Ersatz pasta...
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osodecanelaDay 5, wheat free.
What to make for dinner? Remember, husband does not cook.
Last night, he succeeded in ticking me off. I tried something that worked quite well. Wilted some baby kale, along with two finely sliced shallots and some garlic, then threw in quick cooking steel cut oats, some chicken broth with a bit of salt & pepper, all of it organic. At 3/4 done, tossed in a bit of shaved parmesan. It was delicious, healthy and wheat free!
His comment? "Looks yucky."
My response ended with, "...& the horse you rode in on!"
The vegetable stand I shop at handed me a bunch of free round light green zucchini yesterday. I had picked up two of them and then decided to grab a third. They hadn't been selling and before I knew it I had eight of them in my bag when he packed me up. I looked at him quizzically. They weren't small so they were hard to miss. He simply said "look, they aren't selling and I know you'll use them. I don't want them to go to waste."
Tonight I dispatch three of them with the spirooli, turning them into a spaghetti like strands. Left in the microwave for seven minutes they rendered up most of their water and became tender but not mushy. While that was cooking, I ran a sweet onion through the spirooli cutting it into a very fine shreds, which got sweated in a couple of tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil. Trader Joe's is selling frozen turkey Bolognese sauce, which I thought I'd try the last time I went over there. That got defrosted then added to the onions along with a can of tomato paste. Four more minutes on the stove and then that got spooned over the ersatz pasta.
My husband went back for seconds.
And tonight he had the good sense not to make a comment about how a looked.
What to make for dinner? Remember, husband does not cook.
Last night, he succeeded in ticking me off. I tried something that worked quite well. Wilted some baby kale, along with two finely sliced shallots and some garlic, then threw in quick cooking steel cut oats, some chicken broth with a bit of salt & pepper, all of it organic. At 3/4 done, tossed in a bit of shaved parmesan. It was delicious, healthy and wheat free!
His comment? "Looks yucky."
My response ended with, "...& the horse you rode in on!"
The vegetable stand I shop at handed me a bunch of free round light green zucchini yesterday. I had picked up two of them and then decided to grab a third. They hadn't been selling and before I knew it I had eight of them in my bag when he packed me up. I looked at him quizzically. They weren't small so they were hard to miss. He simply said "look, they aren't selling and I know you'll use them. I don't want them to go to waste."
Tonight I dispatch three of them with the spirooli, turning them into a spaghetti like strands. Left in the microwave for seven minutes they rendered up most of their water and became tender but not mushy. While that was cooking, I ran a sweet onion through the spirooli cutting it into a very fine shreds, which got sweated in a couple of tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil. Trader Joe's is selling frozen turkey Bolognese sauce, which I thought I'd try the last time I went over there. That got defrosted then added to the onions along with a can of tomato paste. Four more minutes on the stove and then that got spooned over the ersatz pasta.
My husband went back for seconds.
And tonight he had the good sense not to make a comment about how a looked.
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Date: 2013-10-01 04:01 pm (UTC)What's a Spirooli?
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Date: 2013-10-01 06:04 pm (UTC)I explored quinoa and used it mixed with brown rice as a base for many of these new dishes I was making. The quinoa served to help give me the protein I wasn't getting from all the dairy I wasn't consuming as well as having a lower glycemic impact than even brown rice. (I took to the diet to also stave off type 2 - which I did successfully!)
Rustic French cooking is also a wide open recipe trove because most of the wheat comes in the accompanying bread and isn't in the hearty stews and sausages.