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Tonight is our first pick up in a 3-meal series by One Off Hospitality (Publican, avec, Big Star, Pacific Standard Time, etc.) restaurant group.

On the menu: avec rotisserie

• charred eggplant baba ghanouj with olive tapenade and hearth baked pita
• tabbouleh salad with roasted cauliflower, fresno chili, green olive and farro
• rotisserie chicken tagine with braised chickpeas, golden raisins and couscous
• coconut passionfruit cake

I made pasta with white sausage sauce again last night. I won't post a picture as the last time I was told it looked like school cafeteria lunch. :D Crumbled browned hot Italian sausage, simmered with white wine, salt, pepper and fresh grated Parm.

No little Brownies or Scouts selling at tables outside grocery store this year. I am sure that sales will be way down. I know that just when I decide I have too many boxes some really cute little girl gets me to buy one more.
Have you found a Chinese sausage that isn't pork? Bacon, prosciutto, Chinese pork sausage .....I am beginning to question your pledge to your kid.

we were going to subscribe, but then I looked more closely at the menu and realized that the protein for two of the three weeks was pork shoulder. I like pork shoulder but I want a little bit more variety. Maybe we'll do it next month!

I find chinese sausage (the pork and pork/chicken variety, not the liver kind) very addictive and dangerous.

I'd like to find out what is in the dark sauce in claypot rice. I've only seen the HK style versions here in Toronto (chinese sausage and bacon and some yu choy with some dark soy sauce). I like the Singapore version, it just seems a bit more savoury.

Maybe once we can travel, I'll head over and really focus on getting the recipe.

I agree that it is very good but the poster's kid has told his parents no pork in the house & the poster has agreed to follow the kid's rules. Perhaps, gaobest is having an all chicken Chinese sausage.

Well, other than the prosciutto, of course. And now the sausage.

Or it's eaten in secret in the back yard :).
I believe it's allowed outside the house, so take advantage of that technicality.

sausages ...plural. The bacon and the Chinese.

I wouldn’t want to buy or sell these cookies in a public place with strangers. Better the 2021 method of pre-orders to friends & family. We all need to limit our time out of the house.
my child wasn’t home or wasn’t in the kitchen when I was cooking / eating these sausages. It’s a bit less dangerous than No New Taxes.

It’s not the double thick soy sauce? Maybe even a bit of LKK oyster sauce or bbq sauce? :-) we all love our LKK!!!

I find full chicken versions not very good. At least the ones I've tried. You need a certain amount of fat for any meat, but especially sausages from anywhere. Pure meat without some sort of fat/oil content is just disgusting.

That said, since the start of the pandemic, I've had pork lard (those pork bits you find in Singapore/Malaysia that they sprinkle on many dishes) on the table. The chinese supermarkets here have been selling a lot more pork so lots of pork skin for cheap...

I don't think so. I think it's part kecap manis but there has to be some other component(s). I've been growing my collection of condiments/sauces just to keep things interesting.

gorgeous - I did start cooking a new recipe for the chicken tangine albeit not rotisserie chicken.
I love it and just use shop couscous.
we probably use more almond and pistachio than the recipe lists :-)
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What does that dark sauce taste like - it’s not semi sweet / salty?
i do wonder if it’s sauce from preserved pork belly (or whatever that fat back stuff is) because the meat part of the pork belly should have that dark soy sauce color. Maybe that’s it? I definitely recall the tamales having both the Chinese sausage and preserved fat back (as a parent referred to it for my benefit).

Fish tacos (Costco rockfish / onion / yellow & orange bell peppers)
fresh housemade guacamole
assorted toppings

Girl Scout cookies :-)

How's limiting your time out of the house working for you? How many trips to Costco this week?

