Date Night!

Surprise Date!

Now I consider myself pretty lucky in love.
I've got a great boyfriend who does everything he can to help provide for us, and to help us grow as a couple.
However we are human.
I think it's human nature to get "comfortable" and to sort of let a lot of that romantic and fussy stuff fall to the side.
Our idea of a date is going to grab a pizza and watching a movie at home.
Which is wonderful, but there aren't any angel choirs singing.

So I about died when I came home from work on Tuesday evening and found that the entire house was sparkling, he had cleaned everything and told me that we were going out.
Imagine my surprise when I found out that we were going to Yellowfin.

Yellowfin Steak and Fish House is right on the water in Annapolis, and it's so gorgeous and I have been wanting to go there for so long!
He had made reservations, and reserved us a waterfront table!

We started off with some bubbly goodness

Look at that view!!

Everything we had was fantastic!
I wish I had taken pictures of our salads, but I'm a bad blogger and forgot.
But I had the hot bacon caprese salad.
omg. bacon.

For Dinner...we spoiled ourselves.
Randy got the scallops in a rich white wine butter sauce, with garlic mashed potatoes and asparagus.

I on the other hand was a little indecisive so I got everything.
I got the lobster tail with a crabcake, and scallops...and shrimp...and garlic mashed potatoes.

BEYOND DELICIOUS.
Everything was so fresh, and cooked delightfully.
The sauces weren't overwhelming but were a perfect compliment to the dish.

All in all the evening was wonderful, and we left stuffed and happy.
I would absolutely recommend the restaurant and would absolutely return!
(once our wallets have recovered)

Pad Thai Like A Boss

That Time I Made Incredible Pad Thai

Now first things first. I am not claiming to be a master chef, or even properly trained.
Nor am I claiming that my so called Pad Thai is how you are actually supposed to make it...so if you make it and it sucks, I am not responsible, or if you are from Thailand and think I'm an idiot, I apologize.

Step One:
Spend a crap load of money on ingredients that you will only use once a year.
(Just kiddddddding, I plan on using these at least twice a year)

Now...I'm going to make some suggestions, the rice noodles that I got were not ideal, it would be much better to get rice vermicelli noodles.
 

Ingredients:
2 tbl Sesame Oil

1 tsp Fish Sauce
2 tbl Sirracha
1 lb Rice Noodles
1 Can Baby Corn
1 can Water Chestnuts
Salt and Pepper to taste
1 cup Seafood Stock
1 tsp Chili Powder
1 tsp Ginger

1 tbl Garlic
1 tbl Red Pepper Flakes
1 lb Baby Shrimp

First thing I did was separate all my ingredients into different bowls, when preparing this dish you have to be super organized because the sesame oil does burn more quickly then traditional cooking oil.

(It helps to have as many cute kitchen utensil's as possible)

Basically, you want to soak the noodles in 1 cup of water and 1 cup of seafood stock for about an hour, and then I literally throw them in the pan with the sesame oil, fish sauce, sirracha, and garlic into the pan with the noodles. I let that all simmer together into a nice sauce, and then I slowly add the chili pepper, red pepper flakes, salt and pepper, and ginger till it's the right taste. Some of you will like it hotter than others, so adjust the amount of spice to suit your own lil tastebuds!

At the very last minute I toss my shrimp, water chestnuts, and baby corn in and let them get warmed up and flavored.

Then you serve and demolish.

Randy had a serious helping of it and said that it was delicious, personally I think next time I'd add some more ginger and less red pepper flake. We shall see!

Anyway, hope you guys enjoyed the recipe lesson today!