Re: A nice simple dinner

Jill McQuown wrote:

On 2/27/2025 8:38 PM, Ed P wrote:

On 2/27/2025 7:59 PM, Carol wrote:

Jill McQuown wrote:
 

On 2/27/2025 4:00 PM, Carol wrote:

I was looking over an Italian cook book but nothing excited
me.  I also looked a Medditerranian dishes online but ALL of
them were desserts or had Spinach.  All were pricey to make
and frankly, I'm getting pinched in the budget here.
 

You don't like spinach?
 
Jill

 
I love it.  Don refuses to try it ever in any form. I think his
Mom fed him watery canned stuff.

 
Same here.  I'd not touch it for years until I learned it is good
raw in  a salad and lightly cooked in butter with garlic.

 
I don't care for it raw but if it is wilted in hot olive oil browned
slivers of garlic it's delicious!  And I use frozen leaf spinach in
quiches and other dishes such as the ground lamb recipe I posted
recently.
 
I'm sure glad I don't have to worry about what someone else might
want to eat if I want to cook something with spinach.
 
Jill

It can be a pain in the ass, but if you love'em, you figure out
compromises.  Mostly lately, it's been Don's taste for spices.  He's
not hopeless on that, it's just he used to be the spice hound here so I
had to gear up a bit.

We found a surprising winner for us both.  Now I know instant oatmeal
isn't nearly as good the old fashioned kind but Don's never going to be
the sort to make oatmeal on the stove first thing in the morning.  For
all these years (39 years now), Don has made our breakfast unless I was
on a night shift or something.  I usually do dinner (about 5 times a
week) and we combine on stir fry style sides with me chopping and him
cooking.

So the surprise is the instant oatmeal packets are tolerable!  It's
fast enough to be workable and with added fruits (dried or fresh) to
suit.  I'd tried them long ago and they were nasty.  They've improved.

I'll try it later using the rice maker and rolled oats but suspect Don
likes the speed more and considers it a workable tradeoff.