curry some meat with peaches, apricots, a few raisons, a melon. Experiment!
Fruit tempura is tasty too.

I cooked tonight.
Porc avec sauce lavande aux miel
Flan de asperges blanc et vert
Pomme frites a l'Americain
Brie, roquefort, cabuchon avec fruits
Glace vanille avec figue

Chardonnay from Carneros.

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Originally posted by kendocubano:
I cooked tonight.
Porc avec sauce lavande aux miel
Flan de asperges blanc et vert
Pomme frites a l'Americain
Brie, roquefort, cabuchon avec fruits
Glace vanille avec figue

Chardonnay from Carneros.

yummy! That meal is very similar to that which we cook occasionally for our Thanksgiving Day meal. We will serve a good riesling and a gewurtztraminer with it and maybe a shiraz. Very nice, kendocubano. I have not tried fig ice cream. I think I shall since we have figs trees.

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Originally posted by kendocubano:
I cooked tonight.
Porc avec sauce lavande aux miel
Flan de asperges blanc et vert
Pomme frites a l'Americain
Brie, roquefort, cabuchon avec fruits
Glace vanille avec figue

Chardonnay from Carneros.

Umm...can someone please translate this?

Sure, FKA, although most of it is pretty self evident.

Pork tenderloin, grilled with a honey lavender sauce.
Green and white asparagus flan.
Home made thick cut potato chips
Cheeses with fruits, in this case figs and fuji apples
Vanilla ice cream with figs

This was my attempt to reproduce some of the elements of a very lovely meal we had at a hotel in Avignon, three weeks ago. The asparagus flan was the most difficult part.

The sauce for the pork included rosemary, thyme, lavendar, white wine, white wine vinegar, garlic, demi glace (in this case, duck demi glace, although veal would probably work better) and rendered duck fat (to fry the garlic and the herbs.) And, of course, honey.

Tonight I'm going to grill filet mignon. I wanted to make a sauce perigaux, but I can't get black truffles anywhere in town. *Sigh*

Thanks kendo. Some of the stuff was pretty self evident but I didn't know a lot of the sides. Sounds like you are one outstanding cook!

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Originally posted by FragileKidA:
Sounds like you are one outstanding cook!

You'll have to check with the people who eat the stuff to confirm that. But, I did find a website that sells foie gras and black truffles, so I'll update the sauce perigueux in a few weeks!

Mmm. I want that dinner again.

I hope to visit the SOuth of France one day. My wife was there, Avignon and other places, last Fall.

My dad cooked last night, again.
Flan d'asperge au caviar (Leftovers.)
Filet mignon au sauce champignon
Pomme frites a l'Americain (Again.)
Salade Caprese
Crêpes au sauce framboises, bleuets, fraises flambée avec chantilly

Tonight I made slow-oven-roasted chicken (180 degrees for 12 hours)
Garlic Parmesan Mashed Potatoes
Caesar Salad
Watermelon
Key Lime Pime
Assorted Beverages (Strawberry Lemonade, Chateau St. Jean Chardonnay [named after the owner's wife and pronounced "Gene"], Oranjeboom Lager Beer)

That sounds like a cute dinner mark and it sounds like it was mighty good.

Kendo and Sin: I know it might look cool to post your dinners in French (heck, maybe they are French dinners) but some of us don't have any idea what they are. Please translate!

12 hours!! So when the poles melt, I'm blaming you and your chickens, ha ha.

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Ooh la la, but they are French dinners
Green/white asparagus flan with caviar.
Filet mignon with mushroom sauce.
Homemade potato chips.
Caprese salad (basil, tomato, mozzarella)
Crepes flambee with raspberry, strawberry, and blueberry sauce. Whipped cream.

i'm a (pesco)vegetarian and a foodie. i like thai and indian food, i LOVE mediterranean.

for dinner last night i had:
sauteed tofurkey sausge with carmelized onions and garlic, a handful of pretzel flats and a half pitcher of sangria.

A good crispy grilled cheese sandwhich sounds good right about now.

General Tso Chicken with extra Broccoli from a top notch Chinese joint. Makes me sleepy thinking about it. Oh and some white rice too.

I love General Tso Chicken. I prefer my rice fried though.

After a recent trip to DC, we've been eating Ethiopian food. We've made our own injera bread (from teff flour), and have had several dishes. Chicken with onion sauce, mashed chickpeas with potatoes, spicy eggplant. Very yummy. Also, my wife has been making Ethiopian honey-spice bread.

My new favorite restaurant dish is Brazilian Chicken Coconut Soup from the Earth & Tea Cafe in downtown Harrisonburg. An amazing soup made with coconut milk and full of chicken and sweet potato chunks. I'd love to try to reproduce it sometime.

My favorite foods are far too many to name, but I get lots of ideas from Cooking Light magazine which has a great variety of recipes, both ethnic and more traditional. I love cooking and need to do more of it. I made baked spinach and artichoke dip for a party last night and it turned out great!