Valentine's Dinner

Dear Food Diary,

For Valentine’s Day the girl who ate Fredericksburg decided to stay in and eat at home.  And guess what; I actually cooked myself.   I started it off with a deconstructed Baby Spinach and Arugula Salad.  I specifically arranged all the salad ingredients on top of the salad in separate piles because my boyfriend is a rather picky eater and I wanted him to be able to choose what was in his salad.  I chose arugula because it is my favorite salad green.  It has a wonderful earthy taste that just can’t be beat.  I often joke that when I eat a salad, I want to taste to the dirt in was grown in.  I served two entrées.  My first entrée I served was Broiled Butter Smothered Lobster Tails.  I was shocked at how easy it was to cook lobster.  And I even butterflied the lobster tails, so it looks like the meat is popping out of the shell.  I’m getting hungry again, just thinking about it.  Here’s something I found out too.  Lobster tail goes drastically on sale in grocery stores during Valentine’s Day.   I got lobster tails from Giant that were a regular $10.99 for only $4.99.  For my other entrée I served Filet Mignon.  I read somewhere that you should add some butter or oil to filet mignon.  Apparently, though it’s the most tender piece of beef, if it’s not cooked right you can end up sacrificing taste for tenderness.  I cooked the filet mignon in olive oil and garlic cloves.  The pan-seared garlic cloves were even tastier than the beef in my opinion.  For the side dishes I served Yeast Rolls with Honey Butter, Corn on the Cob drizzled with a Garlic and Pepper Butter Sauce and Roasted Chicken Risotto with Portabellas and Asparagus.  Ok, I confess the Risotto was Bertolli.  It was still good and I had my hands full with all the other food.  We had a bottle of Champagne to celebrate.  After I gave the toast I always give, “may what goes down not come back up again,” we had dessert, a Variety of Mousse Cakes with Dark Chocolate Truffles.  And yes all this food was as good as it sounds.  Why do I want everyone to know about this meal?  I’m just bragging. 

Thanks for reading my food blog.  This is the girl who ate Fredericksburg asking, don’t you wish your girlfriend was hot like me? 

Kiwifruit

Today I tried kiwi for the first time.  First I was excited because it felt like I was eating a fruit from some alien planet.  I've never been to an alien planet.  Of course, kiwifruit originated in China, and I've never been there either.  Anyway, when I tasted that tangy sweet sensation I was in heaven.  My favorite part of the fruit was the part with the seeds.  I loved the texture with a very slight crunch to it.  It was better than strawberries.  If you haven't tried kiwi, you must. 

Since I had never sliced a kiwi, I watched this video.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHDYDN8Q45k.  It's a great video if you're like me and you need someone to help you do something as simple as cut a kiwi.  Plus, the guy explaining has a voice so soothing, you kind of wish he was your grandpa. 

The type of kiwifruit I tried was the Hayward variety, the most common variety of kiwi.  It was first developed by a New Zealand horticulturist named Hayward Wright.  But an interesting fact is that kiwifruit actually arrived in the United States in 1904, two years before it arrived in New Zealand.  Another fact is that kiwifruits are filled with vitamin C and powerful antioxidants.  So the girl who lost weight is going to start eating three of them a day during the the next two months as part of her weight loss challenge.