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Some of the beef rendang , fried chicken wings , tuna bergedel and nasi lemak with the pandan flavour along with bunga terlang for the blue


Homecooked nasi lemak with pandan & bunga terlang ( blue / purple pea flowers ) for blue colouring along with beef rendang , fried chicken wings , crispy ikan bilis and peanuts , cucumber , bbc instead of usual kang kong ( water convolvulus / spinach ) and lovingly prepared achar by a friend ( Peranakan pickled finely julienned vegetables - cabbage , cucumber , carrot , chilli , .. )

Had ham & havarti sandwiches, with spinach and miso ginger mayonnaise!

I can't recall what our menus are in the coming weeks. It's PQM and Big Star I believe so could be pork for both (not to mention I'm making a pork shoulder for the Super Bowl - oops). Each pickup location had a slightly different menu. We actually could have easily chosen between Highland Park and Northbrook but liked the HP menu better.

Here's my quick review on week 1. It didn't look like enough food when we took it out of the box, but turned out we were quite full. Only the chicken tagine and bread required reheating, so it was much more convenient than some of the other takeout meals we've done, and didn't require us to use any of our own pots and pans. While the tagine had good flavor, the chicken was our least favorite part of the meal, as the breast was dry. We really liked the baba ghanouj, which had plenty of olives - usually not something we'd order, as we normally like hummus better. Same for the tabbouleh, great flavor, especially with the charred onions. We both liked the dessert, even though I don't love coconut and my wife doesn't like passion fruit. It was slightly tart, which was refreshing. I expected it to be my least favorite meal of the 3 - it probably will be, but it was still a decent weekday meal.

I didn't realize there was variation between the pickup locations. I was looking at Lakeview.

Last night's dinner was a salad with leafy greens, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, and red onion with a pistachio vinaigrette. And a meat and cheese board with prosciutto, mortadella, smoked gouda, sage derby, fontina, pimento cheese spread, blackberries, and arugula. Friend is allergic, otherwise would've had honey too.

Tonight's dinner will be baked lemon pepper halibut and roasted broccoli.

I love a charcuterie board for dinner. How did you make the pistachio dressing?

It was from a local pizza place.

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Halibut and broccoli. Was so glad to feel like cooking again.

Depends on where you go. Up here, it's definitely less sweet than the cheong-fan type soy sauces (and thicker). In Singapore the ones I've had were even more thicker and only slightly sweet, more savoury. It could be a mushroom based soy sauce with some sugar and oil...

For the the tamales, I think you're referring to zhongzi (or ba-zhang)... That's different. I usually add a bit of light soy sauce (have way too many packets lying around from takeaway sushi this year). I don't think that's fatback in there though. I know what you're talking about but the ones I have had usually have some fatty meat (more meat than fat and that has been steamed to near melting) no sausage but sometimes a salty egg yolk. I always keep a few of these in the fridge in case I feel lazy about cooking.

Actually that reminds me, I have a batch of salty eggs to pull out before they become more salt than eggs. Guess I'm having congee tomorrow.

Tonight it will be plain grilled sea bream, caught last night, with samphire and chipped potatoes. The simplest things, but with the finest ingredients, are so often the best.

After losing a few pounds of holiday weight, I realized this morning that we've planned for a 4 day bender of comfort foods as our temps go below zero here.

Last night, buffalo chicken wraps. Tonight, loaded homemade pizza and salad. Saturday the plan is cheeseburger mac and cheese. Sunday, for the game, we'll have crock pot pulled pork and chips, and likely a few snacks before. Ugh...back to healthy eating on Monday I hope.

Well , for many in Asia , with the Lunar New Year coming up next Friday the feasting resumes . So if you have not lost any weight yet , all the best !

Grass fed tenderloin for dinner with mash and pea shoots .. , fish soup .
Cherries and lychees .

I'm planning a last minute Super Bowl meal. It cannot be described as healthy.

I decided to take advantage of the Amex $10 restaurant promo so ordered take-out from a local place that I hadn't tried before. I got the beef shwarma plate (came with rice, salad & pita). A bit too much turmeric for me but other than that it was pretty good. And I have enough leftover for tonight.

Turkey burgers and fries. Unless I can teleport myself to lhrsfo's house.

My better half's roast beef, creamed spinach, and roasted potatoes.

