What did you eat last night for dinner?

[Rambo]

Originally Posted by iammatt

Yes and no. I'll never do it again, but I learned a few things I will do for burgers in the future. It really didn't take much active time.
Mind sharing the tips?

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by Rambo

Mind sharing the tips?
http://www.styleforum.net/showpost.p...postcount=7833 also, the bun is great. I'm not going to write out the recipe, it is too long. The modified cheese is fantastic as well.

 

[Rambo]

Originally Posted by iammatt

http://www.styleforum.net/showpost.p...postcount=7833 also, the bun is great. I'm not going to write out the recipe, it is too long. The modified cheese is fantastic as well.
Huh. I saw the shortened version on the SE blog. I'm sure its tasty as **** but I think I'll just stick to my cast iron skillet for now. That's WAY too labor intensive for one burger. For a party, maybe.

 

[BrianVarick]

I made some chicken soup tonight since my wife is sick, and I figured nothing is better when you're not feeling well.

 

[Bhowie]

Originally Posted by Manton

If there's not at least three kinds, then this fails the Keller test.

For a guy who didn't know how to KelleRoast a chicken, you sure are making up ground quickly.

 

[Kid Nickels]

My own crazy Thai-style shrimp fried rice. I love to cook Frankenstein-fusion Asian food with whatever is in the fridge!

 

[banis]

Glass Hostaria in Rome this past Sunday.

 

[impolyt_one]

Golden Brown burger for lunch, overhyped, not really that great IMO. bun was nice though.

Dessert at Del Rey, where we had a flambeed fruits crepe. Guy pulled up a cart and flambeed the orange zest for the sauce masterfully, took about 10 minutes to do.

La Table Robuchon tonight. Really nice meal, not so intense like it can be upstairs at the Atelier. Got some Acqua Panna in loving memory of Tokyo Slim:

really nice pate en croute:

provencale vegetable terrine

lettuce soup for her

ethnic spiced chicken broth with foie gras ravioli and lettuce for me

really nice pork with wasabi leaf puree and kumquat for her

lamb rack for me, with the pommes puree that SField raves about (which were perfect)

dessert trio

 

[mordecai]

 

[Piobaire]

Indeed, looks great, Impolyt.

 

[KJT]

Homemade pasta with tomato water sauce from homegrown tomatoes and basil. No pics, too quick and delicious.

Tomato water sauce: http://ruhlman.com/2010/10/cooking-a...-tomato-water/

Made it using some of the frozen tomato concasse from last summer's tomato haul.

 

[impolyt_one]

****, I'm back from Japan already. Unfortunately Chateau Robuchon doesn't serve breakfast or I would've been back to eat on my way to the airport. Ate more Chinese food at the airport instead. Really looking forward to living in Tokyo soon, the food is so solid and well-made everywhere, and home cooking is gonna be a blast too, I sent a box of dry goods to myself and smuggled back a suitcase worth of vegetables to tide me over for awhile, until I go back. Had more foie gras and champagne in the past 5 days than I had in the past 5 months I think. Didn't really eat Japanese food more than two times.

 

[dhc905]

Went to Lockdown (1024 N Western) which, for lack of a better term, is a Kuma's Corner knockoff. I should emphasize "lack of a better term" because it's similar in theme and execution to Kuma's, came after Kuma's, but everything is just better. The Mac and Cheese. The Burgers. The staff, who are also tattoo'd from one end to the other. The one and ONLY shortfall in my opinion was the lack of Jack on Tap. I had a custom burger with 10oz of fantastic burger meat, a lightly toasted (but oddly enough, not buttered) pretzel bun, what appeared to be fried (crisped?) leeks and shallots, Merkts Cheddar, and LTO. There was truffle oil in there somewhere, which, again, gave the burger a fantastic lingering flavor. I replaced my french fries with Mac and Cheese and it was stellar. So much better than Kuma's. Or really any other restaurant mac and cheese I've ever had. Oh and because it was tuesday, half off their burgers. Total bill with 4-5 beers, 2 burgers, mac and cheese was $22 after 10% tax. My better half had the Arson burger, which had scotch bonnet's (which I assumed were some sort of pepper preserved in scotch. OMFG I was wrong).

And in honor of the baby-machine/WAYWT:

 

[SField]

No, scotch bonnets are peppers that are hot as ****.

 

[dhc905]

As I found out. They knead it into the meat, but put this red sauce to taste on top of the cheese. I thought the red sauce was the source of the heat, so I took a big chunk of meat with just a little red sauce. I almost died.

When we got the bill, I told the waitress that it was seriously too spicy for anyone to enjoy. She responded:

*****. Before we put it on the menu, the manager made me eat the entire thing in 15 minutes without water. Granted, I was drinking whiskey...

Originally Posted by SField

No, scotch bonnets are peppers that are hot as ****.