What did you cook or eat today (July 2024)

[Puggles]

Steamed artichokes with a homemade dip consisting of mayo, Greek yogurt, lemon and chives served with a shrimp cocktail and for dessert a slice of homemade upside-down caramelized banana cake.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Lunch and evening meals yesterday.

Usual lunch, Sourdough, avocado, chutney, and tofu.

Evening meal, toast, beans & poached egg.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Lunch and evening meals yesterday.

Usual lunch, Sourdough, avocado, chutney, and tofu.

View attachment 116644

Evening meal, toast, beans & poached egg.
View attachment 116643

I’ve got a lovely lunch planned but now I want egg n beans on toast!
The food heart is such a fickle thing!

 

[Timenspace]

Pasta with shrimp and zucchini.
View attachment 116634

That looks amazing!
I love the idea of zucchini added!

 

[Timenspace]

Steamed artichokes with a homemade dip consisting of mayo, Greek yogurt, lemon and chives served with a shrimp cocktail and for dessert a slice of homemade upside-down caramelized banana cake.
View attachment 116636View attachment 116637View attachment 116638View attachment 116639

Sounds and looks delicious!

 

[Timenspace]

Breakfast: two pieces of yesterday's Zlevka cake, 3 pecans, 2 tablespoons of compote sour cherries. Coffee with coconut milk. Delicious.

 

[Morning Glory]

We bought a funny chip maker. Fancy??
Cost $5 via temu

View attachment 116602

View attachment 116603

That pattern is known as 'game chips' in the UK - traditionally served with game.

Here are some I made with a similar device:

Served with partridge and pears:

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Today's food.

3 slices because slices were small.

Lunch as normal


I threw a vegetable soup together (leeks, fennel, wild mushrooms, tomatoes, beans & peas cooked in a white wine & mushroom stock sauce.

 

[medtran49]

Pasta with shrimp and zucchini.
View attachment 116634

Hah, I just saw a shrimp dish with zucchini, fennel cooked until soft and very slightly golden, dried tomatoes, and some white wine served with fregola. I put it in my vault to make later as it looked really good, but fairly easy to make.

 

[Timenspace]

Elevenses, corn flour pancakes, raspberry jam, a ( rescued) half of a very ripe peach.

 

[Timenspace]

Lunch, turkey ground meat in garlic, onion, tomato sauce over pasta. Romana lettuce.

 

[Rocklobster]

Hah, I just saw a shrimp dish with zucchini, fennel cooked until soft and very slightly golden, dried tomatoes, and some white wine served with fregola. I put it in my vault to make later as it looked really good, but fairly easy to make.

I saw a youtube video of an Italian chef who made a zucchini pasta dish in his Michelin Star restaurant. He browned the zucchini first in a liberal amount of olive oil. He removed it and continued with the pasta dish and reintroduced them near the end.

 

[Puggles]

Belgian waffles with sausage baked right in side.

 

[Timenspace]

with sausage

Very nice! Do you eat savoury/sweet waffle combinations often?

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Ribs, potato salad and corn on the cob.
The ribs had Jamie Olivers ‘BBQ British Ribs’ sauce recipe on one end and karadekoolaid ’s Ferran Adriá's recipe on the other.

I served the ribs on 32cm serving/pizza dinner plates and they still hung off both ends

As for the BBQ sauces opinion was split. My eldest said almost word for word what I was thinking which is Adria’s one is more subtle and complex and Jamie’s version is a bit of a sledgehammer.

BUT I put a dry rub on the ribs before they are cooked and only very little glaze at the end. The majority of the sauce goes in hot squeezy bottles so folk can decide how much they’d like to use themselves, by the end the bottles had the same amount left.

On a redo I’d use Adria’s but reduce the prominence of the tomato a smidge. I liked the whisky in Jamie’s so a splosh of that might go in as well.

Next up in the Glaze Wars, Guga’s speedy soy based glaze V’s Tasty’s!