What's for dinner?

Savor Dam · Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 1:07 am Post subject:

For clarity, neither Dam-sel nor I eat Menolly's excellent yogurt as a dinner item (gosh, there's no thread drift on the Watch!).

I tend to make a breakfast of it, with bluets as Menolly describes and adding some GORP or cereal now that I am semi-retired. Dam-sel has it as a snack when she come home from the elementary school where she is an IA / Paraeducator.

Need to shop for dinner soon. Two dinners this week have not been to Menolly's taste, mostly because her preferences parallel those of Jack Sprat's wife...she *leans* toward fattier proteins.
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Menolly · Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 3:19 am Post subject:

Just because *both* meals featured extra lean pork chops...
(blurgh)
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Skyweir · Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 4:23 am Post subject:

Hahahaha 😂
Gotta say Im happier with lean meat . dont really enjoy fatty meat.

I like my fat in yoghurt, cream, ice cream, cheeses, just not in meat lol 😂
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Avatar · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 4:45 am Post subject:

I like it in meat. Very Happy

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Skyweir · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 3:13 am Post subject:

Hahahaha... 😂
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Avatar · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 4:25 am Post subject:

And in cheese and yoghurt and ice-cream and milk.

In fact, I just like fat. Give me fat. Crispy fat preferably. Very Happy

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Skyweir · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 7:24 am Post subject:

Weve had friends staying over the past few days.. so weve been BBQing. Love a BBQ. Meat and salads.. yum.

Now you guys picture this .. the best commercial yoghurt than ever there was .. is this

Plain Greek yoghurt. They add pureed fruit .. they have various fruit blends .. its all natural .. apple and rhubarb .. a fave, mango and blood orange .. another fave.. and other fruits. Its so yummy you will just die .. yeah add nuts, seeds, I do .. it is one of the scrummiest dairy products ever .. 😜🤪😝😛

Now BBQs .. yum. So our visitors left this morning .. so leftovers. Gonna be good.
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Vader · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 8:59 pm Post subject:

Norwegian cod (skrei) on cauliflower puree with zucchini and carrots.
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Skyweir · Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:03 am Post subject:

Wow Vader ... that looks amazing.. 😛😛😛😛😛

Very nice plating indeed 🍽🥗🍛
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Menolly · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 5:41 am Post subject:

Vader and food porn.
Yum.
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Skyweir · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 12:23 am Post subject:

😂
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Skyweir · Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 10:54 am Post subject:

Today I made sponge kisses .. they were perfect and yummy

*feeling pretty satisfied*
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Savor Dam · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 3:15 am Post subject:

Friday night, Menolly and I pre-celebrated her birthday with dinner at D'Anna's Cafe Italiano, an old favorite of mine and TripAdvisor's #1 restaurant in Bellingham, WA.

We began with salad and some amazing Sicilian bread, followed by a calamari appetizer that was well-balanced between rings and tentacles. I also had a cherry mule cocktail that was the sole disappointment of the evening. By now, I should know better than to order mixed drinks in a restaurant...

Entree course was cioppino for her -- Dungeness crab, shrimp, clams (she ordered extra of these), scallops, seasonal white fish, and calamari -- and a prawn puttanesca for me. Ever the consummate foodie, she picked out the seasonal whitefish from the cioppino, rightly feeling it was overdone...so I added it to my puttanesca.

We had a half-liter of Chianti with this.

Dessert was a cappuccinio cream chocolate mousse.
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Skyweir · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 11:20 am Post subject:

mmm... yum ... sounds lovely ~ a perfect evening. 🌷🌹🥀🌷🌹🌷
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Savor Dam · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2018 4:13 am Post subject:

Since I am semi-retired at the moment, I decided to do a somewhat elaborate Valentines Day dinner for Dam-sel and Menolly.

Centerpiece was a boneless lamb leg prepared in the Instant Pot with garlic, rosemary, and thyme, then finished under the broiler. Along with this, I served mashed cauliflower and potato (also cooked in the IP using the same flavor-infused liquid, which then got strained, defatted, and reduced for a sauce to add at table) and roasted asparagus.

Dessert? A storebought chocolate cream pie.
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Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
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Menolly · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2018 4:52 am Post subject:

Did I sleep through dinner?
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Savor Dam · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2018 8:15 pm Post subject:

No, love, you were at table and enjoyed it (as did Dam-sel), although your appetite may have been blunted by the mishmash soup, whitefish head, and belly lox platter you had for lunch.

Yes, I served late and wrote the post upthread (somewhat misleadingly phrased in the past tense) while putting the finishing touches on the meal. Mea culpa...but I knew that once I'd served dinner, there would likely not be enough of me left to come back and write the post.
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Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
~ Rainier Maria Rilke

Skyweir · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2018 4:06 pm Post subject:

Hahaha.. sounds pretty impressive.. great cheffing Savor Dam 😁
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Skyweir · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2018 4:07 pm Post subject:

I made lasagne with a twist .. I add a little chilli and some ricotta .. as well as my cheesie bechamel ..
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