Dinner tonight - or last night.

Those cheese and green chile/tomatillo enchiladas were not wonderful, though made an ok breakfast. I'll move along to playing with quesadillas with cheese and green chile. Or put some green chile in my burritos - there I'm confident and fast. Famous last words, but I always like my burritos.
Meantime I have to look up Marco's recipe again - there was a lot of great salsa left over and freezable.

Today was a cooking day, and with that and some other stuff, a mix of worrisome and tiring. Oh, and my answer phone plotzed so I got to fool with that. I'm hoping it's a replaceable battery (old phone).

Made a new batch of nutty sage rosemary garlic pate (a cream cheese blend).
Made 3 small loaves of bread; easy recipe, basic french roll recipe that I switch flour types each time I try it. This time I added buckwheat to the others. Well, those turned out.

Now I'm making some questionable fish cakes - two tins of herring with mustard sauce, mashed yukon gold potatoes, a beaten egg, bread crumbs. This will be great or horrible, we'll see. Will bake them this time instead of pan fry.
I've been doing this with canned mackerel and playing with spices and I like those. But the tinned herring have their own spices so I'll try them without adding. Will report results.

We had dinner out tonight. There’s a new Vietnamese restaurant that opened called La V Vietnamese Fusion so I had to check it out! Amazing food! Everything was delicious. I especially liked the Pho soup. I had it with rare cooked beef and hoisin sauce.

Vietnamese food vies with italian for me - love 'em both. We had a vietnamese restaurant owner friend who fused, as many do, french and vietnamese. Then there was the day he made us a special dinner of vietnamese country food. The friends with us just moved it around their plates..

In Ca I worked with a Vietnamese girl and she knew the best little hole in the wall vietnamese restaurants to have lunch, I love their food!

That's how I found it - a girl recently from Saigon in our lab (now with a doctorate from cal tech, heh) told us about her parents' favorite place. They were so right.
This fellow's mother taught him to cook. Good woman!

Today I finally tried a suggestion Farmerman made quite a while ago; he thought the best way to thin slice garlic was with a single edged sharp razor blade. I went out and bought some, but didn't try it, being used to my old ways of mincing or using the utensil where you slide the garlic along grooves (and then have utensil cleanup). Well, hey, he's right. It's much easier and you can get very thin slices with the razor blade. As long as one doesn't have clumsy methodology. (I was making pesto at the time)

Morgan is the restaurant connoisseur of the family and he knows how to pick them. I thought the food was wonderful tonight.

We will be eating out a lot this week, We'll be packing up the kitchen soon getting ready for the move.

Yeah, that can be the good part of moving. When we remodeled our house, which took about 4 months, us doing a most of the work, we stayed most of the time in a tacky-ish but handy local motel. Well, not actually all so bad except that I was apparently allergic to their cleaning products, achoo, and we spent a lot of mealtimes at a very good Thai place (East Wind) near the motel. But for one month we got to house sit while a friend went to Italy to hang out with his daughter and see Florence again. His house was in Beverly Hills, not the fanciest part, but a lovely neighborhood and a fantastic spanish style house. I took photos - I even loved the doorknobs. So there the local restaurants were on the pricey side, and we just cooked our brains out in his good kitchen. Both of those episodes were mostly fun.

Threw a small party for some close friends last night on a yacht. Sailed around Singapore for four hours while imbibing scotch and wine, with tandoori chicken, fish tikkas, mutton kebabs. Followed by main course of chicken curry, potato curry, paneer kadhai. The food was yum. And so was the crew

There are a couple of things on your list, Prince, that I'll need to look up - paneer kadhai, for one, and fish tikkas for the other, though I remember having chicken tikka at some point, and could kill for enough saag paneer in my life.

Easy din din tonight. Antonio’s turn to choose, he wanted pop-corn chicken, so I’m using Marco’s deep fryer and making it from scratch. I had to stop at the store because he wanted tater-tots along with it. Of course I made another salad as well.

My pop-corn chicken came out very tender.

Go Kentucky Fried Chicken, for inventing pop corn chicken... As much as I hate to admit it, I kind of go for it every Saturday, whilst out doing open inspections, just drive through, collect, eat and keep going

Looks perfect JC.

We also went Asian last night, at home.. Our daughter is kind of so into eating healthy it's driving us nuts with left overs lols. ie) Spring roll.

We love experimenting with foods, I guess with me coming from that Industry and D being a Chef, we can't help ourselves.

We had steamed dim sims, spring rolls, roasted duck, in pancakes with spring onion and hoisin sauce, and a chinese cabbage salad with roasted pinenuts, dried noodles and a special dressing of seseme oil, oil, refined sugar, soy sauce, lightly heated to disolve the sugar and poured over...

Guess we are having duck for lunch ....

Brazilian chicken & potato salad -

the chicken:
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/brazilian-chicken-with-coconut-milk/
I like it, may be too spicy for some.

cold potato salad - a hodge podge
5 medium yukon gold potatoes already cooked, peeled, cut up
some fresh rosemary in olive oil that was in the refrigerator
a few green olives cut up
two fat garlic cloves, slivered
a few tbs of previously home herb marinated artichoke hearts (originally from a can/water)
some previously cooked yellow onion
some pickled peperoncini, cut up
tbs of capers
a dressing of more olive oil, red wine vinegar, salt and pepper

I'm going to have some lemon yogurt topped with macerated strawberries and cereal (granola maybe?)

http://frenchfood.about.com/od/desserts/r/Macerated-Strawberries-Recipe.htm

ended up with corn flakes as my topping

surprisingly good

kind of felt like I was back in university, eating breakfasty stuff at night

I’m working from home today. Surprising the boys with a nice dinner. Beef Burgundy. I got the recipe from one of my bon appetite magazines. It will thicken up while baking.

Will be serving it over noodles.

I missed seeing your post yesterday, found soul. That all sounds soooo good.

Oh, that should turn out great.
Like your Le Creuset pot too.

I love that pot, perfect size and you can use it in the oven!