Tuesday, June 16, 2009

June 8th 2009 - Gus

Raspberry vinaigrette salad with glazed walnut





Clam chowder





Fish and chips




Creme Brulee


Happy Birthday Henry

We've been discussing quite sometime now about doing a fancy meal for a monday night supper. Of course a fancy meal would go against our fundamental rules of keeping it under the budget. So for a very special occasion, we went all out for Henry's bday.




salad




Ribs




Cheesecake


Monday, June 1, 2009

May 11th

Sorry folks, trying to catch up.

Corn and sweet potato salad - Roasted sweet corn mixed with sweet potato and cilantro on top of fried onion strips. Corn like bacon makes everything tastes good. If you disagree you're dead inside or just count yourself out of an invite to the Monday Night Supper Club =P



The second course was oven baked chicken drumsticks coated with wheat flour. The dressing was a a sweet and bit tangy sauce. Tony's poor man's version of sweet and sour sauce I think.



The next dish was a shrimp pizza made with fresh dough. I have to give Kristal props for actually making fresh dough! That's nuts! The pizza was probably my favorite dish for the night. So yummy!



A special thanks and congratulations to Trammie our awesome guest of the night as well as finishing the the rock n' roll marathon yesterday with a kick ass time! Tonight theme is ballarific as we will be celebrating Henry's dinner. Can't wait!

Cheers-

Monday Night Supper Club

May 4th

Wow I am totally slackin on the updating department. Sorry! Really been busier than a 1 legged man at an ass kicking race. Anyhoo, May 4th was my cooking night and our special guest of the evening was Moose. This of course was my first time meeting the man, the legend, the ummm body part that I will not mention because this is a family oriented blog. Right... so moving on to the cooking.

It's been a while since I had the cooking night and was quite rusty on the grocery shopping.

For starter we had strawberry, tangerine salad with a citrus mustard dressing. Au contraire to Tony's belief I did not just use his salad dressing but actually created a dressing from olive oil, some mustard mix, vinegar, tangerine juice and black pepper to create my own original dressing. Side note, I went to Zion to get some of the grocery but skipped on getting the salad there even though it was 1.99 for 1lb of salad. I didn't want to get it there because I didn't think it was fresh and didn't want to sort through it for salad. Who do I think I am? Rich? So I ended up paying $2.99 at Food 4 less for a 8 oz bag of salad. Grocery shopping fail!



The second course was Lentil Soup - Fresh lentil , with celery and onion and chicken buillon for broth. It was quick and quite hearty.




The next course was pan fried salmon on a bed of greens.



To redeem myself I decided to make homemade ice-cream to keep the cost down. We had home made oreo cookies ice-cream. It was a treat and a science project rolled into one!





So moral of the story is no I am not rich enough to shop outside of Zion and yes Tony you can make ice-cream at home and I did this before for 7th grade class. =)