Hello!
Yesterday was me and my boyfriend's 3 year anniversary dinner. So, we decided to get seafood and make a nice salad. We had recently heard about lobster being on sale (even though it was more expensive than what i expected it to be - 9.55 per lb but thats cheaper than the $15 per lb before right?). so we got two 1 lbers, steamed and ate it with butter + a really good salad. The lobster was pretty simple, just steaming it in water and eating it with butter. I made a arugala and apple salad, with golden raisins, blue cheese, pine nuts, and yellow onions (i would have prefered red, but i forgot to get them and by the time we ran out to go get onions it was too late!). I think maybe from now on i will keep track of how much i spend on each thing so i can figure out how much i'm spending on each dish! haha. Oh i also made a delicious apple cider vinegarette - i mixed apple cider vinegar (1 table spoon), olive oil (2 tsp) maple syrup (1/2 tsp), honey (2 tsp), whole grain dijon mustard (2 tsp), salt, ground pepper. whisk. I think you should season the dressing depending on how salty the cheese is, because i happened to pick a pretty salty blue cheese, and so i found the salad a little be salt for my taste, but my boyfriend (who likes things a little more salty than i) really enjoyed this recipe. Try it out! This dressing is super good for those fall fruits, like bartlett pears and apples. :D yum! I suspect the salad would have been even better if i had toasted the pine nuts! ahhh.. next time. I took pictures but my boyfriends camera was running out of battery so the pics mght be bad! Next time!
2 1lb lobsters - steamed over water with dash a salt for 12 mins
apple, arugala and pine nut salad - with blue cheese, golden raisins, onions (cheese could probably be replaced with a goat cheese if blue cheese is too strong)
apple cider vinegarette - apple cider vinegar (1 table spoon), olive oil (2 tsp) maple syrup (1/2 tsp), honey (2 tsp), whole grain dijon mustard (2 tsp), salt, ground pepper. <-- i like my dressings a little sweeter, so i was probably pretty generous with the honey, but it all depends. I suspect a dash a lemon juice would have made this pretty yum too!
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Oh, do you want to try pumkin chestnut soup. It's really easy and simple. Cut up pumkin into cubes, boil 15 minutes with chestnuts. It taste great just like that. But I imagine, if I added a handful of small shrimps before serving, the soup will taste even better. It will then be more expensive, of course.
ReplyDeleteRemove chestnut shells can be troublesome. I got pre-shell-removed ones and boiled it a little for easy removing of the skin. I wonder if they carry pre-cleaned chestnets in the supermarket.