What's for dinner?

[kwtoxman]

For those looking at knives, I went looking to look at that Walmart Chef's knife mentioned earlier ($15) and ended up getting this Cuisinart Chef's knife for under $10 on sale right now, regular $30. Cuisinart Triple Rivet Chef Knife, 8-in | Canadian Tire

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Love this meal. Scratch garden burst cherry tomato sauce spaghetti. Made with lots of garden fresh sun sugar and sweet million cherry tomatoes, fresh garden basil and hand grated grana padano cheese. This meal has been in high rotation and is amazing.

Garden heritage Manitoba variety tomato Caprese salad with premium olive oil, 4 grind peppercorn and salt. Big rotation again. Highly recommended.

 

[Joe Bass]

Last night: Memphis BBQ party pack.
Tonight: pancetta, onion & mushroom omlette with toasted, buttered bun and garden tomato

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[kwtoxman]

Nice @Joe Bass! Love the omelette and side. You've upped your game quickly in your posts here

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PC PEI Mussels in Provencale (tomato) sauce and a fresh kaiser bun for dipping.

Another caprese salad. My garden fresh heritage tomato plant delivered and I love fresh tomatoes in this salad. I've spent $15 in good restaurants for it. I'm just this year doing it at home and it's amazing. Quality ingredients make a big difference too. Here I also used fresh garden basil, fresh bocconcini, premium olive oil, 4 peppercorn grind and salt.

Fresh garden martini and straight 8 variety cucumbers sliced with 4 peppercorn grind, salt and vinegar.

Brussel sprouts boiled then pan fried in olive oil with sea salt and 4 peppercorn grind.

Have a great weekend.

 

[Joe Bass]

Nice @kwtoxman & thanks for the compliment.
I love me a good Caprese salad.
Hopefully, that was some fresh bocconcini.
Have you tried it with fresh buffalo mozzarella?

Mussels are a definite must try for me soon.
Need to get a pot for the side BBQ burner first. Easy way to avoid stinking up the house while cooking fish. (Assuming that they are boiled first.)

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[kwtoxman]

Thx. I wanted to highlight Caprese salad here.

A Caprese salad is still relatively new to me (I was sheltered) and I've probably only had it 20 or so times in my life, but this fall with the fresh garden tomatoes and basil I went to town and have made it many times at home now. Very inexpensive compared to eating out and even more fresh.

Yes, the bocconcini is fresh , it was picked up from the best independent cheese store in the city. I've heard of buffalo mozzarella, but just now realized it's significantly different. I haven't tried it and will see if I can get it. Thx!

Here's another fresh Caprese salad meal. It's a great simple, fast and flavourful dish. Highly recommended.

That fresh garden burst cherry tomato sauce spaghetti is amazing too. Here's another meal with two varieties of fresh garden cherry tomatoes including the sun sugar variety. Fresh garden basil and hand grated grana padano cheese too.

I've had both these dishes in high rotation. More meal pictures to come.

Have a great Sunday night.

 

[kwtoxman]

Charcuterie plate with soppresseta, Boursin shallot and chive cheese (a soft creamy cow's cheese with a flavour and texture somewhat similar to cream cheese), St. Paulin cheese (another creamy, mild, semi-soft French cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk), Raincoast cranberry crackers, PC baked sea salt pita crackers and roasted red pepper antipasto.

Escargot in herb butter with fresh sourdough bread for dipping.

Toasted garlic bread with fresh basil and cilantro.

Fresh grilled asparagus with olive oil and sea salt.

Fresh garden martini cucumbers sliced with four peppercorn grind and salt.

 

[mbroyda]

Last night: Memphis BBQ party pack.
Tonight: pancetta, onion & mushroom omlette with toasted, buttered bun and garden tomato

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Memphis BBQ is awesome, used to get take out there all the time when i lived in Vaughan

 

[kwtoxman]

Kalbi beef from the grill.

Pan-fried cheese and potato perogies with butter, salt and four peppercorn grind, plus sauteed onions, cilantro and sour cream.

More escargot in herb butter.

