Last night:
– Rachel Ray’s bread gnocchi with garlic and tomatoes
– Sugar snap peas
– Red leaf lettuce with vinaigrette
(Report: liked all around, but is a direct to serve dish — gnocchi done before everything else and Paul and Will weren’t ready for dinner until long after things were ready.)
Tonight:
– Masoor dal (red lentils) with tomatoes
– Hari Bindi (Indian-style stuffed okra with potatoes and onions)
– Rice
– Red leaf lettuce with vinaigrette
(Report: Dal has already over-flowed on my newly cleaned stove top. *WAA!* Kitchen is steaming… I’m sweating like a whore in church. At this point, I could care less what it tastes like as long as it feeds the family for the next day.)
Matt and Laura | 10-Jul-06 at 10:34 am | Permalink
So the next time I’m too tired to deal with dinner I’m coming to your place. I’m completely out of quick and easy summer meal ideas. Standing over a boiling pot or firing up the oven don’t make no sense when you are running the air conditioning? Now that we are back in town for a while it makes more sense to stock up on salad supplies.
Holly | 10-Jul-06 at 10:50 am | Permalink
Come on down! I’d love some company in the kitchen.
I really like to cook and it’s fun to plan new meals. Because we’re usually in such a rush to pull something together, we rarely plan things ahead and end up making the same basic things. With me home now, I’m trying to take advantage of the time and learn some new cooking tricks. I *hate* doing the same things over and over, so this is a welcomed break.
Will has a hard time eating salad greens (can’t really chew lettuce and other leafy greens) so we’re limited on how we can use salads. Thankfully, he’s a great eater. We’re doing our best to introduce him to a wide range of foods — even if he doesn’t always try them the first time, he usually does the second time!