It's 6/19/09...What's Everyone Eating This Weekend?

Epicurean Exploits - Food and Recipes
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Tonight will be something light due to tomorrow night being high in calories.

Saturday:
Pan Roasted Flannery Rack of Lamb with market greens salad & roasted garlic vinagrette

Trio of Flannery Steaks…Saritoga, Strip & Hanger served with jalapeno & Vermont cheddar Yukon Gold mashers and haricot vert.

Desert from Kristi

Sunday should be a chunk of cured and smoked salmon with a fresh veggie.

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Tonight’s BBQ:

Meats:

  • Ribeye, Fresh Halibut, Filet Tips bathed in spicy BBQ sauce for 4+ hours.

Veggies:

  • Caprese salad, potato salad, green beans w/ shallots

Starches:

  • Garlic bread

Other:

  • Mixed cheese plate, dessert (unknown)

Wine:

  • TBD, but likely red
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I don’t know about tonight, but tomorrow I’m smokin’ me a brisket.

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Is that the wet aged critter you been talkin’ about?

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Tonight - meeting friends at Houston’s in SF to take advantage of free corkage

Tomorrow (Sat) - Shanghai Dumpling House in SF - Ed Kurtzman and Andrew Vingiello may join us and another couple

Sunday night - Traci’s cooking

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I’ve been talking about steaks but yeah . . . I aged this one, too.

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FRI: Kitchen on the Common with PMC, Michael M and Andy J before the Marty’s preview

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SUN: Fathers day dinner, prime rib!

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Tonight after the wine tasting at Susan’s, we’ll have tamales and a salad with avocado.

The rest of the weekend is TBD.

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Birthday Weekend continues tonight at Motherufckin’ Sushi Buckhead and then tomorrow at Varasano’s Pizzeria . . .

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Refer to avatar for tonight

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Got some fresh, locally caught Halibut at the Farmers Market today!!

Suggestions on preparing it?

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Tonight: Sushi

Tomorrow: Roasting/smoking a dry-rubbed, 9 pounder Picnic Shoulder on the Weber. Will shoot for 7 hours. Coleslaw, Brussels Sprouts & cornbread will be on the side.

Sunday: In the mood for steak tartare and/or moules frites. Hopefully the wife will oblige and take me out for my 1st Father’s Day lunch or dinner.

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Last night, grilled Copper River Salmon wrapped in sake soaked Alder “sheets” w/ a 2006 Kutch Pinot Noir McDougall Ranch.

Tonight, grilled Rib Eyes with a 2004 Mas Doix Selanques.

I love summer.

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We have an old friend visiting who spent several years living in Italy.

Last night we had broiled King Salmon with Ponzu sauce.

Tonight I made a Caprese salad (I can get terrific fresh mozzarella, home grown basil, and great Tuscan olive oil, which compensates for the damn plastic tomatoes). Then I made perhaps the best Risotto ai Funghi I have ever made. I worked rather hard on the broth, which is a pretty major feature of risotto, and I even fried up some marrow for the top of each serving. Served with a Moccagata Basarin Barbaresco, 1996, which absolutely sang with the dish.

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Tonight we had black bean soup, a green salad, and a zinfandel.

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We have had a great food and wine week. Almost decadent! Tonight will be four heirloom tomatoes with good olive oil and salt. Maybe I’ll throw together a quick pasta.

Tomorrow, I’ll be having brunch with friends at a Mexican resto since the guy in my avatar is flying east at the crack of dawn. Hope he has a happy Father’s Day. Same to all the dads on the board.

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Planning to start with Lightly Salted Kettle Chips, followed by a Full of Life Flatbread (3 cheese and herbs) topped with prosciutto and parmiggiano slices, and I’ll finish with some Phish Food ice cream from Ben & Jerry’s.

That’s the closest I could think of of the equivalent of an “Saturday night at home internet dinner” (no TV around to make it a TV dinner).

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Last night (NOLA) was HerbSaint. August tonight. Stella tomorrow night. [gen_fro.gif]

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These working weekends are hell!!!

I need a shrieking smiley!

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Tonight~salvation. The best Porterhouse Stacey can find at Wegmans and K Vintners Morrison Lane Syrah '06. …sigh.

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To celebrate the first day of summer, we had the following:

Appetizer: Grilled Sausages - Shepherd’s Lamb with Green Chile, Shepherd’s Lamb with Italian Seasoning, Cajun Smoked Pork & Alligator; with Carollee’s stuffed cucumbers

Mains: First French Label Rouge of the season from Pollo Real, rotisserie’d, with Farmers’ Market sugar snap peas and diced baby carrots

Dessert: Five cheeses - Old Chatham Sheeps’ Milk Blue, Bleu d’Auvergne, St. Andre, Chaumes, & Drunken Goat with mixed nuts