An almost perfect dinner

And I'm only saying that because nothing is perfect, right? (And there was no tuna in our meal!)

Last night, we made the simplest, most flavorful blackbean soup we've ever had. I wasn't super convinced about the recipe when we started, it almost seemed too simple - no tomatoes, no corn, hmm ... was this going to be super plain? No! It was absolutely divine. Really flavorful and light. The recipe called for a tsp of sugar, but we tossed in 1/2 cup of white wine instead and it totally did the trick. Also, we added a ton of garlic (obviously!) and some grated ginger too which gave the soup some extra zing.
Recipe source: Soup, a Way of Life

I absolutely loved the rice dish we also cooked up (apparently, it was carbo-load day!) - probably my fave coconut rice ever. Growing up, we always ate coconut rice containing freshly grated coconut and spices. But this time, we cooked the rice in unsweetened diluted coconut milk instead. Threw in a bunch of roasted cashews, spiced it with roasted red chillies, cumin, mustard and urad dal ==> *very* happy!

And we opened our first white wine of the season - an Albarino - *delicious*!