Thread: just wanted to share tonight's dinner with you guys..

Originally Posted by 32t

This recipe was liked on the side of the one page. Don't know what to think...

Leek, Cheese and Cranberry Strudel Recipe

That sounds pretty good actually.

We were thinking of trying it tonight just because it is "different"! If I do I will certainly report.

Originally Posted by nessmuck

Gonna get cooler starting Thursday around here.....never made it before....but I can see some Ox-Tail soup simmering on my new gas stove this weekend !!! Anybody here make it ??? Share your secrets !!!

Ox-tail soup, love it. We just roll ox-tail in flour, braise meat in a little oil, with onion and garlic, add stock, vegies of your choice, salt, pepper, water to cover. Bring to boil, then simmer till meat starts to just fall away from bone.

Yeah, that's how I make oxtail but it's more like a stew than a soup. My vegetables are onions and carrots, the herbs paprika and whatever I feel like e.g. bay leaf, thyme, oregano, lovage (wild celery). A little bit of tomato at the end to add acid component.
I don't use stock either, because that's the whole point of cooking the meat and the vegetables

I like to serve it with gremolata.

Simple Pasta Supper: It's cold,the heat isn't workin in my building tonight so I'm hunkering down with American Horror Story Episodes and some Bucatini (Hollow Spaghettii) ,a decent store bought marinara, Fresh Italian sausage(simmered in the sauce), fresh grated Parmesano Cheese........Comfort food ................................................... .................................................. .................................................. ................................

Originally Posted by gugi

No, you can't get off so easy - those don't look nothing like the one you had. You've gotta tell us the recipe for the one in your pictures

C'mon Sailor, give us your Wifey's secret

Good time to cook and keep the oven going!

Originally Posted by bongo

C'mon Sailor, give us your Wifey's secret

Sorry. Took few days to get back from work and ask wifey. But here's her version of a karelian stew (sorry, this the first time ever i've tried to translate a recipe into English ):

600-800 gr of meat (cow, pork and/or lamb)
1-2 pickled cucumber (save the juice from the cucumber jar)
blue cheese
honey
2 onions
2-3 carrots
cream and/or smetana
black pepper

cut meat, honey and cucumber to small pieces, slice carrots

Melt butter and fry onions about 5 minutes in the pan. Add honey and fry about 5 min more. Add peppers and cucumber juice.
Put them in the stew and add cover.
Fry meat, small amout at the time just enough to get beautiful color and put in the stew. Once this is done add carrots.
Now add blue cheese and fill the stew with smetana and cream.

Put in the oven: 200 C/1 hour and 150 C/30 minutes or until the meat is really tender. Add few whole Bay Laurel leaves.

Eat. With rice or cooked/smashed potatoes.

If you want to make 'original' Karelian Stew, use water instead of cream/smetana. Then it's 200 C/about 3 hrs.

I printed out this recipe and showed my wife. She agreed that it sounds great and we will try it. The only thing is that we have a freezer with a bunch of venison in it that will be substituted!

Originally Posted by Sailor

Sorry. Took few days to get back from work and ask wifey. But here's her version of a karelian stew (sorry, this the first time ever i've tried to translate a recipe into English ):

600-800 gr of meat (cow, pork and/or lamb)
1-2 pickled cucumber (save the juice from the cucumber jar)
blue cheese
honey
2 onions
2-3 carrots
cream and/or smetana
black pepper

cut meat, honey and cucumber to small pieces, slice carrots

Melt butter and fry onions about 5 minutes in the pan. Add honey and fry about 5 min more. Add peppers and cucumber juice.
Put them in the stew and add cover.
Fry meat, small amout at the time just enough to get beautiful color and put in the stew. Once this is done add carrots.
Now add blue cheese and fill the stew with smetana and cream.

Put in the oven: 200 C/1 hour and 150 C/30 minutes or until the meat is really tender. Add few whole Bay Laurel leaves.

Eat. With rice or cooked/smashed potatoes.

If you want to make 'original' Karelian Stew, use water instead of cream/smetana. Then it's 200 C/about 3 hrs.

A couple of questions . Are the pickles the same as ...Pickled cucumber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And Blue cheese is so good and/or to expensive to use in this recipe. Anything lost in the translation????