Sushi Joy in Boise Tonight – Wow!

24 Saturday May 2014

Posted by Bob and Robin in Android Photos, Appetizers, Asian - Sushi Joy, Asian Food, Avocado, Blue Crab, Chicken, Cooking Styles, Crab, Dinner With Robin, Idaho Chefs, Photos By: Bob Young, Restaurant Reviews, Restaurants, Salad, Seafood, Sushi Joy, What's For Dinner?

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avocado with she crab, salad, sashimi, soft shelled crab, Sushi Joy

Tonight we took a break from our kitchen and went tro our favorite Japanese/Chinese/American restaurant – Sushi Joy! And once again, it was 5-Stars out of 5-Stars! Super good. Super delightful. And here Tiger, one of the owners, is doing a super job in making some sashimi and it is fantastic! He does a great job.

Robin is at Sushi Joy awaiting here order. It's all made to order.

Robin is at Sushi Joy awaiting her order. It’s all made to order.

Robin had this Avocado – She Crab Salad.

I still love the house salad. So simple, yet so delicious. Especially their House Dressing.

For an appetizer, I had this delicious Shof Shelled Crab. The batter was so very light and the crab so delightfully mild and delicious.

For an appetizer, I had this delicious Soft Shelled Crab. The batter was so very light and the crab so delightfully mild and delicious. This dish was truly Goût de la mer – Taste of the sea!

My entree was Mango Chicken which was also great. But I think I am going back to the sashimi plates.

And Robin had the Lemon Chicken. This was big enough for two, even maybe three. Deliciously different.

Puttanesca Dinner

24 Saturday May 2014

Posted by Bob and Robin in Bedrock Wine Company, Captain's Shack, Dinner At The Captains Shack, Dinner With Family, Herbs, Herbs and Spices, Italian Food, Pasta, Photos By: Bob Young, Puttanesca, Seafood, Shrimp, Watermelon, What's For Dinner?, Wine and Food, Wines - California

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Grand Marnier, pasta di gamberetti, Pasta Puttanesca, puttanesca

This was really very good. Fun to make and easy. It is a modified version of a traditional puttanesca, but just as good, I think. I will post the recipe in the recipe file later today. But for now, here is the dish. Enjoy!! For dessert, Robin cut up some watermelon and mixed it with some blueberries. Then splashed on some Grand Marnier. It was yummy. There is none left over! Here is The Puttanesca Recipe. You can also find it in the Recipe File as listed above.

Pasta di Gamberetti Puttanesca
(Shrimp Pasta Puttanesca)

2012 Bedrock Winery Ode to Lulu Rose

Watermelon and Blueberry Mix
with
Grand Marnier

Great Meatball Dinner

22 Thursday May 2014

Posted by Bob and Robin in Acme Bake Shop Sourdough, Acme Bakery, Boise Artisan Bakery's, Boise Farmers Market, Captain's Shack, Cream Sauces, Dinner At The Captains Shack, Dinner With Robin, Herbs and Spices, Local Farmers Markets, Local Harvests, Photos By: Bob Young, Salads, Squash, What's For Dinner?, Zucchini

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fried sage, ground pork, ground turkey, parsley sauce, sage, squash, summer squash, zucchini

Not to long ago, we were watching the Cooking Channel and Bobby Flay came on with an add. He was making meatballs and then using a yogurt and parsley sauce with them. I think we duplicated that tonight. We made our meatballs out of a 50/50 blend of ground turkey and pork – not sausage – just ground pork. Here is the dinner we ended up with. Super good! Cheers.

Turkey/Pork Meatballs
with
Parsley Yogurt Sauce and Fried Fresh Sage

Scalloped Potatoes

Sauteed Summer Squash and Zucchini

Radicchio e Fagioli

Toasted Acme Bake Shop Sourdough

Lamb Chops With Mint Cream Sauce

19 Monday May 2014

Posted by Bob and Robin in Acme Bake Shop, Boise Artisan Bakery's, Boise Farmers Market, Buy Idaho, Cream Sauces, Dinner At The Captains Shack, Dinner With Robin, Grenache, Heirloom Tomatoes, Herbs, Idaho Lamb, Lamb, Local Farmers Markets, Local Harvests, Local Markets, Photos By: Bob Young, Recipes, Ste Chapelle Winery, Vegetables, What's For Dinner?, Wine and Food

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cream sauce, cream sauces, lamb chops, Ste Chapelle Grenache, Ste Chapelle Winery

Super lamb dinner and all the fixins’! The mint cream sauce is easy to do: After brazing the lamb chops, deglaze the pan with 1/4 cup of Cream de Menthe. Add 1/2 cup of cream and stir to blend. Reduce over medium heat until thickened. Taste and season as necessary. Place 1 Tablespoon, or so, on each chop and serve.

