New cut and at-home restaurant meal
Hey everyone! Happy Sunday!
I promised I’d post a pic of the new cut… and the question is whether I got straight-across bangs or not…
NOPE! I’m still rockin’ the side bangs 😀
But I did get 4 INCHES TAKEN OFF! My hair hasn’t been this short in quite a while!
All the dead ends are GONE and it feels light and healthy. And I feel less like a shaggy beast 😉
Last night, the pilot and I made dinner together. We loosely based it off this Rizzle recipe for Grilled Salmon Salad.
(I love my personalized Williams-Sonoma apron :D)
The pilot played sous chef and started working on the marinade for the salmon and the orange vinaigrette.
(hubba, hubba)
We marinated the salmon in orange juice, agave, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, sea salt and pepper for about 20 minutes and then I pan-seared it before throwing it into the oven.
The pilot made the vinaigrette using Rizzle’s recipe but we only used a splash of the canola oil instead of the recommended 1 cup:
When we got ingredients at Winn Dizzle for dinner, they didn’t have organic greens (punks!!) so I needed another method of choosing the type of salad we’d use…
The package said “sassy”. I was sold right there 😀
I tossed the vinaigrette with the sassy salad greens and added sliced red onion, kalamata olives and cucumber.
The pilot made himself some wasabi-mashed potatoes using boiled new potatoes, milk, butter, sea salt, pepper and wasabi powder
Using the leftover frozen shrimpies from seafood fest 2009, I marinated them in a Gliding Calm Tofu-esque mixture of garlic, lemon juice, soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil and red chili flakes
I sautéed them in a little EVOO:
And they were DELICIOUS!
The spread:
My plate:
TOTALLY looks like a restaurant salad.. and it tasted even better 😀
Bella tried to look as pathetic as possible, hoping she’d get a bite of salmon.
She was denied.
Viesa did her version of begging, which is to lay under the table and look beautiful.
She, too was denied.
The thing that made our amazing meal even better: dessert!!
Well I’m off to seize the day. Meaning, I’ll be laying by the pool, book in hand 😀 Dinner with the girls and the Ugly Truth tonight. Has anyone seen it??
Have a great day, friends!
Cheers,
G
*Meet me here tomorrow morning for the Summer Shape Up re-cap and WINNERS (even though you’re all winners, of course) 😀
*I’m on twitter! (and addicted). Tweet it up, yo 😉
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Your hair looks GREAT! It's so healthy and shiny.
I love all the shrimp you eat 🙂 Whenever I eat shrimp I've started to think of your blog now 😉
Saw The Ugly Truth yesterday…it was cute and funny, I'm sure you'll like it!
Love your hair!
Your hair looks great and your dinner looks awesome!!!!
Glad you had a great night! I love cooking with my boyfriend!
Love the new haircut Gina. I'm a big fan of side bangs. Across the forehead bangs can look a little harsh sometimes. Good pick!
It looks like you and your sous chef make a good team- dinner looked fab.
Have a lovely day lounging by the pool.
LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YUM!! Your salmon looks fabulous! I love the hair cut to – the side bangs work for you!! Where did you find your wasabi powder? I've looked at Kroger/Trader joe's/Whole Foods and World Market with no luck! Have fun at the pool – i'm going out there later, too!
LOVING the new haircut 🙂 It looks great! Those shrimp don't look so bad either 😉
LOVE the new 'do! It looks great! I'm jealous of how thick your hair is!
Sassy salad greens – I like! That meal looks gorgeous! I love the sounds of that orange vinaigrette.
Have fun at the movie! I hope it's good 🙂
That's so sweet that you cooked dinner together. The whole thing looked awesome!
Your hair looks great, too!
Wow you still look amazing. Doesn't a haircut and blow dry just make you feel great? And dinner looked brilliant. I think I am going to have to copy you on the date night. Could be fun. 😀
Your hair looks great!! Very healthy and shiny 🙂
And major YUM on dinner!! I love cooking with the hubby… seems like you two had a great time 🙂
I haven't seen that movie yet.. but I adore Katherine Heigel 🙂 Can't wait to hear your review!
I saw the Ugly Truth last night…A.M.A.Z.I.N.G! That is all I have to say. You are guna love it!!
Your hair looks superb 🙂 I love making restaurant quality salads at home. They're the best! Yum!
Your haircut looks great! I love the feeling of getting a few inches cut off (I just cut off 7!) and feeling so light 🙂
So cute that you guys cook together!
dinner looks great- thanks for the link.
but where's the pilot's apron??
Love your hair, love your meal, love your dogs!
Your hair is so thick and gorgeous. Love it Gina.
Love the dinner too – definitely a restaurant worthy salad in my opinion…actually, it looked much better than many restaurant salads. I would have been begging for some of that salmon right along with the puppers. 🙂
Enjoy your Sunday!