I'll raid the cellar for a nice bottle of red to enjoy alongside.

Roast Forerib of Beef, roast potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes and parsnips together with Brussels Sprouts. Followed by Vacherin and Vittorio grapes. And then baked figs.

And, of course, a good bottle of Claret.

Boneless pork loin chops and split zucchini on the grill. Baked potato. No pictures.

Mr. CE did a great fennel and rosemary crusted pork chop with pan roasted brussels sprouts. We went to WF today so we have a few flavors of Jeni's and Ben & Jerry's ice cream

salad
grilled salmon with lemon/garlic brown butter
baked sweet potato
sauteed spinach with garlic

Today was my 53rd Birthday. There is a Filipino (maybe Asian?) tradition to eat long noodles on special occasions to promote long life.

Therefore, I made Spaghetti with White Clam Sauce with a Cole's Mini Garlic Loaf for a late Dinner after coming home early from work. I fell asleep for a few hours before being awaken by my wife asking if we were going to eat. She wanted me to get Lo Mein delivered, but her favorite Chinese restaurant is temporarily closed as it is being renovated after 30 years in business.

Sorry, no picture was taken.

grilled strip or New York steaks (choice meat from Safeway - $3.99/lb U special) - perfectly medium rare but my spouse would have wanted it more cooked. I made the error of giving them their piece first, then cutting the pieces for our child, and then giving myself the final piece. I should have removed my piece first so that my spouse’s piece would have cooked longer while resting. Of course, in On the Rocks movie, Bill Murray wants his steak well-done at his supper at 21. Ouch.
baked potatoes
Sauteed onions cooked with red wine
raw vegetables with Bittman sour cream onion dip

Girl Scout cookies
Ice cream

how do you get yours? Do you make them?
I really only get mine at a cantonese place in sf sunset - one of the classic won ton noodle spots that is still cash only. Their tamale is made by another vendor so they don’t always have it. Theirs definitely has the fat back, lob cheung sausage, and salted egg yolk. I don’t get this item at many other spots, so I’ve probably only eaten 10-25 units in the past decade. I love them and might try to seek them out - most of those places with this gem in lotus leaf actually are only serving the sticky rice with chicken and lob Cheung which is ace and not as great as my beloved tamale. I was even in the sf sunset last week and yet I STILL refuse to go to any lovely Asian spot to get carryout. I didn’t even go to the donut shop that I’ve loved for decades! I just walked on by...


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happy birthday! May this be your best year for you :-)
The longevity noodles are also part of Chinese culture with birthdays and I believe memorial luncheons. It’s nice to see so many great similarities with different cultures.

When I have somebody who wants a more done steak, I put theirs on first to get a head start. That way they all can come off at the same time.
And I have a couple friends who I won't serve beef to because of their well-done preference.

I suppose another 45 seconds would have worked. Or remove one steak, turn off burners / fuel tank, and then retrieve the second steak.
I really chuckled when Bill Murray ordered his meat well-done in that On the Rocks movie :-)

This. You always start with the one that is supposed to cook the most, so they all are ready at once.

I guess 45 seconds isn't long but even with resting time for both, yours is going to be sitting there cooling off instead of both ready and served at the same time.

It's a cold and snowy Superbowl Sunday so we're doing chips and guac, and chili for dinner. Neither of us are huge NFL fans but we'll watch the game even if we don't pay close attention. (Last year we had another couple over for dinner and didn't even turn on the game.)

At least it looks like the weather the rest of this week isn't as bad as was forecast a couple days ago. I went outside for 15 minutes today, bundled up, and it was actually not dreadful.

Our crockpot pulled pork is going to be done early, so might try to just keep it on warm for a couple hours. Homemade cole slaw for on top or on the side. Salt & Vinegar kettle chips. Pimento cheese spread on homemade buckwheat crackers - the crackers are quite tasty but didn't stay crispy for more than 24 hours (I made them Friday night). Not bad for my first attempt, but have to go thinner next time.