BBQ chicken thighs
Mac and cheese with bacon and panko crust
Baked beans
Mini pecan pies

What is braslvr style?

Tomight I made a Green Chef selection: roasted sesame ginger salmon with green beans and cauliflower “rice”.

Zoodles with meatballs and sauce. The sauce was jarred but I added peppers, onions, garlic, kalamata olives, sun dried tomatoes and sliced ham. Mopped up the extra sauce with ciabatta bread, warm from the oven.

edgar’s, quail lodge (a peninsula property), carmel valley CA

Negra Modelo lager

bread plate
caesar salad

fried chicken special with hot honey, mashed potatoes (potato purée), green beans
cauliflower

cheesecake


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grilling at Low for 40-50 minutes, turning 4-5 times (8-9 minutes a side)
I love it. It’s so good. Makes me want to kiss braslvr out of pure chicken grilling joy.

A lot of fish based or la mer items today !


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Assorted “ yong tau fu “ , beancurd / “ skin “stuffed with fish paste
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Mee pok / noodles with fishcake slices and sotong / squid balls
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With fishballs and fishcake slices
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Foochow fishballs ( stuffed with minced pork) soup
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Spare ribs in plum sauce
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Blueberries , mangoes and tangerine

We're hosting guests today who are bringing the entrees! Nice friends to have. So...

Chips, guac, hummus, homegrown cherry tomatoes
Surprise entrees
Leftover BLT pasta salad
Paletas
Booze

I’d have been tempted to try a cherry lemon drop.

I had to look up paletas. Paleta = Mexican popsicle.

last time I got a cocktail because their tap was broken and zero negra modelo. I couldn’t not get this lager. Strong and heavy enough that one was plenty for me.
I can make cocktails at home if desired; I cannot get draft beer at home. A growler isn’t the same - that’s like using an air fryer to make fries! :-)

like the Asian popsicles, the flavors are great and unique to Popsicle brand of popsicles at ACI :-)

Eating home grown tomatoes already ! Nice

If you can't grow them fresh, I've found that even canned tomatoes beats the white, bland mess stores attempt to sell from fall through spring.

Corn on the cob
watermelon & feta salad
canellini & black bean salad
grilled brats on brioche buns.
we had classic & beer. We got them mixed up on the grill so then we tried to do a tasting but they all tasted the same.
Coconut cream pie

Strip steaks, baked potatoes, TJs bagged Mediterranean salad, and an Andrew Murray syrah.

Happy 4th everyone!

Leftover meatballs and sauce. I cooked up a little ziti and we finished off a chopped salad from 2 night ago.

Hydroponic! From the basement, not from the garden.

Entrees were Indian influenced grilled chicken and handmade fennel spiced burgers on Mexican rolls.

I had a passion fruit paleta.

Aerogarden?

Lugano Swiss bistro, carmel CA (party of 6)

smoked pork loin with kraut and potatoes
chicken schnitzel with spaetzle and rotkohl
New York strip steak with Rosti and vegetables
Cheese fondue

chocolate fondue


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Yup

baja cantina, carmel valley, ca

Carnitas plate with rice & beans, pico de Gallo, garnish, and corn tortillas

mud pie dessert


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Grilled grass fed Angus sirloin from Tasmania , butterhead lettuce , potato purée , egg tofu with prawns , steamed corn and pork ribs soup .


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Jackfruit ( nangka ) & mangosteen

Got a piece of short-dated Icelandic cod (i.e., the real McCoy) and pan-fried it in butter and olive oil. Delicious and brings back memories of a meal at a sagardotegi in Astigarraga, Euskadi even if it wasn't previously salted.

Tonight will be much more mundane: Short-dated organic ground beef which will be formed into hamburgers and topped with processed cheese.

Cheeseburgers were on the menu here tonight for a while. But we made a mid-day move to taco salad. After spending the long weekend with my wife's parents and her brother's family who all won't eat anything with even a hint of spice, it was a no-brainer. I'm looking surprisingly forward to dinner tonight.

Don't want to appear as if I didn't enjoy the food though. There's always plenty of sausages, homemade sauerkraut, good rye bread, etc., inter-mingled with all the typical American cookout foods. Just not a jar of salsa or hot sauce to be found :).

Leftover rice and beans. First time around, no spice, so this time I added quite a bit of chili powder.

We had Japanese Middle Eastern “ fusion “ , & some Singaporean Peranakan family recipe dishes .
Spread of desserts was somewhat representative cuisines from round the world too . Might add photos of some of these later , the ones shown are some of the dishes we had , pita bread , white rice , mezze box , etc are not below .

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Oxtail soup with sugar cane chunks - own recipe
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Nonya chap chye lemak - own recipe
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Habibi - San ‘ s signature Brussels sprouts
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Salad
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Sausage platter
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Steak
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Kombu rice
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Lamb rendang - homemade

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ECP by BarStories / Habibi - San

Ordered Habib - San ‘ s Sultan ’ s feast without alcohol to take out
Mezze box ( mentaiko taramasalata , pickled beetroot , chickpea hummus , babaganoush )
stockyard farm’s ribeye (please indicate doneness r/mr/m/mw/chaota)
magra lamb
de raza iberico pressa
chicken harissa sausages
Wombok slaw and kebab shop salad
Kombu rice
Very signature brussel sprouts
Fluffy pita bread

Mocktails
2 Desert rose
2 Rising sun
3 ecp ( lychee , sour plum , lemongrass , lime , Thai soda )

Assorted leftovers - chicken thighs, rotini & meatballs, toast
hummus & pita from Goood Frikken Chicken, Sf
raw organic vegetables

Cookies from Gayle’s, capitola CA

Maybe you can explain it to me, but I've never seen the appeal for chap chye. To me, it's just over-boiled cabbage/glass noodles/few other ingredients. Am I missing something?