I saw The Ugly Truth yesterday and LOL'ed a lot. It's definitely got more raunchy/toilet humor but that is right up my alley.
Love the hair. You look stunning!
Grilled salmon salad is devine. What a great date night meal with your wonderful hubby.
We just say The Ugly Truth this weekend. Even though it had bad reviews, my hubby and I both loved it! It was very funny. 🙂
Take care girl/
Your hair looks fabulous! I love that healthy/fresh cut feeling 🙂 🙂 Great din din too. I love shrimp simply cooked- you can really enjoy its yummy flavor. Thank you again for the dessert recipe- they were a BIG hit!
you're so hawt!!!
salmon ANDDDDD shrimpies?! me like
Your hair is gorgeous – so full!
Good eats too – wish I liked salmon, it looks delicious!
A recommended cup of oil? Geez, that's Rachael Ray for ya. I'm impressed the pilot can (and is willing to) make mashed potatoes from scratch!
LOVE the new hair – very flattering.
you look absolutely GORGEOUS. love the new haircut 🙂
Totally love the hair!! And the meal, yum. Do you straighten your hair (like blow dry it straight or with an iron) or is it (grrr) naturally that lovely?
I love your new haircut!!! That salmon looks delicious, having a cooking buddy is always so much fun:)
Your hair is stunning! I love how shiny and naturally healthy it looks. I wish my hair was that thick!
I can't stop rockin' the side bangs either, I just love how they fit my face.
you have such gorgeous, thick hair – you're very lucky!! so cute that you two cooked together:) i want a macarooooooooooon. the desserts that itzy's kitchen made this weekend from your blog looked fabulous too!
Your hair looks beautiful!
You really can't go wrong with sassy salad, can you? 🙂
I recently signed up for twitter and it really is addicting! especially when I'm bored at work. 😉
love the apron, I want one lol
I'm super jealous of your hair. Talk about thick & shiny. My hair tends to lie there, like it's depressed or something.
I'm going to make your guacamole recipe next week. Yay!! Love trying new ways of making guac.
Your hair is absolutely stunning! It must be your super healthy diet 🙂
LOVE the haircut! You are so beautiful regardless of your hair… 😉 But I DO love the side bangs. I am still quite a ways from having bangs, but can't wait til I do!
Dinner looks delish! We had shrimp tonight too, fajita-style…it was tasty! Your doggies are precious.
Your hair looks amazing! You are almost making me want to take some length off.
omg! i saw the ugly truth the other night with two of my girlfriends and it was wicked funny 🙂 you will totally love it!
love the hair btw!
omg. those mash potatoes look like HEAVEN!
Also, I LOVE your new haircut. So shiny!
Your hair and your meal look really great. I haven't really mastered the pan-sear. Any tips? Also, I finally had time to bust into my July magazine stack and I found that the cover story for Scientific American Mind is about fitness being a boon to brain function. Not in and of itself a news flash, but the extent to which exercise helps the brain and the science behind it is pretty interesting. Finally, do you know anything about resistance stretching? I've been reading lots about it lately and it sounds awesome.
P.S. while reading your post this evening my brother walked past, primed to make some unflattering comment about food blog reading,….but I was spared thanks to your photo… that is to say, your gorgeous mug allowed his typical invective to be subbed for a "dude, that chick is hot" lol!
I love the new hair! I saw the ugly truth friday and liked it, hope you have fun!
thank you to all of you for the sweet hair compliments 😀
deb- my hair is a curly beast. that was the work of a super-powered chi hairdryer (courtesy of the madre) a round brush, and some wicked straightening action. i have a fro if i don't do anything to style it 😉
suzanne- i've heard of resistance stretching but have never tried it. i'm hankering to get a foam roller though for my hammies :/ hahaha tell your bro thanks LOL
yum yum!
your hair looks amazing!
-muffy
I had a great time cooking with you, babe. The food was awesome, too. Love you!
Your hair is so thick and gorgeous! I can only wish for hair like that! Any food with "sassy" in its name must be a good thing! Ha!
Your hair looks absolutely beautiful! Any product recommendations? Seriously 🙂 mine is thick like yours but nearly as healthy and shiny!
Your hair looks fab! I still dig the side bangs. It looks as though you and Pilot work well together in the kitchen…the results are pretty as a picture 🙂
Ahhh you tease! And here I was, imagining how great you'd look with straight across bangs!
Your hair looks great, of course 🙂
Bella looks so sweet!
Love the hair! Straight across bangs always seem like a good idea, but everyone I know who has even gotten them ends up pinning them back until they grow out! Considering how much you work out, the annoying factor would probably be pretty high.
Let us know how The Ugly Truth is! I just got around to Food, Inc. so The Ugly Truth is up next. 🙂
Oooh, you got your hair did! Super cute. I'm a fan of the side swept bangs m'self. I did the straight across for too many years in middle school – it'll take me a while to go back to that. 🙂
You are so cute and I love your hair cut! I am due myself.