Ideas for an indulgent dinner?
My boyfriend and I try to have a nice meal every Sunday. We eat very healthy and on a tight budget all week long, so this is our once chance to treat ourselves. We've done steaks, fried chicken, mussels and fries, mole enchiladas...and we're looking for more ideas!
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Elegant does not have to be fancy or expensive, but tasty.
(don't forget the great wine)
And, buy a good scrap book (leather bound kind of good) and write down your menu each special dinner, paste in the wine label, and at the end of the meal each of you write a little love note to each other.
After a year or two go back and read it (over another great meal and wine)
Then make a Japaneese meal. With Tuna Sashimi (which could be 9-10 dollars for a 1/2 pound of raw whole tuna--more than enough for two people). Supplement with Miso Soup..Rice..salad (A Sunomono vingar salad is nice). Spinach with sesame seed dressing; and endamame boiled in pod with salt water and chilled. Slice the Tuna thinly and serve with wasabi mounds, a mound of grated carrot. Tea, Sake, Green tea ice cream to finish.
The start up cost for the dry goods; dashi, wakame, sesame dressing, Miso. Shouldn't be more than 20 dollars. And all that last a long time in the 'fridge or pantry. Years in fact. (except the dressing).
Or spaghetti carbonara.
does atx mean your are in Austin Texas? If yes I can offer some pretty specific ideas!!