Feta makes it bettah.

My Boyfriend and I are really not good at waiting for a particular day to show we love each other.... we tend to just do that every day. We've both experienced love and loss and realize that life is too unpredictable to wait. But I still like a little extra something on the day itself. DAH surprised me last night with an early Valentine's Day present: a beautiful emerald palm tree necklace which makes me think of him and the beach all at the same time. Thank you Sweetheart!  In another nauseous wedding note, I have decided to use emerald green and topaz blue as my colors whenever the Big Day comes.



Maybe.

Gyro Kit 

  If you are lucky like me and can find a gyro kit in your supermarket (I find them in the deli area at Kroger's), you can make them super tasty very easily:

• Slice a white onion and put it in a bowl, fill with water until covered and add a teaspoon or so of dried drill.  
• Slice up cherry tomatoes and sprinkle with Kosher salt, cube some Feta cheese (I Looooove Feta)
• Lay the gyro meat slices into a pan and cook over high heat until they are a little browned on both sides, transfer to a nice aluminum foil packet while you continue prep.
• When all done browning the meat, throw a pita into the pan (that is so fun to say) and swab both sides in the remaining gyro oily goodness.  Brown slightly, it will puff up.  
• Lay the pita on another piece of aluminum foil and hold it, folding it slightly (caution, toasty).  Add the meat, crumble in a cube of feta, line the bottom with the cherry tomato slices, add a generous amount of the onion, and finally give it two good spoonfuls of the tzatziki sauce.  You can now kind of wrap 3/4 of the gyro up in the foil for stain-less eating. 

I serve this with Ore-Ida crinkle fries that are cooked for 25 minutes in a 450 degree oven, then sprinkled with Kosher salt.  Sooooo tasty.