What's For Dinner?

First two wines I opened were bad, so I went with a Valpolicella ripasso. After poaching the beef I reduced the stock by half and froze it in an ice cube tray for future use.
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Pavlova meringue with strawberries, strawberry mint, and whipped cream.
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Looks fantastic. Sorry about the first two wines.

Mrs. NbyNW loves your place mats and setting. Same with the S&P asparagus shakers, as seen in a previous post. Very nice. She’s now looking up a recipe.

Dessert looks tasty too!

 

Grilled chicken and a salad last night. Always a winner.

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Took the leftovers and had a French Dip for lunch.
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I can 150% guarantee you your chicken salad was better then my Costco chicken Caesar, although not bad for $6.99 . I’ve been away for 2 weeks and have no food at the house…

 

Catching up to post eats during my Italian vacay that followed London...

I asked Francesco to make reservations at Bracelleria again. When I first visited last September, this restaurant made the best Bisteca Fiorentino I've ever had.

We asked the butcher / chef to cut a small piece for the 3 of us. He cut 1.5kg . Small charcoal grill to the right of the slicer.

Vin Santo to close out our first night in Italy.

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Wife surprised me w a veg taco dinner w fried eggs. So yum.
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French onion soup made with the poaching stock I used with my beef filet last week.
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Prime rib, popcorn crab, hamachi shots, truffle fries, strawberry dessert, and passion fruit soufflé

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Bacon egg cheese torte thingy. Soothing meal that works breakfast, lunch, or dinner
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Home made chicken tikka masala, garlic naan and basmati rice….. I outdid myself, this was amazing!!
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Soooo your the man! I just got a pizza oven...a blackstone auto rotate gas unit...was a gift. Anyway's, I need to up my pizza game to hopefully kinda close to your level...lol...can I have your fav receipe for dough? And should I buy block fresh yeast online...can't find in my town and maybe freeze it? Thanks in advance !!!

 

Mine has always been

1000gms OO flour
600 gms water
30 gms salt
2 gms fresh yeast

 

have fun!

we generally stick to 62% hydration with Caputo Blue 00 flour;

500 grams flour
320 grams room temp water
15 grams sea salt
15 grams block yeast

ends up with somewhere around three 280 dough balls. You can scale it up or down. We simply let the yeast melt into the water, then add the salt and then dump the flour. We keep kneading to a bare minimum, just enough by hand to get it to a consistent texture - usually 5 minutes or less.

Then into a Saran wrapped bowl overnight. Cut it into 3 balls the next morning and cover each ball for another 8 hours until dinner time.

Re the yeast, most of the great pizza chefs don’t bother with fresh block yeast. Hiwever, we have found that we prefer the dough done with the block yeast by a fair margin.

 

Thank you!! I'll buy some fresh block and freeze it. Thanks again I'll post results!!

 

Details on what you got in the taco other than eggs? I think my wife would love that...T

 

Even the serving dishes look like the real deal!
Tasty
T

 

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Homemade ramen. Noodles from a Japanese supermarket. Corn, fresh from the garden jalapeños. Stock comes from pork neck bones that were first grilled and then simmered with a few spices like ginger, fish sauce, etc. Finish with gojuchang for a spicy, umami blast...T

 

i think sauteed onions, black beans and spinach. then melted cheese on top taco. avocado, lime, sirracha. then fried egg. problem we have is being too lazy to write anything down or even tag website recipe then we forget.

 

Spicy HOT Chicken Bhuna, basmati rice and garlic naan….Mmmmmmm
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Wow, looks amazing. Well done!

 

Haven’t been cooking or eating much. Did make quick burgers and air fryer cheese fries tonight.

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Thanks for the details. Going to make that for the missus in the near future. Gotta see if we have any black beans...T