Vegetable Dinner Item
As we all know, we're supposed to eat lots of different coloured vegetables all the time, etc.
I don't like making more than one dish per meal, if possible.
Today we had really easy nachoes - tinned beans in chilli sauce, wow, we're almost done already! Defrosted some ham and fried that with onion and garlic before adding the tinned beans, so that's most of dinner. Guacamole which I have made probably a couple of hundred times now, so that is easy. So, we get to have extra vegetables!
Quartered mini capsicums that were on special at the supermarket ages ago and have somehow survived in the fridge all this time (the "baby" veges are always expensive, but as soon as they're a couple of days old, they put them on special, yay!), and yellow round beans and flat green beans from the farmer's market, fried over a high heat in some olive oil. Mixing them around every couple of seconds until they all have spots of browning, but are essentially only barely cooked.
Yay, yummy! They look best when cooked in a black frying pan like this one ;)
Beans are great. You should get some when they are in season where you are and try them at all stages of cooked-ness - from raw as snacks or in salads, through barely cooked to using them in whatever dish you reckon is short of veges (stews, pasta sauce, whatever). Peas in the pod are also good to take places as a snack. Then the shelling is less onerous cos you're only shelling enough for a snack for one, not a meal for 1+, and they are protected in their own packaging - the same advantage as bananas.
I don't like making more than one dish per meal, if possible.
Today we had really easy nachoes - tinned beans in chilli sauce, wow, we're almost done already! Defrosted some ham and fried that with onion and garlic before adding the tinned beans, so that's most of dinner. Guacamole which I have made probably a couple of hundred times now, so that is easy. So, we get to have extra vegetables!
Quartered mini capsicums that were on special at the supermarket ages ago and have somehow survived in the fridge all this time (the "baby" veges are always expensive, but as soon as they're a couple of days old, they put them on special, yay!), and yellow round beans and flat green beans from the farmer's market, fried over a high heat in some olive oil. Mixing them around every couple of seconds until they all have spots of browning, but are essentially only barely cooked.
Yay, yummy! They look best when cooked in a black frying pan like this one ;)
Beans are great. You should get some when they are in season where you are and try them at all stages of cooked-ness - from raw as snacks or in salads, through barely cooked to using them in whatever dish you reckon is short of veges (stews, pasta sauce, whatever). Peas in the pod are also good to take places as a snack. Then the shelling is less onerous cos you're only shelling enough for a snack for one, not a meal for 1+, and they are protected in their own packaging - the same advantage as bananas.
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