This is coincidental. The menu here this evening is filet of mignon, w/ king crab w/ baby carrots in a maple glaze, w/ piped sweet potato and banana. No sauce bernaise here, due to excess calories. I am reconsidering though.

How do you prepare the filet?. Where did you learn to chef up a meal like that? I can grill indoors on the jenn aire or I usually sear the meat after a marinaide in olive oil simmered with rosemary & garlic. After searing on one side, I put in hot oven @ 450 F and cook seared side down for 5 minutes for rare and 8 minutes for medium rare. Cook in the oven in the pan you sear in. Never fails! I had to cook for a living in fine restaurants between ages of 14 till 28.

Happy eats!

 

This is gettin scary! LOL
I've been sharing the cooking chores for many years now. As it is mainly a chore for one person we find that sharing the burden spices up our dining and gives each other a break.
I coincidentally use my indoor Jenn Aire grill this time of year as well. I also like to either sear the filet in olive oil and garlic then oven braise at high heat.
This particular recipe I beleive is called fillet oscar. The tender asparagus and crab loaded with bernaisse is so full of calories but I have to find a way to infuse loads of butter into just about everything or it's just not right!
One of my favorites is lamb ribs and sweet potatoes. I use dry rub seasoning and then sear the chops on high heat for about four minutes on each side, really try to blacken them. roll them up on edges so the fat gets good and cooked as well.
I've got to go to Omaha meats to pick up the fillets.
If your into deserts I got a recipe for "The worlds greateast flan." Check out the," epicurious foods" website.
Franklin

 

Franklin: You're right this is scary, indeed. I am familiar w/ the epicurious site. I have it on my favorite list. I think any dish served w/ crab & asparagrass carries the name Oscar. I have done this w/ veal mostly. My wife does all of the deserts, as she is the pastry chef. I don't eat much food w/ sugar so everyone else tends to enjoy her talents. Do you french the rib bones on the lamb? I am condemned to enjoying lamb solo because my wife can't take it. She will enjoy duck while I take the lamb.

You can also get some good recepies from the Foodtv.com web site. You can find Tyler Florence and Emeril there, amoung others. I don't usually go by recepies that are written down unless it is a dish with which I am not familiar.
Hey, live well.

I remember well, having to get the kids away for the weekend, so as to enjoy the house to ourselves. My 21 year old is out on her own now, and my 19 year old has his own apt, although it is still part of the main house. He tends to be gone alot. Sure, romantic dinners by candle light, some excellent wine from the cellar, jacuzzi baths, a fireplace blazing in the living room, ahh nothing better. This is the glue for 25 years of marriage.

I ended up taking the king crab meat and making a stuffing for some jumbo shrimp. Served as a surf & turf. The sweet potato is very good when whipped and the banana is mashed and folded in. I like to pipe it on the plate for the presentation. Ahhhh, the good life!

 

We have a 26 year old Daughter, and 22 year old son. We will be married 30 years this August!
There seems to be way to many coinkidinks here,
Is this the epicurious twilight zone?
She said the dinner was wonderful.
What are you going to do for my 7 day without a smoke?
Uh!!!!

 

I smoked once in grade school. It made me sick as hell. My Dad smoked until he was over 60yrs old. Back then I rolled them for him and he smoked them down so far his fingers wer stained orange. He quit cold turkey; and I don't know why. He played tennis until he was in his 80's and died at 87. I've been in sales meeting for a week, couped up in a hotel and in airplanes in the 60 and 70's. Got headaches from it. But........God Bless the Smokers. One of the last stands of freedom. I'm tired of the junk science smoking crap and the whining anti-smoking bunch.

 

Yeah, God Bless the Smokers.
They pound their heads into a wall all day every day, and the burden for their health problems falls into my lap. Great. Last bastion of Freedom to Ignore Reality. Tobacco is gross, and it's a scam at that! Why inhale partially ignited hydrocarbons and organic tars, with only the benefit of a psychotropic effect that is all in your head? Smoke crack or something...at least it gets you off! And the way things are going, crack is going to be cheaper than cigarettes soon.
Oh well, at least they are banning smoking in public places, which is a start. I can't burn a spliff in public, so it's only fair that smokers can't burn their cigarettes. I love going into a restaurant and not having to huff smoke while I try to eat. Man, smokers are the most inconsiderate addicts in the world. At least crack addicts and heroin junkies just rip you off, and don't try to expose you to their nasty habits.
BDV

 

Oh well, at least they are banning smoking in public places, which is a start. I can't burn a spliff in public, so it's only fair that smokers can't burn their cigarettes. I love going into a restaurant and not having to huff smoke while I try to eat. Man, smokers are the most inconsiderate addicts in the world. At least crack addicts and heroin junkies just rip you off, and don't try to expose you to their nasty habits.
BDV [/B][/QUOTE]

BDV What is a "spliff"? I think you mean marajuana. You can go to Amsterdam and burn all the spliffs you want. That smoke is also toxic but the marajuana smoker just can't smoke enough of it to harm themselves, or others around them. Marajuana should be legal but until it is, you will have to burn your spliffs in this country behind closed doors. My point here is that you seem as intolerant with smokers as the law is about marajuana.

