After The 'Perfect Dijon Mustard' Search!
Here are some needed, long-awaited details on yesterday's meal, which so far only I've eaten; the rest is put away, in the big lidded-pans:
I thought the lima beans were a good veggie to have--I have so many different vegetables, though... I thought they at least would be more appreciated than Okra, and I couldn't find broccoli... But, really, what could I use that would go with this?
The broiling was done for the womenfolk; they wouldn't appreciate the Dijon mustard or the pepper...
I could'a used Grey Poupon, and even there, Squeeze Bottle or Jar? (But with mustard, being mustard, the Save-A-Lot Brand seemed to have the best packaging, rather than Kroger playing around with graphic designs, Aldi putting a sandwich on the label, and Meijer, Walmart being ordinary (well, didn't get to Meijer, actually--or Target for that matter) and Spartan (which is what the 'Glory' franchise is--and where the meat came from; Kroger was OUT OF EVERYTHING! Save A Lot & Aldi suffer from a very meager selection, whereas Meijer & W-M were not easy nor quick to get to--or out of...) changed its brand name to EveryDayEssentials, also slapping something ordinary on its label, etc.
The peppercorns were frustrating to crack (so no pictures of that in progress--I would'a been better off just doing that first, all the while singing "David crack corn and he don't care", and setting them aside... The stuff in the shaker was either a stand-in, as in I would'a resigned myself to just grinding it from the shaker's built-in grinder, or seeing if I could take out the multi-colored corns from the shaker just for variety...
Is that a Crown Royal behind the French Brandy? (Both given to me by my in-laws, who gave me a couple bar-rooms worth of liquor after splurging on needed hooch for baking "newfound liquor cakes" with, or making my own occasional drinks) The Brandy won--and what was left made a milkshake for dessert, that was accompanied by the banana, almond cashew milk (my wife has a job giving out food/drink samples, so it was a demo, that we'd gotten our own carton of, I use for such) and an egg... --So, yes, for BOTH recipe and the chef (and was warned at least the Crown Royal in one recipe would flame-up but didn't use, nor had the used Brandy had become flambé... It was also the only measured ingredient (in the faded & jaded 2-cup measurer, that I'd washed by hand, as well as the glass 1-cup, that was used for the peppercorns, while everything else went in--or will GO IN--the dishwasher, as it got soiled... (The peppercorn plate, too...)
Last of all, I went recipe hopping: Epicurious.com, and Alton Brown were also looked at, but (Special Thank You: KEVIN 313!) it was the awesome & excellent Cavalcade Of Food that was actually used! Didn't really have to copy/paste/print, had most of all the ingredients, except for the meat, (New York strip WAS what worked best; to go the Kosher route, at one market left would be a rib-eye and that had bones; somehow over-came that requirement, just to make FOOD!) and the Dijon that I went on a quest to locally buy, whereas the rest of the stuff was around the house, and the green onions I'd picked up at my store the night before, after getting off work...
Oh, and the Croissants (crescent rolls) were a late-moment addition (Had to put the plate in the microwave, even when after about 10-min. that they were done)...
-- Dave
[this post was last edited: 7/6/2016-19:39]
