Remember how it was Easter two weeks ago?
Two weeks ago I made deviled eggs and they were really good.
So good I wish I had one right now, for a snack. You can’t beat a deviled egg.
Why don’t I make these any other time of the year? Deviled eggs are all season.
I just pretend they don’t have mayo in them because I claim to hate mayo.
But I love deviled eggs.
Don’t worry, these eggs were all consumed on Easter. I’m not eating 2 week old mayo and eggs. I just wanted to share my fondness for them.
Mediterranean is kind of a hard word to spell. And I’m a really great speller. So great, in fact, that I always made it to the spelling bee regionals and beyond when I was in 4th-8th grade.
You’re totally impressed. And rightly so.
Anyway, I finally cooked something. I’ve been living on yogurt and cereal and granola bars from the hippie grocery store across from work. And Diet Coke and ginger ale, shhh.
Here we go, Mediterranean couscous salad!
Ingredients:
So, cook the couscous. Chop up the other stuff. Toss together. Eat cold. Or warm if you’re impatient.
Challenging recipe, I know.
Israeli couscous kind of looks like tiny packing peanuts or something.
I heart artichoke hearts. This little salad was good stuff! Is good stuff, I guess, since there are leftovers. I’m going to take it to work tomorrow. And avoid the grocery store!
That’s a total lie, I will still probably go get a ginger ale.
I didn’t make this delicious looking ‘dilla.
I don’t make lunch any more, you see. I eat granola bars and ginger ale from the grocery store across from work.
G made this beautiful lunchtime creation, took a sunny picture of it, and sent it to me in an email. I’m blogging on his behalf.
Yum. Sweet potato, black bean, spinach, cheesy yum.
Just thought I’d share someone else’s lunch. I’m drinking a ginger ale, by the by. By the bye? What?
Happy Friday.
Chili is the easiest meal to make when you need to feed a lot of people. Or just feed two people for a week.
I mean, all you really need to do when you make chili is open a lot of cans of beans.
That’s what I do anyway.
I guess I sliced up a yellow squash and tossed that in too. I made this last week actually and am just now getting around to telling you about it. Sorry. We’ve had house guests. Anyway, squash and zucchini are a really good addition to chili.
I bought some soy chorizo sausage at Trader Joe’s and crumbled that in here too. I’m super skeptical of fake meat, and quite honestly, I don’t think the soyrizo did a whole heck of a lot flavor-wise, but it did add some nice texture.
Chili just seems like it is supposed to be meaty, ya know? Even if the meat is fake.
By the by, I really like Trader Joe’s (duh, who doesn’t). There isn’t one conveniently located to my house so it’s a very special treat to go. Kind of like going to Target. Total highlight of my weekend.
So -are you chilly? Do you have to feed lots of people? Do you like to freeze meals for the future (well done you!)? Do you need to eat more beans? Trust me, you do. Make chili. And make it spicy for heaven’s sake.
What to do on a lazy weekend afternoon, after you’ve cleaned the house and gone for a run, but before you go to an unlimited tasting beer festival?
I made banana zucchini muffins.
I had two overripe bananas, you see. What else was I to do?
Though apparently, two bananas did not equal enough banana mush for the recipe so I grated up a zucchini and tossed that in too.
Result: Squishy, sweet, nutty muffins. I hate the word “muffin.”
Here’s the recipe! Adapted from Allrecipes.com.
Preheat oven to 350
Cream butter and sugar. Add mashed banana and zucchini. Add eggs. Mix.
Realize you don’t have enough flour and go next door to your boyfriend’s brother’s house to get some. Also pick up some dish sponges while you’re over there. Forget to return his 80 tupperware containers that have somehow wound up at your house. Become embroiled in a plot to get your boyfriend out of the house so his brother and friend can sneak in a surprise gift of a receiver and speakers.
Return home with your flour and carry on with the recipe.
In a separate bowl, mix flour, baking soda, salt and spices.
Add flour mixture to banana mixture and mix with a spoon. Don’t overmix. Mix in nuts. I had pecans, but walnuts would be good.
Line a cupcake tin with cute pink and yellow cupcake liners, and glop your banana batter. I filled mine nice and full and this recipe made 12.
Bake for 30 minutes. During baking, convince your boyfriend it is a really nice day and you should go for a walk (even though it isn’t). Then go hide your keys in the front yard.
