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Post by Tom Earp on Nov 17, 2010 14:19:48 GMT -5
Thawing out a slab of fish to bake in butter and lemon juice. Side of a baked potatoe/cheese, and great Northern beans.
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Post by Tom Earp on Nov 19, 2010 14:45:36 GMT -5
Well, really fall temps are hitting us so warmer type vitials for sure! Thawing out HOME MADE chicken noodle soup! BTW, not Cambells in a can, LOL! ;D Add some buttered crackers, celery salt and pepper and good to go!  |
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Post by dekeguy on Nov 21, 2010 20:49:34 GMT -5
Queso dip with natcho chips. Homeade chili with sour cream, guacamole, chopped onions. Chili rellenos stuffed with chorizo sausage. Sam Adams Oktoberfestbier. Coffee and cheesecake.
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Post by Tom Earp on Nov 22, 2010 14:08:16 GMT -5
Salvatating at the moment reading this!  Your menus are so delicious sounding as usual!! Need you to explain some of the stuff you are putting in as I am just a basic cooker from Kansas! LOL! You must add some of your menus and what your recipe is in that thread!!!!!!! |
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Post by dekeguy on Nov 23, 2010 17:36:50 GMT -5
HOT DAMN! Its working! I get to say hello without having to deal with the perpetually locked up threads.
Good to be back on.
Tonight is slow simmered point cut corned beef and cabbage with potatoes, onions, and carrots. Its been in the crock pot all day so it should be good by the time I get home.
With that I have some toasted artisan bread and herb butter. Dessert is an apple crumb cake I got at the food store last night topped with rum butter hard sauce.
The corned beef will overpower most wines so it will be Killians Irish Red for the main course and some pro-secco fizz for dessert.
Fire place, my old briar with some Capt Black, my girlfriend making the espresso, geez life is tough. Hope all is well with you. Hope you have a grand thanksgiving.
Peter
* I have been in Europe for a few weeks, need to tell you about some stories. Good to be home.
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Post by Tom Earp on Nov 24, 2010 13:39:40 GMT -5
Hey dekeguy finally worked with server to try and make sure the perpetual lock situation was taken care of! Good to see you able to do your thing! So, how is old London Town? As I remember, most food there is very drab!!! If you can find it, try some Boulavard Beer, made in Kanss City! Very good! Never was good with cornbeaf and cabbage myself. Have you tried Paladin Black Cherry in your pipe? Smells so good when I open a new box! Capt. Black white pouch? |
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Post by T J Gordon on Nov 24, 2010 14:00:14 GMT -5
The Jigg's dinner sounded so good, I'm going with Andrea to Claddaugh for dinner to get some Irish fare.
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Post by dekeguy on Dec 8, 2010 17:46:24 GMT -5
Tonight looks like chicken in red wine with mushrooms, onions, bacon, and pine nuts over cous cous cooked with chicken stock.
Start with tre colore salad with balsamic vinegarette and finish with bananas foster. A glass or three of shiraz and a bottle of pellegrino water. Then a bottle of Veuve Cliquot la Grande Dame for toasting. Its my date's birthday and she is insisting on doing the cooking. Hope my present hits the mark if she is doing the work on her day.
No cake - she wants the bananas foster, but maybe some Fonseca 89 for the fireplace later. I don't know the '85 but she seems delighted with it.
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Post by Tom Earp on Dec 9, 2010 13:09:47 GMT -5
Hope both she and you had a Happy Bithday for her! Sounds you got pretty good one who will do the cooking on her day! ;D Temp is dropping so home made chili is sounding tasty. Add a bit of viniger, grate some sharp chedder cheese on top to melt. Add saltines and butter on the side with stuffed green olives and dill pickle spears. Later, home made ice cream over some bannana nut bread for dessert. dekeguy, as always your menus sound so great! |
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Post by dekeguy on Dec 10, 2010 9:28:00 GMT -5
Friday! Shrimp Remoulade followed by fillet of Salmon roasted with some capers and thin sliced onion that was marinated in olive oil. New potatoes boiled in Zatarain's crab boil spices and asparagus grilled with sea salt and garlic.