Whipped Parsnip and Carrot

Braised Felzien Farms Lamb Chop
with
mint cream sauce

Acme Bake Shop Ciabatta

Farm Fresh Mixed Greens and Tomato Salad

Cauliflower with Brown Butter and Sage

2011 Ste Chapelle Winery Grenache

Herbs and Wine at The Buzz

14 Wednesday May 2014

Posted by Bob and Robin in Appetizers, Dinner With Friends, Food Photos, Herbs, Herbs and Spices, Housemade Soup, Photos By: Bob Young, Salads, Special Dinners, Spices, Sriracha Chili Sauce, What's For Dinner?, Wine and Food, Wine Dinners

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Buzz Coffee & Wine Events, Wine, Wine Dinners

I would be remiss if I did not send our condolences to Tommy and his family for his loss over the weekend.

We had a very quiet and intimate wine tasting at the Buzz last night – Herbs and Wine was the topic. Great topic and job, Cristi! Your choices of topics is what makes these Wine Dinners so very interesting. If you live in Boise, or the surrounding area and you missed this event, you can redeem yourself tonight as the program is repeated. The program starts at 6:30pm and costs $20.00 per person for a 5 Course dinner and at least 6 wines. Here is what we had and the wines to go with dinner. Cheers!

Herbed Quiche
2012 Wente Chardonnay
13.5% alc.a wonderful chardonnay with this quiche. [19]

Herbed Zucchini Soup 2012 Monte Fresco 13% alc. good choice with the spice in the soup. great soup

Herbed Zucchini Soup
2012 Monte Fresco
13% alc. good choice with the spice in the soup. Awesome soup! [17]

Spiced Grape Salad
2012 Zolo Bonardo
13.8% alc. great paring with the salad. big enough to go with the radish [19]

Herbed Chicken
Broccoli
Saffron Tomato Rice
2012 Fernandez Gomez Rioja
14% alc. superb match. went very well with the broccoli. [19]

Lavender Cupcake with Honey Frosting
2012 Tranche
13.2% alc. I thought the balance was a little off on this one. The cupcake, however, was awesome! [17]

Awesome Idaho Breakfast

13 Tuesday May 2014

Posted by Bob and Robin in Acme Bake Shop, Acme Bake Shop Breads, Acme Bake Shop Rye, Big Lost River Meats, Boise Farmers Market, Bread, Breakfast, Breakfast At The Captains Shack, Breakfast With Robin, Buy Idaho, Captain's Shack, Eggs, Local Markets, Photos By: Bob Young, Sausage, What's For Dinner?, Whats For Breakfast?

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Acme Bake Shop, Big Lost River Meats, Boise Farmers Market, chives, Meadowlark Farms, rye bread

This is what I like about this time of year and the Boise Farmers Market. The chives in the eggs came from our garden. Truly an all Idaho breakfast. Most of these items are available at the Boise Farmers Market, every Saturday at 10th and Grove from 9am – 1pm. Take a look.

Meadowlark Farms Scramble
with
fresh chives

Big Lost River Garlic and Rosemary Sausage

Acme Bake Shop Toasted Rye

Scallops and Lobster For Dinner

12 Monday May 2014

Posted by Bob and Robin in Acme Bake Shop, Acme Bake Shop Breads, Acme Bake Shop Sourdough, Boise Artisan Bakery's, Boise Farmers Market, Buy Idaho, Captain's Shack, Dinner At The Captains Shack, Dinner With Robin, Lobster, Local Farmers Markets, Local Harvests, Local Markets, Locavore, Photos By: Bob Young, Purple Sage Farms, River View Gardens, Salads, Scallops, Seafood, Sourdough Bread, Volcanic Farms, What's For Dinner?, Wine and Food, Wines - California

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Acme Bake Shop, Boise Farmers Market, lobster, ravenswood chardonnay, ravenswood winery, seared sea scallops

Braised Sea Scallops in a Butter and Garlic Sauce. Farm Fresh Salad. 1995 Ravenswood Winery Sangiacomo Chardonnay and Toasted Acme Bake Shop Sourdough. The wine went very well with dinner. This is still a superb wine whose time has come. Time to drink it.

