What's For Dinner?

[Nickyboy]

I am making homemade ramen soup tonight. The dough has been resting in the fridge for about an hour. Time to roll out and cut them and then on to the soup base. I will use my chicken stock as a base with spinach, baby bok choi, carrot, and soft cooked egg as the main characters along with the ramen.

 

[axolotl]

How do you cut them? Do you make slimmer noodles like ramen or wider noodles like udon?

 

[Nickyboy]

How do you cut them? Do you make slimmer noodles like ramen or wider noodles like udon?

Skinny like ramen, because I was making......ramen . I ended up using my Kitchenaid mixer to work the dough (almost 10 minutes!) then refrigerate it for an hour. Then rolled sheets, dried them part way, and used the spaghetti cutter on the Kitchenaid. We used two "nests" of ramen for our dinner and placed the rest on sheet pans in the freezer to freeze up and bag for later use.
The noodles were great! Chewy and springy texture. We are definitely making these again.

 

[Nickyboy]

Today is National Nacho Day, so we are making nachos. I made oven baked tortilla chips earlier. I read that the original Nachos were just tortilla chips with melted cheese and pickled jalapenos. Anything else is not authentic.
OK. We are layering nacho chips with cheddar cheese, hot salsa, cilantro, chili con carne, tomatoes, (repeat) then top with some cheese and Oaxacan crema (instead of sour cream: more sour and less thick) and shredded lettuce.

Time to start assembling!

 

[Nickyboy]

Escargot with bread for dipping in the garlic butter. Hell yeah.

 

[Worm]

Escargot with bread for dipping in the garlic butter. Hell yeah.

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[Nickyboy]

Chestnut pasta with wild mushroom ragout, roasted asparagus on the side.

 

[Mattafett]

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Sold as "Pork rib ends in a bag" 5.5 lbs at $8 total. Smoking for a couple hours, then grilling them off. No clue what my wife is doing for sides.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

^Your cobblestones look very clean.

 

[Mattafett]

^Your cobblestones look very clean.

Actually 16x16 pavers. there is the occasional dog poo from Ozzie, as she hates to walk to far.

 

[Nickyboy]

Nice! Thinking about doing another smoke/;Schwenk before it gets too cold here. Let's see how motivated I am.

 

[Nickyboy]

Slow-cooker chicken thighs simmered in red wine, garlic, rosemary, tomato, and onion. Then partially shredded into large chunks and served over fresh fettuccine with the reduced sauce over top. Steamed broccoli on the side.

 

[Nickyboy]

A genuine Philly cheesesteak and a couple of Yuenglings. (no fork or knife needed).

 

[Mattafett]

A genuine Philly cheesesteak and a couple of Yuenglings. (no fork or knife needed).

Hell yes!!

 

[Nickyboy]

Croziflette! This is a Savoyard (French Alps) version of mac-n-cheese. A famous dish in that region is called tartiflette (tarta being the ancient word for potatoes in the region). This is a heavy dish of sliced potatoes, onions, heavy cream, chopped bacon or ham, and an unbelievable amount of Beaufort cheese melted on it. Delicious, by the way. A popular pasta in the Savoy is called crozettes. They are small, thick squares made of buckwheat flour. So, replace the "tarta" with crozettes and you get Croziflette! Beaufort is very hard (and expensive) to find in the US, so we used a mixture of Gruyere, Fontina, and a touch of smoked Gruyere.

 

[Worm]

^Sounds like an awesome cold-weather dish.

 

[Nickyboy]

^Sounds like an awesome cold-weather dish.

It is. I don't think I would ever consider eating that dish in the summer.

 

[Nickyboy]

Found a recipe on line for orange chicken. Fairly simple to make. And it smells delicious, and glad we had all the ingredients on hand! I am going to try this will beef strips some time.

 

[Nickyboy]

I made a butternut squash soup with curry, cinnamon, and coconut milk. So, incredibly delicious. I think I might have to make some big-ass croutons to have with it.

 

[Nickyboy]

Found a recipe on line for orange chicken.

Left overs were reheated today for lunch. The crisp batter turned into rubbery, flabby grossness when reheated in the microwave. Blech.