deangold

Another brunch to report. 

Chilaquiles: home fried tortilla chips, half for chips, half to mix in the eggs, onion, left over ecofriendly chorizo, parsley. Still full. 

Beanetics coffee is closed for retail but offers pick up service Monday thru Friday in the afternoon. I ordered at 12:15 and got a call at 3pm. They keep the door locked but the guy saw me and came to the door before I could knock. Payment thu paypal but it has to bee a credit card. The payment was frustrating. The coffee as usual, very good! We have settles on Bali Blue Moon and Tanzanian Peaberry as out go to's with Papua New Guinea and Cro Magnon blend to break it up from time to time. 

Beanetics order page

On 3/27/2020 at 4:22 PM, Ericandblueboy said:

Thought it might give each other ideas based on where and what you're ordering for take-out or delivery.  

Seylou Bakery has online ordering for pickup. 48 hous notice. We are picking up Sunday after we pick up our pre-orders from DUpont. Will report back.

Seylou order page

Super easy to order from them. Forgot to add they offer flours of many types. Their pastries seem to all come in groups of three for $15. 

In honor of passover and not making 200 matzo balls and 200 geflte fish balls, traif! Pasta with butter & mentaiko. Triscuits and avocado. Margarita on the rocks. 

22 hours ago, deangold said:

The batteries for our scale died a few weeks back and we did not have any rechargeables in the size needed. So to save a dollar or two, I found a bargain on EBay with a guaranteed delivery time of 3 days. Well, three weeks later, the three days are finally up. We got a notification that the batteries were here. But it was too late to go the 15 feet to the mailbox and we have to fold masks out of bandanas and then there will be the charging time. But the day of reckoning can only be put off for a couple of more days at the most. Our lavish meals may be not so lavish once we can step on a scale. My Doc will be pleased. 

Great news on the scale front. It wasn't the batteries. The scale is defective! So no worries. At least until the new one comes. 

The batteries for our scale died a few weeks back and we did not have any rechargeables in the size needed. So to save a dollar or two, I found a bargain on EBay with a guaranteed delivery time of 3 days. Well, three weeks later, the three days are finally up. We got a notification that the batteries were here. But it was too late to go the 15 feet to the mailbox and we have to fold masks out of bandanas and then there will be the charging time. But the day of reckoning can only be put off for a couple of more days at the most. Our lavish meals may be not so lavish once we can step on a scale. My Doc will be pleased. 

6 hours ago, deangold said:

This! 

From Garner

Broccoli Raab, Spring Onion, Brussels Sprouts & Kalettes

From Spring Valley

Ramps

From HMart or Lotte plaza

King Mushrooms, Shishitos, Red & Yellow Onion, Persian Zucchini, Chinese Eggplant

Other stuff tonight and this will last more than one meal I hope. 

SO we enjoyed a small bit of this huge tray of grilled veggies. So good and so simple, but one hell of a lot of prep and grill time. The kalettes & brussels sprouts were superb, so were the shishitos. The raab ias very good but a few bites has tough skin. Somehow Kay would up with all that. The ramps were the stellar hit of the dish.

To accompany: tofu w/scallion & ginger oil. I tub soft tofu. Cut in squares and simmered 2 minutes in salted water.  Then I drained the tofu and plated it still warm. Meanwhile, I sliced scallions and grated ginger in a metal bowl. I heated corn oil w/Aleppo flakes until the whole was smoking and the pepper turned dark. Then I poured the oil over the scallions and ginger. As soon as the sizzling stopped, I added soy, sesame oil & persimmon vinegar. The warm oil went over the warm tofu. 

Rice with butter & salted pollock roe. The roe seems to me to be the same as Mentaiko. It comes in pairs and is the roe surrounded by a transparent skin. I took one pair and sliced it into thick coins. We cooked the rice in the rice cooker and put the butter in the bottom of our rice bowl, Added the rice, the juices from the veggie pan and the mentaiko and stirred. Decadent and delicious. Tomorrow I will do a pasta with the same ingredients. 

A bottle of cheap white Sicilian blend. 

This! 

From Garner

Broccoli Raab, Spring Onion, Brussels Sprouts & Kalettes

From Spring Valley

Ramps

From HMart or Lotte plaza

King Mushrooms, Shishitos, Red & Yellow Onion, Persian Zucchini, Chinese Eggplant

Other stuff tonight and this will last more than one meal I hope. 

Eco Friendly farms chorizo. Home made fermented mustard, Homemade sauerkraut.

I would say I prefer Stachowski's chorizo but both are good. I'd use ecofriendly in the future for a crumbled ingredient like chorizo tacos instead of cooking it as links. 

Lyons white rum perfect Manhattan w/Cocchi americano & rosa. Bitterans's hopped grapefruit bitters & Peychaud's whiskey barrel bitters.

So technically, that is a perfect Manhattan with none of the incredients the traditional recipe calls for. 

Romaine salad w/garlicky lebne dressing

Left over Tri Tip with salsa verde

Pretzels

Saffron gelato

Drink: Lyons rum perfect manhattan w/Cocchi Americano & rosa. Bitterans's hopped grapefruit bitters & Peychaud's whiskey barrel bitters.

Split a 12 oz beer but cant't remember the name and too lazy to go look. It was that good!

Brunch of Japanese fried rice w/spring onion from Garner's, soeme kind of cabbage/greens from H Mart that looked like romaine but tastes quite cabbagy, king mushrooms, egg, leftover Japanese rice w/a splash of soy. And lots of olive oil.

must go to sleep!

2 hours ago, DonRocks said:

Late-night bender, Dean? 😉

Nah. 1 bottle split by two and finished by 10pm. The bender was the 2-1/2 pounds of sashimi. 

