Mexican Night!

Dinner & lunch with carnitas! Ole!

I've been posting a few pictures here and there about what a "regular" dinner is at the S residence. Dan has little or no exposure with his cooking, so here goes! This is by far my favorite meal made by my husband. I would like to thank the pressure cooker we got from our wedding and you, pig... for your delicious pork shoulder which later turned into Dan's first attempt at carnitas. We had carnitas nachos (still a work in process with the nachos) and carnitas tacos last night (test trial #1) and it turned out great!

Cinco de Mayo, we're ready for you!

What stands out?

Although dinner was just Chinese at home with potstickers and XO seafood udon, we did not have your typical chopsticks. What is this here?! Lightsaber chopsticks?! Yeah... guess who bought those.

For those of you that are interested, the chopsticks are basically for looks only, it's hard to use them since it's made of plastic and feels very weak. The green (Yoda) chopsticks are shorter than the regular blue and red ones though.

Another weekend

Valentine's Day tulips... and half a box of eaten Cocola macaroons bought from Costco. I don't know how much Cocola sells macaroons for, but I'm pretty sure we got a deal buying it from Costco. First V-Day as a married couple... success!

Friday night dinner - trying out a linguine and clams recipe I got from a student's mom as well as my first attempt at broiled lobster. Dan claimed it was good, so for you guests whom we will invite over to our home very soon... this may be your future dinner!

Monday night dinner... "Oriental" salad with sesame dressing with honey garlic chicken wings and burgers. I'm not Julie (from Julie and Julia), but I'm slowly starting to get the hang out cooking different genres of food. So far, we have not had the same meal twice.

Home-cooked meals

An above average home-cooked meal on a Friday night. Miso soup, buckwheat soba noodles, seared tuna with seaweed, salmon sashimi, toro & spicy tuna sushi.

Oh, and as a surprise, my husband brought home flowers too! Who said there's no romance once you get married?