today i am going to tell you what i made for dinner. you probably don't care, but i'm going to tell you anyway. it's to help out my dad, who is recently retired and has therefore been assigned the task of cooking dinner (since my mom still works).
he needs ideas of what to make for dinner, and how to make it. so i will share with you what we ate tonight.
it's called "whatever we had in the fridge spaghetti sauce"
i had 1/2 an onion, 1/2 a green pepper, some cherry tomatos and 4 mushrooms left over from making pizza over the weekend. i chopped them up and sauteed them, browned some italian sausage we had in the freezer and put it all in a pot with 2 jars of store brand spaghetti sauce.
i cooked a box of spaghetti that i also had in the cabinet.
we had a some garlic bread in the freezer, so i cooked that up too.
we didn't eat all the green salad that i bought yesterday to bring over to my mom's for lunch, so we had that, with cucumber that someone gave us from their garden.
viola! dinner from stuff i had in the cabinet. yay, me! i took a picture of the sauce, for your viewing pleasure.
i will also share with you the soup that i made yesterday. it was supposed to be for lunch, but it wasn't done soon enough (thats why i had to buy salad). the recipe is from the fix it and forget it cookbook, which is my all-time favorite crock pot cookbook. (except i am physically incapable of following a recipe, so it is modified)
hamburger-veggie soup:
1 lb ground beef, browned
carrots (i used all the ones left in the fridge), cut into chunks
1/2 of a really big onion, chopped
1 can of diced tomatos
1 container of beef stock, and part of a container of veggie stock, and some water
a spoonful of chopped garlic (i buy those jars of it already chopped)
salt and pepper
there's supposed to be celery, but i didn't have any, so i didn't add it
and there's supposed to be parsely, but even though i had some, i didn't put it in
also, part of a bag of frozen peas, and a smaller bag of frozen cut green beans.
dump everything except the peas and green beans into the crock pot, and cook on high for about 3-4 hours. with about 1 hour left, dump in the peas and green beans, and check the seasoning.
when it was all said and done, i had added too much broth, so i sprinkled in what was left of a box of fake potato flakes to thicken it up a little.
dad, you can also cook it on low for about double the time, depending on when you start dinner (say, right after breakfast)
we ate the soup with biscuits that were in the freezer.
bon-appetit!
