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What Kind Of Meals Are You Guys Making Now?

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Beef with broccoli - right before it all comes together. Wok deglazed with a bit of Chinese wine and a chicken stock based sauce, blanched broccoli, flank steak which was marinated in corn starch and other goodies and briefly cooked on its own, and a slurry to thicken the sauce. A couple wham bam moments and out comes traditional american chinese beef with broccoli.

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I was shown personally beef with broccoli by a Chinese woman in our kitchen many years ago. She included shitake mushrooms, served it over white rice. I make it sometimes, usually with teriyaki-marinated sliced beef, which I keep in portions in the freezer.

What I have saved in my data is this:

1 lb. flank steak cut against grain in strips
~6 large dried Japanese shiitake mushrooms soaked in boiled water and then sliced (save water)
~1 lb broccoli, washed and cut in pieces
Lawrie's salt
~1 T sugar
~3 T soy sauce
~2 bullion cubes (??), minced
~ 1.5 T cornstarch

Sear oil in large fry pan, hurl over stripped meat. Add sliced mushrooms, Lawrie's salt, ~1 T sugar, soy, bullion cubes, cornstarch, mix and set aside. Hurl prepared broccoli into the hot oiled pan with ~1 T sugar and some salt. Cover and sear ~2 minutes, turning once and turn out into bowl. Wash pan, add oil and sear meat mixture, add mushroom juice and broccoli and serve at once over white rice.
 
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For the Labour Day long weekend I made a big batch of wieners and beans (franks and beans for the Americans).

I added some chopped onions and sweet red peppers and a good sprinkle of cayenne pepper. I put it all in my crock pot and it was awesome.

😀
 
We did a smoked stuffed chicken breast tonight. The stuffing is a Mediterranean style stuffing with fresh herbs from the garden. Side dishes are wild rice and fresh vegetables.

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Smoked for 1:30 hours at 225*F(107*C).
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Today I am making one of my favourite dishes:

Cottage Roll with veggies.

It's been cooking in my crock pot for 6 hours now and will be done around 5:00PM. I can hardly wait.
 
Osso buco was tonights dinner. It is a traditional Italian dinner consisting of braised beef shank with carrots, onion, and tomatoe. Side dish is risotto milanese.

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Braising the beef shanks in a dry vermouth helps bring out the flavor.
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This past weekend was traditional fall fare in the upper midwest of the United States. Saturday was pork ribs with bbq sauce and squash from the garden that was alive until I picked it and gutted it and baked it and ate it. Dessert was caramel apple pie from the local orchard. Sunday was burnt ends with farro seasoned with roast garlic and parmesan, with a New Glarus Totally Naked beer or two for dessert.
 
Well, I'm not proud of this, but Amazon Prime has a free subsciption deal with GrubHub, which means you're still liable for the tip but the delivery is free.

So I've been ordering "dinner for four" and lunch specials from the better indian/chinese places, around here and eating leftovers for 5-6 days. I do tip well, though.
 
Why would you eat at McD by choice? Also, this is the cook at home thread
bro i cook everything. it's a very unusual combination of being in a new city for training, and today being launch day for the mcrib in uk.
i also loved it when i was a kid, so yeah today i broke the rules.
 
late last night made a super simple chicken roast just like my mom did when I was a kid, usually using whole legs, but I just used bone in thighs. Salt, pepper, olive oil, Greek oregano. I threw in some mushrooms in there for fun. always a homey comfort dish. gold taters of course.

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Yesterday I made a nice roast beef (eye of round) and veggies in my crock pot. Turned out amazing.

Tonight it is roast beef sandwiches.

😀
 
Can you make some pork chops soon so you can make sandwiches from leftovers and yell out "PORK CHOP SANDWICHES!"?
 
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