Tomatoes

What can you get for 1 dollar?

For 1 dollar you can get snack size parfait from McDonalds

or KFC chicken snacker

or 5lbs of tomatoes from Zion Market!!

This last Monday our secret ingredient was tomato!

We started out with a tomato, iceburg lettuce salad, with tofu, and bacon bits. For dressing, we had a ginger miso. A light tasing meal to opn up palate... screw amuse bouchee.. we're under a $25 budget!

Now... remember that meal that your granny prepared for you when you were young... ok mine was rice with more rice and fish sauce.. but I'm a fob... if I was that rich white kid down the street it would have been tomato soup and grilled cheese... and to relive and recreate my childhood, our second course was just that... vegetable stock tomato soup with grilled cheese made with 7 grain bread and two types of cheese...

our third course was roasted tomato stuffed with salmon and sundried tomato. I was quite proud of this dish as it came to be in a vision...that or Zion supermarket sales ad.. .eh toe-ma-toe toe-mah-toe :)

By this time we were lycopene'd out! So to alleviate that, I decided on a panna cotta hold the tomato juice for dessert... This was surprisingly good.. but being calories conscious... we will try fat free and half-half next time!

Last but not least.. I want to take this time to thank our special Gus Gus for making this meal even more memorable and tasty by providing us with an extremely delicious beverage... vodka with clamato juice, orange and lime and soda. GREAT JOB GUS GUS!

P.S. Sorry for the fobby posting... I'm currently in Vietnam... so there's no fob check.. but foblish or not...

Cheers!

- Monday Supper Club