Dinner tonight - or last night.

grilled patty-pan squash, ribeye steaks, garden fresh green beans and my first 'real' tomato of the summer.

Isn't the very first tomato of the summer fabulous, J_B! Your own, home grown?

Paneer makhani, nan bread and rasmalai with white wine to wash it all down at Soho Spice

No, my plants are full of green tomatoes but nothing ripe yet.

Baked salmon with ginger/butter/basil/lime sauce. For dessert, baked salmon with ginger/butter/basil/lime sauce.

Organic cappellettis in tomoto-basil-sauce (organic as well) with the rest of yesterdays pork filet, baked in parmesan-breadcrumbs.

That sounds wonderful. Can we get the recipe?

Half a Coronation Chicken sandwich and half a Tuna Mayonnaise sandwich

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Easy. It's a takeoff on my exhub's way of making pasta with lox, basil, ginger, and lime (that recipe is on a2k somewhere, will do a search for it later).

I put about a pound of salmon filet skin side down in a non-stick pan. (I put a little bit of canola oil under the filet, and salt and pepper the top.) I stick the pan in the oven but don't turn it on until I finish the sauce.

Sauce -

Heat 3 to 4 tbs butter in small saute/frying pan.

Add fresh ginger to the sizzling butter. I used about an inch and a half of ginger root, peeled, sliced, and diced. I decided later I could have used more, but then I like ginger a lot. Cook that about a minute, maybe two, and don't let the butter burn. Shut off the heat.

Chop up several fresh basil leaves. I probably used... 10.
Add them to the butter and ginger.

Slice a fresh lime, squeeze into the butter ginger and basil, stir, set aside.

Turn on the oven - I cooked the fillet around eleven minutes at 380.

Go to computer room and put on the timer...
See what's going on at a2k.

When timer dings, pull out the salmon, put on nice plate, pour sauce over. Voila!


(serves two)

^ Wow. Please can I come round for dinner sometime?

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Sure, Dorothy!




I should emphasize that I don't actually cook the lime or the basil... My ex put the lime in boiling water once, just so everything would be nice and hot, and ... it tasted terrible.

Here's the link for the similar pasta recipe.

(if you don't have or don't like lox you can use fresh salmon)

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=320387&highlight=lox+basil+ginger+lime#320387

My mouth is watering as I type......need proper home cooked food.... mmmmmmmm...

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Tht sounds yummy, Osso. I'll try it next time we have salmon.

I was trying to break myself of my addiction to the onions/olive oil/mustard/lemon sauce that I've posted about a few times in this thread. I could just eat a bowl of the sauce... maybe with good bread..

I forgot I had bought a chicken on Saturday. I found it languishing in the frisdge tonight. Dammit! I didn't want to cook a chicken tonight, but I'm cooking a chicken.

may I suggest a mustard-lemon sauce?

fresh gathered mussels and steamer clams, along with boiled potatoes and red beet greens with a butter and rice vinegar topper.

left-overs tonight (what ehbeth and her troop of marauders didn't manage to finish off ) .
brats (reheated - quite acceptable) , pasta , fresh green beans , green salad and coleslaw , and a glass of V8 .
must depart for kitchen to whip up a little snack :wink: .
hbg

Some leftover homemade by moi veggie soup.
A few packaged frozen pork hot chile tamales.

Ok, that's the last time I'll buy those...