Picture Thread: What's For Dinner?

[TimT]

Nice to see this thread pop up again...

Made Buche de Noel for our Christmas Eve dinner



And had a few really nice meals during the holiday week..

Some Razor Clam, Bone Marrow, Polenta, Pig ears goodness.....










that was at a Tapas place in the Village... I asked my gf, and neither she or I could remember the name of the joint...

Yesterday we went for some Dongbei Chinese...Lamb, heavy spices.... effing delicious,,

[TimT]

Besides the Lamb lollipops.... was an some great dumplings, a pedestrian celery and smoked tofu dish.... and an incendiary shaved potato salad..



Beware the sedituous green beans..

[Brian 162]

We picked up a prime-rib at a farmers market west of here. Cooked low temp. on bbq.
Looking forward to leftover sandwiches.

[vash]

Collectively as a group, I think we need to take up veggie eating up a notch or two.


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[javadog]

As the saying goes, vegetables are what food eats.

JR

[vash]

Originally Posted by javadog

As the saying goes, vegetables are what food eats.

JR

There is that.

Me. Potato and broccoli hash. Poached eggs.




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[javadog]

I'll happily eat vegetables if they are cooked in Chinese food. Or, perhaps selected vegetables cooked like a Frenchie, or Eyetalian.

I make them tasty, but they are not so healthy when cooked...

JR

[vash]

Originally Posted by javadog

I'll happily eat vegetables if they are cooked in Chinese food. Or, perhaps selected vegetables cooked like a Frenchie, or Eyetalian.

I make them tasty, but they are not so healthy when cooked...

JR

roger that.. i am literally grimacing thru my lunch..this very second.

[vash]

Here. The visuals might help




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[javadog]

You live and work in the bay area, one of my favorite places to eat in this country. Step outside and get something good to eat. Work can wait.

JR

[vash]

this place; made me fat.

had to scale back.

[javadog]

Catch and release, man...



In order to keep this thread from getting too chatty, I'll upload a picture of what I cooked for dinner last night... pappardelle with a lamb ragu.

This picture is stolen from the 'net, as I eat my food and don't play with it. But, it looked just like this..

[Jandrews]

Originally Posted by vash

Here. The visuals might help




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One change I made which has been amazing is forcing myself to get a bolus of veggies via the Vitamix. It is still just a bit of an acquired taste, but when you mix some fruit into the veggies, and put them in smoothie format, it is one way to get MASSIVE doses of veggies into your diet. I finally realized that I was just not going to go to the effort of cooking veggies in a way that I would actually enjoy eating them, but I really wanted to force myself to DRAMATICALLY increase my intake of veggies.

Every morning I fill an entire blender full of kale, spinach, chard, tomatoes, broccoli, sweet peppers, black berries, strawberries and pineapple. I keep all of it frozen except for the tomatoes and sweet peppers. Water the only liquid. I drink half of the smoothie and freeze the other half. I take the frozen one from yesterday to work with me everyday. End result, I am getting a full blender full of raw, fresh/frozen veggies just in those two smoothies. And I love the taste with the small amount of sweetness from the fruit. This is probably literally 10X the veggies I would get otherwise.

Vitamix made the difference. I wouldn't do it with a lesser blender.

JA

[vash]

V2.0



Operation banana purge - mission accomplished.


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[Baz]

Great job by your daughter there, Pete....very creative! Thanks for sharing!

I had chili cheese dogs tonight - sorry no pics - might repeat over the weekend & post pics. Man they were GOOD too!!!

But.........also making chicken soup in the slow cooker tonight - will post pics tomorrow.

And last but not least....have hard boiled eggs for egg salad tomorrow (great minds, etc.).

I know - very simplistic stuff - but hey it works for me!

[vash]

Awesome Peter.

I ate a bowl of cereal.


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[TimT]

I got an Anova sous vide device from my mother...

A new learning curve

Again I re purposed some homebrew equipment





NY Strip for 40 minutes, then finish on a white hot cast iron pan




After a 10 minute rest






Steak and potatoes/ za'atar , with mustard greens/miso butter

[porsche4life]

I made a German pancake for breakfast. Pretty tasty!

[mthomas58]

4 hour sous vide pork chops seared on grill to finish (sorry about the pic's can't get them to load correctly despite numerous edits)

[mthomas58]

I've never done this before by yesterday I started a 28 day dry age of a 15lb Ribeye using the UMAi dry bag steak product. The results on various youtube videos look amazing. Wish me luck. I'll post some progress pics during the 28 day aging process. It will lose approx 20% of its initial weight and forms a dark waxy crust inside the bag that gets trimmed at the end of the process.