Dinner - The Polyphonic Food Blog

[bettyjoan]

Tuesday night -

Lamb and orzo stuffed peppers with marinara and goat cheese

Spinach salad with radishes and roasted beets

Last night -

Assorted leftovers

Cauliflower and brussels sprout gratin

[Pat]

Pita chips and hummus

Oyster stew

Leftover mushroom bruschetta

Leftover macaroni and cheese marinara with meatballs

[porcupine]

Rock shrimp in a Provení§al-style sauce of tomato, celery, garlic, oil-cured black olives, capers, fennel seed, saffron, lemon, and espelette, served over friend grits cakes.  Apologies to cuisine purists, but I had leftover Anson Mills coarse grits the needed to be used.

[Pat]

Leftover oyster stew

Turkey burgers with hummus and pickled shallots

Bulgur and cauliflower salad

My husband thought the stew was more of a chowder when I first made it, so I added some corn to the leftovers.  (The oysters had been unevenly distributed, so the leftovers were pretty low on seafood and needed something extra.)  I added some harissa to the meat mixture when making the burgers and decided to spread the hamburger buns with hummus.  They were good.

[zoramargolis]

there's a seafood stew thing going on...

last night: cioppinoesque tomato shrimp shell broth with cod, shrimp, squid, mussels and clams

tonight: buttermilk-brined fried bone-in chicken thighs

oven roasted broccolini

[lperry]

Deconstructed colcannon.  Fingerling potatoes steamed until tender, smashed flat, then pan fried in rosemary olive oil until browned and crispy, finished with a sprinkling of salt.

Savoy cabbage braised with apple and brown butter, finished with a little rice vinegar because I somehow ran out of apple vinegar.  The brown butter was a mistake, but it worked out pretty well.

Meyer lemon and satsuma sorbets.

[zoramargolis]

tonight:

eco friendly rose veal scallopini piccata (with meyer lemon/salted caper sauce)

mushroom risotto (crimini, oyster and dried porcini)

leftover roasted broccolini

Samuel Smith's oatmeal stout ginger cake (recipe from _The Last Course_ by Claudia Fleming), with creme chantilly

2011 Muga white rioja

[Pat]

Last night:

Welsh rarebit

Red and green leaf lettuce salad, with radishes, cucumber, avocado, Campari tomatoes, bacon, and feta; bottled ranch dressing

My husband also had a leftover turkey burger, a scoop of leftover mashed potatoes, and a square of leftover chilaquile casserole.

[TrelayneNYC]

Cream of cauliflower soup, brioche croutons




Spaghetti with tomato and porcini mushroom sauce

[lperry]

Various bits and pieces of leftovers, a romaine salad in a tarragon vinaigrette, and a cleansing glass of carrot, satsuma, grapefruit juice. 

[TrelayneNYC]

Ricotta cheese, honey and Meyer lemon crostini




Israeli couscous, with chard, chickpeas and Spanish chorizo

[TrelayneNYC]

Potato gnocchi, with Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, unsalted butter and black truffle




Chickpea clam chowder -- wild littleneck clams, chickpeas, shishito peppers, champignon mushrooms, onion, clam broth and light cream

[johnb]

Rib roast, roasted potatoes, broccoli, all washed down with a bottle of 1970 Ch. Ducru Beaucaillou.  Getting low on '70's bottles now; some didn't make it, but this one was mighty good.

I'm not necessarily a Riedel fan, at least not at Riedel prices, but I found a box of four "full bodied red" ones at T.J. Maxx for $40, so at $10 a pop I thought "why not?"  The wine did taste good in those glasses.

[Josh]

Christmas dinner: Leg of lamb shawarma over bulgur with harissa and tahini, chopped salad.

Last night: Rigatoni carbonara. I actually prefer pancetta in my carbonara...terrible, I know.

[bettyjoan]

Baked potatoes with shredded BBQ chicken, sharp cheddar, chives, and a bit of sour cream. Yum.

[bettyjoan]

Meatless Monday - "Blush" macaroni and cheese with tomatoes and spinach (the sauce was somewhat like vodka sauce, and it had a pinky hue due to tomato paste).  I think cavatappi is my absolute favorite shape of pasta.

[Pat]

Cobb salad

Leftover roast beef

Bulgur with mushrooms

The bulgur mushroom recipe is an old one from Martha Stewart.  It's very simple and pleasing and was great with the beef.  I used some of the beef stock I made from the beef bones as the soaking liquid for the bulgur.  The rest of the stock is going into onion soup soon.

I started out following the Brown Derby recipe for the salad (especially as I found both the watercress and chicory called for in that recipe, along with romaine and iceberg, at Whole Foods), but deviated some as I went along.  I only had one chicken breast half (the reason I originally decided to make the salad--I had all of the ingredients but the greens on hand).  I made a small amount of the dressing by doctoring a basic vinaigrette I'd already made, since the dressing recipe would have made more than two cups.  The salad looked fantastic in the huge shallow red bowl I dug out for the occasion, and we're going to be eating leftovers of it for a while.

