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What did you have for dinner? -Part dois

grilled cheese on 12 grain
chex mix.
 
Grilled sea bass, marinated in lemon juice, garlic and fresh rosemary. Plain brown rice, steamed mushrooms, sweet pepper slices, broccoli and cauliflower florets medley with an olive oil kiss and a touch of mint leaves. Table salt and fresh ground black pepper for those who had the desire. Fragrant black tea, orange cake for dessert. The cat got the head for dinner. She dined like a queen.
 
Chicken salad sandwich with tomato on Kaiser roll.
 
the rest of the macaroni casserole that we froze
bread stick

my wife and kiddo had the rest of the meat version.
 
Thick sliced grilled fresh baked whole wheat bread (with a chewy crust) cheese sandwiches with apple slices, onion and pimentos, using both Jarlsberg and a sharp cheddar cheese. A slaw made from shredded raw cabbage, carrots, dried apricots, small chunks of cucumber and green bell peppers, dressed in a mustardy home made mayonnaise. Black tea mixed with unsweetened cranberry juice and fresh squeezed lemon juice, honey sweetened oatmeal walnut cookies for dessert. The honey came as a gift, 4 1/2 liter jars from fields of lavender in France harvested at the end of last summer. 2 jars left. Very intense flavor, almost a pink amber coloration and redolent of lavender. 1 jar disappeared at a French toast breakfast on an October Sunday morning.
 
Steak Dinner.

For the first time since last summer (other than the T-Day Turkey) I dragged out the Weber. I normally use the propane in my outdoor kitchen. There were still a few mostly used smoking chunks in the leftover charcoal so I thew them over the coals just before I put the steaks on. These were Costco Choice Strip Streaks, and they were superb.

We had some other stuff as well.
 
Dog and I took a noon walk to the local spice store and produce shop. The owners of the spice shop are from Yemen, and they and the store are a treasure. I picked up fresh ginger and turmeric, an assortment of spices including dried various peppers, an assortment of herbs I don't grow at home, but the best find was from a recent shipment of Tunisian olives. Olives were grown in Tunisia before the city states of Greece existed. Today, Tunisia is the third largest olive grower after Italy and Spain. Some of the world's best olives come from ancient but still producing vines. I selected large jars of colossal black olives, colossal green olives both cured in ascorbic acid without salt. Smaller jars of medium sized black, purple and green olives also cured in ascorbic acid, and large green olives stuffed with some kind of soft cheese and others with hot peppers. A medium sized jar of brined capers as well. They also had recently brined feta cheese, for those who don't know, feta is sheep farmer cheese and it is brined. Low in fat, high in protein. Best eaten at room temperature, and it is excellent when added to baked dishes, casseroles, and stews. A few logs of fresh goat cheese and a seed called chachatie, likely known by the names. Chachatie, I learned this from the owner's wife a few years ago, is pounded in a mortar with a touch of olive oil. It is aromatic, similar to camomile, and tastes like a minty cross between camomile and pineapple. Either spread on toasted bread, or added to other dishes as a flavoring, favored in desserts, pastries, and even teas. At the produce shop I picked up about 20lbs of assorted fruit and veggies, enough for a couple of days or so. I asked the spice store owners to hold about a dozen more jars of olives that I'll pick up by car tomorrow. Dog carried the produce home in a Turkish backpack made for their giant sheep dogs, he barely noticed the weight. I carried everything from the spice store in my back pack and one shopping bag.

As soon as I got home I prepared a simple tapenade of chopped olives, capers, hot pepper flakes and put it to rest for the flavors to blend. To be spread on bread as part of tonight's dinner. Then prepared a chicken stew, made with more (green) olives, carrots, onions, garlic, chachatie paste, hot and sweet peppers, feta cheese, assorted herbs, to be served over steamed orzo baked with more feta cheese, garlic and black olives, water and tahini for slow cooking on the stovetop in a 5 quart pot. I've got 4 large round loaves of ground flax seed and buckwheat flour kneaded and rising for later baking so they'll be just out of the oven in time for dinner, prepared before we left for the noon walk.

