Weekend Eats

[Bison]

Photos or it didn't happen Martok!  :P

[Martok]

I thought about that.  Unfortunately, I don't have a camera, and my phone's pic memory is already full.  :-[  Believe, though, it was glorious! 

[Windigo]

Incidentally, my friends & I hit Brit's Pub in Minneapolis on Saturday after we left the Renaissance Festival.  I'd never been there before, but boy am I glad we went! 

I had this dish called Bangers and Mash, described in the menu as, "A right royal portion of our specially made banger sausages and mash with a traditional brown gravy over the top ".  Good lord, that stuff was amazing.  The sausages were a wonder of sweet but mildly spicy flavor-fulness, the onions were grilled & caramelized to perfection, and the mashed 'taters w/ gravy were honestly the best I've ever had -- seriously, it was like God himself made them. 


I can't f**king wait to go back.

+1

you should be a food columnist

[Martok]

Heh, thanks Windy.  I'm just an amateur enthusiast when it comes to food, but I accept the compliment.  :) 

[undercovergeek]

Saturday's dinner:



Peppercorn and garlic crusted roast pork with sweet onion and rosemary gravy, roasted cauliflower with cumin seed, fennel seed and hot pepper flakes, roasted garden fresh beets.

wheres the rest?

[Barthheart]

...
wheres the rest?

Rest of what??

[bayonetbrant]

This weekend it was a pan of sautéed awesome



That's chicken, bacon, onions, peas, and gnocchi, and yes, we sautéed to gnocchi, too, after it was boiled.

[undercovergeek]

This weekend it was a pan of sautéed awesome



That's chicken, bacon, onions, peas, and gnocchi, and yes, we sautéed to gnocchi, too, after it was boiled.

i could get on board with that - ou est le fromage?

[bayonetbrant]

you can sprinkle park reggiano on it.

I added some thyme, pepper, and butter, as I was all out of good cheese

[undercovergeek]

sold - in fact its on the shopping list it looks that tasty

[GDS_Starfury]

if ya got a deep fryer throw some breaded gnocci in that.

[bayonetbrant]

actual recipe:

chop 1 small yellow onion
slice 1/2 pound bacon (think-cut works best)
put both into a pan on medium heat, and stir occasionally - cook about 5-6 minutes on it's own

while that cooks, fire up another pan to med-hi heat w/ about 2 tbsp of olive oil (or butter, if you're going full-on heart attack mode)
cut the chicken into 1-in chunks, season w/ salt & pepper, and sear the outsides before finishing the cooking at lower heat
Once the bacon is reasonably browned, us a skimmer or slotted spoon to fish the bacon/onions out and put into the pan with the chicken
add a bag of frozen peas, and continue to cook on low heat (you may want to cover it)
blot up / soak up some of the grease from this pan, but don't discard it

Somewhere in there you needed to get the gnocchi boiling - best to start it right before you pull the bacon out of its pan
Once the gnocchi are floating, skim them out and put them right into the bacon/onion grease, on medium heat, and turn occasionally, 'til you get a decent brown char on at least one side
Add 1/3 cup of the water from the gnocchi to the chicken mix to help finish the peas and keep the chicken moist

Once the gnocchi are sauteed, dump everything into a big bowl (the photo above) and season with butter, thyme, pepper, and parm-reg cheese.

Enjoy

then enjoy the leftovers for a few days, too :)

[bayonetbrant]

if ya got a deep fryer throw some breaded gnocci in that.

there's already gnocchi in it :)

[GDS_Starfury]

no no no.  just deep fry the gnocci on its own.  makes a great game day snack.

[bayonetbrant]

no no no.  just deep fry the gnocci on its own.  makes a great game day snack.

my misunderstoodinizing.

maybe I'll try that some time