The usual turkey pot pie, but with a twist, I pan fried some thinly sliced potato and used that for the topping instead of the regular mashed potatoes, adds lots of taste and some crunch besides the pie crust.
Turkey pot pie
Home made ravioli
September 30th, 2007 by dinner
Home made ravioli, made with regular flour and not semolina, stuffed with veal. We over stuff our pasta so you only need a few to fill you up. The one issue with over stuffing the pasta is that they are harder to cut and they occasionally explode in the pot, but with a little salt you can actually make a nice soup out of the “rejects”. Finally the other dish made this day is a sheet of pasta rolled up with veal, par boiled, cut into medallions then fried in butter and finally served with home made tomato sauce.
Braised Morocan Lamb Shanks
September 29th, 2007 by dinner
A favourite for fall and winter, these shanks are sweet and flavourful with lots of vegetables, served on Basmati rice.
Beef Tenderloin Experiment
September 21st, 2007 by dinner
A nice beef tenderloin, crusted with a goat cheese and herb mixture, with some mashed potatoes and baby summer squash and caramelized onions maple syrup and white wine. As an experiment the goat cheese crust was OK, a compound butter would have been much better.
Home made Ravioli
September 5th, 2007 by dinner
Home made ravioli, stuffed with ground veal and herbs, the dough is made from simple white flour. This is my wife’s and her mothers recipe and fresh ravioli is far superior to the stuff you buy in the store. The tomato sauce is Classico.
The King of the Grill
August 31st, 2007 by dinner
Veal chops are the king of the grill in my mind, dusted with Barbarian Steak Spice and served medium rare, absolutely mouth-watering. Served with a potato galette, thinly sliced Yukon gold potatoes and pan fried (I find cast iron works best) and served with summer squash with caramelized onions, and a little maple syrup.
BBQ Ribs
August 26th, 2007 by dinner
My Mom’s rib recipe, but finished on the BBQ instead of the usual braising. Pretty good, but not nearly as good as slow cooked over charcoal.
Veal Marsala and Baby Broccoli
August 12th, 2007 by dinner
A simple but very tasty veal Marsala, easy to prepare but you need to have good veal stock on hand and a sweet Marsala. Besides the usual mashed potatoes I prepared some babt broccoli which Arlene picked up, simply sautéed with butter, onions and white wine.
MIxed Seafood Grill
June 15th, 2007 by dinner
A simple seafood grill, sea scallops,jumbo tiger shrimp and calamari. I’ve never made calamari before so this was a bit of an experiment, and as such, the calamari was OK, I’m going to try it again only marinating the squid before hand. As for the scallops I can’t thing of better way to eat scallops then off the grill or pan seared, and in my opinion the only way sea scallops should be eaten. We also had some left over Spanish rice which completed the Mediterranean style dinner.
Hamburgers
June 15th, 2007 by dinner
A simple sirloin steak hamburger, topped with cheese and hickory smoked bbq sauce, served with an avocado and cucumber salad and hash brown.
