New recipe, February 5, 2012

Pork and Lemongrass Meatballs in Lettuce Cups from the March 2011 Bon Appétit. We reduced the fat by grinding pork tenderloin in the food processor instead of buying ground pork. Delicious Vietnamese flavors--we give it a 5! Tomato salad on the side, and we had the remaining Chocolate Frangelico Fondue for dessert.
Wine: Ribbonwood Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2010

New recipes, February 3, 2012

Today we made Marinated Eye of Round Elk Roast from eatingelk.com. This was excellent, we give it a 5! We served it with another favorite, the Root Vegetable and Mushroom Pie with Rosemary Biscuit Topping from Epicurious. (We last made this before we started rating recipes, but it is another 5--too good to be true!)

Wine: Bleasdale The Broad-Side 2008 (Shiraz-Cabernet Sauvignon-Malbec). Nice match to both!
We celebrated Carl's nephew Zac's 26th birthday with the Chocolate Frangelico Fondue from the January February 2012 Cooking Light, with cherries and strawberries. Delicious as well--another 5.