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melissa-dallas

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Ribeye, ciabetta toasted with garlic, butter & Parmesan, wine, cake! I have been trying very hard to limit red meat, non-whole grain, booze & dessert to once a week. Damn, it's been a long week. We now return you to your regular programming of chicken veggies, fruit & whole wheat...

 
TGIF! Toasting y'all with a glass of wine, turkey meatloaf in the oven. What's everyone else having

tonight?

Turkey Meatloaf With Sun-Dried Tomatoes

Recipe By : Bon Appetit, 3/96
Serving Size : 6

1 1/2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
1 Large Onion -- chopped
3 Stalks Celery -- chopped
1 1/2 Pounds Ground Turkey
1 1/2 Cups Fresh Bread Crumbs, From Soft White Bread (used 2 slices wheat brd)
2/3 Cup Oil-Packed Sun-Dried Tomatoes -- drained & chopped
1/2 Cup Milk
2 Eggs
2 tsp Dried Rubbed Sage (used 1-1/2 tsp per reviews)
2 tsp Dried Oregano (used 1-1/2 tsp)
2 tsp Salt (used less)
2 tsp Ground Pepper (used less)
Ketchup

Preheat oven to 350̊F. Grease 9x5x3-inch glass loaf pan. Heat oil in heavy medium skillet over medium heat. Add onion, saute 5 minutes. Add celery, saute until vegetables are very tender, about 15 minutes longer. Transfer to large bowl.

Add all remaining ingredients except ketchup to vegetables in bowl. Mix thoroughly. Transfer to prepared pan. Bake 1 hour. Brush with ketchup and bake until thermometer inserted into center registers 165̊F., about 15 minutes longer. Cool 5 minutes. Slice and serve.

Source: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/1560

Pat’s notes: We like this. I add some chopped garlic too when sauteeing the celery and onion.

Judy in Mass said: I made this Saturday night, and it's fantastic! I jazzed up the ketchup that went on the top by adding some mustard and brown sugar. I also used 2.5 pounds of ground turkey, but left most of the rest of the ingredient amounts the same. I didn't use a loaf pan, but shaped it in into a loafish lump in a glass baking dish.

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/1560

 
Costco pizza - kids happy + mama doesn't have to do the dishes and has $ left to boot. smileys/smile.gif

I'd rather have had what you all are having though!

 
Underground Chef's Dinner here...

Very unusual dinner with many intense contrasting flavors, also the chef was formally a designer and each plate was a work of art

The menu, as best as I can remember it...

1st Course: (In a shallow bowl, layers from the bottom up) toasted barley cake, chicken liver mousse, shallot confit, duck fat roasted peach with clove-infused duck au jus.

2nd Course: Grilled heirloom red wattle pork roast on a bed of roasted corn puree, garnished with roasted beets, elderberries, lamb's ear, sunflower and marigold petals, and nasturiums. And wow, real fatty slow grill-roasted heirloom pork! -swoon- A late summer garden on a plate.

3rd Course: Braised and Roasted Lamb Shoulder atop a pureed sauce of zucchini, sorrel, and lovage, garnished with a smoked and pickled green tomato and an assortment of succulent sea herbs, leaves, and fern tips. This won't do it justice, but this plate looked like a seascape, the pool of deep green sauce was the ocean, the lamb was a rock jutting out of the ocean, and the edge of the plate was a jumble of all the varieties of sea herbs growing along shore. It was stunning.

4th Course: Grilled Venison Tenderloin atop a sauce of black sesame, black truffle, and another black ingredient, heirloom black quinoa, charred leek, and a dusting of dessicated tapioca snow. This plate was a sepia-toned still life.

5th Course: Local Honey and Eggs: Yolk Ice Cream, honey carmelized chanterelle mushrooms, honeycomb, poached meringues (think ouef a la neige), filberts, raspberries, on a pool of honey vanilla creme anglaise, dusted with black cacao sprinkles.

6th Course: Macarons--lavender macaron with honey mascarpone filling, miniature "peach" doughnut filled with amaretti-marzipan stuffing with a clove stem and lamb's ear leaf.

Dinner was BYOB and we took a bottle of Mosel Kabinett Riesling and a Spätlese Riesling--hard to plan wine when one doesn't know what one will be eating until its set in front of one. But the Mosel Rieslings hold up well to just about anything and it worked well.

The chef's name for his monthly dinners served in his home: "Arts and Lettuce"

 
What a fun night!! It reminds me of a place in Philly that was "a secret" but required 6-8 mo

advance reservations. I believe I heard that he had to shut it down because it was "discovered" by officials.

What an excellent menu!

 
This was truly a find for my jaded palate...

We will be going back each month as schedule permits. A local food blogger friend tipped us off about these dinners, I totally respect her opinions about food and she's in all the local restaurants reviewing them, so she is up on the local food scene. This is her special go to place and I can see why now.

I started each dish by tasting each component separately to get to know that flavor, each very intense in its flavor. Then I began combining the elements in different combinations, each bite different. It was truly an amazing dinner.

 
We're having guests and am serving fresh crab and my mom is making 2 pies for me to serve

(yay for moms!) I'm actively searching right now for what the heck I'm serving as side dishes. Suggestions?

 
Very fun! I am sure she shared it with you because she knew you would keep it a secret! What a

find!!

 
Me too, cake and wine sound especially good to me! I had that too, last night, with mac and cheese

(which was boring). Although wine was a wine cooler (banana-watermelon something) and cake was a mini-cupcake (store). All good. :eek:)

 
barb, just heard back from the chef in response to my thank you note and...

I told him my impression of the lamb/oceanscape idea. He said:

"you nailed the inspiration of the lamb dish! a recent trip to the east coast i watched farm land with lambs and other farm animals quickly turn into an ocean/sea landscape as i drove. it inspired me enough to replicate it both flavor wise and visually."

So cool. He totally did it!

 
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