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Re: What's cooking?

by Robin Garr » Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:18 pm

An intense mushroom risotto with a mix of dried porcini and fresh brown mushrooms.

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Re: What's cooking?

by Cynthia Wenslow » Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:47 am

I could eat that, Robin.
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Re: What's cooking?

by Redwinger » Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:33 am

Poppy Seed Bread with a TWIST for fun.
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Re: What's cooking?

by Paul Winalski » Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:38 am

I made Thai pad prik gai bai grapow (stir-fried minced chicken with bird's eye chiles and holy basil) last night.

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Re: What's cooking?

by Robin Garr » Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:30 pm

Gobi Aloo Mattar: Indian cauliflower, potatoes and peas. 

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Re: What's cooking?

by Cynthia Wenslow » Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:17 pm

Redwinger wrote:Poppy Seed Bread with a TWIST for fun.


That looks gorgeous! Must have been NJ. 8)
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Re: What's cooking?

by Redwinger » Fri Jan 20, 2012 10:26 pm

Cynthia Wenslow wrote:
Redwinger wrote:Poppy Seed Bread with a TWIST for fun.


That looks gorgeous! Must have been NJ. 8)

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Re: What's cooking?

by Mike Filigenzi » Sat Jan 21, 2012 1:07 pm

My wife and I both left work late last night, so it was a fast food evening. I picked my daughter up and we stopped at the market to get a couple of pounds of mussels, a baguette, and some (yeah) frozen french fries. The mussels were cooked up with onion, garlic, lemon grass, and white wine. Took about half an hour to put together moules frites (using the "frites" term a bit loosely, but still).

Drank a Callaghan "Lisa's" white blend with it that was absolutely wonderful.
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Re: What's cooking?

by Frank Deis » Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:21 pm

Robin Garr wrote:Gobi Aloo Mattar: Indian cauliflower, potatoes and peas. 


How does Aloo Mattar differ from Aloo Gobi (now that I am replying I see your picture is "gobi0120.jpg"!)

Aloo = potato, gobi = cauliflower, I think matar = tomato

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Re: What's cooking?

by Robin Garr » Sat Jan 21, 2012 4:47 pm

Frank Deis wrote:How does Aloo Mattar differ from Aloo Gobi (now that I am replying I see your picture is "gobi0120.jpg"!)

Aloo = potato, gobi = cauliflower, I think matar = tomato

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Frank, it's not like I speak the language, but I assumed that Mattar = peas.
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Re: What's cooking?

by Frank Deis » Sat Jan 21, 2012 5:17 pm

You're right. Tomato = tamatar, peas = matar.

Of course there are a gazillion legumes with different names.

I think I've seen peas in Aloo Ghobi. I make that a lot, sorta thought that if Cauliflower is a major ingredient that is the defining feature.

Anyway, your call. Who named the .JPG?
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Re: What's cooking?

by Robin Garr » Sat Jan 21, 2012 6:13 pm

Frank Deis wrote:Anyway, your call. Who named the .JPG?

I did, Frank, and one shouldn't read too much into it. I just had to come up with a filename and grabbed the first four letters that I saw. :oops:
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Re: What's cooking?

by Robin Garr » Sat Jan 21, 2012 8:52 pm

Sichuan stir fry with green peppers, onions and tofu.

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Re: What's cooking?

by Cynthia Wenslow » Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:11 pm

Robin Garr wrote:Sichuan stir fry with green peppers, onions and tofu.


On Pizza Night?! :roll:
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Re: What's cooking?

by Robin Garr » Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:09 pm

Cynthia Wenslow wrote:
Robin Garr wrote:Sichuan stir fry with green peppers, onions and tofu.


On Pizza Night?! :roll:

I am sorry to be such a heathen. :cry:
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Re: What's cooking?

by Cynthia Wenslow » Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:33 am

Robin Garr wrote:I am sorry to be such a heathen. :cry:


Well, I almost said, "I could eat that" before I realized what night it was. :D
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Re: What's cooking?

by Jenise » Mon Jan 23, 2012 8:57 pm

Tonight will either be stuffed bell peppers or a meatball pozole. Better decide soon, huh? :wink:
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Re: What's cooking?

by Paul Winalski » Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:16 pm

Sunday's dinner was bunchi moong dal kichari, from Yamuna Devi's cookbook Lord Krishna's Cuisine--The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking. If you doubt that lacto-vegetarian cuisine can be rich, try this dish on for size. :) Needs nothing more than a green salad to make a complete meal.

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Re: What's cooking?

by Jo Ann Henderson » Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:48 am

I cooked pot roast for dinner last night. But, the stand out dish was a creamy cauliflower and fennel gratin that had just the right amount of crunchy breadcrumbs on top. No one in my family likes cauliflower but me. Michael-Anthony and I split the dish and I was in heaven. :P
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Re: What's cooking?

by Jenise » Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:27 pm

I'm making pork adobo tonight. It's a dish that I got to know a long time ago when a file clerk who worked for me brought some leftovers in her lunch. She was American who married a Filipino man when she was just 13 (her family was poor in Tennessee, and he was about 20 and there working on a railroad project). Fortunately, he grew up helping his mother cook and was prepared to teach Roma the foods his mother had made. Her adobo was spectacular, strangely salty and sour unlike any meat I'd ever eaten. I've a version from a recipe once since and it got nowhere close; but I recently found an intriguing one in Greg Atkinson's recent book (Greg was a chef at Canlis in its heyday and is about to open his own restaurant, Marche, on Bainbridge Island). His recipe is taken from the way one of his Filipino cooks at Canlis made it for staff meals, and it sounds like it's going to get me in the zone I've remembered so fondly all these years. I'll serve it over rice steamed with olive oil and garlic and grilled baby bok choy following a starter parfait of scallops, bamboo and avocado. Not that same's authentic, other than adobo I don't have any history with Filipino food at all. But among ingredients I have on hand, these would combine in a nice way for something both tropical and semi-Asian.
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Re: What's cooking?

by Matilda L » Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:06 pm

It's Australia Day.

Lots of people are having barbecues to celebrate the public holiday. We don't barbecue. Business as usual here. There's a big pot of red soup on the stove top, which will be ready for lunch, and we're planning a red chicken curry for dinner.


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Re: What's cooking?

by Jeff Grossman » Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:01 am

Lasagna, made in the Le Creuset: three cheeses (mozz/parm/rico), sausage, red sauce. Traditional and yummy.
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Re: What's cooking?

by Salil » Thu Jan 26, 2012 6:54 pm

Paul Winalski wrote:Sunday's dinner was bunchi moong dal kichari, from Yamuna Devi's cookbook Lord Krishna's Cuisine--The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking. If you doubt that lacto-vegetarian cuisine can be rich, try this dish on for size. :) Needs nothing more than a green salad to make a complete meal.

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Awesome.

Made a nice pot of masoor dal a couple of days ago. Polished off the leftovers for lunch today. :D
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Re: What's cooking?

by Jenise » Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:53 pm

Tonight we're having a simple grilled dinner of chicken drumsticks marinated in a hot Sriricha-based marinade along with a low cal, no carb finger salad of bell pepper strips and cucumbers. But what's thrilling is we're using the new barbecue! Bob assembled it yesterday.

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