Braised Sea Scallops
in
butter and garlic sauce

Farm Fresh Salad
with
tomatoes and carrot threads

1995 Ravenswood Winery Sangiacomo Chardonnay
Toasted Acme Bake Shop Sourdough

The wine went very well with dinner. This is still a superb wine whose time has come. Time to drink it. And then we can open our 2005 supply of this fantastic chardonnay. Hope it goes as well with this great seafood combination. The components for the salad were all from the Boise Farmers Market as was the Acme Bake Shop sourdough bread. We always eat so well at The Captain’s Shack!

Scotch Eggs For Breakfast

12 Monday May 2014

Posted by Bob and Robin in Appetizers, Breakfast At The Captains Shack, Breakfast With Robin, Buy Idaho, Captain's Shack, Eggs, Local Farmers Markets, Local Harvests, Locavore, Photos By: Bob Young, Recipes, Scotch Eggs, Whats For Breakfast?

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breakfast, recipe, scotch egg recipe, scotch eggs

I have never tasted Scotch Eggs. Robin has, probably in another life or at Piper Pub here in Boise. They were “invented” in London in an upscale department store. Here is a link for more information on Scotch Eggs – What Are They?, posted earlier on this blog. (There is a recipe there also.) They are really not too difficult to make, but I think I should have had the heat a little lower, cooked them slower and a little longer. But they were good. Enjoy!

Scotch Eggs prepped and ready for frying.

Scotch Eggs. This is how I presented them.

Scotch Eggs

Great Pork Chop Dinner Tonight

10 Saturday May 2014

Posted by Bob and Robin in Arugula, Buy Idaho, Captain's Shack, Comfort Food, Dinner With Robin, Greens, Heirloom Tomatoes, Local Markets, Photos By: Bob Young, Salad, Volcanic Farms, What's For Dinner?, Wine and Food, Wines - California

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Boise Farmers Market, pork, pork chops, sage, sage gravy, salad greens, Volcanic Farms

Especially good when you realize that the fresh salad greens were from the Boise Farmers Market this morning as were the tomatoes. The gravy was a sage gravy – the sage from our garden. Look at this.

Seared Bone-In Pork Chop Masdhed Potatoes with Sage Gravy Corn Fresh Green Salad with Fresh Tomatoes 2012 Line 39 Petite Sirah - North Caast

Pan Seared Bone-In Pork Chop
Mashed Potatoes
with
sage gravy
Corn
Fresh Green Salad and Fresh Tomatoes
2012 Line 39 Petite Sirah – North Coast

Delightful Visit at Sizzler In Boise

08 Thursday May 2014

Posted by Bob and Robin in Avocado, Beer and Food, Brocolli, Cuts of Beef, Dinner With Robin, Lobster, Main Dish, Photos By: Bob Young, Restaurant Reviews, Restaurants, Salads, Seafood, Shell Fish, Sizzler, What's For Dinner?

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lobster, salad bar, sizzler, steak

I know. It’s a chain. But let me tell you, this was a surprisingly good visit. The Service People were tremendous. Happy. Pleasant. They appear to like to work here. The service was tremendous. I met the Manager and he was very pleasant and a pleasure to talk to. And the food was very good. But what really impressed me was the salad bar. Huge variety of objects to put on your salad. Even 1/2 avocados. And fruit. They even have a taco bar. And a dessert bar. An again, it was all really good food. We had the Steak and Lobster. The steak was well prepared and delicious. It was by no means as tender as that we have had at Bern’s Steakhouse in Tampa, but the flavor was every bit as good! Think about that. The lobster was a little small, but again was cooked well. Not rubbery. I cut it with my fork. Just look at these photos. And here is a link to their Web Site. Enjoy. We did and we will return. For a chain restaurant, it is well worth 4-Stars out of 5-Stars.

Crab Salad

Salad Bar Choices

How many salad bars have avocados? Or Kiwi? And a good selection of fresh fruit?

At least 3 types of lettuce for your salad. And great toppings, too. I’d go back just for the salad bar! It’s that good.

Salad bar toppings.

Our Steak and Lobster dinners. Wonderful mushrooms and onions. And broccoli. You make the choices for steak toppings, rareness of the steak and vegetable selections. Robin had a baked potato with all the fixins’.