Satyrday dinner 7 August

VeraBlue

VeraBlue

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This weekend is the 10th annual Satchmo Festival - we'll be in the Quarter listening to local and visiting bands all playing great jazz and paying homage to Louis Armstrong - I'm also looking forward to duck po'boys and crawfish eggrolls.

I started dinner already so when we get back all I have to do is cook it.

Our cocktail this evening is a Queen's Park Swizzle, made with lime, mint, bitters and rum.

First course is marinated and grilled portobello mushrooms with goat cheese on boston lettuce.

Second course is crawfish stuffed pork chops, sauteed brussels sprouts and sweet potato hash.

Dessert is baba au rum from Brocatto's in Mid City.

No idea what the wine is tonight.


Anyone else??
 
omg, Vera.. that sounds like such fun!

Me.. I've made a leftover cold chicken sandwich on potato bread to take to work (lettuce, tomato and bread and butter pickles packed separately) an orange and some cashews too.
 
I'm making potato salad this morning, and we'll have brats and potato salad for dinner. Vera, your energy level is just amazing. I hope you and Lou have an infinitely enjoyable day and evening - sounds heavenly.
 
Keltin's Grilled Meatloaf is hanging out in the fridg. I'll toss some fresh green beans in a skillet and serve with a dash of lemon grated parmasean along with garlic smashed potatoes.
 
Sounds delicious everybody! That smoked meatloaf is soooo good! I am not sure what we are doing for dinner yet. Maybe some sort of fish again.
 
Just started a pot of beef, barley and veggie soup. It's such icky weather today.. I needed something warm and comfy. :-)
 
Baked whole wheat bread this morning, heating up the WFO. So I have some corn roasting in the residual heat. When that's done, I'll fire it up again, just a little, and throw some salmon in (with fire burning). Serving all that with watermelon salad ( Recipe Here )
 
Since I'm a nice guy, I am actually letting my wife do some cooking tonight. She's an accomplished chefette, so this isn't anything scary.
She's doing the oven pot roast; I'll do the mashed taters. She'll do the gravy; I'll do the salad. WE will do the over-eating, LOL!
 
It's gonna be salmon again tonight. Gonna do some sort of spice rub this time. Fresh green beans with garlic butter.
 
We're having spaghetti and meatballs, but crawfish stuffed pork chops sounds really, really good. We used to get pork chops from Hebert's in Maurice, Louisiana stuffed with a crawfish/etouffee/rice dressing that were just fabulous. Can't wait to see yours, Vera. I love crawfish any way, any time.
 
Everyones meals sound awesome!!

Chicken was on sale so I got a large package of cutlets. I used 1/2 for dinner last night and tonights dinner is basically the same thing as last night only prepared different.

Chicken Parmesan, fried red tomato slice, steamed baby spinach and tomato salad.

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Okay, back home from the festival!! Pastries have been purchased. I'm on my cocktail, and Lou is making his.

Now...to get the chops sauteed so I can finish them in the oven. (think I lost a pound of water weight this afternoon!)
 
Vera, I hope you have the strength to take some pictures before you eat...I know Jerry was a little taken aback tonight when he came into the kitchen to grab his dinner and take it out to the patio, and I said, "WAIT! I have to take a picture!" Here's our All-American dinner - not fancy - hot dogs and potato salad. Some fresh, diced mangoes.
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Mhend, your salmon looks perfect! And the green beans! My hubby would love your dinner - probably better than the one he had - LOL. How did you do the salmon? It looks so moist.
 
MexicoKaren said:
Mhend, your salmon looks perfect! And the green beans! My hubby would love your dinner - probably better than the one he had - LOL. How did you do the salmon? It looks so moist.
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Thank you! I am not 100 percent certain of the amounts because I just kinda put it all together and hoped it turned out well! :lol: These are the spices I used, and probably no more than a teaspoon of each...a little less for the chili powder and cumin and allspice:

For the rub:

1/2 C. Brown Sugar
Kosher salt and fresh cracked pepper
Chili Powder
Cumin
Garlic Powder
Onion Powder
Allspice
Smoked Paprika
Olive Oil

I mixed all that together and put it on the salmon, rubbing it in well. I heated the olive oil in an iron skillet on med. high heat. Then I placed the salmon, skin side down in the skillet and let it sear for a couple of minutes, flipped it and did the same on that side. Then I finished it off in the oven at 400 for about 10-15 minutes. I like my salmon a little more on the well done side, but doing it this way allows it to stay moist.

For the green beans, I par-boil them to get them a little tender and really green them up.

I roasted the garlic in some olive oil by tipping the pan and letting the oil gather at one end. Once the garlic starts to turn golden, take it out. Then I added bacon and cooked till crisp. Remove the bacon from the pan and take the green beans out of the boiling water and put them directly into the bacon grease and olive oil. Put the garlic and bacon back in the pan and toss it all together on med heat for 5 minutes or so. Then I just finished them with some kosher salt. Turned out really good!

Here is a pic of the garlic roasting...a friend of mine from Italy taught me this method and I am addicted! The garlic tastes so good this way.

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:a1: Wow!!
Nice everyone!
Peeps, I have never tried frying a red tomato, but it looks delicious!
Karen, I love the dogs.. the whole plate.:thumb:
Mhend... you're making me want to make rubbed salmon again.
LOVELY food!!!!
 
smoked ribs, hot wings and burgers impromptu community effort with the neighbors nice grillin' on the sidewalk saturday night in the city
 
Thanks so much for the recipe/instructions, mhend! Next time I find some good salmon and good fresh green beans, I am definitely going to try and duplicate that dinner. I never thought of cooking garlic that way - great idea. Muchas gracias!
 
MexicoKaren said:
Thanks so much for the recipe/instructions, mhend! Next time I find some good salmon and good fresh green beans, I am definitely going to try and duplicate that dinner. I never thought of cooking garlic that way - great idea. Muchas gracias!
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You are very welcome! I hope you enjoy it!
 
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