Friday, August 21, 2009
Date Night Dinner
Thursday night is date night. And while we sometimes don't hold as true to that as we once did (last spring we were part of an all-star trivia team every Thursday night) we still mentally block off Thursday nights for just us.
Last night was no exception, and I decided to dig into my recipe chest for a new dish. After looking through the fridge, cupboards, and new spice chest (yay) I came up with a pretty good menu. I would call last nights meal, FUSION. Yeah, nothing really went together per se, but it definitely tasted excellent!
The menu:
- Chicken shish kabobs marinated in Dad's legendary sauce
- Becky Bott's spinach and strawberry salad
- Ginger ale mojito
First things first, the sauce I use to marinated any and every kind of meat is one my dad taught me for steaks. Its a simple teriyaki marinade with beautiful results. Just one part soy sauce, one part olive oil and a bit of seasoned salt. Delicious.
Last nights shish kabobs had chicken, orange bell peppers, and vidalia onions. Shish kabobs are pretty straight forward so I will move along to...
Becky Bott's Spinach and Strawberry Salad (Which really should be renamed, "Oh my! MAKE THIS SALAD Salad")
-Fresh spinach
-Fresh strawberries
Dressing (and this is the part where the salad becomes a masterpiece)
-1 T poppy seeds
-1 T sesame seeds
-1 t dried onion
-1/4 t paprika
-1/2 cup sugar
-1/2 cup oil
-1/4 apple cider vinegar
Combine. Enjoy. Eat some more.
It was so delicious, I had two chicken breasts laying around so I did a quick glaze on them with this dressing and threw them on the grill. That will be my lunch today on a bed of spinach with more strawberries! Uhm, yum. And yes, knowing that makes my morning so less productive.
I'll post my ginger ale mojito recipe later.
p.s. food pics are looking a little better huh? Yeah, I remembered that the macro setting can really make flower pictures pop, so probably the same with food!
Last night was no exception, and I decided to dig into my recipe chest for a new dish. After looking through the fridge, cupboards, and new spice chest (yay) I came up with a pretty good menu. I would call last nights meal, FUSION. Yeah, nothing really went together per se, but it definitely tasted excellent!
The menu:
- Chicken shish kabobs marinated in Dad's legendary sauce
- Becky Bott's spinach and strawberry salad
- Ginger ale mojito
First things first, the sauce I use to marinated any and every kind of meat is one my dad taught me for steaks. Its a simple teriyaki marinade with beautiful results. Just one part soy sauce, one part olive oil and a bit of seasoned salt. Delicious.
Last nights shish kabobs had chicken, orange bell peppers, and vidalia onions. Shish kabobs are pretty straight forward so I will move along to...
Becky Bott's Spinach and Strawberry Salad (Which really should be renamed, "Oh my! MAKE THIS SALAD Salad")
-Fresh spinach
-Fresh strawberries
Dressing (and this is the part where the salad becomes a masterpiece)
-1 T poppy seeds
-1 T sesame seeds
-1 t dried onion
-1/4 t paprika
-1/2 cup sugar
-1/2 cup oil
-1/4 apple cider vinegar
Combine. Enjoy. Eat some more.
It was so delicious, I had two chicken breasts laying around so I did a quick glaze on them with this dressing and threw them on the grill. That will be my lunch today on a bed of spinach with more strawberries! Uhm, yum. And yes, knowing that makes my morning so less productive.
I'll post my ginger ale mojito recipe later.
p.s. food pics are looking a little better huh? Yeah, I remembered that the macro setting can really make flower pictures pop, so probably the same with food!
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