last night's dinner was wine steak and roasted potatoes.

Wine Steak

2 1/2 lbs round steak/top round/London broil
sprinkle all surfaces evenly with meat tenderizer, and pierce deeply and generously with a fork. let stand at room temperature for about an hour.



( meanwhile... )

Roswell checks out the three bean vegan chili and finds it tofuriffic.



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My take on one of my favorite childhood treats:

Sinful candy worthy of Hansel and Gretel's sweet teeth!

[I posted the recipe and visual step-by-step guide here.]

Have you ever had chocolate dipped strawberry mallow cones as a child?

Today I accidentally bought a bottle of "medium sweet soy sauce," thinking it was regular soy sauce. This stuff is sweet (duh) and very viscous. Any idea as to what kinds of recipes I might use it in?

For your reference, it's labeled "manis sedang" and is from Indonesia. The ingredients are palm sugar, water, salt, soybeans, wheat, and sodium benzoate.

Thanks!

I took this picture while I was making my friend's mother's fantastic Chicken Al Forno recipe. The recipe is there in the picture(click here for bigger).

I must note that after making it with both bone in and boneless breasts, I vote for the bone-in version all the way, but both are yummy!

Since I had class on Thursday evening, the boy and I decided to celebrate on Saturday. We went out to La Fougasse for our romantic dinner. It was amazing French food with Spanish influences.

 
Sea Bass in Lavender Sauce. It came with amazing asparagus risotto and a Nom nom nom, I'm definitely going back.

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Tomorrow is my birthday so I've been doing the rounds with family and friends. Mostly going out to eat. Food is the way to celebrate you know.

Today's meal was lunch at VegiTerranean, Chrissie Hynde's new (fall 2007) vegan restaurant in the northside district of Akron, Ohio (USA).

I went with my Mom and my sister and my baby niece. We enjoyed the food, and decided that we'd certainly go back again.

My mom started with the Creamy Squash Soup which she liked very much. She said that it was a little bit spicy. My niece ate some of it until she maybe got an extra spicy bite and wouldn't have any more.


( The rest of our meal, this way. )

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Recently I had a craving for a savory Chinese shrimp dish that had a hint of sweetness and bite to it -- maybe something murky from the depths of the memory banks as I couldn't recall any specific dish like what I had in mind. I did some searching and found one here that sounded right. I adapted it and it came out wonderfully -- the plump 'crunch' of fresh shrimp with a spicy, slightly sweet sauce (reminiscent of oyster but not as sweet as that) was exactly what I'd been looking for.

The best thing is that it doesn't take much time at all to make and it looks really impressive with all the different colors mixing together -- a perfect dish to make when guests are coming over. :D

( Very photo intensive -- recipe and step by step cooking under the cut tag. )