What did you cook or eat today (July 2023)?

[TastyReuben]

No pic, but I’ve also already put my new cookbook to use - one of the aspects it stresses is no waste, everything gets used, so I turned the potato peels into some hearty potato chips/crisps, and those were an excellent little appetizer.

From tonight’s meal, the only waste was the cooking water (which she also saves, but I’m not ready to go that far yet).

 

[caseydog]

Dinner last night was Crawfish Etouffee, a cajun staple (there is also a creole version). I had some Louisiana crawfish tails in the freezer, and the package had a decent looking recipe on the back, so that was dinner. I doctored up the very basic recipe on the package a bit -- it was more of a framework than a full recipe. It turned out to be very good.

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[Puggles]

Homemade pretzels with cheese sauce and mustard.

 

[TastyReuben]

Homemade pretzels with cheese sauce and mustard.
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Those look perfect!

 

[Puggles]

Those look perfect!

Thanks. The recipe called for AP, which I thought was weird. I would think that bread flour, or at least a mixture of AP and bread flour would produce a chewier pretzel. I would (should) have added diastatic malt. If not for pretzels, I don't know a more perfect opportunity to use diastatic malt powder for what it does to baked goods. Next time I will.

 

[Yorky]

Pork and mushroom burger.

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[Windigo]

Summer salad, quick and easy because we had a hospital appointment today.

 

[The Velvet Curtain]

A Lullabelle special for tea today, Kansas style boneless beef ribs and Korean wings, with all the fixins'. First meal I have properly enjoyed in ages, I had a big beefy bbq sauce smile.

 

[blades]

Nice dinner this evening. We had panko fried chicken tenders with a lemon aioli dipping sauce, a mushroom, onion, mozzarella risotto and boiled aspargus spears topped with the aforementioned aioli. Washed it down with a lungo espresso.

 

[JAS_OH1]

I cooked for my cousins and aunt last night. I made shrimp and seared sea scallops over pasta with sauteed mushrooms, shallot, red and yellow bell peppers, roasted garlic, and baby asparagus in a lemon-butter white wine cream sauce and Cajun seasoning with shredded parmesan and herbs. Yum.

 

[Puggles]

I cooked for my cousins and aunt last night. I made shrimp and seared sea scallops over pasta with sauteed mushrooms, shallot, red and yellow bell peppers, roasted garlic, and baby asparagus in a lemon-butter white wine cream sauce and Cajun seasoning with shredded parmesan and herbs. Yum.

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[TastyReuben]

Started with a salad, with a spicy honey-apple vinaigrette (croutons from leftover ciabatta I made the other day):

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

^^^ BTW, that’s the first time where the forum naughty-word-substitution is better than the word it’s replacing. I love it!

I'm always open to other suggestions!

(BTW that one wasn't mine.)

 

[Puggles]

Ribs smoked with pecan and cherry with corn on the cob dusted in parmesan.

 

[karadekoolaid]

No photos yet, because I was doing all the cooking, but:
Papadums, pakoras, vadas and samosas to start, with various (homemade) chutneys.
Then Chicken Rizzala, Keralan prawns, aubergine masala, chickpea curry