What are you cooking for dinner this weekend?

[Too Tall]

NYE Dinner cooked by this hand will be (Pics later)

With Cocktails > Hummus roasted garlic/toasted cumin, warm fresh bread, olives
Din din > Two takes on chicken avacado salad. First made with grilled turkey thighs (cut into cubes) Second made with cubes of flash grilled salmon all on a bed of greens. Carb is a sweet potato / white potato mash with roasted garlic, rosemary, heavy creme, butter all whipped kinda roughly than baked in a hot oven until it bubbles and looks right.
Guests bring > lots of desserts

[thollandpe]

To go with whatever looks good at the fish market today (I'm hoping for halibut steaks) It's gonna be butternut squash risotto.
Secrets are:

• Cut the butternut into <1cm cubes, toss with olive oil/rubbed sage/chili powder/sea salt and roast til edges are brown, set aside
• Give a similar season-and-roast treatment to kale leaves, then crumble and set aside
• Sautee onion in butter
• Use turkey stock from Thanksgiving (unless dinner guests are veg-heads)
• In the oven at 350F, please don't hate me for not stirring
• When it's time to add the veggies and cheese, use pecorino romano (baaa) and grana padano (moo) for that barnyard magic
• If there are sage leaves left outside, fry a few to put on top.

[mg2ride]

For New Years Day/Brother inlaws B-day I will be making a shrimp based Low Country Boil. Was going to add crawdads or crab but I'm not happy with my B-inlaw at the moment so I'm not willing to go to the extra expense. Will simply be 16-20 shrimp, potatoes, onions and corn.

New years eve with some friends will include Chocolate Shrimp, crab dip, some caviar, gray goose and indica/sativa blend by the fire.

[dgaddis]

For NYE we're having left over pad tai from last night. Tomorrow, we're both off work, so we're gonna try the pizza kettle for the first time for lunch, an for dinner I'm gonna smoke a pork tenderloin and have some turnip greens and cornbread.

From last night.

[mzilliox]

last weekend was Beet steak with mashed potato and beet red wine reduction.
[IMG]mashed yukon w beet steak n gravy by Matt.zilliox, on Flickr[/IMG]

i braise the beets for however long i want in aromatics, then i roast the beet for the right amount of time (this time i placed into the wood oven for 10 mins to introduce a small amount of smokiness, adding to its "meatiness"). then after roasting, i "grill" them, in this case in a hot pan.
[IMG]beet meat by Matt.zilliox, on Flickr[/IMG]

reduction is red wine and strained braising liquids.

[slwrnu]

the beet meat looks excellent. The good thing about mashed potato is that you can make far too much of it, then the next day add some peas and fry it up with whatever leftovers you have. Used to be called bubble and squeak. No culinary skills required, nutritious, cheap, and will keep you going for a day or two. Along with fish and chips wrapped in newspaper, this sort of thing kept Britain going in the rationing days of the 40s and 50s. It still works.

[guido]

Shrimp and green sauce with Broccoli Rabe.

[mzilliox]

Shrimp and green sauce with Broccoli Rabe.

nice plates, i have the same set!

[guido]

nice plates, i have the same set!

And in your Beet post I was noticing how similar the color of your plate matched another of mine... Soft minds run together...

[vertical_doug]

New Year's Japanese Style

O-Sechi Ryori
O-Toso Sake and OZoni Mochi soup.






The O-Sechi is from Hirohisa NYC on Thompson St in Soho. If you ever want a traditional Japanese meal that is NOT Sushi, this is the place to go... One Michelin.

[Too Tall]

NYE dinner was great. Much hilarity and the plates were clean.

NYd1.jpg

[dgaddis]

New years in the south. Apple smoked pork tenderloin, black eyed peas, turnip greens, rice, and cornbread casserole. We should really do this more than once a year.

[Too Tall]

D.D. that's perfect. I'm especially fond of B.Eye Peas for New Years.

[dgaddis]

D.D. that's perfect. I'm especially fond of B.Eye Peas for New Years.

The corn casserole is one of the best things ever. It's a Paula Dean recipe. We only use half the butter she calls for in the recipe. It probably is even better with a whole stick, but, damn that seems like a lot of butter LOL.

[Too Tall]

The corn casserole is one of the best things ever. It's a Paula Dean recipe. We only use half the butter she calls for in the recipe. It probably is even better with a whole stick, but, damn that seems like a lot of butter LOL.

Recipe saved.

[Wisco]

Re-stocked my south Indian mother approved core spices "masala dabba". These serve as the core of most south indian dishes (at my house mostly vegetarian) with variations in proportion, whole or ground spice and mixed with other fresh ingredeints such as curry tree leaves, ginger, garlic, fresh green chili and assorted lentil grains used for seasoning (Urud dhal and Channa dhal).


Daba.jpg

Around the horn starting from 1 o'clock position,

Fenugreek seeds ("methi" in Konkani dialect of Marathi language, common language of Mubai/Bombay)
Coriander seeds
Whole red chili
Black mustard seeds
Whole cumin seeds
Mixed pot of cloves, whole cardamom pods and bit of cinnamon stick
...and some turmeric powder in the middle

[mzilliox]

Im gonna make brown butter basted sablefish this weekend, mmmm just thinking about it makes my mouth water

[colker]

My favourite food is beans and i have been trying some odd things that are working all right. Here everybody fries them on garlic and onion after cooking on water but i find it too heavy to digest. So i cook on water w/ mexican pepper and lots of other spices + onion and avoid oil or grease. No meat as well. It is delicious and much lighter. I can eat beans at night or breakfast done like that.

[mzilliox]

My favourite food is beans and i have been trying some odd things that are working all right. Here everybody fries them on garlic and onion after cooking on water but i find it too heavy to digest. So i cook on water w/ mexican pepper and lots of other spices + onion and avoid oil or grease. No meat as well. It is delicious and much lighter. I can eat beans at night or breakfast done like that.

we always have beans around. tonight we will be eating these huge beans called christmas beans i think. soaked em overnight, then cooked em in water with aromatics. later added a jar of tomatoes from the garden, some fresh herbs, garlic (always add this late on to preserve the bite), some carrot and celery, and we will eat it with home made sourdough and Parmesan cheese, mmm

[Too Tall]

Wisco I know what I'm looking at thanks to my neighbors who are sometimes test subjects of my cooking. They have a similar tray.

According to my friends, my Chana is spot on and my eggplant is pathetic. LOL I'll keep banging away at this. Some of the simplest looking dishes are not easy.