Lunacy We all gotta eat, right? (Food Porn)

[momofthegoons]

Tonight's diet delight...

Roasted turkey breast with Greek seasonings with roasted beets and asparagus.

 

[Vitolo]

Cranberry Juice with everclear

Long Grain Brown Rice w/cilantro, green onion, Jalapeños, and lemon zest

Red, Yello and Orange Bell Pepper, sauteed with red oinion, to top off the Yellow squash w/ Zucchini below

Yellow and Green squash, with oregano, Black pepper, and basil ALL from the garden.

2 cleaned up trout, stuffed with the following:

Jalapeños, Green Onion, Cilantro, Tomato and lime.
Dinner was good.

 

[momofthegoons]

@Vitolo your dinner looks amazing.

I don't know if it's because I haven't had sugar in a couple weeks... or if these darn things are just that good. But omg.... I had a little oral orgasm when this hit my mouth.... Carrot Cake DeStress Balls by Medi Edie. Fifty mg. of thc per ball.

 

[momofthegoons]

To offset the sugar I had today.... roasted acorn squash filled with quinoa pilaf. The quinoa is mixed with sauteed carrots, celery, green onion, red & green peppers and spices. Served with salted peanuts on top.

 

[DieHard]

Ahh I love me some Bimini bread. I think that thing is winking at me! Literal food porn!

 

[Vitolo]

I was in the Garden grabbing a few goodies for dinner, and decided to pull a beet to roast with Carrots and Red Onion in a dish I call
"Peasant Vegetables".
I started pulling the beet, that I thought would be a modest sized one, but the beet kept coming!
This beet was the size of a grown man's head!

 

[momofthegoons]

Partied a little too hard last night and needed something substantial for breakfast. So I declared this a 'cheat day.'

Breakfast nachos

 

[momofthegoons]

Okay... back in the diet saddle again. Blackberrys for the sweet I needed on my oatmeal. And I infused a little bit of almond milk to go on top.

 

[Vitolo]

Behind the scenes/ preparing the dishes:

Patty grew every herb and all vegetables used... except the trout and the Lime

Above and below... Mushroom Duxelles for tomorrow's salmon

Note: The Duxelles recipe is my own... using standard Duxelle ingredients.....
Most chefs use butter... some use cream and others use oil.
The bowl you see here is pure healthy food.
After sauteing the ingredients below for about an hour, once all wine is absorbed
it went into the small vessel you see above.
It weighs about a half pound, and will be chilled overnight before cooking with it tomorrow.
More than one educated palate has not been able to realize there is no butter in this!
1/2 pound Mushrooms
A dozen leaves of fresh Italian Flat parsley (minced)
1/3 of a medium shallot Shallot (minced)
2 cloves of Garlic (minced)
black Pepper (a fat pinch)
1Tbs Olive Oil
1 cup red wine (half for the chef, and half a cup to deglaze pan in the end)

 

[Vitolo]

You saw the preparations for last night's trout.
At the end, I showed you Duxelles that was for the Salmon tonight.
Generally Duxelles is served with toast points, or wrapped in a puff pastry atop steak (beef wellington)
It also is served with salmon under a puff pastry (Salmon Wellington).

Salmon Wellington
Patty and I eat no fats or butter so nowadays we do not eat Salmon Wellington, but instead, I place the
Duxelles along side the Salmon....
as so:

Salmon with lemon and dill with mixed peppercorns.
The plate is edged by Armenian cucumber slices and a carrot sliver.
Zucchini from last night with beets from the nigh before.
Brown rice with Jalapeño from last night, mixed with the black rice and pasta from the night before. and of course... Duxelles

 

[momofthegoons]

Sigh.... you are correct. This is not diet. But this woman cannot live by salad alone!

Chicken piccata

 

[t-dub]

This is not diet. But woman cannot live by salad alone!

 

[momofthegoons]

@t-dub lmao... I say the word 'diet' and even if I've just eaten I get hungry.

 

[momofthegoons]

Last night's 'al fresco' dining.

Barbecued wild caught Salmon with pot latch seasoning, roasted butternut squash, kale and brussels sprout slaw, corn (no butter), and a roasted beet.

 

[Aezhenn]

Wow! This thread is killing me

A big bravo to all the chefs here!

 

[grokit]

@momofthegoons try some evoo on the corn if you're not already with a bit of salt it's excellent

 

[momofthegoons]

@momofthegoons try some evoo on the corn if you're not already with a bit of salt it's excellent

That does sound good.

But there's evoo on the squash and the beet.... and dressing on the slaw..... I had to cut down on the fat somewhere.

 

[Vitolo]

I had to cut down on the fat

Really good deal. In the end watching fat intake serves our hearts well.

 

[grokit]

Don't underestimate evoo. Like coconut oil you can never get enough of it (especially if it's organic), but it's even better than that because it's monounsaturated, with a high omega 3/9 > 6 ratio. It not only promotes 'fat burning' by goosing your metabolism, it will help dissolve the bad fats that have turned to cement in your arteries. In other words, it punches well above its weight from a dietetic standpoint. It's not just red wine that makes the mediterranean diet so healthy!

edit:
"Simply smelling olive oil may help you lose weight, according to a recent study in the American Journal of Nutrition."

 

[Stevenski]

All this healthy looking food & here I am posting a pie. Now it is a great pie, nothing fancy but there is normally a 10 deep queue at lunchtimes & the weekends are way worse. It would be hard to emphasise how much I love a good pie.

I am fond of eating my pie up here & watching the surf.