In which we are pleased...
Jul. 17th, 2005 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesshartleyToday was a mostly-home-body, rather-domestic, but still very nice day.
Pat and I tiedied up around the house, sweeping, baccuming, taking out trash... all those little things that have to be done or the place starts looking thrashed. This afternoon we went to the grocery stor and left Autumn home here at the house... It's so nice knowing that we can do that, for short trips... she's old enough, but because of the crappy neighbors we never felt safe doing it in Vancouver. So, it's nice that she's getting to do it now.
I've been cooking a lot since I've been here, but cooking totally differently... Pat bought me a set of good knives, a food processor and a huge George Foreman indoor grill yesterday. This evening, I whipped up one of the best Morrocan/Middle Eastern/Greco-Romanish kinds of dinners I've ever eaten... Chicken breasts marinated in fresh basil and lemon juice, grilled (in seven minutes!) on the GF grill. Instant cous-cous (picture Stove-top-stuffing ease, but with cous-cous as the result) that I added some minced fresh parsley and green onion to post-cooking (minced in my new food processor) which really made it super good. Tziki (sp?), which added a tangy yogurty-cool goodness to the meal. And, the absolute hit of the evening, freshly home-made hummus, which is /so/ flipping easy in the food processor. I will never pay 5 bucks for a tiny tub of it again! Seriously, if you like hummus and you have a food processor, you need to make this. The most time consuming part is opening the can of garbonzo beans.
If you'd told me a month ago that I'd be stocking garbonzo beans, black beans, wild rice, etc. in my kitchen, I'd have laughed. But the cooking bug has got me, and we're eating tons of fresh produce, grilled meats, freshly made dressings and marinades... it's awesome...
Oh... and I've discovered a new love... Turkey club wraps...
Chunk one avocado, one tomato, one onion (red if you have it, white if not), a red or yellow pepper. Gently toss in a bowl with a handful of crumbled bacon, some salt and pepper, basil (fresh is best, dried is fine) and some lemon juice.
Lay out some thinly sliced turkey (Even the cheapo lunch meat is fine) on a flour tortilla, and top with some lettuce (the romaine stuff that comes cut up in the bag for caesar salad works great). Spread a couple of spoonfuls of the avocado stuff on top, and feel free to toss on more tomato/pepper/onion if you have it and want it extra vegetablish...
OH SO GOOD...
I've started keeping tupperware containers of chopped onion, pepper, celery, cucumber in the fridge so I can toss together something easy at dinner time... That, and crumbled bacon in the fridge really make cooking this kind of stuff easy!
I'm getting all domestic. Scary stuff...
Pat and I tiedied up around the house, sweeping, baccuming, taking out trash... all those little things that have to be done or the place starts looking thrashed. This afternoon we went to the grocery stor and left Autumn home here at the house... It's so nice knowing that we can do that, for short trips... she's old enough, but because of the crappy neighbors we never felt safe doing it in Vancouver. So, it's nice that she's getting to do it now.
I've been cooking a lot since I've been here, but cooking totally differently... Pat bought me a set of good knives, a food processor and a huge George Foreman indoor grill yesterday. This evening, I whipped up one of the best Morrocan/Middle Eastern/Greco-Romanish kinds of dinners I've ever eaten... Chicken breasts marinated in fresh basil and lemon juice, grilled (in seven minutes!) on the GF grill. Instant cous-cous (picture Stove-top-stuffing ease, but with cous-cous as the result) that I added some minced fresh parsley and green onion to post-cooking (minced in my new food processor) which really made it super good. Tziki (sp?), which added a tangy yogurty-cool goodness to the meal. And, the absolute hit of the evening, freshly home-made hummus, which is /so/ flipping easy in the food processor. I will never pay 5 bucks for a tiny tub of it again! Seriously, if you like hummus and you have a food processor, you need to make this. The most time consuming part is opening the can of garbonzo beans.
If you'd told me a month ago that I'd be stocking garbonzo beans, black beans, wild rice, etc. in my kitchen, I'd have laughed. But the cooking bug has got me, and we're eating tons of fresh produce, grilled meats, freshly made dressings and marinades... it's awesome...
Oh... and I've discovered a new love... Turkey club wraps...
Chunk one avocado, one tomato, one onion (red if you have it, white if not), a red or yellow pepper. Gently toss in a bowl with a handful of crumbled bacon, some salt and pepper, basil (fresh is best, dried is fine) and some lemon juice.
Lay out some thinly sliced turkey (Even the cheapo lunch meat is fine) on a flour tortilla, and top with some lettuce (the romaine stuff that comes cut up in the bag for caesar salad works great). Spread a couple of spoonfuls of the avocado stuff on top, and feel free to toss on more tomato/pepper/onion if you have it and want it extra vegetablish...
OH SO GOOD...
I've started keeping tupperware containers of chopped onion, pepper, celery, cucumber in the fridge so I can toss together something easy at dinner time... That, and crumbled bacon in the fridge really make cooking this kind of stuff easy!
I'm getting all domestic. Scary stuff...
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Date: 2005-07-18 05:37 pm (UTC)Love and hugs,
Rebecca
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Date: 2005-07-19 02:18 am (UTC)The feta sounds great. I'll have to try that.
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Date: 2005-07-18 06:09 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-07-18 07:57 pm (UTC)I'm getting all domestic. Scary stuff...
I can just imagine... ;-)