[Biscuit Girl]

Jim made an absolutely delicious, if not decadent, pork belly on Sunday night.  A while back I bought some pork belly (skinless) but didn't have any immediate plans for it so I popped it into the freezer.  It was just too pretty a piece to not buy.

Jim got the recipe from a food blog in Singapore called The MeatMen.  He had to slightly adapt the recipe as it called for using belly with the skin but nonetheless, it turned out fabulous.  Even the Sophie dog was going nuts over it practically climbing in my lap for bits.

However, I am warning you, if you start looking at this website, you'll be sucked in for hours.  It's a carnivores heaven.

[Pat]

Last night was

Leftover Cobb salad

Black bean soup

Spicy stuffed squid braised in tomato sauce

[ktmoomau]

Was doing so good today and fixed a really healthy dinner- grilled chicken cutlet, red wine braised tomatoes and mushrooms, sautéed asparagus.  Texas toast (for Hubby who didn't want a healthy dinner really).

Last night was pasta with sauteed bacon, napa cabbage, shallots and peas.

[lperry]

Black bean chili spiced with ancho and chipotle chile pastes from Rick Bayless' recipes

Avocado and palmito salad

[bettyjoan]

Quinoa and black bean salad with a lemon-basil dressing - I ate mine meatless, and husband had his with some chicken.

[dcandohio]

Poached eggs on toast with asiago cheese sauce

Home fries

Steamed broccoli

[Tweaked]

Pasta with Pesto, Roasted Shittake Mushrooms and Toasted Almond Slivers

Roasted Broccoli with Aleppo Pepper

Kale Salad with Oranges, Avocado, and Tahini Dressing

Yay vegetables!

[zoramargolis]

seafood noodle soup (shrimp, cod, squid) in a miso-shrimp shell broth, with bok choy and sliced cucumber, garnished with gojujang and toasted sesame seeds

quince tart tatin with vanilla ice cream

[Pat]

French onion soup with short ribs

Leftover black-eyed pea salad

Leftover stuffed squid over spaghetti

[TrelayneNYC]

Roasted shrimp and radicchio salad, with Meyer lemon-scallion vinaigrette




Chana masala, basmati rice, lime pickle

[Xochitl10]

Broiled rockfish

Mashed sweet potatoes

Cornbread

[Pat]

Short rib tacos

Black-eyed pea and smoked salmon quesadillas

Leftover rice grits and braised chicory

[lperry]

Roasted heirloom tomato and leek risotto

Romaine in a tarragon, walnut oil vinagrette

Hortas Do Caseirinho IG Minho Frisante Rosado - a pink sparkler, because I'm pretending it's summer.

[Pat]

I made an Armenian Christmas Eve menu, since tonight is Armenian Christmas Eve.  Several of the items are ones I read that are typical for the night before Christmas.  I planned this a couple of months ago, so I can't recall exactly how I decided things.  So many dishes have multiple names, it's hard to know what things are actually called (plus, the different alphabet throws a curve in there).

The only pre-made things I bought were the components for the bastegh and also the gigande beans, which I got at P&C Market.  They carry fresh containers of a fantastic gigande bean salad.  I've made bastegh (fruit leather) before, and it took forever and didn't come out that well, so I bought fruit leather strips at Whole Foods for that.  My bread could have been more cracker-y, but it came out pretty well.  I hadn't tried making that before (which my husband's mother's family calls "dahn hatz"--house bread), but I've had purchased versions.  It needs to be rolled out extremely thin, and I didn't quite get there evenly enough.  Making the actual dough wasn't that hard, so I'll be trying that again and focusing on rolling super thin rounds.

This was dinner:

Lupiayi Plaki:  Gigandes bean salad

Tahnabour:  Yogurt soup with wheatberries (family name for this is matzoon soup)

Parag Hatz:  Cracker bread

Khorovadz Tsoug:  Broiled white fish with lemon garlic sauce

Nevik: Swiss chard with chickpeas

Arishtayov Printzi Yeghintz: Rice pilaf with noodles

Bastegh:  Fruit leather pouches filled with dried fruit and nuts

[bettyjoan]

Pork paprikash

Fuji apple and spring green salad with a mustard vinaigrette

[Dr. Delicious]

Last night, in anticipation of Downton Abbey, the missus made scotch eggs, bangers and mash, and sticky toffee pudding to get us in the proper frame of mind. Nailed it!

[zoramargolis]

white bean, sausage, lacinato kale and roasted butternut squash stew with meyer lemon gremolata

baguette garlic toast

bosc pear

2011 cantele primitivo

[TrelayneNYC]

Insalata di funghi e finocchio




Uovo con tartufo nero




Pappa al pomodoro

I had some stale bread that had to get used before it turned, so that was an easy decision.

[lperry]

Braised savoy cabbage and apple, finsihed with butter and a little rice vinegar

Crimini mushrooms in a red wine, balsamic reduction served over black rice

[Rieux]

Zurek with kielbasa from the Kielbasa Factory in Rockville.  Used recipe from the Splendid Table.  Perfect for a cold night.  

[zoramargolis]

last night:

braised short ribs with maitake mushroom sauce

potato and rutabaga puree

haricots verts with garlic and meyer lemon

bartlett pear and chocolate sea salt caramels

2009 La Grand Ribe CDR

[Pat]

Re-toasted Armenian cracker bread

Baby romaine with cucumber, radish, avocado, portobello mushroom, and black-eyed peas; red wine vinaigrette

Bucatini all'Amatriciana

[Fishinnards]

Aloo Gosht (meat and potatoes) with lamb; cauliflower cooked in mustard oil with Bengali 5 spice; moong dal with a tadka of hing, kalonji, bay leaf and dried chilli; cucumbers, onion, and tomatoes with lime juice and salt; lime and raw chillies; pickle and Basmanti rice (not pictured).

[ktmoomau]

Last night I made ground chicken with sauteed garlic and onion, peas and broccoli served with parsley potatoes.  I decided the leftovers of the chicken would make a really good white pizza with garlic sauce OR stuffed in a pita with some hummus.

Tonight wasn't a great night... Campbell's coconut curry soup.  This was actually a pretty good soup, it's one of their pouch soups.  Carrots and hummus and a cookie.

[The Hersch]

Roast chicken last night.

Made chicken enchiladas with leftovers tonight. Just now had a nice piece of cold roast chicken as a midnight snack.

[porcupine]

Cabbage and noodles.  Yeah, just that.  Sometimes all I want is simple foods.

[TrelayneNYC]

Vegan night at Casa Trelayne.



"Cream" of fennel soup, with parsley-scallion pesto




Beans on toast -- chickpeas (for are not chickpeas a type of bean?) and Rancho Gordo Sangre de Toro beans, with watercress, preserved lemon, Meyer lemon sections, slow-cooked onion and extra-virgin olive oil, on a toasted baguette.

[Pat]

More salad of baby romaine with cucumber, radish, avocado, portobello mushroom, and black-eyed peas; red wine vinaigrette

More reheated Armenian cracker bread

Moussaka

[TrelayneNYC]

Vegan/vegetarian night at Casa Trelayne.



Carrot and parsnip salad, scallion pesto




Mixed olives (Castelvetrano, Kalamata, oil-cured), with quick-pickled fennel and preserved lemon





Pasta with cauliflower, radicchio, shishito peppers and chickpeas

I'm experimenting with a new technique (new to me, anyway), where you prepare pasta as you would a risotto.

I should also mention that while I'm not a vegan or a vegetarian, I cook meatless A LOT.  I would say it's about as often as I have pasta during the week.  One thing that you will not find me doing however, is cooking something that is meatless that reminds someone of meat.  I've never quite gotten the point of that.  Isn't the reason some people go meatless/vegan/vegetarian so that they don't find themselves thinking of, or being reminded about meat?  Why then, would you cook or eat something called vegetarian bacon?  So:  you will not see any fake burgers, fake chicken cutlets, "tofurkey", none of that stuff.

[Pat]

Baby romaine with radish, cucumber, avocado, red pepper, diced apple, toasted walnuts, and black-eyed peas; red wine vinaigrette

Jalapeno, tomato, and scallion quesadillas

Wheatberries with sausage, spinach, mushrooms, and goat cheese

[zoramargolis]

One-pot casserole:

Bone-in chicken thighs; sofrito of onion, garlic, leek, tomato, roasted red pepper, celery root, aromatic herbs, pimenton and cumin; red Russian kale, frozen peas; orzo

2011 Vií±ademoya bierzo

[Fishinnards]

Last two days we had Kukul Mas (Sri Lankan chicken curry) made with homemade roasted curry powder, onions, garlic and ginger, lemongrass, curry leaves, whole cardamom, cloves and cinnamon, chillies, tomatoes, peanut oil, salt and coconut milk. With this we had Acar Rempai (Malaysian quick mixed pickle) a true fusion dish made with cauliflower, carrots and cucumber, shallots, garlic and ginger, curry powder (Malaysian Parrot brand), turmeric, black mustard seeds, chillies, peanut oil, salt, sugar, vinegar, and toasted sesame oil and toasted sesame seeds. Dishes were fiery and dynamic. The heat was tempered by consuming lots of jasmine rice (brown jasmine rice, like health conscious hippies). Also had Piraat ale (one of my favorites, Arrrrh) and roasted some red chilli papads.

[TrelayneNYC]

Roasted beet salad, with watercress, fennel and chestnuts




Migas con huevos