I have one of these: hybrid bbq grill. It's awesome.
Bleh, this did not turn out well.This upcoming week will be my first attempt at greek yogurt & tahini dressing on veggies and beef over rice. The usual grocery store didn't have any tahini, or I failed to find it, so I'll have to run in another store tomorrow and try to get some.
Bleh, this did not turn out well.
White rice
greek yogurt
tahini
steak pieces
diced tomatoes
shredded lettuce
Sounds delicious, doesn't it? But somehow when I put it together it tasted disturbingly like bloody play-doh. WTF. The bloody part was from the tomatoes, not the steak, which was done medium. The play-doh part was from the greek yogurt. Tomorrow I guess I could forget the tomatoes and add some spices. I don't really have anything to substitute for the yogurt though, no sour cream or miracle whip... I've got some kind of creamy soup but that wouldn't go with the tahini. Blah.
I can't eat garlic or onions though - allergy. Cucumber, or maybe celery, would be a good idea if I could get back to the grocery store; not possible today though. But I've got the rest of those spices, at least. Maybe I will cook the leftover tomatoes with the dill and some olive oil, and see how that turns out... Possibly throw some cheese on top.You need some herbs and spices in it. I'd make tzatzki out of the Greek yoghurt with lots of garlic, grated cucumber and lots of either fresh dill, corriander(cilantro) or parsley. Add some pureed chickpeas to your tahini with lemon, garlic and cumin and you've got hummus. Finely slice the cooked steak, put the whole shebang together with some onion and you've got a gyros (sans pita) on your plate.
You could also make it Indian by changing the spices.
Don't give up, you've got the base for a very nice meal there.
A Mennonite restaurant. Now I've heard it all...Our neighborhood will be without water this evening for repair to a main so we are going to a Mennonite restaurant. It is called Essenhaus, I believe. It is east on Highway 50 in a town called Arlington, population maybe 500.
Around here it is either Mennonite or Mexican. Not sure what we will have but it is a nice spring evening and a treat to eat out on a school night. --s6