When Marion and I did our shopping today we had planned to make us a nice dinner tonight. We suddenly wondered why an nice romantic dinner always has to be about special and expensive food. We tried to it different this time… and with success to my idea.
We decided to go for dinner with “Shoarma” (often wrongly translated to Kebab).
Often for Shoarma over here in The Netherlands is pork used. But we did go for lamb, which is originally is used for Shoarma. We marinaded the fine cut lamb meat with mixture of cinnamon, garlic, turmeric, union, coriander, sea salt, paprika and cumin. And this all as fine powder (Miranda, thanks for the advices on this).
We baked the marinaded lamb meat in a hot skillet without oil or butter. At same time we baked potatoes slices with parsley.
We served two salads. One based on cucumber with olive oil, the other of a mixtures of different kinds of lettuce with a garlic dressing. Both with herbs as parsley, chive, red unions, black pepper and paprika.
Of course there we also some hot baked pita breads. There were three sauces: A garlic sauce, a whiskey cocktail sauce and a chilli sauce.
Serve out the table nicely. Add candles and a rose…. And there, a romantic dinner for two
It was delicious…
Yes, it was indeed very nice. And so yes, a nice romantic dinner doesn’t have to be about caviar and oysters. It is about atmosphere and emotions.
Oh yummie. Lamb shoarma!! I don’t like pork shoarma too much, but shoarma made of good lamb meat!
The picture of rose is very nice. Did you make it yourself, Rob?
Yes Sanne. It is the rose that was also placed on the dinner table.