What's For Dinner?

[Nickyboy]

I am making myself a Greek shrimp and feta salad for dinner tonight with lots of good olive oil, Kalamata olives, fresh dill, and mint.

 

[Nickyboy]

Going to grill up some Mongolian beef and serve it with brown jasmine rice and a salad with ginger dressing tonight.
Time to make the marinade.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Going to grill up some Mongolian beef and serve it with brown jasmine rice and a salad with ginger dressing tonight.
Time to make the marinade.

Marinade, I like marinade.

 

[axolotl]

Marinade, I like marinade.

Alan's Psychedelicious Supper

 

[Nickyboy]

Roasted chicken with lemons, garlic, and potato wedges, with a side of salad, and fresh asparagus from the garden. Dessert is a French rhubarb tart with rhubarb also from the garden (right next to the asparagus, actually!)

I should put a bottle of wine in the fridge.

 

[Nickyboy]

Roasted chicken with lemons, garlic, and potato wedges, with a side of salad, and fresh asparagus from the garden. Dessert is a French rhubarb tart with rhubarb also from the garden (right next to the asparagus, actually!)

I should put a bottle of wine in the fridge.

Hot damned tamale, Ahab! That was fantastic. Can't remember the last time I had a roast chicken, and the rhubarb tarte was phenomenal! There is a reason I let this plant take over a large portion of my garden every year!

 

[Nickyboy]

My wife scored a sack of mussels today, so I am going to have moules marinières with pommes frites for dinner tonight.

 

[axolotl]

My wife scored a sack of mussels today, so I am going to have moules marinières with pommes frites for dinner tonight.

I'm glad I reread that. I was concerned that she had swapped you for a sack of muscles today.

 

[Nickyboy]

I'm glad I reread that. I was concerned that she had swapped you for a sack of muscles today.

She should.

 

[Nickyboy]

Welcome to Post 4,253 of "Nickyboy's Personal Thread of What He Is Eating"!

Philly cheesesteaks.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Welcome to Post 4,253 of "Nickyboy's Personal Thread of What He Is Eating"!

Philly cheesesteaks.

From Philly? Road trip in quarantine?

 

[Nickyboy]

From Philly? Road trip in quarantine?

I wish.

 

[Nickyboy]

Pizza on the grill. Topped with fresh tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella, mushrooms, ham, onions, and asparagus from the garden.
Time to roll some dough!

 

[Nickyboy]

Korean bbq grilled pork ribs with a white miso and gochugang based marinade/sauce. Time to peel some garlic and grate some ginger and get them marinating!

 

[Nickyboy]

Korean bbq grilled pork ribs with a white miso and gochugang based marinade/sauce. Time to peel some garlic and grate some ginger and get them marinating!

3 hours, low and slow, with apple wood smoke. This. smells. aaaaamazing! I am definitely using this on pork chops, chicken breast, and seafood.

 

[Nickyboy]

Spaghetti with fennel and bacon ragu. Damn, this is tasty.

 

[Nickyboy]

One of the bigger seafood wholesalers around here is having a hard time lately with so many restaurants being closed, so they decided to have a tent sale on their loading dock today. I got a 3lb. lobster for $10/lb (normally about $16/lb) and two 1lb. ziplock bags of freshly shucked scallops for $15 each (normally about $25). There will be some good feasting around here tonight!
And, they will be doing the sale again next weekend! Woo hoo!

 

[Nickyboy]

Who knows that this contraption is called and what am I using it to make this afternoon?

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Who knows that this contraption is called and what am I using it to make this afternoon?
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Some kind of pasta maker? (Without doing an image search.)

 

[Nickyboy]

Some kind of pasta maker? (Without doing an image search.)

You are correct, sir! It is called chitarra (Italian for "guitar"). You lay thick sheets of fresh pasta on top of the "strings" and go across them with a rolling pin to push them through. The wires make a rough, square edge on the pasta that holds pasta sauce well.