Asian night is comin up next. So excited, my Love and I both love asian food. I'm excited to see what we find and how our friends like it. We're not getting to extreme yet, but it's in the works. We found a website online that sells bugs and exotic meat. Excited! Details to come!
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A culinary journey of self discovery and expression
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Is anyone out there?
Hello? Is anyone out there? Still trying to figure out what to do this weekend. Anyone have any suggestions? Anyone?
Friday, February 4, 2011
On Second Thought
The more I think of it, the more I want to make dinner at home. Its Valentines Day. I want to spend it with my Love, alone. Anyone have any ideas for something to make?
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Valentines Day Meal
Its decided. We are going to go out to eat for Valentines Dinner. And I make a promise to order the one thing on the menu that makes me cringe! Anyone have any suggestions for dinner in Columubs, Ohio?
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Ideas
Anyone have any ideas for Valentines Day? This will be a meal between just me and my Love. No friends for this one. I'm having a hard time thinking of something that we've never had before. Ideas? Anyone?
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Greek Meal Rundown
The final menu ending up being :
Tsatsiki with pita bread and cheese to dip
Grilled Cheese and Tomato Stacks
Lamb and Eggplant Moussaka
And Baklava for dessert
*** All the recipes are at the bottom, or in the recipe section of this blog.
Tsatsiki
I wasn’t real impressed with this dish. Well let me correct that, the recipe was a bit strange. Every Tsatsiki I’ve had has been somewhat smooth; this recipe had chunks of Cucumber. The flavor was good, but it was missing something. The pita bread was delicious with the dip though. We’ll have to try other recipes in the future.
Grilled Cheese and Tomato Stacks
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The final Cheese Stacks with the Tsatsiki |
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B. Being silly. You can see the Cheese marinating in olive oil, mint and cumin. |
Lamb and Eggplant Moussaka
All of the igredients used for the Moussaka |
The easiest way I can describe this dish, is a Greek version of lasagna. A very delicious lasagna at that. It’s a long process. We made a couple of changes. The recipes calls for salting of the eggplant and letting it drain for about 20 minutes. We did this, but only for a few minutes. The recipe states the reason for this is to take the bitterness out of the eggplant. We like eggplant as is, and like the flavor, so we didn’t want to lose too much of that flavor, so again we only let it sit for maybe 10 minutes. There is also a lot of cutting, so just make sure you have plenty of room to cut and keep all the veggies you cut up. Also, the recipe calls for a dry red wine. The wine that we bought as a Greek sweet red wine, I’m not a wine fan, but I couldn’t get enough of this wine, and it made the meat sauce almost a little sweeter then it probably would have been. The overall mean was tasty.
I have never had lamb, and I had heard that lamb was a strong tasting meat. So I was expecting a big flavor when I ate it. But when I tried the lamb before adding anything to the pan after it was brown, it wasn’t a strong flavor. It defiantly has its own taste, you won’t get it confused with a beef or pork.
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The final Mousakka. It kind of fell apart :( |
Baklava
One word to describe this; SWEET; overwhelmingly sweet. It is so rich and full over flavor, I could only honestly handle 1 bite, before I started feeling the rush of sugar to my head. Again we made some substitutions, because we thought it sounded good. While shopping for the ingredients, we found cinnamon sugar almonds. The recipe called for 1lb of almonds, so we used half cinnamon sugar almonds and half regular. Bad idea! WAY too much sugar, way too much. The coating on these almost were almost twice the size of the almonds themselves, so when we chopped them up, it ended up being all coating going into the bowl. Next time, if there is a next time, we try Baklava it will be plain almonds and half the sugar. My boyfriend loves Baklava, had a couple of pieces, but regretted it the next day working out.
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Not sure if you can see or not, but when we added the syrup to the pan it started to boil. A little scary! |
Overall with this week, I have not only learned some good recipes I will keep in my recipe collection, I have learned a lot of the Greek culture when it comes to food. They love to share. A lot of time is spent around the kitchen table. Food is how the honor not only guests but Gods as well. Just have fun with it. Enjoy life, and that will translate into your food.
I hope you guys enjoyed this week as much as I did, and try the recipes just as I have. Give me your feedback, let me know how it turns out for you.
Lamb and Eggplant Moussaka Baklava
Other Pictures from the evening:
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The nut mixture for Baklava |
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B, trying to open the wine. |
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Baklava |
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Good friends trying the dinner. |
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