Mid-Autumn Meat Feast at The House of the Hungry Mouse

The other night, The Angry Chef and I had a good old friend over for dinner. We hadn’t seen him in quite a while, and it was so lovely to catch up.

He brought a great bottle of sweet white wine and some fantastic port. We made dinner, which I’m realizing now turned into a sort of Meat Feast.

I was feeling a little under the weather, so The Angry Chef did most of the heavy lifting. Here are some snapshots from our night.

A cheese platter is always undoubtedly my favorite way to start off any dinner. We had some nice gooey brie, a piece of Wisconsin cheddar, and a wedge of Danish blue.

Dinner itself started out with Candied Maple Pork Ribs, a variation of the beef ribs I made a little while ago. I used pork spare ribs instead of beef for this. Here’s what they looked like when they went into the oven:

And when they came out:

The recipe was (happily) really good with pork, though I think I prefer the flavors more on beef.

Piles of lemon zest and chopped garlic eventually found their way into The Angry Chef’s famous Lemon-Pepper Chicken. This is the same chicken we brought up to Salem last weekend.

He also grilled a few Teriyaki Steaks. That foil packet at the back of the grill is an aluminum-foil smoke bomb with hickory chips and a little water.

The meat was charred and smokey and oh-so-very delicious.

I conceded that we might need some type of vegetable, so I whipped up a little brown-sugar cranberry sauce topped with fresh thyme.

I also used the rest of the dough from this week’s Daring Bakers’ pizza challenge to make a thin-crust garlic bread with a generous amount of butter and Parmesan cheese.

The Angry Chef also put together some Hot and Spicy Demon Saffron Rice in honor of Halloween. I’ll post about this soon if I can persuade him to share the exact recipe. He’s been making it for me for years, but the precise combination of spices is still—somehow—a mystery.

We finished up with glasses of the excellent port that our friend brought, and dishes of Gooey Double Chocolate Brownies topped with rich vanilla ice cream.

Cheers!

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