I agree with you about the health problems that we non smokers have to underwrite for smokers. This is why I think the price of cigarettes should reflect the price of the health care for an individual that has smoked for 40 years.

The free market should decide which establishments are smoke free. When I walk into a restaurant that has a blue haze in it I simply leave and go elsewhere. I favor smoke free establishments so if a smoker can't take that, then they can go elsewhere. I am sick to death with government making laws with regard to the personal habits of its citizens.

Smoking is gross but it is a national health problem that needs to be dealt with through education and social engineering. The free market system always works best in controlling these situations. When the government gets involved, the end result is always a strain upon our liberty. Let the free market work and the problem will be solved to the satisfaction of the majority of the citizens.

 

I smoked cigarettes in high school, college and Army -- all told 8-10 years I guess. Quit about about 27 years ago; I had quit for short times about 5-6 times before that. I guess the whole object is getting over the craving by replacing the habit with something else -- replace the habit with another habit.

Now I am very sensitive to smoke -- I will gag in a second, and I can smell it a mile away. I start gagging before I can even identify it as tobacco smoke.

It can be tough. I have a friend who was in a bad car wreck when he was in high school. He had several bones broken and now has several stainless steel pins in his bones; he was in traction for 6 or 7 months. While in the hospital he was on morphine -- he does not smoke any more but he says getting off morphine (which was tough) was nothing compared to getting off cigarettes.

We all have our weak points, I guess. I've got sons who smoke, maybe someday they will quit. Hope.

 

I go thru about 1/2 a pack a day when working, often 2 packs a day when off (but everybody bums smokes off me when home, so it's more like a pack a day..)

I'm not ready to quit, I put up with too much stress. If I tried to quit now without something along the lines of valium, people will die..

 

That's about BS. First, try sitting in the NON-smoking section. If one smoker in particular is offensive, try asking em to stop. I've never said no.. But then again, I try not to smoke around nonsmokers, that's why I go outside or elsewhere. Real inconsiderate, HUH?

As far as weed, yeah, most don't smoke enough to hurt them as much as cigs..

and now, as far as health care, and freedoms...
So, how do you feel about alcohol, should we ban that too? It causes health probs, and beer smells bad.
Cars, yeah, they cause injury, and smell bad too, lets ban those too.
How bout fast food, that stuff reeks, and causes heart attacks and obesity.
We gotta draw a line somewhere in our freedoms and rights..Granted, cigs may not be the place to draw that line, but, gotta do it sometime.

Sorry if it seems like I'm lighting into you, but that's a pretty narrow eye you look out of..
We

 

I'm not ready to quit, I put up with too much stress.



This is pure baloney, you're crutch for not having the will to quit. If you want stress, try dealing with cancer! You may have stress, I don't know what the origin of that stress may be, but it won't compare to the stress of fighting lung cancer. Continue to smoke cigarettes and you will find out what I mean. Sorry if this sounds rough, but it is reality sir.

Death from lung cancer is nasty. First you are radiated, then rundown sick with Chemo, and finally operated on to remove your infected lung. Most of the cases will show a metastisis to other areas of the body, like the brain. You will finally go into convulsions and die. This whole scenario will take about a total of no more than 18 months. This can happen as early as after 20 years of smoking. So if one starts at age 15, you can be in the ground before you are 37.

We have'nt even explored heart disease. One can go down and never recover. This is less punishing but certainly final.

I think it is the smart fellow who just makes up his mind to quit and then does it. It is never to late. Lungs will begin to repair themselves immediatedly from the benign effects of smoking, once you have completely quit. Good luck should you choose to quit.

 

Thanks man... I was going to go have a smoke, you just ruined it for me..
Seriously, yes, you are right. That part of my comment was meant as a joke. Sorry if you didn't catch that one.. I'll try and make em more obvious next time. (So I have a dry sense of humor...)

Anyway, I am well aware of the risks. However, I'm an adult (well, mostly), capable of making my own choices, am well aware of potential problems. I also drink beer, drive fast, breathe polluted air, and swim in the Hudson River..
I suppose you've never done anything that was less than an ideal health choice for you. Friggin health *****.

As far as you're health care costs going up, talk to the unemployed, and other walking money pits. I work, pay taxes, the same taxes you pay, the same insurance rates I assume you pay.

In short, there's two sides to everything, try stepping down from that high ground and looking at our eye level. Good God, I feel like a 12 stepper all of a sudden.. I need a beer.

EDIT: Wait a minute, you're right, I've got plenty of time left, my lungs will heal.. So, I think I WILL go have that smoke now, thanks.

 

I am sorry if I offended you but I am not a health ****, just a little wiser than when I was younger. I do not willingly do things to harm my health. I think that is foolish. I have some health problems and therefore do everything I can to make sure I am as healthy as I can be.

My health insurance premiums are $1100.00 per month because I am self employed. I have to have insurance. I can't go with out it. So when I hear Union workers whine about having to contribute to their health care premium I want to vomit

It makes me sick to hear employees complain about having too much deducted from their pay for health insurance. The employer pays the lion's share so shut up already.

I am not on the high ground but rather I think the intelligent ground. There are enough assaults to our health everyday, why in God's name would one want to intentionally add to it?

Enjoy your smokes because I could care less what you do to yourself. If you don't care, why should I?