my boyfriend cooks for me: Not our prettiest meal, but still tasty

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Not our prettiest meal, but still tasty

After polishing off the leftover butternut squash tart when we got home from work, we were in the mood for something simply satisfying for dinner. Although my boyfriend got a bit over-zealous with his home-made garlic sauce, once we worked past "the garlic sauce layer" the flavors really came together nicely. The stroke of genius (all credit to my boyfriend) was using the baster to squirt the beef jus into the pitas as the final touch.

Pita pockets stuffed with sliced beef roast, onion, radish and grape tomatoes, smothered in garlic sauce and finished with beef jus

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MrsLavendulaDecember 4, 2009 at 9:37 AM
this looks like a shawarma, and shawarma always sounds good to me!
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my boyfriend cooks for meDecember 5, 2009 at 9:40 AM
MrsLavdedula -- shawarma was *exactly* what my boyfriend had in mind when he was making the garlic sauce!
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MrsLavendulaDecember 5, 2009 at 7:29 PM
hehehe! then it looks good to me! =)
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My boyfriend loves to cook and is very creative in the kitchen. Although the internet is often consulted, he doesn't use recipes. He does most (ok, just about all) of the "heavy lifting" documented here. He also happens to be an amazing artist - which may contribute to his excellent food plating and presentation - so check out his art store on Etsy (and see some samples at the bottom of the page).

I perform important tasks (mainly peeling and chopping onions) and provide ideas gleaned from hours of reading food blogs, recipes and menus online, as well as gentle suggestions (i.e. "Isn't the [ingredient] going to go bad soon? Maybe we should use [ingredient] tonight..."). I am also Head Photographer and Blogmaster.

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In an article in the New York Times Michael Pollan said that we spend more time watching "sport" cooking shows than we do actually cooking. And he said this like it is a bad thing. We hope that this blog proves that these shows, while not explicitly instructive, can be a wonderful inspiration.

Of course no one has the time or resources to cook like an Iron Chef all the time. Sometimes we decide to be adventurous and try more elaborate dishes, but generally we want to show that it isn't difficult to put together interesting, creative, and healthy meals any night of the week. We don't make a weekly plan, we don't decide what to make and then go get ingredients. We buy random fun and interesting things that catch our eye at the grocery store, and then figure out how we can use them.

So don't look here for recipes (for the most part the description of what we ate is all there is to it - "mashed turnip with horseradish" is mashed turnip with horseradish!), look here for everyday ideas and inspiration.

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Thursday, December 3, 2009

Not our prettiest meal, but still tasty

3 comments: