What do you do to get ready for dinner? How do you prep? And what's the last thing you cooked?
For me... I Bring out the radio and strip down to my undies... It's time to dance... And cook! I can't cook if I'm not dancing. The music might be classic rock, oldies, hip hop, salsa or anything in between.
I chop and Shake my hips and play my music. Yesterday and today I played songs from my latina list.
Yesterday I made stuff squash. I blended veggies Italian sausage and ground lamb. I baked the squash and drizzled a sweet butter cinnamon nutmeg home made sauce over them before stuffing it with the cooked meat and veggies.Today Once more I strip down and I pull the radio out! Today's menu was nachos with homemade Guac Salsa and homemade cheese dip. I used yesterday's leftover meat and added bison to it. The kids wanted shimp so I quickly sauteed some up. For the kids I use regular nachos in for myself I used quest nachos.
It was quite a success.
Whats your dinner routine and what have you cooked recently?
I just have music blaring off the built in speakers either running off youtube on my tv or connect it to the bluetooth on my phone.
I have a glass of dry red (shiraz, merlot) most of the time (or a pale ale/lager beer if it’s hot) or a cup of coffee when I cook dinner.
I take a long time to figure out what i feel like having for dinner, so i usually plan it the night before. Saturday night for dinner i cooked Creamy dill garlic prawns with fettuccini at my mums place
Sunday night for dinner I cooked blue summer crab ginger stir fry and i had it with rice at my place..
Today being Monday night I didn’t cook dinner.. i had a late lunch from work and i don’t feel like dinner. I’ve just had a cup of coffee and tea lol
I haven't had wine in a while... 2mos? I usually drink Moscato. But coffee I have all the time... My only vice! Both dishes look delicious. 😋 Shrimp is so good. Seeing your post now has me in the mood for it for breakfast. Oh and I love crab. I've actually never cooked it myself though 🤷 I've cooked lobster though. That's a really good pic of the crab! Looks very appetizing.
Moscato is good when i’m doing like a bbq for some of my girlfriends :) but yes.. coffee is always a MUST! It’s pure liquid golddd 🤭 I love cooking with crab but i don’t eat it as much. All that work and only getting some meat lol it’s a lot of work even for just “eating” dinner 🤭😂 Picking the best crab, i turn the crab upside down and press on its chest. If it’s rock hard it’s good (meaning lots of meat). I just clean it and crack it’s shell open with a cleaver (it has its guts and stuff in there which i save) it’s really good for a more intense crabby flavour and i often cook with blue swimmer crab (it turns orange when it’s cooked) and spanner crab too if it’s on the market. Thank you! 😬
Dinner in my household is almost always the same routine Mondays through Thursdays... salad, soup, red meat or seafood, fruits, water & wine. However, we change ingredients every night... Always a different type of salad, always a different bowl of soup, different kind of meat or seafood (and the way they're spiced up & cooked), a different kind of grape or berry or pome, etc. or varieties of fruits, a different bottle of wine every night. We never change the kind of water we drink... always filtered, refrigerated water.
Unless we have guests, we hardly add desserts Mon-Thurs.
It's in the weekend nights when dinner varies depending on who's coming over. Usually, we brew up big, "killer" feasts here at home! ... the kinds that'll shorten one's lifespan! Lol.
I'd like to be invited to dinner at your home. Sounds like fun! :) :) :)
I have recently returned to a low carb diet and my meals are usually a meat and a vegetable, such as a steak and asparagus. I wash the asparagus and lay it on a broiler pan beside the steak, drizzle with extra light olive oil, minced garlic and pepper. I broil the steak six minutes per side and I turn the asparagus when I turn the steak over. Cooks up perfect!
Made a traditional Lebanese stew last night, called Moghrabieh. It's a stew featuring Semolina balls, boiled chicken, chicken broth, chick peas, spices, and parsley. Typically, I cook the dish with my significant other while listening to a podcast. Afterwards, we dim the lights and enjoy the meal.
Not my picture (forgot to take one) but this is what the dish looks like
I really don't I change everything up all the time I'm always trying new things This time I took the pork steak put it in the blender grounded it all up made like hamburger patties determine the egg flower salt pepper garlic that's because I was just way too hungry to mess around with anything LOL p e e l e d potatoes boil them made mashed potatoes and add some green beans
There's a lot of times that I will make something the night before like tonight I was thinking about boiling potatoes and making a potato salad tomorrow at least they would be all cooked
For dinner, we usually have one dish of meat mixed with vegetables and 1-4 dishes of purely vegetables, usually a mixture of different types on each dish and we mix it with around 2-7 cups of rice and eat the meat and vegetables buffet style where everybody can choose what to put on their plate and how much of each dish they want to eat, my parents have a rule I have to eat all our vegetables flavours, but I can say no to the meat if I don’t like it.
YES! GUYS DOING THE DISHES LOL Ya My guys my dish washer 🤭... But that what he gets for removing the dish washer off the appliances order list 8 years ago when we bought the house... Claiming it wasn't necessary... So I vowed fine if that's what you decided to do now you'll be the dish washer I'm refuse to do them... I stuck to that promise 🤣
Aaaah Beck G I wanted to do so many things with that woman hahaha! I eat between 10:30 and 6:30 and eat two meals a day. My dinner routine is just cooking whatever I feel like. I always cook in the cast iron pan. Sucks i live in an apt with no way to use a grill. I've never had the chance to get good with one but I love grilled food so much. As long as it's Keto I'm good to go.
I've made chicken tacos... with tortilla instead of the taco shell thing... and added some mozzarella and some salad and some chicken and some dressings it tasted good and everyone liked it so I'm glad
@ChefPapiChulo I used mortar and pestle some of it to give it that greener color. I added those basil to give it a leafy appearance like how spinach look but I don't add spinach because it weakens the flavor. So yeah it just looks better as whole. After all that's not pasta. It's a stew like dish. with big chunks of other stuff.
Yes I can see that the sauce is thicker. It’s a thick stew, because the liquid is closer to a sauce consistency. But either way that looks like restaurant quality just by looks. And if it looks good it taste good. Usually.
if you cooked the dish in a stewing process, which is using less liquid than a soup to stew the ingredients. Than its a stew. But if the liquid becomes thick enough, than its a sauce. It would still be a stew tho. Hopefully that makes sense.
@ChefPapiChulo I know what stewing is. It takes longer, it's like a mixture of sauce and soup but what I meant by "stew like" is stew usually have big chunks of other things and cooked in a flavorful liquid. Just like green curry minus the stock, and it's just a thicker consistency. It's appearance still has that stew like appearance which is what i'm talking about and why i don't chiffonade the basils.
Example of what your talking about is Goulash. But really sometimes goulash has a consistency of a curry or a stroganoff. I may even consider stroganoff as something that's "stew like" because there's no specific name for food cooked in sauce or maybe there is but I don't know it. Safe to say "Stew like"
So how long did you cook those ingredients in a liquid? or did you add it towards the end? that seems to be the determining factor, but i think i know what you're saying. If you're saying its stew like but its not a stew because you didn't cook for a longtime in the liquid than id agree with what you're saying.
@ChefPapiChulo It's not basically cooked in a liquid because I added the coconut cream later just when the chicken and eggplant is cooked. I only added some coconut cream at the start for it's natural oil used to sautee the curry paste then added the rest later.
yeah then it's not a stew. But i do understand what you mean by saying stew like. And i somewhat agree with that. Because the liquid is basically covering it. Which is a characteristic of being a stew.
I would love to cook with you... I just finished cooking a brisket all night long. I did not think to strip down and dance but who knows, maybe next time... lol
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