From Far East to Middle East to Modern American all in one night!

So tonight mom and I had a FABULOUS dinner.  We tried out a few recipes I found on Pinterest.  We had P.F. Chang's lettuce wraps, chicken gyros, and s'mores. :)

Our dinner

I know, it's a lot of food for two people and yes, there are a lot of leftovers.  It was delicious though.

Lettuce wraps

 (I got this recipe here)

Chicken gyros

(I got the recipe from here)

I cooked most of it and mom came and help with some of it.  It was a lot of fun.  We really enjoyed cooking the rice noodles.  That is one thing that is not included in the recipe for the wraps but they serve it like that at P.F. Chang's.  It was a lucky find.  I was at the store looking for sesame oil and looked down and saw the rice noodles, or sticks, as they are labeled on the package.  The one's I found are called MAIFUN Rice Sticks.  Also, instead of peanuts in the chicken we put cashews.

You cook them in oil and they are great fun to watch. :)  Make sure you break them apart so they have more room to fluff.

raw

before and after.  The one on the right has been fluffed. :)

(in case you're wondering, the pink on my thumb is spray paint from doing flowers for the dance this weekend.)

And in they go.

and they're fluffed!  It doesn't take very long.

 They sink to the bottom when you drop them in and then the start to bubble and they crackle and twist and with a puff of smoke (or steam I guess) they're done!  It's pure magic!  They are only in the oil for like 10 seconds.  It's way fun to watch. :)

The gyros weren't quite as exciting as the noodles.  Mom made pita bread while I worked on the chicken.  Just a suggestion on the sauce.  I would mix it up before adding the lemon and then add to taste.  It was pretty strong.  Mom was having a great time between cooking the pita bread and the rice noodles.  She  loves to watch the bread puff up.  She gets so excited about it.  She had a great time playing in the flour too. :)

After cleaning up dinner and washing the dishes I made s'mores for dessert.  Though they aren't quite traditional.  They are super delicious though. :)

Don't they just look delicious?

 (I got this recipe here)

These were super easy.  And like I said, they are delicious. :)  All in all, it was a good night. :)