Ordered in Bangkok (little bit upriver from the Millennium Hilton), it was assorted offal. Never acquired the taste for a lot of Chinese dishes (despite having a Nonya grandmother).

You probably were served a watered down version ? Not by a Peranakan , likely pseudo chap chye which arguably is way better than chop suey
A real pity as the stock should be rich & thick . We add pork ribs & prawns to have a even fuller robust soup . Should not be over boiled ‼️ but tender .
One look at the dish , we know whether to bother to try it .
Peranakan cooking takes skill , very intricate & laborious - wait till a bibik gets at you . If potential mother in law asks you to cook for her , likely sleepless nights .
The one we had was lemak which means we added coconut milk & other spices - more like perhaps a Nonya laksa gravy

Shared July birthday dinner with a friend at Eddie V's. It was a personal best--the most I have ever paid for a restaurant meal (not compared to some of you).lol
Cosmopolitans
Shared filet mignon
Double lobster tails
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potatoes au gratin. Sauteed spinach
Flambe Bananas Foster Butter Cake
Austin Hope Paso Robles Cabernet

We still have a fridge full of leftovers, so tonight it’s a choice of sliced cold Turkey breast or a hot dog on a bun. There’s a half watermelon leftover from Monday and I’ll probably grill asparagus on the side.

With that cleaned out, I’m thinking of grilling a pork loin tomorrow, with mashed potatoes and broccoli on the side. Seasoning for the pork still undecided, but I need to trim the rosemary and have enough garlic to stuff the roast.

Leftovers from last night's taco salad as ground beef tacos on flour tortillas tonight.

I don't think so. Granted I've never had nonya chap chye. But chap chye has never appealed to me. Neither has economic bee hoon. I'm all for thick stocks (well, as long as it's not pigs or chicken feet/hock, those don't appeal to me either). I love me a good thick laksa soup (although next trip there I want to see what laksa pasta is all about... it's been showing up in a few food shows in the last year or so). That and a few other things...

Victor's Veggie satay and otak (friends like it)
A good rojak
Orluak
Hokkien Mee

(Taking suggestions)

I'd try to make rojak here but can't find any hae ko in Toronto (trust me, I've tried). Maybe I'll make orluak... At least I can get the ingredients here.

Perhaps pm me , & will not confuse other folks who have no inkling what we are on about 😂 ; though should not connect you with relatives & friends in Toronto as they are not on FT ;)
Or come for the Singapore DO in January

We had a poh piah ( take out “ do / wrap it “ yourself and roast chicken from Spring Court ) party ‼️

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How the poh piah should look before consumption

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Roast chicken , keropok & Nonya chap chye lemak

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Wanton soup with baby kai lan

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Putu piring cake
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The cake slices showing the gula melaka

More photos , possibly , later .. added

Dinner at the bar with our local pub. Our favorite servers/bartenders were supervising new hires so we all got to spend time chatting. Only two others sitting inside -- one bought drinks for Mr CE because he was playing Grateful Dead on the jukebox. (Whenever anyone asks the staff who is playing stuff on the jukebox, they always look to see if we're there, because we play great music.) They other guy walked in wearing a Lightenings jersey and asked if they were planning to put the game on. (Mr CE was born and raised in Montreal.) We have him grief but he was cool.

Fried cheese curds
Sausage, green pepper and onion pizza for him

Dill pickle, ham and bacon pizza for me
Bourbon for him

Beers for me (Side Door sour, Maplewood NEIPA)

I think these posts are great! Please keep the discussion going :-)
I don’t cook much Singapore / Malay food and I love the Chinese food & bbq threads; I learned much about baking last year, even if I’m barely baking now.

Your pizza sounds great! Mr. CE's...not so much.

Spaghetti with Rao’s marinara & ks meatballs
spaghetti with pecorino; Ks meatballs
artichoke

Gayles cookies for dessert

It was only a mushroom away from Chicago's iconic tavern pizza! You can't fault someone for going with a classic. But I'm still thinking about whether I could drink a bourbon with pizza. Mixed with a Coke maybe. IMO, the two beverages that go best with pizza are Coke and beer.

It's entirely possible that it had mushroom on it as well -- I can't eat bell peppers, so I never pay too much attention to the exact toppings on his pizza. This one is supposed to be an Impossible Sausage pizza, but they make it "possible" :) for him.

Lol...I think I've written it before, but Mr. CE sounds like my kind of guy!

Sure , gaobest , will try . At least you cook .. my forte is eating ;)
Discovered this forum last year , possibly during the throes of the pandemic when travel was curtailed . Very pleased that this forum exists !

Think FT ‘ s systems improved or my ability to figure out how to post photos too .
Trying to recall if I posted the kueh bingka with cheese photo - & if I did , which thread ?? Sort this out in a few hours .
Added photo ( s ) to this 👇🏻 post 5143 :
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Had some of what we might have forgotten to serve other night , from Habibi -San ‘ s , & some of the extra dessert from Chalkfarm .
Modern new twist to kueh bingka ( tapioca cake )


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Truffle brie
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Kueh bingka with cheese topping