Show Us Your Great Meals This Week And Your Recipes

[Refractordude]

It was so good I made the same stew this evening. This time I added a chopped onion to the jasmine rice. Now I have a bunch of wingtips for a soup. Left click the image.

[Makuser]

Tonight Sheri and I had air roasted salmon fillets and air fried potato wedges:

Sorry, but I couldn't resist a taste test of the salmon before I took the picture. The recipe is easy. 4 medium potatoes washed and wedged, 2 tablespoons of olive oil and 2 tablespoons of Emeril's original Essence mixed in bowl. For 1 pound of salmon 1/2 tablespoon of fresh lemon juice and 1 tablespoon of Emeril's original Essence.

[Refractordude]

Chicken wings again. This time stewed with garlic, paprika, cumin, sea salt, diced potatoes, and black eye peas. Stocking up on the wing tips for a nice soup. I may just deep fry them. I love crispy fried wing tips. Left click the image.

[Refractordude]

Fried the wheat flour covered Whiting fish fillets with pepper and sea salt. The jasmine rice was cooked with broccoli cuts, sea salt, and garlic. Left click the image.

[Refractordude]

Fish fillets stewed with a bell pepper, onion, tomato, mucho garlic, Italian seasonings, and Kerrygold butter. Served over jasmine rice. I let it condense down to about four parts water and one part butter. Left click the image.

[Arsene37]

Here is my "pot-au-feu" : Boiled beef ( 2 different pieces, today beef cheek and beef rib not seen here) together with leek, turnip, potato, carrots and onion(with a clove), pepper. Add salt later. Eat with my personal condiment : half ketchup, half mustard.

Enjoy !

[pakarinen]

No pics, but bacon-wrapped scallops and grilled octopus with whipped potatoes for dinner last night. Heavens, it’s tasty!

[Makuser]

Hi all. Sheri and I usually just make a roasted turkey breast for Thanksgiving, but we still had a 14.5 pound turkey in the freezer. This was leftover from last year but my mother and youngest son couldn't make it down here from Alabama and it was the same this year. So, out it came and it turned out quite well with the dressing, mashed potatoes, lima beans, and gravy. So we went through the usual ritual of reheats, sandwiches, turkey noodle soup, and I even made a chilled turkey salad. So, here is the final dish and then it's gone. Here is our Turkey Ala King:

This is an easy recipe from my mother that we added a few changes over the years.
4 qt. stock pot
3 cups of chopped (bite sized) turkey pieces (white, dark, or mixed meat)
1 cup of diced celery (I like to de string the backs with a small peeler first)
1 cup of young peas
1/2 cup of diced white onions
3 tbs. diced pimientos
1 can of chicken stock
2.5 cups of milk
3 tbs. butter
1/4 cup of corn starch (mixed with water)
Kosher salt
Ground black pepper
Ladle the finished Turkey Ala King onto hot buttered toast.
First add everything but the milk, butter, and corn starch into the pot and bring to a low boil (to cook the vegetables)
Remember to keep stirring. Then reduce the heat and add the milk and butter. Keep stirring. When it is consistent, now raise the temperature to a low boil again and add the stirred corn starch and water mixture until the milk thickens and keep stirring. Don't let it get too hot with milk in the mix! Add the Kosher salt and ground black pepper making frequent taste tests to get the flavor that you want. Remember, you can always add more salt, but you can't remove too much. The above quantities will nicely cover 10 pieces of hot buttered toast.
Addition options:
1. Some recipes call for sliced baby portobello (cremini) mushrooms. Another is diced green bell peppers.
2. For seasoning, you can also add sweet paprika, lemon pepper, or tarragon.
This same recipe also works fine for Chicken Ala King too. I hope that you get a chance to try this and that you enjoy it.

[Refractordude]

If your ever in the Fairfax Virginia area tryout ShishKabob Express. I really enjoyed my first time eating Persian food. It was very good with about 20 items on the buffet. It is not a fancy place, but welcoming, clean, and just $15 bucks. I had two and half plates. Really time for me cut back and go on a diet. I can not tell you what is on the plate. However, it was all good. Left click the image.

[Makuser]

Hi all. Here is our Christmas morning breakfast. Loaded Veggie and Cheese Omelettes:

Recipe:
6 eggs, lightly beaten
2 Tbs milk
2 Tbs. chopped white onion
4 black olives, sliced and the slices quartered
2 Tbs. chopped green peppers
1 Tbs. diced pimientos
2 slices of deli sliced cheddar cheese chopped
1/2 tsp. garlic salt
1 tsp. Kosher salt
1/4 tsp. ground black pepper
Stir everything well
If like me, you never mastered flipping an omelette in a 10" pan successfully, you can use this:

My mother gave us this for a Christmas present in 2004. You just pour the preparation into the 4 wells and in 10-11 minutes you have perfect omelettes. And, you also have the Christmas colors too. Red from the pimientos, Green from the bell pepper, and White from the onions. This was a great way to start a beautiful day along with some V8 or Clamato juice. I hope that all of you are enjoying a wonderful time with family and friends today along with lots of great food.

