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February 15, 2006
Valentine's Dinner
Scallops cooked in pinot noir with grape tomatoes and fresh basil
Brussels sprouts with lemon and flax oil
Apple-cinnamon pizza
I just simmer the scallops in red wine for about half an hour, adding the tomatoes near the beginning (so they pop) and the basil near the end. MR loved his Valentine's Dinner. I wasn't hungry because our lawyer took us out to lunch to celebrate the last day of hearings, and I ate enough at lunch for the rest of the day. We shared a dip appetizer with green olive dip, artichoke dip and a roasted peper dip of some kind, then I had the quiche of the day, which was asparagus and red pepper. Small salad on the side. We went to an amazing Center City restaurant, the kind that gets really good reviews and is packed at dinner but manageable at lunch. I love eating in really good restaurants, and if I eat a big lunch I usually skip dinner because I'm just not hungry, and then by the next day I'm hungry again and I go back to eating normally. Though there have been times when I've gone 24 hours before eating again after a Lunch with Lawyer. I feel like a big snake when I do that -- I eat one large meal, and it stays with me for awhile.
Unfortunately the unfamiliar food (no doubt the slice of chocolate bundt cake the three of us split for dessert) came back to haunt me at night, and I felt just a bit ill before bed. But MR brought me a tiny cup of Coke to settle my stomach and I went right to sleep and felt fine when I woke up.
Today I'm having breakfast salad for lunch again -- yea!!!! And MR is taking out the trash and recycling! Tonight I have a big event with a dinner beforehand, but the restaurant where we're taking the event speaker for dinner has a salad bar, so I should be fine.
I may eat scallops for breakfast.
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Posted by april at February 15, 2006 5:47 AM
Comments
April, yours sounds like the best dinner in the world!! I hope that if you -by practicing harder CR ;)- has got enough leftovers, could invite me to that luscious meal!
Posted by: Willie at February 15, 2006 6:25 AM
April,
I know you eat a lot of yogurt and wondered if you ever tried Fage fat free yogurt from Trader Joe's. I normally don't care for store bought yogurt, but I purchaed some to make one of your recipes. Well, I liked Fage so much that I never got around to making the recipe. Anyway, althought this little 80 cal container has less calcium than regular yogurt, it only has 55 mg sodium. Plus it has more protein, 13 gr and less carb, 6 gr. I top it with T.J.'s cherries and it makes a wonderful desert.
Posted by: Connie at February 15, 2006 8:13 AM
I love that you cook with wine so much. I have to admit that I'm a bit timid to try it, mainly because of my family. First, I'd need to be absolutely sure that the alcohol would cook off before I could give some to Connor. And second, I'm not entirely sure how it would go over with Jerry because he HATES wine. He's always whining about how much my wine "stinks". Can you believe that? Unreal!
Posted by: Amy Wright at February 15, 2006 10:38 AM
Hi April,
I have a question about kale and you seem to have a healthy amout of experience with it. Do you eat it raw in your salads or blanch it? You inspired me to try it and I like the taste, but my partner claims her Irish grandmother used to say that raw kale would do dire things to a person. If that was going to happen surely it would have happened to you by now! Please share your knowledge.
Janna
Posted by: Janna at February 15, 2006 10:41 AM
careful with kale--it can damage ur thyroid.
Posted by: fb0252 at February 15, 2006 7:05 PM
My dead grandmother from hell claims that dire things happened to her when she first fuc... O.k, I know I am being extremely sarcastic and am really willing to go on with the story but it's inappropriate so you can just erase this comment. Cool dinner by the way...
Posted by: zeynep at February 15, 2006 7:25 PM
I personally find that Kale has quite a bitter taste, I prefer it cooked. It can be quite tasty though.
Janna, it used to be thought not so long ago that Tomatoes were poisonous.. perhaps on account of them belonging to the nightshade family. It took an american president finally eating one in front of the press at the time to dispel that myth (or is that an urban myth?).. anyway, your grandmother's fear about Kale could maybe have a similiar basis.
Posted by: gregg m. at February 15, 2006 10:17 PM