Dinner tonight - or last night.

Yea it is, especially when your buying for three people, which would be about two lbs, 60 bucks!

I love fresh halibut. Sigh, remembering a cuban restaurant in Culver City, El Rincon Criollo: delicious grilled halibut over a bed of onions and side of black beans.

I do too but I changed my mind. I just got back from the market where I found a nice roast so tomorrow I'll be making the roast with mashed potatoes and carrots.

I found this video online and this is pretty much the same recipe that I normally use to cook a roast.

Tonight we're going to Laguna Beach for some Mexican food.

cheater chicken fried rice



last night Set made a veggie rice dish that he started with a can of chicken gumbo soup

today I picked up a lunch at the deli counter - really good chicken strips, freshly roasted tater wedges and onion rings

tonight's dinner came out of leftovers from both meals plus extra veggies
- the veggie rice, diced chicken fingers, onions, celery, yellow and red bell pepper, celery, and some little coins of sweet Chinese sausage that I'd bought for pancit but forgot to use

the final result was drier than the pic suggests ... and I should have used more celery ... but yum!

leftovers are fun

the leftover potato wedges will be part of tomorrow's breakfast


(there are still more chicken fingers left - they load you up at the deli counter)

yeah, work it..

With two old friends last night: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samgyeopsal

I’ve started the roast, browned it nicely, now I’ll slow cook it for three hours then make the masked potatoes.

I've recently started using some Hawaiian Black sea salt that I bought at TJ's in NYC years ago. Why did I wait? It really is adding a lot of bright flavour punch with just a little grind.

I use sea salt when I cook. I’ve heard it’s better for you but I’m not sure that’s true or not.

The Puerto Rican is a meat and potatoes kind of man and Antonio loves cooked carrots so I’m sure they will both love dinner tonight.

I can't show Set what you're making - he loves roasts especially with carrots and taters.

That roast is smelling pretty damn good about now!

Morgan has become quite the chef. Cooking is an art but you have to put a little love into and he does.

I remember the posts when Morgan was going to cooking class. Sounds like your home is a fine place to have a meal, regardless of who is cooking.

I remember when Morgan couldn't cook at all!

Hasn't life changed (for the much better!)

And, he has always, even from the beginning, been great about showing photos. Unlike some of us, like me.

Tonight I'm having one of my wonderama soup concoctions that I put together yesterday. The plan was for chicken stock based mixed veggie and meat (good roast pork, maybe some andouille) soup, but it failed on arrival I think because I'd added those well frozen roasted spicy cauliflower treasures. Somehow, the pre sauteed sweet green peppers and roasted jalapenos and tosses of more garlic where there was garlic already and more med hot chile pepper where the peppers were spicy already into the growing vat of mashed potatoes/chik stock wasn't doing it. The liquid was too sweet. Sweet? I'm doubtful the cause of the sweet was the spicy cauliflower. Maybe chopped celery? I'm not very celery knowledgeable. I use it sometimes in italian battuto, but mostly not. Never add sugar to soup. Mystery.

So, homemade tomato sauce to the rescue, and finally I stopped, it tasted both interesting and good. Will report.

What I actually had for dinner last night was homemade hummus on homemade pita bread. That's another story, but not right now.

Ah - the light just dawned. That chicken stock was from when I made chicken marsala. The sweet must have been a carryover from the raisin based marsala.

I can remember when Morgan didn't know what that cold box was or that big square thing on the other side that got hot when you turned the knob

I’ll always remember his first meatloaf, after being in the oven for 45 minutes and not smelling anything cooking I walked over to check on it.

He forgot to turn the oven on!

Watch out, I posit he will remember you one messup.

Oh yeah and Anthony is such a good cook, you can tell by all the recipes he posts.

I have never known you to cook anything, if so prove it!


Anyway we didn't cook tonight, didn't have enough time so I picked up some take out from a sushi place down the hill.

Proving you're a good cook over the internet doesn't sound like an easy thing to do.