I then mashed 2 of the goat cheese logs with raw chopped garlic and herbs, reformed them into logs, and did the same with the remaining two and a pint of fresh blueberries, placing them all in the fridge until tomorrow. If eating chilled, the goat cheese crumbles and the taste can be a bit stunted, almost harsh. Removed from the fridge to attain room temperature, goat cheese becomes creamy with a much smoother flavor, excellent on bread or crackers, accompanied by whatever the imagination desires, becomes wondrous in scrambled eggs or omelets. The grandkids have been munching on fresh Mexican plums, toasted cashews and almonds, since we got back. Grandma had made them salmon salad sandwiches for lunch, but they never stop eating. They are bottomless pits of skinny. No one would believe what they consume when looking at them.
 
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A couple of soft tacos filled with grilled chicken, red pepper and onion topped with salsa. Plenty of leftovers.
 
Curry, garlic and black pepper chicken thighs, mac & cheese, and lima beans. Chocolate ice cream with fudge Moose Tracks and chocolate, peanut butter filled cups.
 
Hari Seldon said:
With a few chips it sounds more like lunch. I have had a few. No lettuce?
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No lettuce, don't like it on sandwiches. Even my BLTs are BTOs, bacon, tomato and onion. The rolls were small, so I had two sandwiches, no chips or anything on the side.
 
Lamb sirloins grilled on the charcoal BBQ, with homemade scalloped potatoes.
 
Old 'N Chill said:
No lettuce, don't like it on sandwiches. Even my BLTs are BTOs, bacon, tomato and onion. The rolls were small, so I had two sandwiches, no chips or anything on the side.
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I like raw onions but they don't like me. Fried on the other hand are delicious and I had plenty with the taco. This reminds me I forgot the guac and we have some. Damn!
 
My housekeeper forgot to go to the grocery store (grrr, I ought to fire her), so we ended up eating tuna melt sandwiches for dinner. Ugh.
 
Wife actually did the cooking since she's been working from home.

Some instant pot chicken dish, was pretty good had chicken breast and Olive Garden Italian dressing in it is all I know, we had that and a side of green beans.
 
Old 'N Chill said:
No lettuce, don't like it on sandwiches. Even my BLTs are BTOs, bacon, tomato and onion. The rolls were small, so I had two sandwiches, no chips or anything on the side.
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MMMMmmmm, yes, bakeyon, anytime, anywhere, anyhow, bakeyon.:applaud:yes::clap::bravo:
 
Taking a break from the kitchen while the grandkids wash up and fight over bathroom access.

Tonight in moments, fresh slices of cantaloupe for starters, salmon croquettes with more mustardy homemade mayo, steamed asparagus, a green salad with a lot of sliced cucumbers and cherry tomatoes, onion slices, dressed with a fresh mashed blackberry yogurt mix, lots of spiced roasted cashews on top. A couple of very large fresh baked sourdough baguettes. Plenty of orange pekoe and black tea. Banana pudding with cinnamon for dessert.
 
PoS said:
My housekeeper forgot to go to the grocery store (grrr, I ought to fire her), so we ended up eating tuna melt sandwiches for dinner. Ugh.
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"Ugh"....WHAT!

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No contact delivery of two NY style pizzas from a good local restaurant. A cheese with extra cheese and sauce, and a bacon and onion with extra sauce. We ate some, put some in fridge to eat soon and vacuum packed some and put it in the freezer for later.
 
Amy's pizza wrap that i found in the freezer. pretty good.
breadstick that i found in the freezer. also decent.

#freezermining
 
Supporting the local Chinese place we love, so we got multiple meals' worth for delivery...

- Spicy lamb & noodle soup
- Braised Pig's Trotters
- Braised Beef Tendon
- Beef with Chinese Celery
- Chengdu Spicy Chicken
- Mala Spicy Pot (fatty beef, beef tendon, beef tripe, beef stomach, pork intestines)

Extra request applicable to all dishes but the trotters: extra extra extra extra extra extra spicy
 
Felt lazy. Went to a new Kosher butcher in the neighborhood, picked up fresh made veal bratwurst, sauerkraut with anise seeds, potato and kasha finishes. Grilled the brats, heated up the sauerkraut and knishes, put pots of mustard on the table, no bread was needed. Bottles of chilled, almost iced, of Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray and Black Cherry Soda after 15 minutes in the freezer. Red grapes for dessert.
 
vegetarian chicken nuggets with barbecue sauce
garden vegetable rice from the shelf that was about to expire, but i got there first, mother****ers.

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