A Nice Weekend with a Good Dinner

The weekend started out great with Ben working from home so he was home when I got off work. He worked for a couple of more hours and then we headed down to the beach in our neighborhood and swam around with Holly for a little while. A few friends came over and we relaxed in the back yard for a couple of hours.

Saturday morning I wasn't feeling great so Ben made breakfast and we watched some Dexter that we have been waiting on for awhile. Ben had plans to go to the soccer game and I was just going to relax at home. I ended up going out on my parents boat for a little while and when I got back Ben was home. We cooked some BBQ'd beef short ribs with a couscous salad and relaxed the rest of the evening.

Sunday morning we were up and and out running some errands. We got some paint to paint the changing table/dresser and a side table. We also got some shelves for extra storage in our office. We then headed to one of our favorite grocery stores to get ingredients for dinner.

We decided to make "Greek Tacos" after watching Ben's new favorite Food Network show, Sandwich King.  So off to the store we went in search of the ingredients:
ground lamb
red onion
tomatoes
cucumber
pocketless pitas
plain whole milk greek yogurt
feta
tomato paste
mint

At home we already had red wine vinegar, oregano, olive oil, garlic and salt and pepper.

If you want to see his version of the recipe go to his website. But this is what we did.

To make the cucumber relish, I simply diced the cucumber, tomato and half the red onion and mixed it with a few turns of red wine vinegar and a few turns of olive oil. Just so all the veggies are coated. Then salt and pepper to taste.

For the tzatziki sauce, I mixed a cup of greek yogurt, maybe half cup of crumbled feta, a whole cucumber drained as well as possible, a clove of minced garlic, maybe ten mint leaves chopped and salt and pepper. Stir it all around and make sure you like the taste.

While I was making the sauce and relish, Ben was browning up/crisping up the lamb. We put the skillet on about medium-medium high heat and put a turn of olive oil in the pan. We didn't mix around the lamb until it was brown and crispy on one side. Once it is cooked, remove the lamb from the pan and put in a few minced garlic cloves and the other half of the diced red onion. Let these sweat until they are aromatic and translucent. Add the tomato paste and dry oregano. Stir it all together while the tomato paste lets out its sugars. Add a dash of red wine to the pan, or in our case some broth, to deglaze a little and get a little bit more of a saucy texture and then add the lamb back to the pan.

While the lamb was cooking I heated up our Naan. Naan? Yes, instead of pitas, we got Naan because they were sampling it at the store and it was delish.

Once it was all done, we slathered the tzatziki on the Naan, topped with the lamb, topped with the relish, rolled it up and dug in. So, so good and super easy. I would say it's one of the best gyros/Greek tacos I've ever had!