Tzatziki Sauce

The boy's favorite restaurant in NC is either Greek Fiesta, or La Shish, and his favorite in Beijing was Biteapita. I guess you know what he likes to eat!

Tzatziki Sauce

1 1/2 cups plain yogurt (All the recipes I found asked for special thick yogurt, but I used regular and just drained it a bit. It came out fine.)
1/2 cup grated cucumber (It's hard to measure because it's so squishy, grate a couple inches of cucumber and then squish away the excess liquid.)
2 tablespoons lemon juice
garlic salt
mint

(Most recipes I found also called for 1 -2 tablespoons of olive oil but I skipped that because it seemed like needless fat. The sauce was very smooth anyway. Maybe it's because I used the wrong yogurt!)

I was a bit worried about this one as yogurt + lemon juice could easily make a curdled mess. I got around that by grating the cucumber into a tupperware container, and coating it in lemon juice, then garlic salt. Then I added the yogurt + mint.

I sealed the tupperware and stuck in the fridge for about an hour to let everything combine. I was so pleased to find perfect dipping sauce, instead of curdled disaster! YAY!

Breaking News

The spice that makes Xinjiang barbecue taste like Xinjiang food is cumin. Just thought I'd share my exciting discoveries.

A Week of Groceries

TIME magazine did a collection of photos of families around the world, posing with a week's worth of food for that family. It's fascinating, and it got me thinking about how a week of food for the Boy and me would look. I'm proud of how much of our diet is fruit and veggies (especially now, with cheap, fresh local produce coming in!), and how often I cook dinner, but there's also a lot of coffeedrinks and takeout in our diet.

Watching The World Cup In Cary

The Boy was looking for a local place to watch the World Cup games. He was thinking Carolina Ale House or the comfy chairs at Tobacco Road, but I found this instead. Giant screens and beer.

Are you ready for some fútbol? The Galaxy Cinema will turn into a one screen pub for the whole month of June. The independent theater will show select matches from the World Cup 2010 matches on one of their screens. They may serve more beer in the month of June at the Galaxy than in a normal year.

Via Galaxy Cinema in Cary to Show World Cup Matches on Big Screen | New Raleigh

Get the whole schedule here.