What's for dinner?

Post by **Avatar** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 6:11 am

New diet plan - Constant stress.

Yeah, I only eat when I'm hungry anyway. No appetite, no eating.

--A

Post by **Skyweir** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 8:50 am

Ditto

I am very hungry right now .. and I can smell the spuds baking as I type.

Post by **Sorus** » Fri Aug 10, 2018 10:28 pm

Avatar wrote:New diet plan - Constant stress.

Could be the next multi-million dollar bestseller - How To Lose Weight & Raise Your Blood Pressure with Hourly Panic Attacks.

Erm. The marketing might need some work.

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 4:06 am

Dinner tonight is at Kirkland SummerFest while listening to Cherry Cherry, Hair Nation, and Cream Tangerine.

Dinner was provided by a vendor: Caesar salad with salad shrimp, hold the croutons.

Post by **Skyweir** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 7:19 am

Sorus wrote:
Avatar wrote:New diet plan - Constant stress.

Could be the next multi-million dollar bestseller - How To Lose Weight & Raise Your Blood Pressure with Hourly Panic Attacks.

Erm. The marketing might need some work.

Perhaps a tad

Post by **Skyweir** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 10:24 am

Tonight Trev made a delicious steak, with pepper sauce, baked tater with cheese, coriander and sour cream, asparagus, broccolini and carrots .. and it was exquisite. Perfect in every particular. We enjoyed it with a nice tempranillo .. bon appetit

Post by **Avatar** » Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:54 am

Hmmm, I had steak and chips for a late lunch yesterday, but was hungry again last night so fried some boerewors, which I sliced and ate as a snack with a variety of dipping stuff...mustard, fruit chutney, chilli & ginger relish, etc.

--A

Post by **Savor Dam** » Mon Aug 13, 2018 10:28 pm

Fried rather than braaied?

Post by **Lazy Luke** » Tue Aug 14, 2018 4:28 am

I'm right in the mood for plums.

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Aug 14, 2018 5:24 am

Savor Dam wrote:Fried rather than braaied?

Yep.

Braaing requires...well...a braai. And I live in a flat, so braaing is not something easily accomplished. (Not to mention being slow).

--A

Post by **Skyweir** » Tue Aug 14, 2018 7:54 am

Avatar wrote:Hmmm, I had steak and chips for a late lunch yesterday, but was hungry again last night so fried some boerewors, which I sliced and ate as a snack with a variety of dipping stuff...mustard, fruit chutney, chilli & ginger relish, etc.

--A

..

boerewors?

Trev made a delicious meal last night .. crumbed chicken kiev, with snow peas, broccolini, beans, asparagus and .. of course baked potatoe topped with sour cream and cheese and coriander and served it with a pepper sauce .. it was scrummy

Tonight prolly just egg and chips .. cos we are both pretty knackered

Post by **Avatar** » Wed Aug 15, 2018 5:28 am

Skyweir wrote:
.. boerewors?

Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boerewors

I had steak wraps last night.

--A

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Wed Aug 15, 2018 3:22 pm

<--- thinks SD probably had found that link to even ask the braaied question...

Post by **Avatar** » Thu Aug 16, 2018 5:14 am

I was impressed.

--A

Post by **Skyweir** » Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:44 am

LOL .. so sausage

Look yummy ..

Tonight we were both tired so I had baked beans on toast

Trev does not approve of such commonness

.. he made pizza .. and I had a piece too ... the snob I married will not eat baked beans himself .. or tomato sauce .. or anything at all with vinegar in it .. so nothing pickled or dressed

And we brits love our pickles, vinegar and tomato sauce ..

Yesterday Trev made massaman beef curry, with rice and home made roti ..

Post by **Savor Dam** » Thu Aug 16, 2018 11:55 pm

Actually, I'd previously learned of braai and its place in South Africa culture from some article on international manners. Grill enthusiast that I am, it stuck with me that it was a huge social error in SA to touch or interfere with someone else's braai, and I then looked up a bunch of stuff about braai, including this wurst that sounds like it is named for a 19th century conflict.

Menolly does know my methods, though...as well she ought.

It's only a mind full of junk until you pull some useful nugget out of it.

Post by **Avatar** » Fri Aug 17, 2018 5:51 am

Couldn't agree more. All knowledge is useless until you need it.

"Boer" is literally the Afrikaans word for "farmer," so directly translated it would be "farmers sausage." It became a common (even sometimes pejorative) term for Afrikaaners, because at one time, the vast majority were farmers (or ranchers, the term making no distinction between farming crops, or farming livestock, or these days, "farming" game) and that became how they referred to themselves as well.

--A

Post by **Skyweir** » Fri Aug 17, 2018 9:48 am

mmm .. tonight we had chicken kiev, with veg and baked tater. Delish

But its been a busy day today and was the first meal of the day and damn good it was.

Post by **Vader** » Sat Aug 25, 2018 2:10 am

Steak from my iron wrougt iron skillet. The reason "sous vide" can kiss my whatever.

Post by **Savor Dam** » Sat Aug 25, 2018 5:31 am

Impressive edge-to-edge cook with no discernible gradient. Not something I can yet achieve on a grill or cast iron skillet.

Some do look for a bit more surface brown / crust, but the technique you've singled our for scorn - plus short, intense sear - is the only way I know to get that consistent internal cook (no slight overcook at edge, nor marginally rawer at center) along with the external level of char they want.

<--- [Contemplates chasing mastery of cast iron technique Vader used, then doing briefer final sear to achieve both goals.]

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