[Juno16]

The frozen turkey had a hole in the packaging when I thawed it out.
So, we went out searching the stores. No turkeys!

Decided on a change. Crawfish Etouffee! Cooking soon.

[OzEclipse]

Australia being hot at Christmas, lighter cold meals are a real treat. The seafood counter at the supermarket in Young had beautiful seafood when i went shopping on Thursday. i didn't go on Friday to avoid really crazy crowds.

They had tiger prawns that were just so plump and fresh, not a dark head or glazed eye in sight. I ate them straight away on Thursday night in a prawn and avocado salad. not wanting to give them any chance to go off at all.

Christmas Day
Salmon belly portions pan grilled with crispy skin served with a tomato and avocado salad. Love my gas stove. Always found it so hard to regulate temps on my old electric stove in Canberra.

Young is one of the premiere cherry growing regions in Australia. One more perk living out here. I bought this 2kg box of prime ripe A grade cherries from a local grower at a cost of USD10/kg, roughly half the price they are charging in the city for sub-prime cherries. The cherries available in the city have to be picked earlier to give them time to wholesale and distribute before Christmas. For reference, the width of my thumb is about 21mm.

The first fruits off my apricot tree look like they'll be ready in about a weeks time. Still tinges of green on the yellowing skin. This is a picture of last years ripe crop.

When the apricots are done, my peaches are just about ready to pick.

[turboscrew]

My Christmas food: boiled potatoes, carrot casserole, liver casserole, two sorts of mayonnaise-salad (don't know what they are called in English) and ham. In the glass there's beer-like stuff I don't know an English word for. That was ofteh used as a drink in the hay fields and such. Called "kalja". Maybe @pakarinen knows...?

Portion 1 of 2.

[turboscrew]

My Christmas food: boiled potatoes, carrot casserole, liver casserole, two sorts of mayonnaise-salad (don't know what they are called in English) and ham. In the glass there's beer-like stuff I don't know an English word for. That was ofteh used as a drink in the hay fields and such. Called "kalja". Maybe @pakarinen knows...?

Portion 1 of 2.

Hmm, the Russian version of kalja seems to be called kvass.

[turboscrew]

Today quite similar 2 portions as in my previous post. Just a bit more casseroles.
The second Christmas time I recall, when I ate a bit too much. I don't remember when the previous incident happened, but we still lived in the old place, so that must have been 1996 - 1999.

[Ylem]

Perogies tonight!

These are not our homemade version though, just some store bought ones.

[SkyHiker]

Endive wrapped in ham with a DIY cheese sauce. This is a recipe that my mother used to make. About two hours in the oven at 350 covered with aluminum foil, take it off the last 20 minutes to let it caramelize. I had it with some fresh baked Irish soda bread with butter and a garden salad.

[turboscrew]

Endive wrapped in ham with a DIY cheese sauce. This is a recipe that my mother used to make. About two hours in the oven at 350 covered with aluminum foil, take it off the last 20 minutes to let it caramelize. I had it with some fresh baked Irish soda bread with butter and a garden salad.

Looks good, and it looks like a man's portion.

[notFritzArgelander]

Not a meal, just dessert. My daughter asked that I recreate the Poires Bourdaloue that she remembers from past December holidays and so I obliged.

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It consists of an open shell tart crust of pate brisee', which when baked is coated with a glaze made from apricot jam and kirsch cooked until it clarifies a bit. Then a layer of almond cream and cocoanut macaroon flavored custard. This almond cream is then impressed with halved pears poached in vanilla and lemon syrup. An overcoating of the apricot-kirsch glaze is then applied. Finally a garniture of blanched pistachio and crushed macaroon tops it off.

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[turboscrew]

Not a meal, just dessert. My daughter asked that I recreate the Poires Bourdaloue that she remembers from past December holidays and so I obliged.

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It consists of an open shell tart crust of pate brisee', which when baked is coated with a glaze made from apricot jam and kirsch cooked until it clarifies a bit. Then a layer of almond cream and cocoanut macaroon flavored custard. This almond cream is then impressed with halved pears poached in vanilla and lemon syrup. An overcoating of the apricot-kirsch glaze is then applied. Finally a garniture of blanched pistachio and crushed macaroon tops it off.

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Looks delicious, and sounds even more delicious. I think I'd eat even the glass coating of the plate.