Well, onto my next monthly dinner installments!
For our anniversary, Matt made my seventh monthly dinner: Asian Beef Lettuce Wraps with Rice Cakes and Cucumber Orange Salad. There is something about eating food that you get to layer yourself. I love tacos, fajitas, and lettuce wraps all for this reason. With each layer - beef, rice, veggies, peanuts - in addition to the fun sauces that accompany, you get to make your own little package of flavor. And this version of a layered, eat-with-your-hands concoction proved worthy. The tastes - spicy and sweet - were perfect. It was a wonderful anniversary! And this meal may have moved up with some of my faves so far in the best monthly dinner race. The wine and tulips were a nice touch too. Nice work, hubby!
Dinner #8 was shared with Jane, my mother-in-law. Matt made marinated Grilled Tuna Steaks and Wasabi Butter with Pineapple Cilantro Rice and Strawberry Candied Almond Salad. Delish! The tuna could have had more flavor (not Matt's fault), but overall the dish was a success. Matt and Jane weren't huge fans of the sweet rice, but I liked it. It went even better with a spicy leftover dish we had days later. I don't think cooked (even if rare) tuna is my favorite of the fish varieties, but this was a good version. Not at the top of my list of monthly dinners, but not at the bottom either. The salad, however, rose to the top for salads we've prepared as part of these dinner events. The citrus dressing with the almonds and strawberries was fantastic! We all devoured it, and funny how those leftover candied almonds disappeared so quickly.
For our anniversary, Matt made my seventh monthly dinner: Asian Beef Lettuce Wraps with Rice Cakes and Cucumber Orange Salad. There is something about eating food that you get to layer yourself. I love tacos, fajitas, and lettuce wraps all for this reason. With each layer - beef, rice, veggies, peanuts - in addition to the fun sauces that accompany, you get to make your own little package of flavor. And this version of a layered, eat-with-your-hands concoction proved worthy. The tastes - spicy and sweet - were perfect. It was a wonderful anniversary! And this meal may have moved up with some of my faves so far in the best monthly dinner race. The wine and tulips were a nice touch too. Nice work, hubby!
Dinner #8 was shared with Jane, my mother-in-law. Matt made marinated Grilled Tuna Steaks and Wasabi Butter with Pineapple Cilantro Rice and Strawberry Candied Almond Salad. Delish! The tuna could have had more flavor (not Matt's fault), but overall the dish was a success. Matt and Jane weren't huge fans of the sweet rice, but I liked it. It went even better with a spicy leftover dish we had days later. I don't think cooked (even if rare) tuna is my favorite of the fish varieties, but this was a good version. Not at the top of my list of monthly dinners, but not at the bottom either. The salad, however, rose to the top for salads we've prepared as part of these dinner events. The citrus dressing with the almonds and strawberries was fantastic! We all devoured it, and funny how those leftover candied almonds disappeared so quickly.