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22 February 2007

Mmmmm...burger →[More:]Tonight's dinner was hamburger with brick cheese (no bun) and a big pile of Frenched green beans with bell peppers, olives, garlic, and herbes de Provence.

What made it special? Two words: Truffle Salt. Ordinary supermarket ground beef went high order on the flavor front.

What's for dinner at your place?

post by: plinth at: 19:19 | 16 comments

Home-made tomato soup and garlic bread. mmmmmmmmmmm.

posted by gaspode 22 February | 19:32

We had chicken breasts and some veg that needed using, so I roasted the chicken, and concocted a kind of half-ratatouille-half-sauce out of onion and cherry tomatoes, with some garlic and herbs and a dash of cream to sweeten and thicken it up. Stir-fried the remaining veg.

I am usually very bad at concocting things, but the onion-tomato sauce turned out pretty darned nice. As a dish it probably could have done with a starch instead of one of the veggies, but you make do with what you've got.

posted by chrismear 22 February | 19:32

Going to the Mavs/Heat game (damn you D-Wade for chopping Battier yesterday and ruining all the drama) so I'll be having overpriced beer and possibly a hot dog or something else I pick up on the way home. I'd say look for me on TNT, but we sit kinda nosebleed, so I doubt it'd do any good (don't get me wrong...love the seats, they're just out of camera space).

posted by ufez 22 February | 19:44

I'm having leftover miso soup, and I'll make some more sushi I guess

posted by eekacat 22 February | 20:06

a big fat tuna fish sammich with fresh dill, baby spinach and swiss cheese on a homemade peasant hoagie roll (got all kinds of seedy crunchy goodness going on in here). with a side of corn chips and some homemade salsa.

in other news: the dahling roommate left the heat off all day so it's nippley in here. *shiver*

posted by lonefrontranger 22 February | 20:20

WOW./
That sounds amazing, plinth. Truffle Salt huh ¿ Here I was using onion soup mix into the lean ground for my burgers, mind you, real charcoal grilled, always. BBQ is not just for summer.

I'm thinking of adding chipotle peppers to the truffle salt or do you think it would be overkill ¿
Smokey, earthy burger. Hmmmm. Smoked burgers...oh...indeed. My BBQ has a side smoker...there's a project.

Homemade bread lonefrontranger ¿
Nice. I've thought a few times of doing this. I go through bread like crazy. Good bread costs — $4.00/loaf.

posted by alicesshoe 22 February | 20:28

Plinth, sounds damn good. It's amazing how little things like truffle salt, or foie gras butter, or a drizzle of really good aged balsamic can make even the simplest foods incredibly delicious.

I'm making seared duck breast with pinot-noir reduction, fingerling potatoes roasted in rendered duck fat, and lemon-butter haricots verts.

Haven't decided whether to make a salad as well. Probably won't 'cause I'm feeling lazy.

posted by dersins 22 February | 20:41

Please, lazy is putting a frozen pizza into the oven.

"Duck breast with pinot-noir reduction"? You can't cook lazy! No lazy-cook you! Pah! I deride your lazy-cooking abilities!

posted by chrismear 22 February | 21:03

I'm being so very, very bad tonight. Been craving Buffalo Dip for weeks now.

Boil a couple breasts, then shread and simmer in Franks red hot
Layer cream cheese on a dish. then hot sauce stuff. then blue cheese. then heat it up.

So bad. But so very, very good.

posted by kellydamnit 22 February | 21:18

Mmm, ground corpse of cow! Love it!

My supper tonight was the last of the chicken vegetable soup.

Tomorrow I'm making lentil soup with pork necks and ham hocks.

posted by mischief 22 February | 21:21

Ground corpse of cow makes me think of a Burger Joint in Davis, my old home town, out there in the central valley of California. It was called "Murder Burger" the tagline being "So good, they're to die for". Of course, when I was in college, some animal rights vegan spray painted "Cows Did" on it.

posted by eekacat 22 February | 21:26

alicesshoe: i'm highly fortunate in that my guy is (among other things) a splendid baker.

posted by lonefrontranger 22 February | 21:40

Parsnip soup made with a turkey vegetable stock and a mixed salad with feta and a red wine and truffle infused oil vinaigrette.

posted by arse_hat 22 February | 22:41

Our usual after grocery dinner - A&W chicken strips and poutine.

PS: Firefox spellcheck doesn't like poutine.

posted by deborah 23 February | 00:09

"PS: Firefox spellcheck doesn't like poutine."

Tabernac!

posted by arse_hat 23 February | 00:27

The poutine, the whinine, the sniveline...

posted by mischief 23 February | 01:04

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