What's On Your Plate???

[702baby]

 

[kronin323]

From Friday - breakfast for lunch!

House-made corned beef hash with eggs over easy and buttermilk pancakes, from the so-called "original" pancake house:

 

[kronin323]

A couple of months ago I posted a pic of ham steak and peas in a port cream sauce with mashed potatoes. Somebody (I think it was washi) asked for the recipe. I posted it but didn't have any pics to go along with it.

I did it again on Friday night, so here you go. It's really really easy and fast (like 15 mins), if you use premade mashed potatoes (not instant; gag...) and peas from a can. But everything really goes well together and it's delicious..

What you need:
- A ham steak
- A portion of premade mashed potatoes
- A can of peas
- A shallot (the proper kind that looks like a mini onion)
- Some cheap port wine
- Some heavy whipping cream (half & half won't work; it'll break)
- Butter and olive oil

The only prep involved:
- Peel and finely dice your shallot
- Drain the can of peas

Heat up 1TB butter and 1TB olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat until the butter stops bubbling. Brown the ham steak, about a minute on each side:

Sprinkle the diced shallots (about a TB) around the ham and pour in a few TBs of the port wine. Cover, reduce heat to low, and simmer for about 5 minutes:

Remove the ham steak to a plate and pour in about 1/2 cup of heavy cream:

Mix well and bring to a boil over high heat for a couple of minutes to reduce slightly:

Spoon some of the sauce over the ham steak..

...then add the peas to the rest. Heat through.

Serve with the mashed potatoes. Obviously these are "hungry man" portions; you could actually serve 3 - 4 with this recipe.

Buen provecho!

 

[washi me sensie]

A couple of months ago I posted a pic of ham steak and peas in a port cream sauce with mashed potatoes. Somebody (I think it was washi) asked for the recipe. I posted it but didn't have any pics to go along with it.

I did it again on Friday night, so here you go. It's really really easy and fast (like 15 mins), if you use premade mashed potatoes (not instant; gag...) and peas from a can. But everything really goes well together and it's delicious..

What you need:
- A ham steak
- A portion of premade mashed potatoes
- A can of peas
- A shallot (the proper kind that looks like a mini onion)
- Some cheap port wine
- Some heavy whipping cream (half & half won't work; it'll break)
- Butter and olive oil

The only prep involved:
- Peel and finely dice your shallot
- Drain the can of peas

Heat up 1TB butter and 1TB olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat until the butter stops bubbling. Brown the ham steak, about a minute on each side:
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Sprinkle the diced shallots (about a TB) around the ham and pour in a few TBs of the port wine. Cover, reduce heat to low, and simmer for about 5 minutes:
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Remove the ham steak to a plate and pour in about 1/2 cup of heavy cream:
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Mix well and bring to a boil over high heat for a couple of minutes to reduce slightly:
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Spoon some of the sauce over the ham steak..
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...then add the peas to the rest. Heat through.
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Serve with the mashed potatoes. Obviously these are "hungry man" portions; you could actually serve 3 - 4 with this recipe.
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Buen provecho!

damn you!!! lol! but ill try it over the weekened... with beef of course!

 

[kronin323]

Last week, while talking about fried oysters, I said Quality Seafood was the best place in Austin for Gulf Coast style seafood. Well, we went there last night:

Some of the market cases:

And the bar:

And the line we had to wait in to order our food:

Here's the everyday menu (click for fullsize version to read) - they also have a number of chalkboard specials:

And now to the food - "Shoyster" (shrimp and oyster) cocktail, Mexican style (meaning it has spicy pico de gallo and avocado mixed in the cocktail sauce). Yes, the oysters are raw:

The Wife had a whole lobster:

While I had a combination of fried shrimp and fried oysters:

Not the biggest I've gotten here but those honkers were still pretty huge - I've got big hands:

Delicious! They also do an incredible house-made tartar sauce unlike anything else - very garlicky, an unusual tartar sauce ingredient.

So here's a little spout from the Font of Useless Knowledge:
Of the thousands of types of oysters out there, we eat only 4 - 5 species. And that doesn't include the oysters we use to harvest pearls. But almost all shell-bearing mollusks can make pearls. Occasionally I run across one, as I did tonight. Even scallops can make pearls - I once hit one in some live scallop sashimi; had no idea...

 

[kronin323]

damn you!!! lol! but ill try it over the weekened... with beef of course!

haha - well, like I said before, that cooking technique might not work too well with beef; maybe corned beef? Oh well give it a shot if you want and let me know how it worked out...

 

[Litos]

who needs Denny's when you can just eat like a king at home lol......

almost died, but it was great.....

 

[kronin323]

who needs Denny's when you can just eat like a king at home lol......

almost died, but it was great.....

What the heck kinda skillet did those pancakes get cooked on to leave those tiny gridmarks?

 

[Litos]

What the heck kinda skillet did those pancakes get cooked on to leave those tiny gridmarks?

I dunno - i'll have to ask my wife lol

 

[Litos]

What the heck kinda skillet did those pancakes get cooked on to leave those tiny gridmarks?

wife said: it's just a square skillet that has that pattern

she uses it for pretty much everything - even cooks fried eggs on it....