Photo Dump Time

Man I'm way behind, so we're just going to go on an all out photo dump of my exploits over the last week.

Last Sunday was marinated grilled chicken thighs with a papaya tomatillo salsa.

Monday night was vegetable soup I ended up serving with a couple of brats.

Tuesday was a crab cake po boy sandwich.

 Wednesday was angel hair pasta with shrimp and tomatoes and a spinach salad.

The last night was beef braised in wine.

Tuna Salad

Yes, tuna salad but oh so much better than the stuff in the can on a sandwich, and maybe just as easy.  Let me demonstrate.

The sweet orange marmalade for the tuna.  We've got orange juice, orange marmalade, tuna, salt and pepper.  The tuna went into the marinade for about 10 minutes.

The stuff for the salad.  Tomatoes, orange juice, mayo, lemon juice, onions, olive oil, tarragon, romaine and salt.

All items except for the romaine and tomatoes went into this to make the dressing for the salad.

The tuna came out of the marinated, was cubbed and then seasoned with salt and pepper.

The completed seared tuna.

The completed salad.

Crab

Man I was so tempted to go double entendre with the title, but it wasn't very appropriate.  Anyway Friday night I made two different crab dishes.  First up was the chinese buffet classic, crab rangoon and then I also made a crab pepper pot. 

You can't have crab rangoon without dipping sauce, this one is a spicy pineapple sauce. Sugar, Siracha chile sauce, water, lime juice and pineapple.  The second pic is all the stuff in the pan, and then the final sauce after about 10 minutes on the heat.

Here's the stuff for the rangoon filling.  Jalapeno, cilantro, green onion, lime juice, ginger, sugar and cream cheese.  Naturally, there was some crab in there as well but for some reason it didn't make it into the picture.

The filled wonton skins ready to go into the fryer.

The rangoons in the fryolater. 

The completed crab rangoon.

Here's the stuff for the pepper pot,  it looks complicated but it was actually really simple.  Across the front we have crab, jalapeno, bacon, tomato, ginger and potato, in the middle we have spinach, onion, coconut milk, red pepper flakes, thyme, and in the back we have chicken broth, salt and pepper.

The first step was to fry the bacon.

After the bacon was cooked, the onion, tomato and ginger went in with the red pepper flakes and thyme.

Then the chicken brother goes in for about 10 minutes.

Then the spinach and coconut milk, salt and pepper.

The finished soup.

The final plate.

Pasta

I'm a bit behind, so this is my meal from Tuesday night.  I went really simple as I was finishing up work on my garden.  Fettuccine Alfredo, which is one of my favorite pasta dishes of all time.

Here's all the stuff, butter, parmesean, cream, nutmeg, salt pepper and pasta.

The finished cream sauce.

The finished plate.