9/9 Dinner Review

This week's dinner will be ranked on the following categories:

• Wine
• Hilarity
• Presentation
• Flavor
• Edibility
• What we did with the leftovers

Wine - 4 out of 5 stars

Pretty much the wine was awesome. It was a Pinot Noir, and I liked it so much we took a picture of the label so we could remember it.

Hilarity: A+

The preparation started as any normal Friday night dinner.  Finally getting to see what we were having, a glass of wine, and starting the first course.  As I was inside doing who knows what, I get the first call. "Wyetta, you HAVE to come see this. Now."  As I meander out to the grill, John is standing there, holding a work glove, but it has a strange orange glow.  The glove was on fire!!  I take it into the house to run under the sink while John kept grilling.  We keep going along, I'm prepping more inside, when John calls me out again. And I see this.

Yep, a genuine grill fire. Of course neither of us have any idea how to put it out - but google and a box of baking soda came to our rescue.  Definitely the most entertaining prep so far. 

Presentation: N= Needs time, help and practice to improve 
It almost was a good effort.  The egg rolls and sauce looked pretty nice, and we tried to cover up the burn marks on the lamb, but then the sesame seeds went out of control. And then... I saw a picture of what the noodles were supposed to look like.  There is no telling what we actually did wrong, but it was definitely something (and I don't mean the fire).

Flavor: 63%
The inside of the turkey eggrolls with some of the red dipping sauce had a nice flavor.  In fact, I'd even put these on the "let's give the inside mix another try" list.

The lamb also had some great flavor, when you got around the "crust." I also ate the broccoli, bok choy and rice noodles.  But we didn't save the left overs.

Edibility: Grill: 1, Us: 0
 The eggrolls were really hard to eat and made a mess.  I tried to eat them with my fork, that also failed. I was able to pick around the crust of the lamb to get some good meat, but I think we might have a lost a bit to the grill.

What we did with the leftovers: 8/10
I gave this an 8/10, because we at least made the wise decision of not keeping them.  We tried to give them to Blue. And eventually he at the broccoli we gave him, but he did spit it out and really reconsider first.

Overall, the best part of dinner was spending an awesome Friday night putting out fires and not killing bats.