Food What's For Dinner Tonight?

Oatmeal

 

I had to open a bottle of wine to make the tomato sauce. Darn.

 

Last night hubby made a veggie stir fry with brown rice noodles. It was very good. The sauce was like a sweet chili sauce, made with ginger and marmalade.

 

My wife and I got invited to the staff tasting at our local wine bar. The first Monday evening of every month the place is closed to the public and the entire staff comes in to taste that month's selections, as well as any new wines they are going to start carrying. The owner invited us to come this month and join the staff, and said she was going to buy pizza for everyone. I said that I would feed everyone in exchange for the free wine. So I have a 7lb pork shoulder on the Big Green Egg (lit at 5:30AM this morning), and I'll grill some chicken thighs later. My wife is making some cole slaw and a pie for dessert, and we are bringing a watermelon.

 

Well, it was a massive hit. My wife was swearing I made way too much food. All four workers at the wine bar are scrawny petite women. But they destroyed the 7lb pork shoulder and 12 chicken thighs. I think I brought back probably 1lb of meat and there were 3 thighs leftover.

Great tasting, and we had a good time. The wine rep was still chatting with us (and pouring us wine ) when the owner said she wanted to go. We started packing up the food and she goes "No, here is a key. Hang out and drink wine. Relax. Just lock up when you are done." So we did. The wine rep even grabbed a nice bottle from his car to gift to us as thanks for the food.

 

Rice and tofu.

 

Delicioso!

 

When I asked to have this madras prepared hot, they totally listened to me. Fantastic burn.

 

Ravioli bake.