What are you having for dinner? (wanna share your recipe?)

[The Albatross]

Had beef left over so got this going for lunch w/salad tomorrow:

Asian Beef Barley Soup



12-16 ounces Boneless Beef Eye Round Steak (Cut into Thin Bite-Size Strips)

1 tablespoon Coconut Oil

1/2 cup Onion (Chopped) or Onion/celery combo if desired

1/2 cup Carrot (Chopped)

1/2 cup Red Sweet Pepper (Chopped)

2 cloves Garlic (Minced)

1/2 teaspoon Hot Chili Oil

1/2 teaspoon Curry Powder

4 cups Beef Broth

4 cups Torn Kale (Stems Removed)

1/2 cup Quick-Cooking Barley

1 cup Unsweetened Coconut Milk


Step 1 In a 4-quart Dutch oven, cook meat in hot oil over medium-high heat until brown. Drain off fat.

Step 2 Add onion, carrot, sweet pepper, garlic, chili oil and curry powder to the pan. Cook and stir for 5 minutes. Add broth. Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer, covered, for 20 minutes or until vegetables are tender.

Step 3 Stir in kale and barley. Cook, covered, about 15 minutes more or until barley is tender. Stir in coconut milk; heat through.

I added in leftover broccoli chopped and portabella mushrooms.

 

[Friday]

Guinness Braised Beef Shortribs.

Guinness® Braised Short Ribs

Subbing olive oil for canola, 2 bay leaves for thyme, and V8 for tomato juice. Added just a touch of turbinado sugar to the sauce, because my onions weren’t sweet enough in cooking to balance it. Always 50/50 on that one! Sometimes it’s perfect, sometimes it’s a bit bitter and needs a nudge. Also only added enough beef stock to cover, 8 whole quarts woulda overflowed my Dutch oven with all the meat, veg, & beer. ;)

 

[Teasel]

Want to have a go at baking some chicken with something approaching KFC coating on it.

Thinking of loosely following this recipe - minus the buttermilk n butter.

Am happy for it not to be a thick coating, and might only put stuff on top and leave the under side of the chicken naked.

Anyone here made anything of the sort? Got tips? Ta

 

[whiteraven]

Mac and Cheese.

 

[Friday]

Anyone here made anything of the sort? Got tips? Ta

<grin> Nagi’s recipes have always come out amazing for me. Haven’t tried that one, but just glancing at it? Yep. It will be wicked good for chicken-tenders.

For whole piece southern fried chicken, however? (It’s so juicy I’m gonna die! :inlove: blissful glossy gorgeous chicken) Rather than baking... Shallow fry it, in about 1cm of peanut oil or corn oil, if you can’t deep fry it. Just rotate legs 4-5 times to get the whole circumference, and everything else just needs flipping one side to the other.

Very few people I knew in the south had a deep fryer*, but almost everyone had an electric skillet, or cast iron skillet (more careful watching needed), and would shallow fry their buttermilk chicken. Often on Saturday nights, to bring cold fried chicken to picnic on after church. Ovens were for shake’n’bake weeknight chicken. Fried chicken was for weekends and winning hearts (way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, I can’t even remember how many times I heard as we were batching chicken).

*Slight correction... almost everyone I knew had a kettle fryer / drum fryer for big parties... but those suckers -even the little’uns can do a 30lb Turkey without blinking, or 6-8 chickens at a time. Half a 50 gallon steel drum is a bit of a beast. Perfect for get togethers, but not family dinner. Family dinner was the fry pan and wide open windows, or electric skillet on the porch. Electric woks also work a treat... but you have to use more oil.

Darn it. Now I want fried chicken! :arghh;

 

[Teasel]

Cheers @Friday :)

Might even try shallow frying some time. What would you substitute for buttermilk for marinating? Or just leave it out?

 

[Friday]

(NonDairy) Yogurt+apple cider vinegar :D

I accidentally made coconut fried chicken the other week... different brand of yogurt & milk than I usually use... which was good? Just weird.

 

[Teasel]

Surprising how much flavour vegan yogurt puts into stuff innit? The yogurt I like for plain eating doesn't taste right in a curry.

 

[osiris]

So apparently I am attempting to eat oatmeal tonight. No one needs the recipe though, right? ;)

 

[Mee]

One of our dogs once had a quarter of a club sandwich DH brought home in a doggy bag after not finishing it at a work lunch. The dog loved it like he has loved nothing else.

As a special treat DH has decided to make dog friendly sandwiches tonight. I don’t like the dogs having bread but occasional indulgence will not kill them. They are having turkey breast , and deli cuts and cucumber on theirs . Cat is getting deli scraps and turkey . We are having turkey , Swiss and coleslaw.

 

[blackemerald1]

Righto. Here is a pic of my sourdough bread I made today.
I ate two slices for tea tonight and ruined my appetite. lol... It is delish... :)

 

[Mee]

Righto. Here is a pic of my sourdough bread I made today.
I ate two slices for tea tonight and ruined my appetite. lol... It is delish... :)

It’s beautiful.

Keeping a sourdough starter going is a little like having a beloved pet . ?