Makkoli Draft.

I have tried that. If I get up at 6:30, I can drive to pentagon city, take advantage of Senior hour {the better damn well card me!} and be home early. After my shopping today, all I need is bread and possibly burger. 

Today was my weekly shopping day. I hit both Hmart and Lotte Plaze and we had sashimi for dinner.

Salmon Skin Salad to start. I cut the salmon skin and shallow fried it in olive oil for 20 minutes till crisp. Served on greens from Spring Valley dressed in sesame & oilive oil, persimmon vinegar & mirin. We had Sohyu Tamari for Sushi as it is labeled and wasabi for dipping. 

Baked beets in red wine vinegar, olive oil, salt & pepper. Beets from spring valley, roasted in foil yesterday, marinated and served at room temp

The sashimi:

Salmon, mostly belly portion, very fatty & rich, came cut.

Cuttlefish: little cuttle fish, bodies only, carefully scored. I loved them and Kay did not. More for me.

Octopus: one smaller tentacle, well boiled with a touch of a briny flavor. Really good. I sliced this one.

Fluke. There were beautiful flukes on ice and I almost got them for broiling, but I waled over to the sushi case and there were three filets, including the bottom fin or engawa so I got them. I had to slice, first taking off the fin which I cut in three, and then cutting up the filets.

wasabi, the taari and a mix of yuzu & cherry blossom shoyu.

Rice

Really good meal. Been a while since I can say I feel stuffed on sashimi. Less than a meal from Takohachi would have cost plus makkoli. 

2 hours ago, ktmoomau said:

Also, Amazon now opens up more spots during the day for delivery, not sure exactly what times.

I have tried maybe 100 times to get a WFM Market delivery over the past 3 days. Mot of the time I get a no time slots available message. But maddeningly, there are times I get to the payment screen and then it tells me no time slots available. Quite annoying that their tech is this messed up. I understand having no times, but don't waste my time making me go thru 3 or 6 screens only to tell me no slots. 

Bezos, you're the world's richest asshat. If you can find your way from one of your 100 bathrooms, have some peon fix it before you fire them for asking for safe working conditions. 

WEALTH TAX THE BILLIONAIRES 30% {50% OVER 10 BILLION, 70% OVER 100 BILLION} AND USE TO SAVE JOBS AND BUSINESSES. FUCK THE ONE PERCENT.

2 hours ago, Rhone1998 said:

This is what was in the gold box this morning from Spring Valley, to give you a sense of how much to expect. Anyone have any good sweet potato recipes for someone who doesn’t like sweet potatoes? 😬

You can roast them and then mash adding butter & cream. Mix in a couple of eggs. Heavily spice them with black pepper, cloves, cinnamon, hot chile, all spice, golden syrup or brown sugar, ginger {freash, freshly powdered or crystal}  etc. Mix in crisp cooked bacon and the fat. Top with graham cracker crumbs {Vanilla wafer crumbs, panko & brown sugar etc}Bake in a well oiled baking dish. Bake till toothpick comes out clean. Let cool for a bit. You can serve warm or cold.

The idea is to add enough bacon {ham or sausage will work too} so you don't notice the sweet potato flavor or you develop a Pavlovian association between healthy sweet potatoes and yummy dead pig products. 

Double post. Please ignore, even if you already ignore all my posts. 

"Why no parsnips" is because my family circle never used parsnips in their Passover chicken soup. 

I'd leave sweet potato out or try a turnip instead. Large purple top turnips would work best. Or Jicama. Jicama is soups is pretty wonderful but it takes a long ttime to lose its crunch.

Tri Tip. Living in a complex that does not allow BBQ and the common area grills closed, we did it in carbon steel. medium low heat with a temp alarm in it, cooked to 125 and let rest 10 minutes. For the last 10 minuted, I tossed in 6 garlic cloves. While resting, mashed the garlic roughly and added it it back to the hot pan. I added chopped herbs too. I deglazed the pan with water, mounted the pan sauce with butter. Then off heat, I seasoned with a few drops sherry wine vinegar, salt & Sriracha. 

We sliced the roast as needed, serving with the pan sauce, wasabi, and an oldfashioned Tuscan style salsa verde

Sweet potatoes with olive oil infused with mint, garlic & Aleppo flakes. The oil was super simple, heated olive oil in a stainless sauce pan with a large garlic cloved crushed with the side of a knife & Aleppo flakes. When the garlic barely started to sizzle, I added a big handful of mint {probably 1 small bunch before removing the stems. Then I turned down the heat super low and tossed a few times and let simmer for 30 minuted. Then strained the oil, pressing hard on the leaves and garlic. We used a couple of teaspoons on the sweets , which were from Spring Valley.

Korean cukes w/Eden foods ume paste. The US ume not as good as the Japanese brand I had previously but we ram out before the ew batch has arrived from Japan {who knows when} so the Eden is making due.

Drink: Martini: I only had an ounce of brokers and even though ` oz gin usually means a negroni, I made a short martini w/dolin {4 to 3 as per usual} . Then tragedy struck: I splashed about a third of the drink out of my cocktail glass moving it over to add bitters. Peychaud's aromatic bitters, Bitter Truth olive bitters and Angostura orange bitters. Garnish was very good Spanish pepper stuffed olives from Miguel & Valentina. 

A glass of primitivo Jorche. 

For Passover soup, I never use parsnips. Other times I do. This year I have chicken glace in the freezer.

1 hour ago, Pat said:

I have eaten them but cooked, mixed in with other greens. They stand out a little too much on their own.

What a polite way of putting it!

YW. Dill in chicken soup!

Wasa crackers. Some with avocado, some PB&J. Bananas.