What did you cook or eat today (July 2019)?

The Velvet Curtain said:
The highlight of the meal was the snow crab, the mussel sauce with it was so wonderful I could have bathed in it.
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Yes indeed - I'd love to taste that. I'm experimenting with foams at the moment - may attempt a 'mussel foam' with crab! Looking at the menu, I thought the price of the menus very reasonable for a 'fine dining' experience.
 
morning glory said:
Yes indeed - I'd love to taste that. I'm experimenting with foams at the moment - may attempt a 'mussel foam' with crab! Looking at the menu, I thought the price of the menus very reasonable for a 'fine dining' experience.
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It was, given that a main course at a bar can cost £35
 
The Velvet Curtain said:
Strictly what Lu and I ate last night.

To start, steak tartar with dried egg yolk and caviar
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Then gazpacho with salt cod.
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The starter was snow crab cannelloni with a blue mussel foam.
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The fish course, hake with charred lettuce and a fish veloute
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Carrot and asparagas with a smoked confit egg yolk and a cauliflower cream
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Baby goat, potato profiteroles, greens and a tomato mayonaise
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A pallet cleanser of raspberry, rhubarb and elderflower

Then finally flavours of strawberry on chocolate with a strawberry churos.
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All washed down with a splendid white rioja.

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You live well.

Russ
 
morning glory said:
:ohmy: (faints...)


I've never paid that much for a bottle of wine. But - well, I suppose you are on holiday.
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First time I went to Singapore around 30 years ago I ordered a jug of beer from the pool area at $25. I said to the waiter for that price I'm taking the glass jug home, he laughed. I bought it home. My son has it now. A jug of beer would have been around $2 at home at the time,lol.

Russ
 
Monday night's dinner was a spicy bean stew after the style of Lokanta but done on the hob and with carrot tops instead of green beans, followed by chocolate cake and custard.

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Tuesday night's was a poached egg and paneer salad, followed by semolina with blueberries, gooseberries, and plums

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rascal said:
You live well.

Russ
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A holiday treat, we don't buy the latest gadgets or have wardobes stuffed with clothes and shoes, nice food and good vacations is how we choose to spend the disposible income we have.

Anyway, back to the food, last night it was Norwegian meatballs with brown gravy and a huge heap of veg. A modest meal but very tasty.
 
Yorky said: ↑
CP prawn wontons (with chilli flakes and fresh coriander).


We called to stock up on CP prawn wontons yesterday (2 or 3 tubs). They had 12 cases of 10 tubs each but all had been ordered already. Popular dish apparently.
 
rascal said:
First time I went to Singapore around 30 years ago I ordered a jug of beer from the pool area at $25. I said to the waiter for that price I'm taking the glass jug home, he laughed. I bought it home. My son has it now. A jug of beer would have been around $2 at home at the time,lol.

Russ
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It was only about 20 years ago but I remember there was a bar in Changi village where the beer was S$30.00/jug. However until 20:00 hrs they had happy hour at half price. Tiger. We visited there a lot.
 
Elawin said:
Monday night's dinner was a spicy bean stew after the style of Lokanta but done on the hob and with carrot tops instead of green beans, followed by chocolate cake and custard.

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Tuesday night's was a poached egg and paneer salad, followed by semolina with blueberries, gooseberries, and plums

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Lovely platefuls of food. Great colours.
 
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Yesterday July 2nd, a hellacious busy day.

Up at 4:30, travel down to Connecticut to do yardwork for putting that old house on the market. Ate two hard boiled eggs on the way (5:30 am), stopped once for a small coffee and a second time for a medium ice tea (the latter to bring to do yardwork with, it was going to be hot out). Arrive at the house at 7:20.

Did yardwork all morning. Lunch at an Asian restaurant at 12:30. Had:

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Lunch was (the above) Avocado salad, ginger/carrot sauce on the side. Baby octopus seaweed salad. A Japanese roll with cucumber wrap, containing tuna, salmon, yellowtail, avocado, and no rice. Hot green tea.

Left my old home to drive back north at 3 pm. Stopped for ice cream halfway up - a local dairy with their own free range pastured cows - chocolate dark chocolate chip and some real strawberry swirled into vanilla.

Dinner at the community center: pork chop and lots of asparagus.
 
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Oh, this morning, besides their feed, the chickens got scrambled eggs for breakfast. I save the really dirty or cracked eggs, and when I have 4-6 such, I scramble them and give them back. They love it! (Dirty AND cracked get composted.) They also got the tough stem region from my breakfast asparagus.
 
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