On to the weekend! I don't think I've been so happy to see Friday night since December and all its madness. This last training class really took a lot of energy and my boss decided to treat himself to a 5-day weekend, so I was pretty happy to get on the train tonight. I stopped on the way home to pick up a wine, but "accidentally" ended up with two bottles - I couldn't decide between red and white, until I remembered it was a long weekend, so I got both. Cheers!
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| my first favorite Riesling of 2011 |
I had some trouble deciding what to make for dinner tonight - first of all, it's hot as Hades in Philadelphia right now, and secondly, it's darn difficult to try to follow a dinner at Horizons! I'm not as insecure as some people, but I am well aware that my cooking is no where close to the caliber of Horizons' chefs. By the way - rumor is, Rich Landau and Kate Jacoby (co-owners, spouses, cooks) are coming out with a third cookbook. I wonder if they'll make it easy on me and put together a box set?
I decided to fight fire with fire and got to work cooking Seitan Pepper Steak from The Accidental Vegan. Fortunately, in between healthy gulps of water that wasn't quite cold enough, the Asian nature of the cuisine helped me to decide between my Chateau Ste Michelle Harvest Select Riesling (best white wine ever) and my darling Apothic Red.
I sliced up what was left of the seitan and stirfried it with the peppers and some tamari. I thought about adding some vegetable broth to moisten the seitan a little, but in the end decided the tamari would be an adequate (if not thirst-inducing) marinade.
Although Mister was not hungry when I started cooking, he managed to fit two healthy servings into his hot, sweaty belly before mopping his poor Greek forehead with his napkin and dissecting his PlayStation (since it wouldn't let him play games while I was cooking). I had a little difficulty choosing between this and Seitan Cacciatore when I was putting the menu together, but I'm very glad I chose this one.
Now, on to enjoying my well-earned break! I have some adventures planned for the weekend, so hopefully I will have some fun to share over the next few days, but what I'm looking forward to the most right now is not waking up to the sound of an alarm for the first time in weeks. I will sleep until I'm done, even if it's afternoon when I finally get up. Though, something tells me the heat won't allow that. So much for our disastrous thunderstorms...I guess I'll just have to look for drama somewhere else.
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