What are you eating?

[Spineur]

Made some Tomato jam this week end as I got some really tasty garden tomatoes.
Ingredients: sugar, tomatoes, apple jelly, fresh vanilla (from my last trip to the Reunion island) and lemon.
The result has a spicy taste, reminiscent of a bloddy mary cocktail, but sweeter.

The painful part is to filter out the tomatoes seeds.

[Sergeant Rock]

Made some Tomato jam this week end as I got some really tasty garden tomatoes.
Ingredients: sugar, tomatoes, apple jelly, fresh vanilla (from my last trip to the renion island) and lemon.
The result has a spicy taste, reminiscent of a bloddy mary cocktail, but sweeter.

I'm having trouble imagining the final taste of those disparate ingredients. Still, I'd like to try it 

I envy you. I wish I had a source for "real" tomatoes. It's been so long since I had one, they've become almost mythical.

Sarge

[NikF]

I cooked tonight: Kebab Halabi (Aleppo). Popular in Lebanon and Syria, it's ground beef seasoned with 7 spice and onions and baked with bell peppers in a spicy (cumin, sumac, garlic) tomato sauce. Served with rice and a green salad. Drank beer.




Sarge

I could go for some of that. Hope you enjoyed it Sarge.

[Sergeant Rock]

I could go for some of that. Hope you enjoyed it Sarge.

It was my first attempt with this dish and it turned out well. We did enjoy it.

Sarge

[NikF]

It was my first attempt with this dish and it turned out well. We did enjoy it.

Sarge

Glad to hear it.

I'm going to the gym tonight. On my return I'll crawl up the hill to the local deli where they'll already have my salad and I think the
spaghetti polpette waiting for me and ready to go. Along with this I will be drinking my usual - one pint of milk. 

[Sergeant Rock]

...the spaghetti polpette waiting for me...

All those pasta dishes look great. The Scoglio looks especially tempting.

I will be drinking my usual - one pint of milk. 

A recent vintage, I hope.

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Along with this I will be drinking my usual - one pint of milk. 

You and Archie Goodwin.

[NikF]

All those pasta dishes look great. The Scoglio looks especially tempting.

If you're interested here's the pdf of the evening takeaway menu.
To my uneducated everything it's quite a cool establishment. And coupled with the fact it's only up the hill and along the road it suits me just fine. 

A recent vintage, I hope.

Sarge

Absolutely. The milk will be fresh because I go through about 2.2 litres (four pints) every day.

You and Archie Goodwin.

I forgot about that! It has been a long time since I read any Rex Stout.

[Brian]

I think my biggest culinary discovery of 2016 is that octopus is freaking delicious.



This weekend I had to judge a food festival ("had to"...life is rough). Best thing there was octopus, but not the dish pictured above (from my restaurant review this week). My pick was from Helen Greek in Houston. Theirs looks like this...



The biggest danger is toughness. But if you can cook it right, so it's still soft and scallop-esque in texture, man oh man the things you can do with octopus in terms of flavor - all sorts of imagination.

[Sergeant Rock]

The biggest danger is toughness. But if you can cook it right, so it's still soft and scallop-esque in texture, man oh man the things you can do with octopus in terms of flavor - all sorts of imagination.

Mrs. Rock agrees about the flavor...but she has an aversion to the suckers. She gets around that by ordering the octopus carpaccio at our favorite Italian restaurant.

Sarge

[NikF]

Post workout food today -



Cod supper
Salad
One pint of full fat milk

[NikF]

I was in the gym early this morning and on the way back my post-workout food was -



I went in for the Eggs Florentine, but when ordering I found the words "traditional breakfast, please" came out of my mouth.

[Brian]

Friend visiting from NYC this weekend to see the Texas State Fair. The lineup:

- tacos!
- barbecue!
- terrible fair foods like fried Oreos and "fried clam chowder"!

[Brian]

Friend visiting from NYC this weekend to see the Texas State Fair. The lineup:

- tacos!
- barbecue!
- terrible fair foods like fried Oreos and "fried clam chowder"!

Fried clam chowder was pretty darn good.

I would rank the things we ate:
1. fried PB&J
2. fried clam chowder
3. fried brownies
4. fried jambalaya

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Cross-post.

#morninglistening to #MarcelTyberg #Masses on @pentatonemusic w/@SDChorale et al. Also: charr... http://ift.tt/2egmImo

Stuffed the charrs with minced oyster mushrooms, garlic (too much), pepper (too much), chilli (just right) and fried them in ghee and olive oil.
Along with that some tagliatelle with pumpkin-seed butter and a bit of the same mixture as the filling. (The filling worked, in that case.)

[Spineur]

Veal rost with Cardamome acompanied with a 2010 Cornas

[NikF]

After the gym tonight -



With plain Basmati rice. And one pint of milk. Then I walked home (just over one mile/1.7km) while it rained.

[Sergeant Rock]

After the gym tonight -



With plain Basmati rice. And one pint of milk. Then I walked home (just over one mile/1.7km) while it rained.

Yum, love monkfish, Seeteufel (sea devil) in German. Damn ugly fish though 




Tonight Mrs. Rock cooked. We had cod, steamed on a bed of fennel, leeks and zucchini, the fish seasoned with salt, pepper, sumac and red pepper flakes. Drank a locally produced (German, Rheinhessen, Osthofen) bubbly "prosecco":






Sarge

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Drank a locally produced (German, Rheinhessen, Osthofen) bubbly "prosecco":

By "Prosecco" do you mean "Schaumwein" - i.e. wine with CO2 superadded? Or steel tank fermented 'bubbly'?

[Sergeant Rock]

By "Prosecco" do you mean "Schaumwein" - i.e. wine with CO2 superadded? Or steel tank fermented 'bubbly'?

The former. The vintner (Steinmühle) labelled his wine "Secco" in bold and in small print "Perlwein mit zugesetzter Kohlensäure". In any case, quite delicious.

Sarge