Cheesesteaks Tuesday, just some thinly shaved beef with provolone and onion+green pepper on homemade rolls. I feel like such an asshole saying this but I'm kind of sick of beef lmao, wish they'd run incredibly sales on something else for a change.
Wednesday, I made us vegetable spring rolls, like the Vietnamese version in soft rice paper. I was just wanting the vegetables (red cabbage, lettuce, matchstick carrots, mint, cilantro, avocado, plus vermicelli) but I made some with shrimp for my husband and the kids. I like shrimp fine, I just love vegetables and didn't want to detract from that flavor.
Yesterday, I made seared ahi tuna and we had some just with a quick orange and chile reduction I made, and then some on a salad. Kids weren't super into it so I made them chicken salad to have over theirs instead.
Tomorrow, either we're going to grill with friends and I'll make a third japchae in as many weeks to take with us, or I'll be making the rest of the tuna (2 steaks) but this time in a poke bowl form. Rate me horrifying if you must but I really like grechka as a base, boiled then sautéed in a bit of butter, salt, and pepper, but everyone else will have sushi rice. I always keep frozen edamame so there'll be some of that, I'll use the rest of the red cabbage in there too, avocado, as well as a marinated cucumber salad with rice wine vinegar, salt, red pepper flakes, and a bit of sugar. Probably some other vegetables as well, but I'm waiting to see what's fresh and inexpensive at the asian grocer first.
I kind of want lettuce wraps Sunday, usually I get boston lettuce, make some gochujang marinated chicken thighs and chop them in longer pieces, and also cook some shiitake and oyster mushrooms with basically the same marinade except thinner, and serve with a compartment platte filled with toppings so everyone can just pick what they want- usually homemade kimchi and homemade daikon and carrot pickes, green onion, green thai chiles, cilantro, mint, and perilla leaves for a change from the lettuce wraps.
We're celebrating one of our kids' birthday on Monday (Not the actual date, but he has commitments that day) so I'll be getting fajitas at a restaurant.
