Today .... I (we) have been eating ....
 

Location : Vegas
Dinner at Cut Steakhouse by Wolfgang Puck

Dover Sole, New York Sirloin, Mac and cheese, Sautéed Brussel Sprouts, bacon and onions.

Absolutely wonderful dinner!

Wow. Good as it looks?

Today we're going to make baked beans for the first time ever, hard as that is to believe. No time for a baked beans thread, so going with what we can find on the internet.

Yes - even better than it looks.

I'd been thinking about this for a few days and the idea kept picking away at me and I thought "sod it" ........ off to the kitchen. I used streaky bacon and then added the rendered pork fat with the lovely bacon to the loaf instead of butter or olive oil and then a load of grated mature cheddar. So there were surface bits of intensely flavoured bacon and cheese as well as all through the loaf. It was a sort of meal in a loaf. I had the second one last night.

Good luck with the baked beans ...... but if you liked my loaf you must start (if you don't already) to make bread! It is so easy and such a pleasure.

I love baked bread, in fact fresh baked bread straight out of the oven is one of my favorite things. Maybe the next time I get some time off I'll try it. I'm only the sous chef in our household - my wife does 99% of everything kitchen related, which actually works better for everybody in the family.

...... you might have noticed from the pics .... I could easilly live on potato and bread ....

enjoy your beans.

so many different kinds of baked bean dishes, let alone the beans used, let us know what you decided to go with.

Tonight the wife was attending a friends birthday party. This gave me free rein in the kitchen to showcase my cooking skills. Egg fried rice with mushrooms. ^
Tasted as bloody awful as it looked.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o.../Friedrice.jpg

Actually it tasted not too bad. ;)

That piece of mushroom in the bottom left hand corner looks particularly good.:)

Yes cooked to perfection. :D

Finding mushrooms in the shops here is quite difficult so I grab them while I can......then I'm usually rushed into doing something with them before they shrivel up. I forgot to add the spring onion. By the time I remembered I couldn't be bothered going out to the garden in the dark to collect some.

We tried this recipe, but it simply wasn't very good, at least not what we wanted, which was more a traditional US style spicy baked beans dish, like people are always bringing to office parties and BBQs. I definitely would have wanted more sauce, and when I heat the leftovers I'll put more in.

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/fo...d-Beans-101852

Looking at the recipe it does look rather overly rich .... and the combination of the beans and all of that intense flavour strikes me that one should expect a certain amount of collateral close proximity damage of the sort one normally blames on the dog if you don't have a vicar available.

http://images.fineartamerica.com/ima...tim-nyberg.jpg

We'll .... you had the satisfaction of eating something from your own fair hand ..... it looks like you tried to fry the rice whilst warm/wet? Sort of looks risotto'ish.

Now that is funny

I don't wish to apply to become the Forum Fart Expert ..... but something has to give with that recipe ..... and it will at least be melodious as well as odious ...

"More tea Vicar?"

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...-tea-vicar.jpg