Sunday Nite Dinner

We’ve been really bad about taking pictures of our Sunday nite dinners lately. Sometimes we just want to eat and not deal with the photography, especially when dinner is not at our place. It’s a pain in the butt to lug around the DSLR and tripod to our friends place and figure out the lighting conditions. After accidentally dropping our point-and-shoot camera on the strip in Vegas (long story), we recently got an ultra-compact Canon SD1100IS, which is great for discrete restaurant shots.

This past Sunday, Hungry Bear and I went over to Jane’s place for dinner. It was a perfect opportunity to test out our little camera. For dinner, Howie (who is a much better cook than he lets on) made mapo tofu and stir-fried green beans. Jane and Garry made angel food cake with a lemon glaze and creme brulee. We would have taken pictures of dessert, but Jane and Garry weren’t happy with their results. We thought they tasted perfectly good.

The mapo tofu was warm and very satisfying. And Howie completely winged the recipe. He should really make dinner more often!  We couldn’t leave you without a recipe, so here’s a mapo tofu roundup…

• Mapo Doufu / Mapo Tofu via Appetite for China
• Mapo Tofu by Nook & Pantry
• Recipe: Ma Po Tofu via Rasa Malaysia
• Ma Po Tofu (Chinese Pockmarked Old Lady’s Tofu) from Wandering Chopsticks
• Mapo Tofu, Take 2 via Pinoy Cook
• Mapo Tofu (Marpo Doufu) by [No Recipes]

BTW, our white cut chicken picture won the DMBLGIT July 2008 aesthetics category. Winner, winner, chicken dinner!

[tags]chinese, tofu, pork, spicy[/tags]