Dinner tonight - or last night.

@ehBeth,

The fish came out okay, but they both like it much better when I bread it and fry it. It was tasty but a little too mushy. I won’t be making it that way again. Mad

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@jcboy,

the fish was mushy? sounds way over-cooked

ohhh I just looked back - 35 minutes in the oven

that is a super-lonnnnng time for most fish

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@jcboy,

Yep. Does sound like much too long in the oven for that poor fish..

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I thought about that before trying to cook that fish that long, I should have known better!

Tonight we took Antonio out to a Japanese steak house for dinner. He had a blast watching the chef cook our food right at the table. Everything was yummy! We had, fried rice, shrimp, new your steak chicken and scallops.
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@mismi,

Excellent recipe mismi -- we really enjoyed it. Helped to warm us up in the -40 windchill!
(I have been away too long -- how the heck did your twins get to be 15)

Were given some fresh perch recently -- fisherman can see his ice hut from his house. Delicious!

Tomorrow's lunch -- bear stew -- another gift. Will have to let you know about that one.

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Since we had dinner out last night I think I’ll cook tonight.

Going to make a meatloaf with mashed potatoes and peas.

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@jcboy,

I'm gonna have sushi that I picked up earlier today.

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Homemade Onion Soup
Learned how to finish it with a beurre manié..... so rich.

Joe(crunchy bread, glass of Whiskey)Nation

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@Joe Nation,

Had to look that up -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beurre_manié
Ooooooh!

My sweet tooth showed up yesterday, a fairly rare appearance, so since then I've made my favorite baking cocoa brownies (using 1/3 the sugar of the recipe, americans and their sugar fixes..) and ripe banana crunchy peanut butter muffins, and between those, a batch of, cough, fish cakes: sardines-in-louisiana hot sauce including the sauce/a couple of tinned anchovies/some roasted jalapeno bits/a few mashed cooked russet potatoes/bread crumbs/egg/minced garlic/black pepper/parsley, made into patties and pressed with corn meal, sauteed in spare film of ordinary olive oil.

The plan is not to eat those together.

Tonight, no cooking, lady. Thawed homemade hummus with thawed homemade pita. The hummus is great, the pita needs some practice by me. Maybe too much practice.

The muffins are out of the oven now. I'm having a glass of red.

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I was travelling yesterday, so for dinner I popped into a mom-and-pop joint and got some 청국장: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheonggukjang

Once you get past the smell, it's quite delish:

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb192/DinahFyre/20150228_172752.jpg

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@Tai Chi,

Quote:

Excellent recipe mismi -- we really enjoyed it. Helped to warm us up in the -40 windchill!
(I have been away too long -- how the heck did your twins get to be 15)

Were given some fresh perch recently -- fisherman can see his ice hut from his house. Delicious!

Tomorrow's lunch -- bear stew -- another gift. Will have to let you know about that one.

I'm so glad you enjoyed it! -40 windchill...WHAT? The twins. I know. It is killing me. They always want to drive. I need to get a rx for xanex.

Tell me about the Bear Stew. How did you make it. What does bear taste like?

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went out to watch some friends perform and then we all just danced

and I played my zills and didn't embarrass myself (this was a big deal for me, zilling in public - and with my instructor also on the dance floor Shocked

) and I was hugged by an important dance guru who was dj' ing because I zilled <thud double thud>

anyoldwayzzzzzz I had a fabulous dry cider, an appie of mixed olives that were perfect and an order of fancy poutine with pont neuf fries using smoked gouda instead of curds and duck gravy instead of brown gravy. The olives were the perfect salty complement to the pont neuf poutine and cut the oil in the duck fat the frites are prepared in.

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Beth I am drooling -- that sounds wonderful.

mismi I did not make the bear stew -- it was a gift. Somewhat bland to be honest not as wild tasting as some moose or venison I have had.

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I made spaghetti carbonara the other night.

I followed some of the tips that have been posted here on A2K.

I could have used more spaghetti.

My wife really liked it.

http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af324/infrablu/20150301_182451%20-%20Copy_zps6sevzu5w.jpg

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@InfraBlue,

that looks excellent!

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I made two things yesterday - ricotta gnocchi, a different recipe than usual, more tedious, tasted the same as my old easier way, more or less, and then I had some of it yesterday evening with a tomato and hot ital sausage sauce. Good.

I also made carrot soup yesterday, which was what the ricotta gnocchi was meant for . Tasted the soup later when cool, eh.
Today I added a little more black pepper to the soup and a what the hell few shakes of turmeric.
Heated the soup with the remaining un-tomatosauced gnocchi, and lo and behold, that tasted great and I had a nice big bowl full.

http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/2/24/1424791611181/Nigel-Slaters-recipe-for--008.jpg

I'll be making that soup again. Here's the link:
Very good carrot soup -
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/mar/03/nigel-slater-carrot-cardamom-soup-with-herb-ricotta-dumplings
Nigel Slater mentions that you can substitute ginger for the cardomon, and I can tell that would be good too.

(I used a Martha Stewart ricotta dumpling recipe instead of Slater's. Slater's was probably fine, I just didn't want to deal with the baking powder thing).

Martha's ricotta dumplings -
http://www.marthastewart.com/341157/ricotta-dumplings

Here's my old ricotta gnocchi recipe, that made part of good meals for me and snacks for Katy dog:
http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-easy-ricotta-gnocchi-51370
On review, Martha Stewart's is a better recipe. I just don't always feel like fiddling. Of the three gnocchi recipes, this one on theKitchn website is the simplest.

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@ossobuco,

Bene Signorina!

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@panzade,

tonight?

since I'm meeting friends at a dessert place at 5:30 before we go to a Majlis I'm going to have to figure out what's most meal-like. Carrot cake mebbe?

Tea, definitely.

http://www.dragonflydance.ca/Dragonfly_Bellydance_-_Bellydance_in_Toronto/EVENTS.html

Quote:

Majlis' means a 'place of sitting' or 'gathering'. In Medieval times it referred to a sort of 'salon' that used to include music, song and dance, literary works, poetry contests, story telling, etc.

Dragonfly started a new unique MAJLIS tradition in Toronto in 2011 with amazing success. This year will be our 5th annual Majlis!

Fun and informative, full of bellydancing goodness & artistic richness, educative and instructive: our annual MAJLIS are one-of-a-kind! Come and join us! No two Majlis will ever be the same so make sure not to miss this one!

This year we are thrilled to have multiaward winning bellydance and flamenco artist extraordinaire:
ANJELICA SCANNURA with a super interesting talk about the history of Flamenco Bellydance Fusion plus her signature Flamenco-Bellydance fusion and Irish-Bellydance fusion performances!

PLUS:
* Dr. GEORGE SAWA discussing 'fusion' and cultural exchange in Arabic music past and present.

* AUDRA SIMMONS performance and talk about the history of ATS and Tribal Fusion

*IANA KOMARNYTSKA performance and talk about Ballet and Bellydance

* Performances by SHADES of ARABY and The DRAGONETTES

Treats, drinks and merriment all round!

Join us as we gather amongst friends and colleagues, comment, chat, dance and laugh together!!

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doing the protein thing again
came back from a double dance class craving meeeeeeat

heated up some nice meatballs in a bbq sauce, then mixed some diced up pickles in mayo - the result ended up tasting quite a bit like a Big Mac without the bun or lettuce

time for some soda water

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For me, nothing. Need to drop 5~10lbs. Too many cheese toast tomato sandwiches and fried chicken over the winter. *sigh*

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