Miso Happy

Happy belated Valentine's day! Adam and I had the best Valentine's this year. We engaged in our usual 'weekend sabotage', or WS as I like to call it. WS is all the junk we eat over the weekend and all of the hours we spend NOT working out. Basically we undo all the good things we do during the week and over Valentine's weekend I think we undid about 3 months worth of good doing.

We started the weekend with dinner at Zorba's on Friday with Shari. Zorba's is a local Greek restaurant that has awesome food and BYOB so you totally cannot go wrong. I think I ate my weight in pita bread.

Saturday started with homemade popovers and v-day chocolates. Adam gave me a popover pan for Christmas because I love the popovers at the Zodiac Room at Neiman Marcus so much. It is worth eating there just for the popover. So since Christmas I have been perfecting my popover making...apparently it's all about having a good pan, right Adam?

Adam loves white chocolate and I was sick of giving him the same box from Godiva each year so I ordered him sweet slopes from chocolate.com. Sweet slopes are almond toffee, dipped in white chocolate, then the edge is dipped in dark chocolate and crushed pecans. I don't like white chocolate or nuts in candy and I thought they were awesome! It's a good thing because some how I ordered 2 boxes of 36. I don't know if I submitted the order twice or they screwed up and shipped it twice but we received 64 for them. I see a whole lot more WS in our future. Adam brought me all my favorites: Godiva peanut butter cups, chocolate covered strawberries, and truffles, beautiful red tulips and irises, a teddy bear, and a v-day balloon. I was so surprised!  

We tell each other every year that we are not getting real gifts just candy.  Against my better judgement, I got Adam Shawn White Snowboarding for the Wii and he got me W.  I must say he must love me a lot because he has never been the biggest George Bush fan and he knows that I love him and think he is one of our best president's ever so he bought me the DVD.  I may end up watching it by myself but at least he bought it.

Saturday night we had made plans to go out to dinner but realized it was a limited menu most of which I did not like so we ended up cancelling. Adam decided we would try to make sushi and butter fish at home. After a trip to the Asian market (yes, Plano has one), Central Market, and William Sonoma for a sushi knife, we were ready to get started. I had no idea so much effort went into making sushi. I see now why it costs so much. First, you have to make the rice which takes like an hour, then you have to aerate the rice which takes like 30 min for it to be cool enough to make sushi rolls, then you have to figure out how to pile in your fish and veggies and be able to roll the whole thing up with out it going everywhere and ensuring it is small enough to even fit in your mouth. Not an easy feat.

Since the sushi was going to take forever, Adam made edamame, dumplings, and miso butter fish that was awesome...almost as good as Roy's! By the time he finished the sushi I think were both already full but we ate it anyway. Here is our first attempt of a tuna avocado tower and spicy tuna avocado rolls.

         

I'm honestly still full and it's been almost a week!