Kree goes Iron Chef: Tuna!

[Kree]

^blaze
A tuna, fruit, cheese and wine course definitely would work. particularly if I move the wine I was thinking of to go with the appetizers to desert instead. I think though I would still want to do the candied tuna. I believe the honey glaze just won't set in deep enough to get the tuna to work well as part of a digestive sampler.

[Rorschach]

Tuna for all the courses? Interesting.
I can't offer you any advice except for the old 'pretending to stretch' routine, which is more for after dinner, but I'm curious as to how this turns out and whether repeating works.

[Rorschach]

Oh, good luck.

[Mav]

Lose the iron chef theme and stop trying to make everything out of Tuna.

Seriously, wtf?

I would also venture so far as to suggest dropping the weaboo faggotry on the first dinner, and making something more traditional. A good pasta or good steak would prove you more material for feeding families, than being a trend whore.

Then again, maybe your date is stupid (average) and enjoys such trends.

[Blaze]

Mav is a romantic.

[Deacon]

Lose the iron chef theme and stop trying to make everything out of Tuna.

It's a very elaborate joke regarding vaginal hygiene.

[Kree]

^Mav
It was requested of me to do a iron chef style dinner; I live to serve. Also, please do not refer to my date as stupid again. It offends. I log on after a pleasant evening to share my experience and the first thing to assault my eyes is the drek spewed forth from your hands. Thank you so very much for trying to ruin the aftermath of my night. It will not be forgotten.


To the civilized portions of the board, I apologize but through the rush of recipes, shopping, and preparing the meal, I completely forgot to take pictures. However it did all turn out excellent, and my date for the evening even requested to take the remainder of the soup home with her. My wine/beer matchings went for naught, I had forgotten that although my date prefers to keep her eating and drinking separate. I have posted so many potential menu choices both here, and elsewhere, that I won't try to state the changes, but instead will just post the meal in its final form.
For appetizers I went with two tidbits. American tuna salad and seared tuna steak coated with mustard and crushed peppercorn. They were served bite size on small toasted squares. The tuna salad was made with fresh yellow fin tuna, and believe you me, using fresh vs canned makes a world of difference. I used blue fin tuna for the seared steak. For the soup course, I went with a vodka tomato cream base, with sliced mushrooms and green onions. I pan fried the tuna, yellow fin again, and added it near the end, to help keep it in larger chunks. The salad was a a blue fin tuna tartar served on baby bak choi. The bak choi was made traditionally in a wok with soy sauce and salt. Cooked then steamed. I found that the texture and warmth of the bok choi, did a great job in offsetting the texture and coolness of the tartar.
For the entree we had tuna patties with dutch gold potatoes, and brussel sprouts. The potatoes were cooked on the rangetop in a shallow pan of olive oil, liberally coated with salt pepper and rosemary, By keeping the temperature low and cooking for 4 hours, the oil and seasoning really soak into the potatoes giving you wonderful little bites of heaven. The brussel sprouts were steamed and topped with melted butter. The tuna patties were made with yellow fin tuna egg bread crumbs green onions and carrots, mixed together and pan friend. I left them intentionally under seasoned and served with a horseradish sauce. For desert I had prepared an assortment of fruit and cheese, with a candied tuna. The candied tuna turned out wonderfully, however we were too full by this point to eat the dessert and I just know from my tasting. All in all it was a delightful evening, we ate then settled down on the couch to drink a few beers and watch tv, thank you to everyone who helped to contribute to this menu, your assistance was indispensable.

As a side note can one of the mods change the title to this thread? Urgent help isn't really required anymore.

[Martin Blank]

New title added.

[Mav]

Lose the iron chef theme and stop trying to make everything out of Tuna.

It's a very elaborate joke regarding vaginal hygiene.

Oh, shit. My bad.


P.S. Kree, the drek was actually spewed from somewhere other than my hands (though it may have appeared to be coming from my hands at that precise moment in time). Coincidently, the drek appears to have landed all over your date's face after I bought her a double cheeseburger at McDonalds.

[ampersand]

Think you could use Chicken of the Sea or Charlie tins as bowls for the soup? Especially the really large ones you find at Costco or Sam's Club warehouses.

[Blaze]

They'd have to be sanitized, which would lead to the wrappers being destroyed.

Also, good on you! Dinner sounds perfect.

[adciv]

Steam the wrapers off, sanitize them, then re-glue on the labels?