Hey folks- Lollyblogger here with a lame-o update.
While we all wait for that sandwich recipe (Kirsten, I can't believe you admitted publicly that you like to READ MAPS. If that isn't a sign that you and Dietz were meant to be together forever, then I don't know what is) I will confess my recent sin in the kitchen.
I haven't really been cooking.
5:30pm rolls around each and every day (funny how that happens) and lately, it's been striking fear in to my hear. Disorganized, unmotivated, chaotic fear. Because I don't know what I'm going to serve for dinner.
Does that ever happen to you? If so, I'm curious to hear what your go-to meal is. Mine used to be this modified version of Italian wedding soup, that if I ever get off my ever-increasing ass, I will write the recipe down, but now I've gotten even lazier.
Oh, Trader Joes- how I love thee. The frozen foods aisle has become my new mecca, and I use my canvas shopping bag as a prayer cloth as I kneel in the direction of the samples and count my blessings that I only live 4 minutes away.
They make this frozen tempura chicken, with the most delicious orange sauce. It only takes 15 minutes to heat in the oven, and I serve it over jasmine rice. As a veggie, I buy the (gasp!) already cooked edamame' and heat those suckers up and dust them with some kosher salt. If I'm feeling inspired, I'll pan fry/steam some vegetable gyoza and serve them as an appetizer.
No thinking, very little clean up, tastier than it deserves to be and it requires absolutely zero thinking on my part. Perfect for a weeknight meal.
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If I lived 4 minutes from Trader Joe's, y'all would never have convinced me to cook. They used to make a frozen Naan bread and a jarred tikka masala sauce that, together with some chicken, was my go-to meal in Chicago. Kira lived on Trader Joe's frozen gyoza for the first 3 years of her life. I thought I would die when I moved to TX and found no Trader Joes amongst the urban sprawl.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if I could convince them to embrace a rural New England market...
Also, if it makes you feel any better, we had "breakfast for dinner" tonight... because all I could find at 5:30 were eggs and toast.
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