If this is Wednesday, it must Be Morocco!

I give you French Moroccan tuna with cream sauce, roasted garlic couscous, and peas in less than 30mins.
(Take that Rachael Ray!)





Some of you may get the old movie reference, but I'm guessing most of you won't! ;-)

This wonderful (if I say so myself) meal came about last night in what has become common practice here at the T&L household. It went something like this:

T - "What do you want for dinner?"
L - "I set out some tuna steaks, and I want to fix that Moroccan couscous."
T - "OK let's see what I can do!"

Foraging through the cabinets and the fridge I was able to locate a blend of spices that I have used on salmon before (cumin, coriander, garlic powder, Cayenne, and brown sugar) "This should go well with the couscous!" (I thought, out loud). In the fridge I located a part bottle of Ice Wine, and some sour cream and thought (again out loud) "This will make a good sauce".

So you rinse the tuna, coat it with the dry spice mix, heat a small skillet with a couple of table spoons of olive oil, drop the tuna in to sear it on both sides, then remove and set aside.

At this time open the package of roasted garlic couscous and follow the instructions, same with the Green Giant peas! ;-)

Deglaze the pan that was used to sear the tuna with about 1/2 cup of the Ice wine and reduce for about 5 minutes. Whisk in 2 table spoons of butter (real butter) 1/2 Tbsp at a time, then whisk in 2 Tbsp sour cream and remove from heat.

To serve: Place the tuna on the plate and drizzle a little of the sauce on the tuna in a fancy zigzag pattern, and be sure to have a small dipping bowl of the sauce on the side, add the peas and couscous to the plate.

It went really well with a glass of Syrah too!

Try it and you won't be disappointed, and it will surely impress anyone you serve it to!

Update on the Home!

This just in from our on the spot reporter FC:
















Now that the sub floor and decking supports are completed they should begin adding the logs this week. We'll be heading down in a couple of weeks to check on the progess and we should see the shell of the house taking shape!

FC thanks again for peaking in on the place and keeping us updated!
See you soon!

Happy Anniversary!

Today marks 27 years of marriage for Lightnin and I! It's been an amazing ride, never boring, sometimes challenging, mostly fun, but definitely amazing!













Happy Anniversary Sweetheart!

Weekend Update #5

I should say "Weekends" since I've been a bit lacking on getting these out on a regular basis!

So let me go back to last weekend which also happened to be Labor Day weekend:

That Saturday Lightnin and I both woke up early, I state this because Lightnin usually sleeps in on the weekend and doesn't usually get up to greet the day until after breakfast(provided by yours truly) is ready, but on this particular day she arose a mere 30min after I did! That being the case we decided to forgo the usual home cooked meal and get showered and dressed to head out on the bike and grab something to eat on the road. We decided to head to one of our favorite spots, Rabbit Hash, KY, where the Old Timer's festival was taking place. The air was crisp and we dressed appropriately with the required leather riding apparel.

Here you see Lightnin with a couple of new friends


Not sure why the grumpy expression here, maybe because after eating lunch I knew I'd look like the stuffed sausage that I felt like

It was a fun ride that was followed up with a bonfire at our friend's Rick and Julie's house
Yes it included smores!

The next morning Rick and I took of on a ride in the morning and I snapped this picture of the 2 bikes with a nice Kentucky backdrop









This past weekend we were invited to ride a long distance run, out to Portsmouth, OH. We met up with some friends, and met some new friends, and put in a little over 300 miles on Sunday. The weather was great, and the ride was too!

Here's a few random shots from that:



















Oh the other news is that we received a call from our builder on Thursday evening to let us know that he'll be starting the actual "Building of The House" this week. Awesome!

I guess that about wraps things up for this segment. Another busy work week ahead so I'll post when I can.

***NEWS FLASH***

They started cutting the logs today!!!!
WOOOO HOOOOO!