What's for dinner?

And it comes with handy dandy recyclable container that's easy to hold on to and fits in the cup holder in the car when you're on the go. Unlike bananas.

I have been thoroughly underwhelmed by the crappy banana selection. They tend to go from green to brown in very short order and a very brief period spent set on yellow. i’m about over that crap. Besides, I was never that big of banana fan anyway.
 
I have been thoroughly underwhelmed by the crappy banana selection. They tend to go from green to brown in very short order and a very brief period spent set on yellow. i’m about over that crap. Besides, I was never that big of banana fan anyway.
Banana hack: break off 2 yellows and 3 greens. :)
 
I have been thoroughly underwhelmed by the crappy banana selection. They tend to go from green to brown in very short order and a very brief period spent set on yellow. i’m about over that crap. Besides, I was never that big of banana fan anyway.
I've heard but never tested that you can wrap the stems in plastic wrap and they'll stay fresher longer.
 
I've heard but never tested that you can wrap the stems in plastic wrap and they'll stay fresher longer.

That means I would have get some bananas to test it. In order to do that legally, that means I would have to buy some bananas. I’m feeling ambivalent about the whole exercise.
 
Braised kale, swiss chard, and feta salad, turkey bolognese, beaujolais nouveau, and pineapple sorbet
 
This is the Lit -- SOMEBODY should be sitting down to have a fucked-and-roasted baby.
 
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I've been cooking elevated meals for Sunday dinner.

This is last Sunday's Poulet Ronsard (chicken breast in cognac cream sauce) with saffron rice. Homemade raspberry and Mascarpone cheese danish for dessert.

My sauce broke. :mad: Too much heat when reducing the sauce trying to rush because I was hungry.

Upcoming this Sunday is Pepposa with fried Polenta cakes topped with roasted cherry tomatoes. Dessert is a simple chocolate mousse.
 
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I have been thoroughly underwhelmed by the crappy banana selection. They tend to go from green to brown in very short order and a very brief period spent set on yellow. i’m about over that crap. Besides, I was never that big of banana fan anyway.


Bananas are best when Fostered.
 
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I've been cooking elevated meals for Sunday dinner.

This is last Sunday's Poulet Ronsard (chicken breast in cognac cream sauce) with saffron rice. Homemade raspberry and Mascarpone cheese danish for dessert.

My sauce broke. :mad: Too much heat when reducing the sauce trying to rush because I was hungry.

Upcoming this Sunday is Pepposa with fried Polenta cakes topped with roasted cherry tomatoes. Dessert is a simple chocolate mousse.
Yum. :)
 

It was very good and relatively simple to prepare. Unlike the previous Sunday's dinner which took a couple of hours from start to sit down.

Pork Schnitzel Cordon Bleu with herbed Spatzle and green beans. I made a baked stuffed apple in Caramel sauce for dessert. Not shown is the Diablo Mustard sauce for the Schnitzel.

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The tough one was the Bacon Wrapped Beef Roulade with Potato Dumplings. That took several hours if you include the pre cook prep.
 
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I've been cooking elevated meals for Sunday dinner.

This is last Sunday's Poulet Ronsard (chicken breast in cognac cream sauce) with saffron rice. Homemade raspberry and Mascarpone cheese danish for dessert.

My sauce broke. :mad: Too much heat when reducing the sauce trying to rush because I was hungry.

Upcoming this Sunday is Pepposa with fried Polenta cakes topped with roasted cherry tomatoes. Dessert is a simple chocolate mousse.
I made gravy with Sunday's dinner. As I was making the broth I had an extra beet and tossed it in. Great color. And patience. I didn't break my gravy.
I'm guessing I made stuff you had on different days. I just didn't know how to spell it or pronounce it.
 
I made gravy with Sunday's dinner. As I was making the broth I had an extra beet and tossed it in. Great color. And patience. I didn't break my gravy.
I'm guessing I made stuff you had on different days. I just didn't know how to spell it or pronounce it.

Spelling and knowing what a meal is officially called aren't important unless you're trying to be a Michelin Starred Chef.

I've got a bunch more dinners planned for this coming year. I'm not making anything really exotic (other than the duck confit and duck a l'orange I've got planned). Everything I'm cooking can be done with stuff found at your local supermarket (no specialty grocery stores). So yeah, you probably made the stuff I'm making at some point. I'm just trying to jazz it up to make it special for a sit-down Sunday dinner.

Sauces break. Even pro saucier chefs break sauces sometimes. The difference is that they know how to fix them and I don't. I should learn but I'm procrastinating about it.
 
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