Valentine's Cooks

[Tamu8104]

Running the half-marathon tomorrow with my wife so dinner was a little early tonight. Reverse-seared steaks, par-boiled/roasted potatoes, and roasted cauliflower. The steaks were close to perfect. 15 minutes on the BGE at 250-275 and then pulled them off, let the BGE stoke up to 700-750 and 1 minute on each side.

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[rydesteel]

image.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpgDinner for my Lovely Deb and I. Hot sear, then a little time in the oven at 350*, baste with butter sauté shrooms and garlic..yumm. The little bowl has ground mushroom powder that got sprinkled over everything :-). She puts up with me it's the least I can do.

[Cookietruck]

cooked similar
a prime NY strip on the weber grille, charcoal and threw a few small pieces of pecan on there too
asparagus and a salad with greens from the garden (need to eat them before it gets hot here)

no butter on our steak though, olive oil/salt/pepper and i hit the coffee grinder for a few seconds and rubbed that on one side as well

[RIHans]

Catered a dinner party for 10 to benefit Foster Care of Rhode Island. Fun night. We call it "Let the men do the cooking!" Raised some cash for youth in transition
out of foster care.

[BShow]

My wife was working all day Saturday, so we had a date in town on Friday evening. Saturday morning, I arose early to wrangle our toddler and make some breakfast for my two valentines. Whipped up some oatmeal buttermilk pancakes to be served with nutella, strawberries and whipped cream. Some half decent turkey sausage from whole paycheck on the side. When she came home from work I had a couple filets on the grill with a touch of chimichurri, simple baked potatoes and aspagragus finished over the coals, hit the spot. Earlier in the day during naptime, I melted down a bit of chocolate and dipped some strawberries. That scored some major extra credit points.

[Shinomaster]

Made pizzas and watched the hit film from 1987, Moonstruck.

[Octave]

Apple- and fennel-marinated tempeh steaks over a bed of roasted brussels sprouts. Served alongside ravioli; homemade pasta, garlic and ginger sauteed sweet potato filling with a vegan chanterelle cream-sauce. Served with a bottle of New Belgium's Gruit.

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Dessert was a vegan Boston cream pie; homemade cookie crust, custard filling, a thin layer of vanilla cake all topped with a chocolate ganache.

Made a pillow-fort and watched Birdman.

[rwsaunders]

Too cold to dine out so we dropped by the Italian deli, picked up some olives, tomatoes, aged Romano, fresh bread, tiramisu and some other goodies. Mrs. RW then whipped up a little homemade bolognese sauce and I sourced the wine and the firewood. Simple and ever so tasty.

[caleb]

You guys are crushing it. Good work.

[slowSSer]

i did bacon wrapped filets, sauteed spinach and mashed potatoes for the wife and kid. a little truffle salt topped everything perfectly.

[RIHans]

i did bacon wrapped filets, sauteed spinach and mashed potatoes for the wife and kid. a little truffle salt topped everything perfectly.

You said truffles...like right there!