14 posts tagged “dinner”
No photos. But! I made a quick & easy dinner last night I thought I would share to kind of ease the tension I feel from not posting...
I had:
- Two zucchini
- Some frozen peas
- Some egg noodles
- Some pine nuts
- Some olive oil
- Some cheese
- Some lemon pepper
Boiled the water while I cut up the zucchinis into thin slices and heated a pan with some olive oil. Threw in half the zucchini slices & sprinkled with lemon pepper. Let them cook while I put the noodles in. Turned the zucchini & let them cook up for a little while. Took them out when they all looked soft & some were a little browned - put on paper towel. Did a second batch the same way. Drained the noodles & added frozen peas. After taking the second batch of zucchini out of the pan, I put the noodles & peas in there to coat them with some of the leftover oil and toasted pinenuts along with them ... sprinkled some shredded cheese on top, dumped it in a bowl with some zucchini and voila. It was yum. That lemon pepper is indespensible for me when cooking zucchini. It's so perfect.
Gah, who can read a blog post about food without a photo? Not me.
Oh well. Since moving I havent been able to do much cooking and its been killing me. The last couple days though, have gotten a little better. Why I choose to cook things like chowders and such when its ninety degrees out I cannot say although I think it has to do with the jonesing to cook ANYTHING.
Getting thru all the CSA veggies after having a few weeks off during the move, has been a success this week I think although we do have an enormous watermelon which needs to be cut open and eaten asap...
Last night, trying to clean out the fridge a bit more and use what we have... I put some jasmine rice in the rice cooker with a wee bit of butter, sprinkled in some turmeric and paprika and let it do its thing (note to self: buy rice, all kinds)... I sauteed the only meat in the house - three chicken breasts (cut into pieces) my SO's mom gave us (in general we are trying not to eat much meat), some extra virgin olive oil (costco has organic EVOO quite cheaply!), sprinkled some lemon pepper on it, threw in some chopped onion (about half an onion), sauteed for awhile till the onions began to turn translucent, then threw in four sliced zucchini, added more lemon pepper and sauteed until they began to look softer.
I ate the rice/chicken/zucchini in a bowl while sitting on the backporch and finishing off my second? third? vodka tonic. The weather was cooling down, preparing for another big storm, and things were quiet so it was just a nice little end to the day. I was pretty impressed with my little dish, especially since Id achieved perfect semi carmelization of the onions and the bright yellow rice was so fun to look at.
the instructions:
1. In a frying pan or wok, sizzle up a half green bell pepper (sliced) and small onion (chopped) in olive oil - add some cumin and garlic powder (to taste).
2. While the veggies are sizzling, cut a tomato into wedges.
3. Grab two small four tortillas. If desired, melt a slice of cheese the tortillas in the microwave or toaster oven.*
4. Spread a layer of hummus on each tortilla. Add the tomato slices. The veggies should be done now, so add those as well. squeeze some lime juice over the veggies.
5. Wrap up or fold up and enjoy!
of course you could use whatever vegetables you have on hand and omit the cheese for a vegan meal. mmmmmmmmmm. thanks again to alli for posting the original recipe!
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