Photo of your dinner (Vol 3)

[Burwood]

Brake tester that is exceptional Wellington action mate

[JKRolling]

Lockdown date night so had some Mont D’or and duck with roast baby potatoes and veg. I liked the red wine and red currant sauce a little bit too much!









Edit- Forgot the bonus food porn picture!

Edited by JKRolling on Sunday 15th November 00:15

[Bullet-Proof_Biscuit]

Fondue, excellent idea! Nom!

[C70R]

Outrageous. Bet the kitchen smelled glorious after that.

[21TonyK]

thebraketester said:

Getting close to that time of year again!

(looks pretty damn good)

[21TonyK]

Audis5b9 said:

Venison with butternut squash, Parmesan and Kale...

Lot of work there. I should put in more effort

Audis5b9 said:

(If anyone has a great red wine jus recipe please let me know. Still can't get that really deep flavour and sticky consistency. Used by own homemade lamb stock to make this one, need to find a good source of veal stock I think)

If you want to make your own there are no real shortcuts. Ask your butcher for veal bones, get them cut down. Then roast off and then simmer with mountains of root veg, bay, peppercorns, parsley and thyme. Reduce wine separately and add and just keep reducing. I do this every few months and add in roasting juices from about 100kg of beef and pork which I salvage each month. I might also be tempted go give it a boost with some decent bullion paste.

Normally go with about 10kg of bones, 10kg of veg and 3 litres of wine. End up with 1 litre of stock jelly which I freeze and vac pac. It's literally liquid beef so you can extend with wine, cream, water as necessary.

Forgot to add,,all the way through your are skimming then finally passing a reducing (and skimming again), last pass should be through at least 3 layers of muslin, then skim again and again. The result should look like gloss paint.

Edited by 21TonyK on Sunday 15th November 16:50

[Greshamst]

100kg of salvaged pork and beef... I’m guessing you are a chef or work in kitchens?!

Impressive effort

[Gone a bit AMG]

Roast chicken for one. Gravy out of shot. I like Yorkshire pudding.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Gone a bit AMG said:

Roast chicken for one. Gravy out of shot. I like Yorkshire pudding.

Me too. That proportion of pud to meal is spot on, especially if you filled them with gravy? Nice work.

[miniman]

thebraketester said:

Audis5b9 said:

Excellent work... is that a Blok knife?

Thanks.

Yes it is. We’ve got a couple. Not my favourite knives but they are ones we will keep, they are beautiful and so well made.

They look fabulous. And hard to come by at the moment by the looks of it.

[21TonyK]

miniman said:

thebraketester said:

Audis5b9 said:

Excellent work... is that a Blok knife?

Thanks.

Yes it is. We’ve got a couple. Not my favourite knives but they are ones we will keep, they are beautiful and so well made.

They look fabulous. And hard to come by at the moment by the looks of it.

I was tempted to request one as a birthday present but the lead time and covid screwed that idea unfortunately. Maybe next year.

[21TonyK]

Greshamst said:

100kg of salvaged pork and beef... I’m guessing you are a chef or work in kitchens?!

Impressive effort

I am and do but covid has seen a temporary end to that. For now I have to guide my crew via MS-Teams... imagine that... me balanced on a sack of flour in the corner giving orders.

[Gluggy]

[Greshamst]

21TonyK said:

I am and do but covid has seen a temporary end to that. For now I have to guide my crew via MS-Teams... imagine that... me balanced on a sack of flour in the corner giving orders.

Wow Seriously?! That image makes me chuckle a bit, do they have to pick up the screen and pop it over to the hobs to show you things?

[21TonyK]

Greshamst said:

21TonyK said:

I am and do but covid has seen a temporary end to that. For now I have to guide my crew via MS-Teams... imagine that... me balanced on a sack of flour in the corner giving orders.

Wow Seriously?! That image makes me chuckle a bit, do they have to pick up the screen and pop it over to the hobs to show you things?

Thats where we are heading! I've only been in the kitchen 30 odd days this year, either watching daytime TV or monitoring orders and agency chefs remotely but signed off and banned from site whilst new ovens installed and new staff recruited without my "supervision".

Yep... not happy.

[Jer_1974]

Wife made me beef in beer last night.

[thebraketester]

miniman said:

thebraketester said:

Audis5b9 said:

Excellent work... is that a Blok knife?

Thanks.

Yes it is. We’ve got a couple. Not my favourite knives but they are ones we will keep, they are beautiful and so well made.

They look fabulous. And hard to come by at the moment by the looks of it.

Yes they are. We got ours a few years ago on the Friday 1pm shop. We had to try quite a few times before we got them.



They are a bit of a pain because they are carbon steel so they will rust if you are not careful. So well made though, they really are ‘for life’ items.

Sorry. OT!

[KloppsBarmyArmy]

Chinese chicken curry, basmati rice. Extra green chilli to really make me suffer the next day

[anonymous-user]

Jer_1974 said:

Wife made me beef in beer last night.

That looks fabulous!

[craigjm]

KloppsBarmyArmy said:

Chinese chicken curry, basmati rice. Extra green chilli to really make me suffer the next day

Did you make the sauce yourself?