What did you cook today June 2016?

[Morning Glory]

Mod Edit: Each Month, we will start a new thread called "What did you cook today?"
It is for you write up what you have eaten on that day. As simple as that. The thread is simply to show what you have cooked and eaten because it varies so much from person to person and from country to country. Feel free to cover any meal or snack that you have eaten.

It is not for the recipe, that can be written up separately if you want to (which would be great) and if you have a picture/photo, not matter what the quality, of your plate of food, that would be fantastic.

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First day of a Bank Holiday weekend. Went to local market this morning and visited Thai street food stall - Rice soup for breakfast, so fresh, ginger, coriander, spring onion, accompanied by Jasmine tea. Good start. Bought mussels from the fishmongers, and as we are having a Normandy themed week decided to cook Mussels a la Normande:

Ingredients

50g butter
100g smoked bacon lardons
1 onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, chopped
3 sprigs fresh thyme
1 Cox's apple, diced
1 pint cider
100ml double cream
Sourdough bread to accompany.

Method

Foam the butter in a large, deep pan. Add the lardons, onions, thyme and garlic and cook down until all are browned.
Add the diced apple.
Add the cider and bring to a boil.
Add the mussels and cook for 5 mins, or until opened (discard any that don't open)
Stir in the cream and serve immediately with the sourdough bread.

Notes
The predominant flavour in this dish comes from the lardons. If you can, get your butcher to slice a 1/2 inch rasher of good smoked back bacon instead of using bought in lardons.

I adore mussels but leave the cream out for me!

 

[epicuric]

I adore mussels but leave the cream out for me!

Wouldn't be the same without the cream!

 

[epicuric]

Missing winter comfort food already, so I put a couple of beef cheeks on at 4 a.m. this morning. Low and slow (80 deg C for about 15 hours) they should be ready by 7 p.m. tonight. Creamy mashed potato with either some garlic or horseradish and a rich gravy made with the juices. If the confit shallots actually cook this time I shall bung these on top

 

[Morning Glory]

Wouldn't be the same without the cream!

Cream isn't my thing. I prefer a garlicky wine, beer or cider sauce with mussels perhaps with some chilli and parsley. The cream (to me) spoils that salty seafood tang. I'm a seafood fanatic BTW!

 

[Tom Dick And Harry]

I cooked some paleo bone broth. Grass fed soup bones, roasted golden brown, garlic, onions, carrots, celery, shallots and basil leaves. I'm going to slow cook it for at least 24 hours and serve it over riced cauliflower.

 

[Chef00]

marinating some thin sliced pork tenderloin in Stubb's brand Pork marinade *** http://www.stubbsbbq.com/product/pork-marinade/*** will grill it and have some queso blanco (fried in a skillet and browned) might serve some salas with the cheese, then will have some veggie I haven't gotten that far yet.

 

[Elawin]

First day of a Bank Holiday weekend. Went to local market this morning and visited Thai street food stall - Rice soup for breakfast, so fresh, ginger, coriander, spring onion, accompanied by Jasmine tea. Good start. Bought mussels from the fishmongers, and as we are having a Normandy themed week decided to cook Mussels a la Normande:

You can leave the mussels out for me!

 

[Lullabelle]

This was our dinner this evening prepared and served by my husband. We do own plates but sometimes it is good to do something different

 

[Morning Glory]

This was our dinner this evening prepared and served by my husband. We do own plates but sometimes it is good to do something different

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So...what is it?!

 

[Lullabelle]

So...what is it?!

Black smoked bacon chop, salad with feta and olives, couscous salad served with harissa mayo.

 

[The Velvet Curtain]

Lu's husband looks like a really talented cook

 

[Morning Glory]

Lu's husband looks like a really talented cook

Yep! Perhaps he ought to enter the The CookingBites Recipe Challenge in the next round.

 

[Morning Glory]

Black smoked bacon chop, salad with feta and olives, couscous salad served with harissa mayo.

So...explain the black smoked bacon chop! I like the sound of it all (except the harissa mayo, which I consider an oxymoron ).

 

[The Velvet Curtain]

So...explain the black smoked bacon chop! I like the sound of it all (except the harissa mayo, which I consider an oxymoron ).

The bacon chops come from the Cheshire Smokehouse near Manchester Airport, they smoke all their own meat and fish on site. The black smoke bit comes from them being cured in black treakle. After smoking, instead of being sliced for bacon they are cut as thick chops. Very tasty, very rich.

Harissa Mayo - Mayonaise, harissa paste, a little lemon juice and a touch of salt. Use where you may use an Aioli.

 

[The Velvet Curtain]

Yep! Perhaps he ought to enter the The CookingBites Recipe Challenge in the next round.

Perhaps he should visit this forum more often generally.