Ten Dollar Dinners

Tonight I made 2 recipes from Melissa D'Arabian's show "Ten Dollar Dinners". I saw the show today and happened to have almost everything to make it. I only had to pick up a bottle of white wine (wine doesn't last long in my house....), and a zucchini. I used tilapia as she stated in the show would work well. We have a guest in town staying with us for a few days and I was worried to try something new, but it got rave reviews from both him and my husband.

I was going to take picures, honest I was. And as I'm eating away I realize that everyone is half-finished and I forgot to get out the camera. Ah, such is life.

So we had both the Rice with Caramelized Shallots and the Fish en Papillote. I have yet to make a bad recipe from this show.

One note, I do not have anything that julienes vegetables as small as she made them, so I sliced my vegetables long-ways on my mandoline, and then sliced those into small strips. I think that it's important to keep them very small so that they cook in the time allotted.

Oh, and one note about yesterday.... my husband and his friends are STILL talking about the wings. So, apparently it was worth smoking up the kitchen. I'll be making them again!

Signing off until tomorrow!

~M