What's for Dinner?

[Tess]

that looks wonderful Gregg. Looks like fun too

 

[jamesngalveston]

my sister and my neice made 25 dozen of pork/beef tamales for the holidays.

 

[GreginND]

James, I LOVE tamales. I can almost smell those steaming.

Well, it's morning here in Sendai. After sightseeing and an early dinner, I found a bottle of wine to tide me over last night. I can take only so much beer. Tonight, perhaps, there will be more sake involved.

This morning the hotel had a very traditional Japanese breakfast. I'm perfectly happy with savory Asian breakfasts.

 

[RegionRat]

Dinner at The Firehouse

Roast beef, mushroom gravy, mashed potatoes, and sauteed asparagus.

RR

 

[Boatboy24]

Tandoori chicken, Indian style rice, yogurt based raita, and naan.

 

[GreginND]

At risk of overloading you with photos, I will share my 9 course formal kaiseki dinner that I enjoyed this evening with my hosts from Tohoku University. It was truly delicious.

First course was a variety of small bites. Sweet potato and some kind of fish, a seaweed dish of some kind and a small piece of squid with mushrooms.

Second Course: A delicious rich miso soup

Third round: Sashimi ! ! !

Number 4: Smoked salmon with a salad

The 5th course: Another savory fish dish with a mushroom sauce with cooked diakon

6th on the menu: Yet more fish - this time topped with a savory sauce and bacon. Served with chestnut, pickled ginger shoot and I think burdock root? Or another root?

7 was a savory custard with mushrooms served in the most amazing little house dish

Number 8 - almost done: A unique rice noodle - this is a cold dish with wasabi in the broth. It is similar to cold soba that I have had but the noodles were made of rice, not buckwheat.

And finally dessert, number 9:

 

[jamesngalveston]

dang, cant there be a limit to the size of the pics post, one of the admins.


i resize all of mine to at least 1000 mp.

 

[GreginND]

I apologize. This is the size that gets automatically uploaded to Facebook. I can try to make them smaller and post them somewhere else for placing here.

 

[jamesngalveston]

if its a camer phone, are a digital, just resize in your camera settings, then they will all be the same size....

 

[jamesngalveston]

braised oxtails, with carrots, smothered leeks,and potatoes....
and some black berry wine....

 

[GreginND]

Well, I think the size changes depending on whether I upload it directly from my phone or upload it from my computer. There is no setting on the iPhone to change the size. It does it automatically.

 

[jamesngalveston]

your probably right about the iphone unable to edit picture size before you take a picture...they lack in some areas.
oh well...i hooked my puter to my big screen...so there ok...
nice pics as well...you posted...

 

[JohnT]

Sunday night, I made a good one.

Roast Beef, Baked Pot, Mushroom Demiglaze, salad, and YORSHIRE PUDDING.

I have been trying to make decent Yorkshire pudding since I first had it while eating prime rib at the Waldorf Astoria hotel. Try as I might, I just could not replicate the one I had there. It was crispy, full of air, and looked like it was made in a muffin pan.

Then I saw "Diners, drive ins, and dives", and a chef on this show made them by using proper pop-over pans. I ran right out and bought 3 of them. MAN DID THEY WORK! They came out great... Here is the recipe I used..

2 cups milk,
2 cusp flour,
4 eggs

1.5 tsp salt,
1 tsp pepper (a lot, but tastes good)
shot of red wine and a shot of worchestersire sauce.


heat milk/wine/worchestershire sauce in a pan until hot (not boiling).
place pans into over at 375 to get them hot
beat eggs, salt, and pepper until smooth,
slowly add hot milk while whisking.
Add flour and gently whisk in. There can be lumps when finished.
Put batter into a pitcher. This will help to speed up filling the pan.

take pan out of oven. Give each cup a shot of cooking spay and return to oven to warm up again (about a minute).

What makes the popovers "pop" is steam and the creation of a hard exterior shell. Failure comes when you allow the pan to cool down, so work quickly. Open oven and pour each cup full of batter then close the over door. Do not open the oven again or the popovers will fall. Cook for 40 minutes.

They turned out fantastic! It sounds a lot more complicated than it really is. Other than warming up the popover pans, this only took about 10 minutes to put together and get baking.

 

[jamesngalveston]

I do love yorkshire pudding...and really have never been pleased with the outcome...I am going to try this for sure.
Thanks for the info.....Now if i can find the pans....may have to get online.

 

[JohnT]

Oh, Almost forgot.. My 2011 petit Sarah to go along with it.

After dinner, I lit a fire and watched my beloved Giants win against the Packers.

There are times, unfortunately not many, where contentment washes over you and you simply KNOW that God truly does love you.

This was one of those times.

 

[jamesngalveston]

is this the pan you refer to as a pop over pan.

 

[Julie]

Well, I think the size changes depending on whether I upload it directly from my phone or upload it from my computer. There is no setting on the iPhone to change the size. It does it automatically.

Greg, to let you know, your pics are coming thru just fine for me. There is a bar at the top of you pic that says it has been resized and to click here for full screen. So maybe it is just how different computers load the pics.

 

[jamesngalveston]

I think that is it julie...

 

[sour_grapes]

Oh, Almost forgot.. My 2011 petit Sarah to go along with it.

After dinner, I lit a fire and watched my beloved Giants win against the Packers.

There are times, unfortunately not many, where contentment washes over you and you simply KNOW that God truly does love you.

This was one of those times.

Are you a Leo? Here is a horoscope from The Onion:

Leo There will soon come a time when your happiness depends on where and whether an enormous man catches a ball.

 

[jamesngalveston]

I guess that means if i fall in to container of poop, I will not come out smelling like roses....lol
Paul you are a funny Philosopher