[tcphoto]

Sweet Potato Enchiladas and a Mango Crumble for dessert before Sunday Night Football.

[Joekerr]

Originally Posted by chassis

Salad mélange maison, or house mixed salad. Salad with arugula, couscous, bulgur an a number of cold ingredients that were on hand. The best.

To the Canadians on the site, I know there are a few: tell me about poutine.

I have seen a few recipes and videos on this. Is poutine as popular in Canada as the internet makes it seem? I have travelled to Canada off and on for most of my life, and have never encountered poutine. Thanks.

No, it isn't as popular as the media likes to make it seem. It also isn't as cold here as the media likes to portray it either.

But poutine is definitely here, and offered frequently. Depending on who is making it, it can be quite delicious. But the best ones have meat added to them, and occasionally a few other items. For example, I've done a smoked duck poutine which I find to be quite delicious.

Also, a restaurant I frequent has a BLT poutine that has the requisite BLT items added to the poutine, but they also add a garlic sauce as well that sends it over the top (and their fries alone are delicious, so great base to work from).

[Joekerr]

Why I didn't take a picture is beyond me, but had my birthday dinner on Saturday and we did beef wellington for the first time.

It was beyond excellent, one of the best meals I've had.

I bought a whole beef tenderloin and had to denude it and separate it, but the resulting loin was pretty clean with no silverskin remaining.

We (my wife, since I don't cook if its my birthday), seared the tenderloin to create a little crust and then let it rest while she made the duxelle.

For the duxelle, we used cremini mushrooms, garlic, shallots, and fresh thyme and diced all finely and fried all of it in butter until it was basically dry in a heavy cast iron pan. Its amazing the amount of reduction you get.

Once dry, we laid overlapping pieces of prosciutto on saran wrap, spread the duxelle over the prosciutto, and then laid the seared beef tenderloin on top and wrapped it tightly and chilled in the fridge. Once chilled, spread out the puff pastry and wrapped it in the pastry tightly and then chilled it again. Then an egg yolk wash on the pastry and some design work and into the oven.

Turned out phenomenal. Also had these super cheesy mashed potatoes with shallots and other stuff in there and a killer caesar salad to go with it.

[213e90n51]

Late night snack. Proper egg sandwich with russian pickle.

[213e90n51]

3 eggs. 5Th egg today

[IllSic_Design]

Originally Posted by 213e90n51

Late night snack. Proper egg sandwich with russian pickle.

Sure it wasn't a Turkish Pickle?

[3.0L]

I've regressed to my childhood camping days, Hobo Stew.

[Joekerr]

Anyone have any really good recipes for duck confit that might be part oven / part BBQ?

I just emailed this doctor that my wife used to work for about 13 years ago to try to get his recipe because my wife still remembers it from 13 years ago...I don't think he's going to remember her, and certainly not me...think that might be a bit too creeper of me? I had to google him to find a contact...and even then it wasn't his direct contact, it will go to an office admin first.

We'll see if he responds, if he doesn't (and admittedly the above was a Hail Mary pass), then I'm out of luck and relying on you guys. Google has not been my friend on this front for recipes.

[M_Six]

Dinner tonight was leftovers, of course. Love me some Thanksgiving LO's.

[vreihen16]

My DW decided to pick up sliced low-sodium turkey at the deli counter for Thanksgiving. Nothing says "thanksgiving" like a turkey, bacon, ranch sandwich! Of course, we were out of ranch, and the doctors said no to the bacon and bread.....

[UncleWede]

Bachelor dinner breakfast. 4 eggs from the nest, sour cream, Feta, shrooms, spinach. All covers in cheese after pic was taken

[Frupal]

This was thanksgiving this year.

[213e90n51]

Mickey and Freinds!

[infinitekidM2C]

^wow

[TXSTYLE]

Thanksgiving included my World Famous Homemade Cornbread Dressing
And Smoked Pineapple Ham.

[Captain Blood]

Homemade grilled cheese, both sides of the bread are buttered! Along with some tomato soup, a great meal on a chilly night

[infinitekidM2C]

Originally Posted by Captain Blood

Homemade grilled cheese, both sides of the bread are buttered! Along with some tomato soup, a great meal on a chilly night

Are those tater tots i see Cap'n?

[Captain Blood]

Originally Posted by infinitekidM2C

Are those tater tots i see Cap'n?

A few......The kids prefer that to the tomato soup. I taste tested a few.

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by Captain Blood

A few......The kids prefer that to the tomato soup. I taste tested a few.

Took one (or more) for the team

I love me some grilled cheese, but you mention butter on both sides like that is something unusual

I have never had tomato soup, either individually, or with a sammich.

[M_Six]

Went German tonight. Brats, potato salad, sauerkraut. Good stuff.

[bosstones]

Originally Posted by M_Six

Went German tonight. Brats, potato salad, sauerkraut. Good stuff.

Having lived in Germany for a spell as a kid, I can certainly appreciate good German food. There used to be a good German restaurant in, of all places, [old] Yuma, AZ. Sadly, they closed

[chassis]

Korčula salad.

The name I gave to a salad I first experienced in Korčula, Croatia. Unbelieveable salad, really. It was listed on the menu as "couscous salad".

All ingredients need to be in balance. This salad is about the totality of the whole. It is not about any one thing.

My version tonight:

- arugula
- couscous
- chickpeas
- chopped green onions
- feta
- crushed roasted salted almonds
- kalamata olives
- peperoncini
- halved cherry tomatoes
- EVOO
- fresh squeezed lemon juice
- lemon confit
- salt and pepper

Subs:

- flat (Italian) parsley is authentic, arugula is a sub
- fresh melon is authentic, I had no melon today
- red onion is authentic, I wanted green onions this time
- sir cheese is authentic, there is no sir in this area so I used feta
- peperoncini is not authentic, I added it because I like it
- fresh mint is not authentic, but would be wonderful
- fresh dill is not authentic, but would be wonderful