Some Pavillion Blanc and a bottle of Apolonaris fizz water.
Pear flan for dessert with pear eau de vie.
Demitasse
Then back to the fire place to kick back with my favorite old briar with an aromatic mix I got in London two weeks ago. A snifter of Martel for me, a Drambuie for her, and a CD she found on ebay.
By the way, she loved her present from last night.
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Post by dekeguy on Dec 10, 2010 9:37:04 GMT -5
The Jigg's dinner sounded so good, I'm going with Andrea to Claddaugh for dinner to get some Irish fare. A Jiggs Dinner! Wow, shades of Maggie and Jiggs. I thought I was one of a very few who remembered that comic strip. My dad had a great collection of classic funny pages favourites bound in book form that I liked to read way back when. Do you remember when the Maggie and Jiggs strip ended? As to corned beef, I prefer point cut which has more fat but if you give it a good long boil it renders most of the fat off and the flavour is really great. I like it sliced and on an onion roll with deli mustard. Makes me really wish I was New York Irish so I could have grown up with corned beef and deli fixings. |
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Post by T J Gordon on Dec 10, 2010 10:26:19 GMT -5
I'm not familiar with the comic strip... Corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, carrots etc is nick-named Jigg's Dinner aropund here anyway. I like plenty of horseradish with the corned beef also. :-)
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Post by Tom Earp on Dec 10, 2010 15:10:27 GMT -5
dekeguy once again a well defined menu and libations. Glad your Lady Friends B D went well, LOL! T J yes you are younger as we chatted and at my mature age, I remember them, but not their menu! ;D Since Debbie, Bookems wife stopped by to drop off a care package, I am deciding whether to do-Beef Roast, taters(mashed) and gravy + carrots, or d a roast beef sandwitch with horse radish on it with other sides? Damn, a single Dudes life ia never done from decisions! ;D Mentioning sea food, now thinking Shrimp, boiled of course for Sunday FootBall Sunday. Temp is supposed to be HIGH of + 22. Might even do the fire place thing! Remember dekeguy, single life is not bad! |
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Post by dekeguy on Dec 12, 2010 15:09:39 GMT -5
I'm not familiar with the comic strip... Corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, carrots etc is nick-named Jigg's Dinner aropund here anyway. I like plenty of horseradish with the corned beef also. :-) The comic strip was one of the very old ones dating back to the 1920s. Jiggs was a laborer who won the Irish Sweepstakes and then invested in some solid deals that prospered through the depression years. His wife Maggie was a social climber who tried to polish up Jiggs and generally made his life pretty miserable with her snobbish antics. Jiggs liked nothing better than to go to Dinty Moore's Tavern for corned beef and cabbage which ticked off Maggie who considered this dish to be unacceptable now that they were rich. The premise of the strip was that Jiggs was a regular guy who didn't let wealth go to his head. Maggie was the opposite. Their antics were always preposterous and usually pretty funny. I suspect the term Jiggs Dinner was inspired by the strip where Jiggs is always sneaking out of the mansion to go have corned beef and cabbage with his old friends. Since this is supposed to be about dinner I'll mention that tonight will be rib steaks in an Irish whisky sauce with oven roast potato wedges seasoned with Tony's Creole Seasoning. I'll skip wine tonight and drink Irish whisky with soda to wash things down. |
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Post by T J Gordon on Dec 13, 2010 11:14:15 GMT -5
Since this is supposed to be about dinner I'll mention that tonight will be rib steaks in an Irish whisky sauce with oven roast potato wedges seasoned with Tony's Creole Seasoning. I'll skip wine tonight and drink Irish whisky with soda to wash things down. [/quote] Did you have Jamesons or Bushmill for your Irish whiskey?? Just owndering Green or Orange Irish  |
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