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We opted to stay in for Valentines Day, so that meant the Fail Kitchen was open. We opted to shop at Trader Joe's and plan the meal dependant on what we found. I was thinking surf and turf, and they had some lovely tri-tip steaks. But we opted to check out the frozen seafood first, hey desert, hard to find the fresh stuff.
We settled on some scallops and ahi tuna steaks, picked out a couple bottles of wine, some desert and we were set for dinner. Also picked up some steaks and chicken sausage for a BBQ on Sunday, TJ's has the best chipolte flat iron steak.
Later we picked up some mushrooms to sautee, it was going to be a lot of butter and garlic on this evening... good thing we were staying home. All in all the meal turned out well, the flavors on the ahi and scallops were not super impressive. The tuna was pre marinated in olive oil, red pepper flakes and some other things, but didn't really carry the flavor.
The scallops I just straight up pan seared with salt and pepper, they could have gone another minute and been closer to perfect. I felt they were a bit cool in the center, cooked through, but not as firm as they should have been.
Our espresso / chocolate mousse desert was good, but tiny. The appetizer of our favorite brie, an fabulous rustic ciabatta bread from TJ and their wine infused salami was the best course of the meal.
Not too much fail last night, but their is always today!
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