Showing posts with label Pork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pork. Show all posts

Sunday, August 8, 2010

A Catch Up Post (Sunday, August, 2010)

After going on vacation in June and moving an hour north of New York City while renovating our apartment, we've been a bit distracted lately.  Here's a little catch up post of food we've been cooking for the past month.

Great Pickles

Ground beef with Turkish seasonings on skewers

Kimchi hotdogs

Endive with fig, goat cheese and pecans with a reduced balsamic sauce

Vietnamese summer rolls

Lamb Chops from our CSA

Thomas Keller's Fried Chicken





Swiss chard

Tamales: pork and mushroom

Homemade chocolate cake with homemade mint chocolate chip ice cream for Ethan's birthday

Jasper White's Lobster Corn Chowder



Sunday, July 11, 2010

Tuscany, Day 2 (Saturday June 12, 2010)



We loved the Osteria we ate at the night before, that we went back for seconds tonight.


We had melon, prosciutto,  and sundried tomatoes as antipasti.


The waiter suggested a beef dish... we opted not to get it, but then he brought it anyway. It was great!


And Janet and I decided that the boar pasta I had the night before was a winner, so we both ordered it again.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Dinner at Broeding in Munich (Friday June 4, 2010)

Janet and I have lot's of catching up on our meals during our trip to Europe! For our second breakfast in Munich, our friend Pyul took us to Victorian House where we had scones, jam, and clotted cream. Yum!


A bit later in the day we stopped at a lovely beer garden for a pick-me-up beer. The pretzels were fine, but not nearly as good as the ones we had the night before.


After fortifying us with beer, Pyul took us to get currywurst. Her favorite currywurst place wasn't open, but this restaurant's offerings were fine by me!  The dish consists of chopped up frankfurters, fries, curry ketchup, a sprinkling of curry powder. We ordered another plate of it after finishing this one.


We stopped for a coffee and a sweet. I had some marzipan cookies and we each had a little white chocolate confection topped with candied rose petals.



And for dinner we had an amazing meal at Broeding. There's a nice write-up about the restaurant in the New York Times. There is a single choice each night, so whatever the chef is serving is what one orders (with an option of adding a cheese course).


Couscous salad with fish

Scallops with wonderfully buttery kohlrabi and an arugula salad 

Soup with sliced speck

Janet liked the tuna, even though she usually isn't a fan. 

Super-tasty lamb with white asparagus.

It was asparagus season in Bavaria and we saw huge mounds of it being sold on the street:


Back to the meal at Broeding:

Can't remember what this was, but it was sweet and came with melon. On the melon was strands of what looked like saffron, but I think it must've been something else because there wasn't a saffron taste.

Mascarpone mousse

I also had the cheese course... Whereas the preceding meal was amazing, the cheese was unremarkable. It was a slice of reasonably decent brie--I had been hoping for the cheese to be a revelation rather than something I can get at most American supermarkets.

Friday, May 28, 2010

Spam & Kimchi (Thursday May 27, 2010)


We had leftover rice salad with kimchi and spam. Yum!

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Spaghetti Carbonara (Sunday, May 17, 2010)

Ethan made Spaghetti Carbonara tonight with a salad.  I took the leftovers to work the next day.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Pork Tenderloin & Banana Pudding (Saturday May 16, 2010)

We had a few friends over for dinner and Janet made a feast!

She made some crab mushroom appetizers. They were good, but not exactly what she had in mind. Janet wanted to recreate a mushroom dish that Maro, our sister-in-law, made--but it turns out we had the wrong recipe.


We have decided to try to buy all our meats from local farmers. This is the first dish we've made using meat from Lewis-Waite Farm (which we get through our Community Supported Agriculture group).

Janet marinated a pork tenderloin using Ina Garten's recipe. It was so good!


I made some mashed potatoes and asparagus (which Janet picked up at our farmers' market) to go along with the pork.


Janet also made the most amazing banana pudding using the recipe from the Magnolia Bakery. She reduced the cream from 3 cups to 2, but I couldn't tell the difference from the original. It is so delicious!

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Spaghetti Carbonara (Tuesday, April 27, 2010)

Ethan made my favorite dish, spaghetti carbonara!  We ate almost a pound of pasta - there was only a tiny bit leftover...I could've easily kept eating but had to just stop myself before Ethan thought I turned into a pig ; )

Arugula


For dessert, I picked up some Magnolia's Bakery banana pudding.  My cousin Brandon mentioned that he's not a fan of bananas or pudding, but he LOVED this particular dessert at Magnolia's.  This was enough to intrigue me.  I had to try it and it was so incredibly good.  This is now my favorite dessert at Magnolia's - who knew I would like it as much as I do. 



Saturday, April 24, 2010

Flor de Mayo (Thursday, April 22, 2010)

This restaurant is a little gem in the Upper West Side.  It's inexpensive and their rotisserie chicken and Lomo Saltado are the BEST!  I forgot my camera tonight, but Ethan took some of these photos on his iphone.

We tried a new dish tonight, the Pork Adobo which was their daily special.  It was pretty good, although I don't know if I'd order it again.  The Lomo Saltado is a beef stir fry with french fries on top.  We ordered it with yellow rice and a side of sweet plantains.

Lomo Saltado


Pork Adobo



Sweet Plantains


Yellow Rice



Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Spaghetti (Wednesday April 21, 2010)

Ethan made a delicious spaghetti with garlic bruschetta and melon wrapped in prosciutto.  The pasta was whole wheat thin spaghetti.  I think the thin pasta made it harder to distinguish the grainier texture typical of most whole wheat pasta.  I'm excited to have leftovers for lunch tomorrow.





Side of sauteed beet greens

Guchujong pork (Monday 4/19/10)


We had pork that was marinated in guchujong, miso, malt syrup, garlic, ginger, sesame seed oil, and soy sauce. Our ban chan included oi (cucumber) kimchi and radish kimchi made by Janet's mom, jicima, napa cabbage kimchi, and gim (seaweed). 

I also made the dough for a batch of almost-no-knead bread... The dough has to sit for at least 12 hours, so it'll be baked tomorrow night.


Sunday, March 28, 2010

Guchujong pork (Thursday 3/25/10)

I defrosted some pork roast (we get a big pork roast from Costco and divide it up to make 4 different dishes) and made a guchujong pork dish. I based it a bit on what I remembered putting into guchujong chicken a couple of weeks ago, but no potatoes and more of a braise than a stew.

The main flavors in the dish are guchujong (Korean chili paste), tahini (sesame paste), sesame seed oil, and ginger. A bit more subtle are soy, Korean chili pepper, and garlic.


One of my regular banchan is grated daikon with a little salt and mirin. For some reason, tonight I unthinkingly put in soy sauce (instead of salt) and experimented with using Korean malt syrup instead of mirin. Both are mistakes... the daikon needs light flavors that bring out its taste, not heavier flavors that mask it. Plus the soy gave it an unappetizing brown color.

The daikon is at "9 o'clock" below. Going clockwise are radish kimchi (one of my favorites), geem, Korean zucchini, and ojingo (dried squid in guchujong).


Janet's coworker Julie sent her home with a huge slice of chocolate cake. It was great! The recipe comes from Ina Garten (aka the Barefoot Contessa) and Janet has sworn to try making it herself.


Thursday, March 25, 2010

Pasta with sausage (Tuesday March 23, 2010)



Everyone's heard of chocolate covered strawberries?  For dessert we decided to experiment with strawberry covered (Easter) chocolate:


It turns out there's a reason this hadn't been invented.