 

[Joe Bass]

Just your typical Sunday night Italian dinner

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[sburns]

Just your typical Sunday night Italian dinner

oh you are having some pasta with your cheese


Sent from the moon!

 

[Joe Bass]

oh you are having some pasta with your cheese


Sent from the moon!

You have to put enough so that when you toss it, it all gets covered.
Plus if I only put some on now, and then some later, I might end up being the one to fill the container back up.
This way, it was my kid that had to do it lol.

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[mbroyda]

local burrata, pesto, tomatoes and toasted sour dough from Black Bird, simple and delicious

 

[kwtoxman]

Talking about BBQ... I made BBQ pulled pork again and after too long an absence. It was a 6 lb pork butt/shoulder bone-in prepared with a scratch dry rub. I smoked it using hickory, apple and cherry woods with the Weber Summit grill and grilled it low and slow for almost 13 hours at ~ 240 F over water trays... ending around an ~ 195 F internal temp. I started cooking the meal at midnight and ended up with 1:30 pm lunch . Fantabulous.

Big pictures with lots of resolution. Here the the pork shoulder/butt just before I took it off the grill.

Pulled with bear claws.

I picked up two different sets of fresh buns (kaiser and sesame) and had one of my favorite butchers make up a premium coleslaw to serve with the meal. Apple cider vinegar is an optional ingredient for the coleslaw that I add from time to time when plating, for a change (it balances the creaminess of the coleslaw dressing very nicely).

Served and greatly enjoyed. Here are a number of sandwiches.

The pork shoulder/butt was custom ordered and vacuum packed from a favorite butcher.

Cheers and have a great weekend.

 

[kwtoxman]

More food pictures.

Instant pot three cheese French onion soup. This stuff is awesome.

Another fully loaded guacamole.

Pan fried perogies with butter and sour cream.

Another fresh Caprese salad. So tasty.

 

[DeQu]

This thread make me hungry regarding that I just ate my lunch. But ok, weekend is already close enough -- wait for me, my BBQ evening.

 

[kwtoxman]

More great food pictures and variety.

Large pictures with lots of detail. The ingredients considerations included color selection ? so this meal pops with lots of color and big eye appeal ?. Instant Pot premium potato salad.

These preps include fresh garden red potatoes (skin-on), extra eggs, fresh red and fresh yellow sweet pepper, fresh garden carrots (separately lightly steamed on the stove for a notably firmer texture), fresh celery, lightly sauteed fresh garden onion (so the onion flavors were more oily, mild and soft in texture) and extra garden dill. I've dialed in this recipe nicely ?. Enjoy.

In the next two pictures I added a splash of apple cider vinegar to the serving, mixed in, which cuts the creaminess down and adds a very enjoyable slightly sour note to the flavor profile. Highly recommended.

Cheers.

 

[kwtoxman]

Burger time. (I love these meals).

Half pound custom coarse grind butcher beef burger from the Weber Summit grill, with romaine lettuce, sliced garden heritage tomatoes, pickles, diced garden onion, double american cheese, mustard, Melinda's Habanero ketchup and mayonnaise on a toasted sesame bun.

Cheers and enjoy the weekend.

 

[kwtoxman]

Mediterranean herb marinated pork shoulder chop done on the Weber Summit grill. It was a nice big thick slab of meat. Very tender.

I really enjoyed these three cheese nachos. The salsa was Newmans Own Medium fortified with fresh garden cherry tomatoes, fresh garden onion, chipotles in adobo sauce and habanero hot sauce. This one was fresh and zesty.

Fresh grilled asparagus with olive oil and sea salt plus another Caprese salad using fresh ingredients including garden basil and heritage tomatoes.

Cheers and enjoy the weekend.

 

[Joe Bass]

I just paid an arm, leg and left nut for two meals here at Scotiabank Arena.....and it was less than half of what they wanted to charge me in the suite we're in.
The upside is that the Buffalo chicken wrap is really good.

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[kwtoxman]

I was able to use fresh garden ingredients quite late into this fall this year. Highly recommended.