Food What's For Dinner Tonight?

I made a roast beef the other day. tonight I roasted some asparagus. Ate it all with some homemade vinegar pickles.

 

Last night we went with several other couples to a restaurant that specializes in "large format" meals. We'd been there before, but always just the two of us, or with one other couple.

For the large format meals you need to order ahead, and they have options all the way from a whole boar, to whole alligator stuffed with whole chickens, to an entire lamb. You can also get combos of several large pieces, an entire rack of tomahawk ribeyes, antelope leg, and a few other choices.

We ordered a beef brisket, boar shoulder, and wagyu beef ribs. We had 9 people, and the restaurant suggested 3 items for groups of 8-10, and 4 items for more than 10 people. Let's just say we could've probably fed 15-18 people with our food. We brought home four 13" x 9" pans full of leftovers.

Here was the meat as brought out. That's one of the bigger iPhones for scale, but this pic still doesn't do it justice. The hunk of meat with the huge butcher knife in it is an entire 14-16# brisket. To the left is the beef ribs, and the two pieces in the lower right are the boar shoulder.


Ribs:


Brisket:



Boar:



Then there were sides like salad, roasted veggies, and some epic man 'n cheese:



Here is the menu, and a short vid on the restuarant:

https://www.thefrontierchicago.com/whole-animal-experience/


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl3Wor2pVGc

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Had a fancy dinner out last night with good friends:

Some fancy acorn fed aged pork that was incredible:



Sesame rocoto, spicy tuna, and wasabi:


Oysters:


Foie gras lollipops:


Jamon iberico do bellota, osetra caviar, gold leaf, nori.............basically a caviar taco wrapped in a cured meat tortilla:


French onion soup shots:


Caprese (had to have SOME veggies.....barely, lol):


Kobe eye of ribeye from Hyogo Prefecture, Ohmi Wagyu strip from Shiga Prefecture, and Satsuma Wagyu tenderloin from Kagoshima Prefecture:




Washugyu bone in strip loin:


And some desserts that I don't remember the name of and can't find on the menu, lol:

 

Kept it simple last night,

Shredded chicken off a left-over roast
Shelled pasta
Pesto, with all the good stuff (got it from Costco)

No brainer but tasty.
It's one of my favorite meals these days.

Tonight, ham steak, green beans and stuffing.

Nothing special for T-day. Already did it with friends this past weekend.
Just staying away from the crowds for today, the holiday and Black Friday.
Maybe I'll do Chinese Food or Indian again, that's what my mother and I had last year. (Now a tradition?? )

 

Ramen!

 

Curry.

 

Pizza

 

Jasmine rice sounds good.

 

Angel hair pasta.

 

Happy belated birthday to her!

 

Red beans, rice, and salad.

 

Now that this thread is active again, I need to remember to take some pics every now and then.


Tonight was roasted chicken, roasted potatoes, and a green veggie salad. I’m fortunate that my wife is a wonderful cook that enjoys making home cooked dinners. I try to compliment that with grilling, smoking, and using the Blackstone during the months the weather cooperates.