The food and drink thread

[SquarePeg]

Took the day off from cooking yesterday and enjoyed a nice late lunch/early dinner at the local pub which has a big tent for shade and a lively atmosphere with music and well spaced tables. Hope it’s ok to post restaurant food?

Marinated steak tips with fried onion rings and garlic mashed potatoes (decided to use all my daily calories in one meal!)

Chicken fajitas on a sizzling platter. Served with all the fixings.

And of course, a nice martini for dessert.

 

[limr]

Love pears & blue cheese but not sure honey mustard goes with it. I do make my own honey mustard.

What would be a good dressing? I've only had it with the honey mustard and trying to think of an alternative.

I dunno, honey mustard sounds yummy with the pears and blue cheese. I love sweet and salty together, and have always loved mustard with fruit. When I make my own, I tend to go heavier on the mustard than the honey.

 

[Mike Drone]

Took the day off from cooking yesterday and enjoyed a nice late lunch/early dinner at the local pub which has a big tent for shade and a lively atmosphere with music and well spaced tables. Hope it’s ok to post restaurant food?

Marinated steak tips with fried onion rings and garlic mashed potatoes (decided to use all my daily calories in one meal!)
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Chicken fajitas on a sizzling platter. Served with all the fixings.
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And of course, a nice martini for dessert.
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Mmm that looks good.

Had cereal for breakfast. I don't usually have cereal for breakfast but my daughter and I are in a competition to see who can eat a box of cereal first. Made Irish soda bread. I am thinking about making a pie later.

 

[Ron Evers]

Supper tonight was spicy garlic ginger pork.
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[Ron Evers]

Love pears & blue cheese but not sure honey mustard goes with it. I do make my own honey mustard.

What would be a good dressing? I've only had it with the honey mustard and trying to think of an alternative.

I am thinking no dressing.

 

[Ron Evers]

Took the day off from cooking yesterday and enjoyed a nice late lunch/early dinner at the local pub which has a big tent for shade and a lively atmosphere with music and well spaced tables. Hope it’s ok to post restaurant food?

Marinated steak tips with fried onion rings and garlic mashed potatoes (decided to use all my daily calories in one meal!)
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Chicken fajitas on a sizzling platter. Served with all the fixings.
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And of course, a nice martini for dessert.
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Not @ Cheers I expect.

 

[Ron Evers]

Love pears & blue cheese but not sure honey mustard goes with it. I do make my own honey mustard.

What would be a good dressing? I've only had it with the honey mustard and trying to think of an alternative.

I dunno, honey mustard sounds yummy with the pears and blue cheese. I love sweet and salty together, and have always loved mustard with fruit. When I make my own, I tend to go heavier on the mustard than the honey.

I go heavy on the mustard in my boiled dressing with a bit of ginger & very hot ground chilies.

 

[terri]

My husband made dinner tonight. Slow baked salmon, with minced ginger in soy sauce. The broccoli is stir fried with minced garlic in grape seed oil, with a sauce of sesame oil, chili garlic paste and dry sherry.
It sounds complicated, but he's done it so often he can do it blindfolded.

 

[limr]

Damnit, I am hungry again!

 

[RowdyRay]

Love pears & blue cheese but not sure honey mustard goes with it. I do make my own honey mustard.

What would be a good dressing? I've only had it with the honey mustard and trying to think of an alternative.

Well.... I've made numerous pizzas with similar combos. The best was with pears, Gorgonzola and caramelized onions. Drizzled with a balsamic vinegar/brown sugar reduction. Grilled pears are fantastic filled with blue cheese. Even better with a little of the above drizzled on them.

Mustard is vinegar based, and why it works well with this type of combo. Think Vinaigrette. Some store bought may work. Or Google vinegar reductions. Everyone's taste buds are different. Have fun.

 

[gk fotografie]

I cook for the two of us almost every day, although very little Dutch cuisine that mainly consists of many types of cabbage, gravy, well-filled soups from the time when a lot of heavy labor was done and there were quite cold winters. I don't have the habit of photographing my dishes, I've done food photography for 30 years on a regular basis. I guess my last serious photo in this area must have been in 2008, maybe just put a camera next to the kitchen table for this food thread.

Since 1989 we live in the area where the original Gouda cheese comes from, the city of Gouda is less than 6 kilometers away, that's about 3.75 miles. I like all kinds of cheeses, as long as it's not blue cheese, starting my day with 'Goudse kaas' is still the best.
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Looks good! My Turkish daughter had cheese on toast every morning for breakfast.

Goudse kaas sounds so much nicer than plain old "cheese toast" - which my husband is a fan of for breakfast sometimes. He broils it.

Gouda, and smoked gouda, can be divine!

Interesting. Is this a regionalism? I call it 'grilled cheese.'

I remember in my first few months in Istanbul being invited for "tea and toast" (or 'tost' in Turkish). That's when I realized that 'tost' was actually a grilled cheese, and quite tasty, too. The Turks have some really yummy street food.

It's grilled cheese here, too - if it's an entire cooked sandwich. Looking at gk foto's picture again, I now see another piece of bread to the side, which does look like it's going to be grilled cheese - if he cooked it. With a single slice of bread layered with cheese like that, and broiled, here it would be called "cheese toast." I find it nasty, since only the top of the bread and the cheese itself gets that nice char - the bottom of the bread stays soft. ewww!

I think that's typically British, cheese with toast, the Dutch barely eat toast and certainly not for breakfast, I think we're much more French oriented with baguette, pistolet, crouissant. But, nevertheless we've something much better, although we never eat this in the morning, but for lunch or in the afternoon, namely TOSTI (in Belgium and France where it was invented a century ago it's called croque-monsieur) for which we take 2 square shaped slices of "casino" bread, in between enough cheese and ham plus some mustard, put it in a special tosti-toaster or on the fire (gas stove) in a tosti-iron - so both sides of the bread will be toasted - until the cheese is fully melted and the ham is warm. I used to drink a glass of tawny port with my tosti. Over the years, all kinds of variations have been invented and in Belgium they really put everything between those 2 slices of bread.

Maybe it's a strange habit, but we always like to do our toppings between 2 sandwiches at the same time and not on each sandwich separately, so both slices of bread together with the Gouda cheese you see in the picture went straight into my mouth and not into the grill, first.

 

[gk fotografie]

Almond, cream cheese pound cakes with raspberry sauce. These are a pain to make to get the ingredients evenly distributed. The good thing is they freeze well.
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Pear and blue cheese with home made croutons and honey mustard dressing.
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Thanksgiving pumpkin pie
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I made this last Christmas. Banana cake by scratch and I made the chocolate trees. First time using the can spray for the green.
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Flat bread pizza. Sun-dried tomato, garlic, spinach, cheese. I make this often for myself. Husband usually has meat on the grill.
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The food looks amazing and tasty, your photography is fantastic.

 

[JTBoeder]

Well here is one of the deserts that I make, with only 3 people in the house it lasts about 20 hours. Was my attempt at Apple Kucken, had family that would make apple coffee cake like this and was tying to recreate it.

 

[Gardyloo]

Food prior to processing

Apples, Washington

Dates, Israel

 

[Mike Drone]

Food prior to processing

Apples, Washington

Dates, Israel

It is amazing how much those Washington apples look like Macintosh apples. I think an apple pie is in order. =]