I grilled steak kabobs marinated in curry powder, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, cumin, and salt. My 9 year old daughter loves hummus and helped me make it. My wife made some plain rice. Our daughter likes only "Mommy rice" and is suspicious of "Daddy rice." I have a tendency to let the rice cook a little too long or I don't put enough water in sometimes and a few crunchy or not fully cooked pieces of rice are unacceptable to a 9 year old. I also made a salad with tomato, cucumber, garlic, fresh parsley, olive oil and lemon juice to go along with the meal. I had only one good fresh tomato (I thought I had more but they had gone bad) so I included some canned diced tomatoes which kind of overpower the dish a little bit. I would normally put tahini and yogurt in this salad as well, but I forgot to buy yogurt at the store.
Overall, the meal was really good and the kabobs were probably the best steak kabobs I have ever made. This is the first time I have used this marinade. I got the marinade from a Cooking Light shawarma recipe. I used the same marinade for some chicken kabobs a few weeks ago and realized the flavor was very close to the kabobs from Dish Dash, one of my wife's favorite restaurants. In fact, during dinner tonight, she said, "Mmm... these kabobs are as good as Dish Dash!" That's pretty much the ultimate compliment I think, when anything I make turns out as good as a dish from a restaurant I really like. I feel like I've accomplished something when that happens.
I cooked enough that we can have left over kabobs, rice, hummus, and salad tomorrow night.
I usually shop at Whole Foods. I try to use fresh, organic ingredients as much as possible. For the kabobs I used New York Strip. The steaks were very lean and very expensive at $25 per pound! The price of beef at Whole Foods has gone up a LOT in the past year. I have cut back on the amount of beef we eat, not just due to the price, but also because chicken and lean cuts of pork are much healthier.
Occasionally, I will make a vegetarian dinner, but I generally do not enjoy meatless dishes as much. My wife and I were both vegetarians when we met and we maintained a strictly vegetarian diet for the first few years of our marriage. I started getting interested in cooking during that time because I wanted to continue to be a vegetarian and also have good food that we enjoyed eating. My cooking has improved a lot since then. Even though I just follow recipes, I seem to be a lot better at having things turn out than in those earlier years.
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