Let your delicious muffins cool while you take the unsuspecting fella on a stroll, all the while sending surreptitious text messages to his brother.
All ended successfully. Receiver and speakers set up, G surprised, muffins delicious
More egg sandwiches! They’re a new discovery.
This time I fried the eggs a little longer and added sprouts.
Sprouts are not an option on your McDonalds Egg McMuffin.
When you buy a package of sprouts, you have to dump them on everything because they go bad really fast. Sprout purchases are a big commitment.
And they make fried egg and cheese sandwiches feel healthy.
In other news, I cleaned the fridge today.
It was kind of scary. And now I realize we have very little (edible) food in there.
So it might be Sprout McEggwiches for dinner too.
You heard me.
I secretly love MickieD’s. I mean, I guess not that secretly. But the only things I really love there are the french fries and the apple pies. And the ice cream sundaes. They have really good ice cream sundaes!
And hashbrowns. Those hashbrown disks are pretty special.
You guys, who am I? Last week I was telling you all about eating an entire bag of jelly beans and now I’m raving about Mc-to-the-Donalds. What happened to all the kale and spinach and oatmeal and lentils of days gone by?
Never fear. I can shove spinach into just about every recipe.
Doesn’t that sound appetizing?
So, I made egg mc sandwiches. Fry up an egg. Toast up an English muffin. Melt some pepper jack cheese on your hot English muffin. Top with tomato slices that taste like nothing (cannot wait for summer!) and the ever present SPINACH.
Yum-o-rama.
Please note: this is absolutely nothing like an Egg McMuffin. There’s an egg. There’s a muffin. But the overall vibe is very different.
My egg was runny. This is something I generally disapprove of, and though I do think I’ll cook my eggs longer next time, the runniness was actually pretty palatable.
A very quick and easy meal! Almost as easy as the drive through…
So, if you know me or you’ve read more than 2 posts in this little bloglette, you know I am all about the health food. It’s all kale and lentils and spinach smoothies and beans of every variety. It’s all vegetarian running fuel. Even the pizzas I make are covered with vegetables.
I do love me some good vegetables. I will eat an entire bunch of kale all by myself.
But.
Let me show you what I had for dinner last night:
I know! Yum!
G is out of town, and when left to my own devices, I cannot be bothered to prepare real food for myself and I frequently eat candy and wine for dinner.
And oh man, this is my favorite candy.
Please note that I bought the “big bag” and that I couldn’t even wait to take a picture of this before I cut into the package and shoved some jelly beans in my face.
I have to have these old school jelly beans too – the kind you might find in a nursing home around Easter. None of these new fangled Starburst jelly beans or, heaven forbid, Jelly Belly beans. Ick. No way. I want my jelly beans to taste like straight up sugar. Not interested in fancy flavors, thanks.
My favorite beans go like this: red (duh, red is the best color of every candy), orange, yellow, pink, purple, green, white, black.
I investigated more about my favorite beans at the Brach’s website, and came across some inspiring advice.
Keep that in mind, you guys. Every day is a good day to eat tons of candy.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everyone!
I have nothing green to show you.
Sorry.
I have a purple thing to show you instead. A healthy purple smoothie.
I know. La-ame. Gone are the days when I skip school to go to the bar. Now I get up at 5 to go running and make sure I eat about 17x more fruits and vegetables than normal.
Which I suppose is better than drinking 17x more beer than normal.
I’m not actually sure. You be the judge.
Purple power drink!
For 2 smoothies.
Blend. Do it. Get your anti-oxidants.
I hear they counteract the effects of green beer.
Cheers.
Slaw maybe not be the most appetizing word.
But you know you love a good picnic coleslaw.
Last week, I made a tangy cold weather version (and wrote about it for Real Time Farms!)
So, now that I leave the house for work, I need meals that are easy to bring for lunches. This means something I can make a lot of and is easy to pack and store in the fridge at work.
Slaw is popular at picnics for this very reason!
What I used:
Choppity chopped up the cabbage and apples and then just mixed all the sauce ingredients together. As usual, this is just a guideline, rather than a hard a fast recipe. Some raisins would be lovely in here…
Tangy and tasty. The cabbage turns the yogurt a bright lovely purple.
I’m not a big fan of creamy coleslaws, instead preferring a more vinegary flavor. This was perfect for me, and packed up very nicely in my lunch pail.
