Sunday Dinner - Part Duex

So contrary to my belief it was not a passing fad... Sunday Dinner is hear to stay.

In Brooklyn we had a favorite Thai takeout food place called SONG. All the dishes were under or near $7 and the delivery was super easy, cheap and familiar. Our one attempt at Thai takeout in Los Feliz leaved much to be desired. The order took almost an hour to fill and the food was greasy, gross and cold. Since this first and only attempt at affordable Pad Thai and Masaman Curry was a failure, my weekly dose of Thai food has been on hiatus with no hopes of contract negotiations.

So my dear husband, sensing my need for Thai inspired cuisine decided to make Chicken Satay Noodle Soup from the Rachel Ray's Everyday magazine. Say what you want about Rachel Ray, she does now how to make semi-authentic and tasty food with well known and easy to find ingredients.

The dish was really tasty! We substituted the spaghetti (hence the term semi-authentic) with a side of rice and cut the peanut butter by half. We also added a little lemon grass to cut the overwhelming peanut butter flavor (i have no idea what she was thinking). The result was a mild curry soup that tasted like a nostalgic version of our much beloved SONG's notorious Massaman Curry.

Take out in LA sucks, but Sunday dinners rock!

Sunday Dinner

The weekend is not complete without a sunday night dinner. Ben, god bless him, has started cooking on sunday nights and rather than help with the dishes, I thought I would write about it...

Tonight we had:

Grilled Chicken Breast stuffed with Goat Cheese with Smoked Cilantro Sauce, courtesy of our man with the grill, senor Bobby Flay.

It was a bit ambitious, as it involved smoking and roasting peppers, blending stuff and then grilling other stuff. A blender was involved (which sounds exactly like our vacuum cleaner - "What are you doing in there"), various peppers, cilantro and last but not least goat cheese.

The end result was executed brilliantly, the chicken was cooked to perfection and the sauce was beautiful... but there were too many flavors and amazingly none particularly stood out (I have been watching way too much Top Chef).

I hope this is the first of many sunday recipes!