I know it's not always great to brag about having success with making food. And I know that a lot of times I'm not specific enough in my instructions to allow perfect imitation. And, quite frankly, half the time my dinners aren't exciting enough for an entire post. So here are two (sort of three) recent dinner I wanted to talk about without getting too in depth.
The first dinner was steak with twice-baked potatoes, green salad, and garlic bread.
We used our George Foreman grill for the steaks (seasoned with garlic pepper and dried minced onion).
It was my first time making twice-baked potatoes, but they turned out so well! (Bake potato at 400° for 50 minutes, cut in half, scoop out inside, mash, add sour cream, butter, garlic powder, salt, pepper, freeze-dried chives, stick back in skins, cover with cheese, bake at 400° for 15 minutes.)
The garlic bread was the pre-made stuff from the store.
The salad is only notable because we didn't actually have many ingredients for it. We ended up doing green leaf lettuce, fresh spinach (my partner uses it on the sandwich he eats every work day), baby carrots, an almond-dried cranberry topping thing from a bag, Mrs. Dash table blend, tomato-basil feta (recently bought for gyros) and Vidalia onion dressing. The almond-dried cranberry thing was hidden in the cupboard but it and the feta helped us feel like we were eating something really fancy. Also, never underestimate the power of a bit of Mrs. Dash.
The second dinner was a truly amazingly delicious pizza.
The crust was a pre-made thing.
We used jarred pizza sauce first. Then we mixed together a jar of pesto with some of the frozen fresh pesto I try to have on hand and swirled that on to mix the two sauces up. (I use this recipe for spinach-basil pesto usually, but this last time I left out the spinach)
Next we added fresh tomato, fresh spinach, and fancy-ish fresh mozzarella.
We threw it all in the oven for a bit, then pulled it out, sliced it, and ate the delicious flavor.
I don't have a picture for the third dinner. Sorry. So this is super short.
I wanted to make stuffed shells, but trying to undercook the shells lead to them falling all apart. So I laid them in the casserole dish kinda like lasagna noodles.
I mixed together ricotta cheese and the remaining pesto mixture from the above mentioned pizza. That's it. I put that in on top of the pasta. Put a bit more destroyed shells on top of the cheese, cover in jarred sauce, top with mozzarella cheese, bake, enjoy.
I'm going to make my shell stuffing with just ricotta and pesto (maybe some spinach too) from now on. It didn't fall apart and was delicious.
The first dinner was steak with twice-baked potatoes, green salad, and garlic bread.
We used our George Foreman grill for the steaks (seasoned with garlic pepper and dried minced onion).
It was my first time making twice-baked potatoes, but they turned out so well! (Bake potato at 400° for 50 minutes, cut in half, scoop out inside, mash, add sour cream, butter, garlic powder, salt, pepper, freeze-dried chives, stick back in skins, cover with cheese, bake at 400° for 15 minutes.)
The garlic bread was the pre-made stuff from the store.
The salad is only notable because we didn't actually have many ingredients for it. We ended up doing green leaf lettuce, fresh spinach (my partner uses it on the sandwich he eats every work day), baby carrots, an almond-dried cranberry topping thing from a bag, Mrs. Dash table blend, tomato-basil feta (recently bought for gyros) and Vidalia onion dressing. The almond-dried cranberry thing was hidden in the cupboard but it and the feta helped us feel like we were eating something really fancy. Also, never underestimate the power of a bit of Mrs. Dash.
The second dinner was a truly amazingly delicious pizza.
The crust was a pre-made thing.
We used jarred pizza sauce first. Then we mixed together a jar of pesto with some of the frozen fresh pesto I try to have on hand and swirled that on to mix the two sauces up. (I use this recipe for spinach-basil pesto usually, but this last time I left out the spinach)
Next we added fresh tomato, fresh spinach, and fancy-ish fresh mozzarella.
We threw it all in the oven for a bit, then pulled it out, sliced it, and ate the delicious flavor.
I don't have a picture for the third dinner. Sorry. So this is super short.
I wanted to make stuffed shells, but trying to undercook the shells lead to them falling all apart. So I laid them in the casserole dish kinda like lasagna noodles.
I mixed together ricotta cheese and the remaining pesto mixture from the above mentioned pizza. That's it. I put that in on top of the pasta. Put a bit more destroyed shells on top of the cheese, cover in jarred sauce, top with mozzarella cheese, bake, enjoy.
I'm going to make my shell stuffing with just ricotta and pesto (maybe some spinach too) from now on. It didn't fall apart and was delicious.
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