine everything together.

I tend to like a little more fish sauce, chilies and peanuts in mine, than what I've listed above. In Thailand, you might find it a little sweeter; I limit the sugar to what's listed above to limit my sugar consumption. I sometimes add a little grated carrot, or omit the tomatoes.

Wow....thanks! Nice job on the recipe. Will try this out at some point myself. I've never shopped for Green Papaya's before. Will look for them at my local market.

What kind of grater or other technique do you use to grate the papaya's, if you don't mind me asking?

[javadog]

I shop for the stuff at Asian markets and I can buy the papaya already shredded. It's really more a fine julienne, than what I would typically call shredded.

In Thailand, they will whack it a million times with a cleaver or knife and then peel it with a peeler. you can probably find videos of that on YouTube. You can also use a mandolin with an attachment for creating julienne strips. Watch this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wz4HVCNKr4

[Baz]

Originally Posted by javadog

I shop for the stuff at Asian markets and I can buy the papaya already shredded. It's really more a fine julienne, than what I would typically call shredded.

In Thailand, they will whack it a million times with a cleaver or knife and then peel it with a peeler. you can probably find videos of that on YouTube. You can also use a mandolin with an attachment for creating julienne strips. Watch this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wz4HVCNKr4

Nice! No Asian markets around here so will have to do it the old fashioned way! Thanks!

[vash]

i used a mandoline to shred my papaya. the most dangerous thing in my kitchen.

[vash]

Went with some Hawaiian fast food. Homemade. MocoLoco!

[Gogar]

Strip steak with like . . . 'rough cut fresno chimichurri' I guess. And boiled/smashed/roasted rosemary red potatoes. yum