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Last night I made a rather lovely dinner for Lisa. It started with poking around Pike Place Market to see what looked particularly tempting and wound up as follows.

Prosciutto-wrapped melon to start.  Specifically, very good cantaloupe (not that pale supermarket crap) wrapped in strips of San Danielle prosciutto. Served up on a square japanese platter (thank you Goodwill) it looked surprisingly like sushi. I may have to explore this route further

Next was a small greek salad consisting of candy-sweet orange Sungold cherry tomatoes, chopped cucumbers, thin-sliced red onion and Greek feta, dressed with a mix of white balsamic vinegar, champagne vinegar, olive oil and oregano. The aim was for something light, summery and Mediterranean.  The Greek Feta seemed to have a particularly bright flavor and the champagne vinegar really perked up the otherwise somewhat heavy balsamic.Lisa doesn't like tomatoes but she found these to actually be pretty tasty, apart from their inherent tomatoey flavor.  Still, it's a start. I used to hate tomatoes too until I was forced to try some really excellent cherry tomatoes. Now the good ones are like candy to me. Or, at least, she was a good sport and ate a few of them anyway.

Following this was the main course consisting of lamb sirloin chops and roasted baby red potatoes. The lamb was coated with truffle salt, freshly-made an hour before by gating Oregon black truffle (carefully hoarded in my freezer from last fall) with very coarse sea salt and leaving i to sit in the fridge for an hour toallow the aroma to emerge, pan seared and then finished in the oven.  The potatoes were roasted with salt, olive oil and thyme.

Finally, there was dessert: wild strawberrys (again, forget that supermarket crap) dipped in Callebaut bittersweet chocolate.

It was fun and actually ready precisely on time. I'e been lame on the cooking front lately or else have fallen back on Lazy-Man's Random Stir-Fry far too often. I'm glad to be feeling a bit more inspired lately.