Friday, February 4, 2011

fancy dinner party

here are the promised details of sunday's dinner party (click to enlarge):


unfortunately i forgot to take pictures of the food >_< but it was quite tasty. the pasta fresca recipe was of my own creation, inspired by a farfalle dish that my mother would often make (made with sirloin instead of sauteed veggies). i didn't make the salad, nor did i buy the bread, but that's the beauty of a dinner party!

the day after, i made a big pot of japanese style curry for myself. luckily i documented this meal!


i began by sauteing some yellow onion, potato chunks, and mushrooms. once browned, i added water to finish cooking everything all the way through. a few minutes before everything got to the desired level of doneness, i added a brick of soft tofu (cubed of course). i then added my seasonings, turned off the heat, and mixed until it looked like this:


i then poured it over a bowl of my yummy rice.


and here's the final product:


it was super delicious!

and last night, i experimented a bit. i had been wanting to find a way to use all these extra ramen seasoning packets i've been collecting. then i thought, "ramen seasoned potatoes—why not?" so i boiled a potato, drained it, pan fried it, added a ramen packet and some water, reduced it, and voila! zesty soy saucy potatoes.

it went quite well with rice and kimchi. but sadly, no pictures for this one (-_-)

see ya next time!

4 comments:

Lisa said...

So hungry.

Gwennifer said...

Ahhh! I love curry. My preference is for beef when I make it, but tofu would take on the flavor of the mix really nicely. That, and I've discovered that I LOVE it over Jasmine rice rather than sticky rice.

Either way, that looked like an amazing pot of curry :]

samiko said...

@Gwennifer jasmine is tasty—i won't deny it. but high quality short grain white rice really is tippy top for me.

@Lisa what should we do about your hunger? i'd love to send you some curry, but i'm not sure the best way to ship it across state lines...

anorthowife said...

i put your mom's farfalle recipe in my cookbook. i labelled it "The Hobo's Favorite Pasta Dish". It's a big hit with my daughter.