What's For Dinner?

More culture. Shakespeare this time. When my wife and I dated we spent a lot of time in DC and we had season tickets to the Folger Theater. It’s right behind the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill. Wonderful plays.

Enjoy.

https://shakespeare.folger.edu/?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=AudioVideoReleaseAnnouncement&utm_content=version_A&promo

 

Winner, wow.

 

Hold a piece for me, I’ll be right there.

 

LOL. It was good..but not "go to London during a pandemic" good.

 

Dang, AzIt, ya killing me!
After our excesses of the past few nights, the wife has decreed tonight is salad tonight.
Following the lead of our F-chat salad-meister, Max, I am refusing to take pics. It's too sad!
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Wish I knew how to make gnocchi.
AzIt - add "making gnocchi" that to your quarantine regimen!
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^ Quite the feast!

 

First meal not cooked by myself in 2 weeks.

 

Tortellini? Gnocchi? Chicken and artichokes? Cassoulet?
Nice looking grub. OK, I can't go all Max & Ianjoub on this thread. Pics of the chef salad we had for dinner. Don't get too jealous! [emoji2]

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Iceberg lettuce, dried cranberry, Granny Smith apple, boiled egg, chicken boob, mater, a little feta. Added a homemade orange vinaigrette...T

 

My salads are boring and not picture worthy. Did the Kirkland pesto linguine. I also bought a Rotisserie chicken from Costco, so had some chicken with it. Forgot to get a pic...……….. I didn't have lasagna noodles. I'll brave the stores tomorrow for a box.

 

With all this extra time on my hands, and before we are down to canned foods and dried pasta only, I’m gonna post a few pics along the way...

At the moment, I’m sipping a Bordeaux listening to Ania play the piano, while this 2.5-inch thick, 2.2lb beast of a porterhouse rests in the kitchen...

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Living the good life, my friend!
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Came out pretty good...

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Looks fabulous. Even the veggies look great.
Tacos picadillo. This is the filling. Taters, maters, onions, ground beef. Sautéed. Cilantro, chili powder, S&P, garlic powder, cumin.

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Oops, forgot the pic!
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Test driving the new Scanpan.
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Beautiful! 2.5”... must not have been a local cut!
How was the piano serenade? Wish I could play.
I keep telling the wife I want to learn the bagpipes and I get a rather unequivocal NO.

 

Well most stores here are only allowing a certain number of customers inside. Didn't feel like standing in line for lasagna noodles. So I made spaghetti and meatballs...…………… Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

Cheeseburger. One of the percs of living in the country is home town butchers where they can guarantee that cow was walking just a few days before it made the counter.

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Indeed, certainly not cut from our local grocery store! This butcher only sells their porterhouse in 2.2LB size, so its gonna be thick.

She played very well last night...she played "Quarantine" from First Man particularly well last night.

Bagpipes..lol...that would be the fastest route to divorce for most couples....hmmm...

 

That sounds awesome...I'm gonna borrow that and make it soon...

 

Thank you. It turned out pretty good. If I do it again, I would blanch the taters first, and brown the ground beef separately, before mixing them in with the other stuff...T

 

looks great! Did you make the meatballs or buy them? (where if so...)

 

that makes sense, I think I would:

1. Blanch potatoes till about half cooked
2. Cook beef with onions, and spices, drain off most of the fat.
3. Fry the blanched and dried potatoes in the remaining fat in the same pan as the beef was cooked
4. Add the tomatoes and cilantro, and beef and onion mix, add more spices

Sound right?

 

Yep, that would be a much better plan. I didn't really think it through as much as I should have.
We were working in the garden, the wife suggested we use the potatoes she made last week.
So, a bit of Googling, and I launched into it.

I cut the potatoes into a small dice, and assumed that would do the trick.
Also, the wife got pretty lean ground beef, so there was not much by way of rendered fat for the potatoes, so they pretty much got boiled in the liquid released by the tomatoes.
It was good, could have been much better...T