Tuesday Night Dinner
2009/04/8 13:10:38Last night’s dinner was a fairly simple affair but I thought I’d share it since it looked pretty good and tasted even better. It consisted of a grill steamed salmon filet with lemon and dill, roasted garlic brown and wild rice (packaged), lightly steamed broccoli with grated Balderson 3 year old white cheddar.
The salmon is super easy to make.
- Lay down a double layer of foil
- lightly oil the foil with olive oil
- lay the salmon filet down and season with salt, pepper, and dill (fresh or dried)
- Slice 1/2 an onion into rings and lay the onion rings on top of the filet.
- Thinly slice a lemon and lay the slices on top of the onions
- Put a single layer of foil on top and crimp the sides up tightly
- Cook on the top rack in a 400 F grill for 20-25 minutes.
Monday Treat – 2009/03/02
2009/03/3 20:01:20The Monday Treat for the office this week was Baklava, unlike previous attempts this one was made using Alton Brown’s recipe from Good Eats.
The recipe is available here: Good Eats Baklava.
I had to make some slight deviations from the recipe, I couldn’t find any shelled/unsalted pistachio’s so I just used almonds and walnuts only. I also forgot to pickup all spice so it was just completely omitted. The recipe still turned out much better then the 2 alternate recipes I’ve tried from Allrecipes.com. I do however have a couple of comments, firstly Alton’s suggestion to thaw the phylo pastry in the microwave was a disaster, it got all gooey and I had to throw a whole box away so I would suggest thawing in the fridge. Secondly there seems to be slightly too much syrup as my 9×13 had a good half cm of syrup left after all the baklava was consumed, but I suppose it’s better to have too much rather then too little.
Here’s a snap I took of the 2 I kept back at home for us.
Overall it went over well with everyone at work and there were no leftovers for the vultures once I had passed them out.
Now to decide what to bring for next week, hopefully the new pantry will be done this weekend so I can have some time to bake something. Perhaps I’ll pull something random out of the Cookies and Squares book I got for christmas.
Phottix Kosmo D700 FPS Test
2009/02/20 06:37:25I lurk on the DPReview forums quite a bit and there have been some questions as to whether or not the Phottix Kosmo replacement battery for the Nikon MB-D10 battery grip allows the D700 (and D300) to get the full 8 fps (without the need to buy the stupid expensive EN-EL4a+charger+end cap). I finally got around to testing it this morning and I can confirm that it works just fine and does allow for the full 8fps (in fact I got what appears to be 9fps).
Here’s the recorded waveform from Audacity:
And for anyone interested here is the actual MP3
I used the following settings on my D700:
D700 + MB-D10 with Phottix Kosmo
14-Bit Lossless Compressed RAW
Active D-Lighting Off
High ISO NR Normal
Long Exp NR Off
Vignette Control Normal
Steak Dinner
2009/02/19 21:46:08I made a lovely little steak dinner for Shannon and myself this evening.
I started with a nicely marbled Ribeye I picked up from Sobey’s on my way home from work. I lightly lubed it up with canola oil and then liberally applied kosher salt and finely ground fresh black pepper.
While I was doing this, my large cast iron skillet was heating up to sun like temperatures (also known as 500F) in the oven. Once it reached heat I put it over high flame on my largest burner to get it as hot as possible.
The steak was seared on each side for 1 minute then fired into the oven for 3 minutes on each side to hit a nice medium rare (my steak was still a bit chilly from the fridge if I had let it actually hit room temp it would have probably been more like 2 minutes a side for medium rare).
To serve alongside I cooked up some frozen corn, and balsamic glazed fried mushrooms. To finish off the steaks they were topped with a healthy dose of English Stilton.
Final results are presented below.
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PhotoFriday: Autumn
2008/11/14 07:51:45
Fall is Coming, originally uploaded by msroest.
Autumn: The season between summer and winter; fall. In the Northern Hemisphere it is from the September equinox to the December solstice; in the Southern Hemisphere it is from the March equinox to the June solstice.
Out for a Stroll
2008/11/11 17:24:52
Out for a Stroll, originally uploaded by msroest.
Both the geese and I were out for a stroll today at lunch. The rest of the pictures from the outing are available in my flickr stream
3 Ducks in a Row
2008/11/10 14:21:11
Went for a walk around Princess Island park today at lunch and caught these three ducks all going down for a bite.
Korean BBQ Short Ribs with Sweet Potato Fries
2008/11/4 17:29:44Yesterday Shannon and I had a very nice Dinner
The meat is Beef Short Ribs, this time I decided to use the large meat only pieces of short rib but I think it’s better with the thinner cross cut beef short ribs. The meat was marinated in the follow recipe for 8-10 hours.
Marinade
1 cup Soy Sauce
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1 tablespoon grated ginger
1 tsp – 1 tablespoon red pepper sauce (I used a chili oil that had piece of red chili in it)
Put all the ingredients into the blender and blend until well mixed. Marinate the meat in the fridge overnight/all day in the mix.
BBQ the ribs to your desired level of doneness for the big pieces I believe I BBQ’d for about 20 minutes.
The fries are even easier, just cut up the sweet potato into french fry shapes, coat in oil cook in a pre-heated 400 F oven for 30 minutes in a single layer on cookie sheets. I flipped the fries every 10 minutes.
