Greek yogurt you creamy little bitch. I don't trust you. You're too tasty to be good for me. I can scoop you out like ice cream and see I don't think things that are that good for you should suspended from my spoon midair like a Dairy Queen blizzard, all thick and rich. But see I do eat you, a lot of you, and see if it were ME, and me ONLY, I would probably consist of you and granola for 3 meals a day.
You guys, I am soooo culinarily challenged.
I do not like to cook. I don't follow recipes well and the tweaks that I make are almost never for the good. I make a few standard items. Macaroni and cheese. Ravioli. Spaghetti. Oh and I do make a mean overnight steel cut oatmeal crockpot dish that my husband hates but that I adore.
Fortunately for me, Mike likes to cook. And he does a pretty good job I must say. But Mike gets home around 530pm. By that time I've picked up Ellie and need to get something started. Mike is a good cook but he is not a quick cook. And me, well, granola and yogurt, right?
I love my husband but one thing that this marriage of ours lacks is menu planning. Mike finds it incredibly frustrating, mostly b/c he likes to put a LOT of time and thought into what he wants to make. I just want to whip something up. So now we do things like pizza (homemade,..ok boboli crust but homeade enough for me!), veggie quesadillas, burritos, and breakfast for dinner. Those are our staples. Then we have our little aforementioned pasta dishes to fill in the spaces, but are they anything to write home about? Uh, no.
Today I went to the grocery store and said screw it. I bought some of those little stirfry family meal packs, a frozen veggie lasagna, a frozen pizza. I felt shameful buying these things when really, I want and try to eat fresh and good. But I just can't stand the stress of getting home from work and standing in the middle of my kitchen like some doe eyed teenager learning to boil water. I need some SIMPLE recipes. Things that don't have 20 ingredients. Things that use staple ingredients. And oh yeah, things that are good for you. Any suggestions?
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We live on stir fries with rice or rice pasta - beef, shrimp and chicken. These do double and triple duty in pasta sauces and tacos. And if you really want to be a hero buy "Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day" Seriously, it's so easy. Of course in my predominately male house it's now all about volume.
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