Dinner!

[jenboo]

N and I cooked a nice piece of rib eye for dinner tonight. Steak frites with gorgonola cheese and a brandy peppercorn pan sauce and a salad of sliced cucumbers (fresh from N's mom's garden!) with rice vinegar.

Yum!!

I have been corrected...it was Danish Blue cheese, not gorgonzola...or gorgonola, for that matter. What *is* gorgonola, anyway?

Comments

[lynnmonster]

That's, like, food porn. Yum!

[jenboo]

Thank you kindly! It was delicious!!

[tree220]

but what about the pork chop story?

[kryli]

that sounds so good.....I wish I could make something like that here but everytime I go in the kitchen I find something else we dont have.....like a wisk...lol

[jenboo]

Oh dear...I understand. It was kind of like that living with Bryce. I would have to go to the basement and find something else from my boxes when I wanted to cook. *sigh*

How's the new job?

[monkeybard]

Yay for food pr0n! Yay for steak and stinky cheese!

[jenboo]

Yay indeed! And I love making pan sauces.

The cool thing is the brandy peppercorn sauce was a total improvisation. I was going to deglaze the pan with some red wine, add a little garlic, perhaps some dry mustard...but the red wine I was going to use had corked and gone bad. So I frantically searched my liquor cabinet to find something else to use. I was about to use the last of my Crown Royal when I remembered I had brandy. And some whole milk in the fridge. A few grinds of pepper and a couple of tablespoons of butter later, it was sauce!

How did the delicata work out in your curry the other night?

[monkeybard]

Mmm! Isn't culinary improv fun? :D The delicata worked well. I steamed it and used it to thicken the curry. It's rare I do a curry w/o coconut milk, but this time it worked really well.

[jaunthie]

Mmm, sounds very tasty! And yay, you're alive and blogging! :-)

[jenboo]

yes, indeed! alive and blogging from my new MacBook! :o)
In the words of my ex-husband, I've become one of THOSE people. *G*