Valentine's Day + Olympics + Chinese New Year = red (again)
Sides: fresh tomato-avocado-red onion salsa with red and white tortilla chipsDrinks: red wine
Angelica's Grilled Red Marble: prosciutto, dried cherries and red windsor cheese on white rice bread, fried to a golden brown in lots of butter .
Dave's Protein Sizzler (for athletes, spies, and romantic festivities). Bread, butter, mushrooms, beef. (I can't remember the recipe because i'm recalling this from nearly a year ago now.)
Dessert: blood oranges and raspberries over toasted coconut ice cream
AS on AS - I love grilled cheese sandwiches. Love them. And I loved this one. The prosciutto was salty, the cheese was sharp and the cherries were sweet. It crunched, yet oozed, it caused me to lick my fingers, it warmed me and made me want to revive the sandwich challenge on an ongoing basis. But, it was a safe composition.
AS on DM - The mushroom sauce made this sandwich. The lack of time in which to stew the meat, however, left this sandwich a little challenging to chew. The taste was amazing and with four more hours in the slow cooker would have been one of my all time favourite sandwiches.
DM on DM - As Angelica's review correctly states, more time was needed for the beef to become sandwich-ready. The taste was there at the beginning and end of each bite, but the chewing between-time was too much for a sandwich. Points for taste, but not for the work required.
DM on AS - Having just read Angelica's review, i also would like to revive the sandwich events, or at the least, have some sandwich-shopping and -making dinners again soon. Angelica's sandwich was delicious and held well to the theme while introducing an unexpected red ingredient (the cheese). My mouth is watering 49 weeks later.
The Medals and Victory Ceremony:
AS: while my sandwich was nothing new, it did melt in my mouth. DM's sandwich was something new, and very tasty, but really did need more cooking time. It's a tough choice because the sandwiches did compliment each other (much like its makers). And much like figure skating, do you award a safe but well executed performance, or something that pushes the limits but with a less graceful landing or two. But like men's gold medal skating, I guess in the end, a quad isn't everything...sometimes its the fancy footwork that holds everything together that gives the edge. And so, I'll award gold for mine, but a close silver to DM.
DM: As the memories come back through these pictures and descriptions, i can clearly remember the excitement of Olympic Fever in Vancouver, the anticipation of new Prisoner material, and the perfect timing and collaboration of a prisoner-sandwich night, valentines, evening fireworks*, and the new apartment. (*Were there fireworks? I'm sure there were - it was a good period of time, Feb-2010.)
