Anniversary Dinner

Let me just start by telling you how much I love halibut. It's really a great fish to eat grilled, as we did last night, with chimchurri and rice and greens. Chimchurri sounds like something exotic and spicy, but it is actually olive oil, garlic, lemon juice, crushed red pepper, salt & pepper and parsley. Kind of like a salad dressing.  My choice of halibut was kind of sentimental as well: I had it for dinner one night on our honeymoon (ten years ago!) and still remember how delicious that meal was.

Dinner for two was out on the front porch this year.

Right before we sat down to eat, a couple of  Mormons came by to talk to us. They come around every once in awhile, nicely dressed young men. I wanted to ask them if they were the Big Love kind of Mormons, but what I really wanted was to eat my halibut and drink my wine, so I let that go.

The wine was perfect with the fish; a Greek white called Skouras that I bought at my new favorite place, The Wine Studio of Asheville. Not only is this wine shop locally owned, but it's owned by a woman and she is a wine genius!  Using my limited wine describing abilities, I told her what I had in mind and she knew exactly what I wanted. They stock lots of great wines in the $10-12 range and does wine tastings, classes, etc. Stop in and check it out.