Food Porn

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan

No, like this:



Dinner at my usual little watering hole in OKC.

Yeah, that was one night... A Monday night...

a reply to: Mirthful Me

As promised my Wine Guzzling Simian....


The first was from a multi-course dinner we did a few weeks back that I called 'Magnum Madness', each bottle went with two courses:



This one was from deep down in the wine cellar and was for our anniversary when I made a humongous grilled porterhouse:

Nothing to crazy last night, just some mussels with a curry-cream sauce and the last of my fresh basil:



I do however get to chow down at the CIA tomorrow before I have to come back and roast the turkey.

Because we didn't have enough carbs on Thanksgiving I decided to make some pizza:



I managed to bring in a tomato and a basil plant so I had a few fresh ingredients left. Simple margherita with buffalo mozzarella, basil, fresh tomato and good olive oil over my sour dough crust.

Makin Babushka's home made chickky soup.

a reply to: zazzafrazz

I could use some of that right now. It's 31* and the coughing person on the airplane this Saturday got me sick.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus


Super easy, best to make when you are at your sickest

Chook, cleaned and giblets out. Organic grain fed defn preference.

If you have vegeta a table spoon, otherwise as you taste with chicken stock.

3 onions large cut

batch of celery large cut

5 big carrots

now heres the trick, garlic starts from 5 cloves (which I laugh and mock) and then there is no max

I threw in 1 and half large bulbs.
Kosher salt, Cracked black pepper

Big BIG stew POT. Boil up then lower to simmer for two hours.

Strain
add noodles in your soup 15-20 mins. I leave clear when on a detox no noodles, but comfort food i add noodles (thin egg noodles)
garnish with celtic sea salt and lashings of black pepper.

Cold/ Man flu gone.

originally posted by: zazzafrazz
Chook, cleaned and giblets out.

I felt better when I looked up the definition of the word (it's another name for a chicken) and read the responses from people who were asked why they also looked it up:

on a caregiver dementia group on faceboook

Phryne Fisher mystery used it to describe a slightly dotty old women.

"Stuff a dead duck sideways up a chook's bum." Courtesy of my Aussie professor here at Texas A&M University. Yes I'm confused too

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

chook = chicken in OZ

Last night's meal started with some oven-roasted cherry tomatoes and garlic that I spooned over grilled bread and topped with some sea salt and fresh basil.



We then had some homemade herb-gnocchi with butternut squash and wild mushrooms sautéed with sage, thyme and shallots. I parboiled the gnocchi first then pan seared them with some butter to give them additional texture. This was all topped with some parsley brown butter.

No pic, but recipy

I used a wok pan.

Brown chopped garlic in rice bran oil.
Add a bit of water
Add porcini dried, when they have become soft:
Add cream cheesewith herbs
Add blue cheese

You can put as much or as little as you want to of the ingredients. I don't do lean cuisine (and yes I have size 38).
The sauce is meant for pasta. I have some left and think I am going to eat it.

a reply to: QueenofWeird

LOL...your recipe is in reverse. I had to get to the end to find out what i was cooking. Sort of.

But it looks tasty, for sure.

a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan

Yes it is a big and fat surprise But sooooooooo good.

originally posted by: QueenofWeird
a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan

Yes it is a big and fat surprise

But sooooooooo good.

you had me at "big" and "fat".

a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan

Hahaha, I have eaten now 300 grams of spaghetti plus oodles of the sauce. And actually I would like dessert, but no such luck.
It is that I eat little during the day otherwise I would be massive. Smoking also helps

For Christmas we had turkey breasts glazed with that jalapeno hatch chile jam i had talked about, with some dried cherry and italian sausage stuffing. Since ham is a favorite, we served a ham, which i just threw on top of my turkey below. The gnocchi/butternut dish that Augustus made looked good enough I made one with a sage brown butter. And the wine poached pear with bleu cheese, because I love the two together. You can see the clumps of the reduced wine/orange juice syrup i drizzled over it.



It was a tasty meal that we had way too much of.

a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan

That is a plate of happiness.

I got a new grill for Christmas so I decided to break it in last night.

We started off with a wedge salad and heirloom cherry tomatoes with homemade blue cheese dressing and crumbled bacon:



The I minced some sage, thyme and rosemary and rubbed that on a porterhouse with some sea salt, pepper and olive oil. That got grilled until medium rare:



And served with buttered green beans, a potato gratin and a French Burgundy. The steak was drizzled with my aged balsamic:

How the hell did I miss this thread ?

Just marking my turf so I don't miss another recipe.

Cody