Meal No. 29: Teriyaki Steak Skewers

Thanks to a good recipe shared with me some years ago, the Sunday night meal here at the end of August was grilled teriyaki steak skewers, and they are so very good.

This preceded Movie Night No. 7: The Matrix. What a fantastic movie!

[Editor's Note: There is a pretty good stretch of Roediger House meals in the early days of the new kitchen for which there are no pictures and no blog entries. I still wanted them to be recorded, as long as the blog serves that purpose so well, so I made some efforts both in 2011 and in early 2016 to at least post what those meals were on the proper dates.]

Meal No. 28: Dinner with the Jens

My normal excellent calendar note-taking falls short for making this entry. Dear Roediger House friends Jen and Jen were here for dinner but I have no idea what I fixed them, since I'm composing this blog post in January 2016 with my 2009 calendar open in front of me.

[Editor's Note: There is a pretty good stretch of Roediger House meals in the early days of the new kitchen for which there are no pictures and no blog entries. I still wanted them to be recorded, as long as the blog serves that purpose so well, so I made some efforts both in 2011 and in early 2016 to at least post what those meals were on the proper dates.]

Meal No. 27: Asian Pork Tenderloin

It's quite a shame I haven't developed the habit of photographing meals each night, because this one was quite a feast: Asian pork tenderloin, with southern style green beans, company mashed potatoes, and even buttermilk biscuits. Quite a lot of food with only three of us around the table, but I don't think we minded. I can do without the Chinese Five-Spice addition to the BBQ sauce, which I'll make a point of fixing when and if I make this again.

[Editor's Note: There is a pretty good stretch of Roediger House meals in the early days of the new kitchen for which there are no pictures and no blog entries. I still wanted them to be recorded, as long as the blog serves that purpose so well, so I made some efforts both in 2011 and in early 2016 to at least post what those meals were on the proper dates.]

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"Asian Pork Tenderloin," from Cuisine at Home, Issue 60 [recipe clipping].

"Southern Style Green Beans," by April Moon. The Flying Biscuit Cafe Cookbook. Atlanta: Longstreet (1998), p. 47.

"Company Mashed Potatoes," a Jones family favorite.

Meal No. 26: Seared Salmon with Tarragon Mushroom Sauce

With just three of us around the table on this Thursday evening, I tried out seared salmon topped with a creamy tarragon and mushroom sauce, along with steamed spinach and basmati rice.

[Editor's Note: There is a pretty good stretch of Roediger House meals in the early days of the new kitchen for which there are no pictures and no blog entries. I still wanted them to be recorded, as long as the blog serves that purpose so well, so I made some efforts both in 2011 and in early 2016 to at least post what those meals were on the proper dates.]

Meal No. 25: Standing Rib Roast

For a small boys' night dinner gathering on this fine summer Sunday, I made a standing rib roast and served it up as a remarkably early dinner.

[Editor's Note: There is a pretty good stretch of Roediger House meals in the early days of the new kitchen for which there are no pictures and no blog entries. I still wanted them to be recorded, as long as the blog serves that purpose so well, so I made some efforts both in 2011 and in early 2016 to at least post what those meals were on the proper dates.]

Meal No. 24: Beef Stroganoff

There has been way too much traveling this month (a few days in Wyoming in the middle of a lot of time in Virginia), and that's put a hurting on my meals in the Roediger House kitchen. Tonight I got back into the mode and made beef stroganoff for the first time. It was pretty good but I thought the sauce was just too thin. I'll give it another go sometime and see if I can't get it closer to fine.

Saturday Night Bath Fever

The time finally came to inaugurate the grand new soaking tub in the Master Bathroom. It was a casual day yesterday, trying to catch up after having been out of town all week and knowing that I'm leaving again (on a jetplane) early Monday morning. The time just seemed right, and the occasion begged for all the pomp and circumstance of setting it up as the right mood.

I'll also admit: it was freakin' hot. So a nice relaxing soak for a while, but then a cooling cleansing shower followed. Not sure how much I'll take advantage of this great tub, but it's nice to have it, no doubt.

Meal No. 23: Margherita Grilled Pork Tenderloin

My college roommate from the University of North Carolina, Jimmy Randolph, made his roughly-annual pilgrimage to the Roediger House. For dinner, I made a grilled pork tenderloin recipe that's got some heat and some great flavor. We enjoyed ourselves and talked up a storm.