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What did you have for dinner? -Part dois

There was a multi-serving lasagna in the back of the freezer that I think we got during the COVID lock down, so we finally had that. Baked some garlic cheese bread with it. It was good.
 
Oven grilled Norwegian salmon fillet sprinkled with Old Bay, and sliced gold potatoes fried in olive oil. Peaches from jar with heavy cream for dessert.
 
MaryP said:
Those salmon patties at my house were made with canned salmon; that's the killer. When salmon patties were on the menu, I always spent the afternoon trying to get invited to a friend's for dinner. If I had to eat it, I put a big pile of mayo on it and chewed as little as possible.

Not quite as bad as tuna noodle casserole, but close runner up.

I still don't like salmon much. We have salmon farms around here and it's very fatty fish. Don't know if it's what they're fed or what.
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Once spent a week rafting and fishing a really remote Alaskan river. 9 different fish species, but dinner every night was catch a mid sized Red (Sockeye) Salmon. Head, tail, and gut it. Fill our only (not so big) billy with water and boil over the fire. Stick one end of the salmon in the billy for 5 minutes, turn the salmon around and then cook the other end. Skin and put the fish chunks on bread with cream cheese and a small ration of capers. Just stunning. Haven't been able to enjoy restaurant salmon ever since unless smoked.
 
Ishm said:
Once spent a week rafting and fishing a really remote Alaskan river. 9 different fish species, but dinner every night was catch a mid sized Red (Sockeye) Salmon. Head, tail, and gut it. Fill our only (not so big) billy with water and boil over the fire. Stick one end of the salmon in the billy for 5 minutes, turn the salmon around and then cook the other end. Skin and put the fish chunks on bread with cream cheese and a small ration of capers. Just stunning. Haven't been able to enjoy restaurant salmon ever since unless smoked.
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Cooking over an open campfire makes everything taste better. Sounds wonderful.

I kind of feel that way about corn on the cob. Once I'd had it roasted over an open fire in its own husks, any other way is just not as good.
 
MaryP said:
Cooking over an open campfire makes everything taste better. Sounds wonderful.

I kind of feel that way about corn on the cob. Once I'd had it roasted over an open fire in its own husks, any other way is just not as good.
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The only way I can eat lamb is when skewered (kabab) and grilled. Grilled corn and and vegetables just taste better in my opinion.
 
Parrish said:
The only way I can eat lamb is when skewered (kabab) and grilled. Grilled corn and and vegetables just taste better in my opinion.
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Roast lamb with mint sauce and gravy. 😛 I think you just solved my quandary over tonights dinner. Thanks!
 
MaryP said:
Those salmon patties at my house were made with canned salmon; that's the killer. When salmon patties were on the menu, I always spent the afternoon trying to get invited to a friend's for dinner. If I had to eat it, I put a big pile of mayo on it and chewed as little as possible.

Not quite as bad as tuna noodle casserole, but close runner up.

I still don't like salmon much. We have salmon farms around here and it's very fatty fish. Don't know if it's what they're fed or what.
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Tuna noodle casserole was another frequent Friday meal. I grew up believing that salmon patties - yes always made from canned salmon - and tuna noodle casserole were Satan's favorite recipes.
 
Oh and Shepard's Pie was another meal from my childhood that I soon grew to dislike.

My Irish-American mother learned to cook from her Irish mother.

There is excellent food to be found all over Ireland these days. Back then, not so much.
 
Ishm said:
Fresh fish, onion, sweet chilli sauce, lemon juice and zest, pre cooked potato, egg, flour, fresh cilantro or fresh thyme. Blend and fry in butter. Top with homemade tartar and a bit more of your chosen herb. Might make you reconsider.
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Maybe....sounds better than I have imagined.
 
JMR said:
Yup. Fish on Fridays. Occasionally we had flounder, which I liked, and sometimes Manhattan clam chowder which I grew to really like. Not much variation. Now I have a local fish market, and have learned to branch out a bit.
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We had mac-and-cheese or some kind of fish fillets. Mom egg-washed, floured, and baked them. If dad cooked it was beer battered fried fish and french fries.

Occasionally Friday dinner meant eating fish from any of the local catholic churches fish fries. YUMMMM! Dad was 4th degree K of C, so he had friends in many churches. Occasionally during Lent, I still jones for fried fish and occasionally pierogies, despite the fact that I haven't been Catholic since 1990.

My parent did the grocery shopping on Friday night once a month, so that meant Arthur Treacher's, Long John Silvers, or on the rare occasion, Red Lobster.

I love manhattan clam chowder.
 
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JMR said:
Maybe....sounds better than I have imagined.
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For me, fish cakes need a bit of flavor added or they are pretty boring. Would rather just eat the fish fried. If you use those ingredients I listed and just adjust to your personal taste I would be surprised if you didn't enjoy them. I mostly like the cilantro over the thyme, but fresh thyme can be real nice if you strip the leaves off the stalks. I also like a good amount of ground black pepper for heat (and taste), but you could add some hotter chilli etc.
 
Ishm said:
For me, fish cakes need a bit of flavor added or they are pretty boring. Would rather just eat the fish fried. If you use those ingredients I listed and just adjust to your personal taste I would be surprised if you didn't enjoy them. I mostly like the cilantro over the thyme, but fresh thyme can be real nice if you strip the leaves off the stalks. I also like a good amount of ground black pepper for heat (and taste), but you could add some hotter chilli etc.
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Your recipe sounds very good. The fish cakes I remember were sold on Fridays along side the fish sticks which I thought tasted pretty much the same. My parents bought them already made.
 
Sandwich on French bread with roast beef, Provolone cheese, onion, tomato, lettuce, mayo, etc. Delivery from Jimmy Johns. Raspberry strudel from good French bakery for dessert.
 
I had Campbell's tomato soup alongside grilled cheese on sourdough bread. It was a cold grey day and that sounded especially good.



Old 'N Chill said:
Sandwich on French bread with roast beef, Provolone cheese, onion, tomato, lettuce, mayo, etc. Delivery from Jimmy Johns. Raspberry strudel from good French bakery for dessert.
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YUM!
 
Living on the boat for Christmas so just made fresh Gannet Rock Snapper with a baked potato. Wrap your fish fillet in a foil parcel including lemon juice, honey, butter, diced marinated mussels, and topped with a good sprinkle of chopped cilantro. Bake for around 10 minutes in a hot oven. Baked potato with sour cream and chives or spring onion. Small salad. More fish than we can eat already on the first day. If anyone has any simple, but tasty, recipes to share..... Got another week of this hell to get through 😇
 
My Granddad and Nana came here in the late 20's. They came with nothing much but started a small fish and chip shop. Those of course were the days of no meat on Friday's and they set up in an Irish Catholic neighbourhood.....even though they were staunch members of the Orange Order. The fish and chips were wrapped in newspaper and delivered by bicycle. Chips in a paper cone with vineger dripping through the bottom.

They were incredibly successful and ended up with multiple shops in Toronto. As a result I am extremely fussy about fish and chips.....halibut fried crispy with not to thick a breading and hand cut fries....malt vinegar of course.
 
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Lisa said:
I'm making a generic red chicken curry. He wanted that instead of lasagna. The lasagna has been moved to Sunday. Tomorrow is ham and scalloped potatoes.
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I think that we're doing a sirloin and potatoes dish for Christmas.
 
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