Lately, we have been having easy and quick dinners at our household. Seriously, you can still eat well even if you don't labour in the kitchen.
All the photos below feature our dinners this past week and they all took less than 30 minutes. The trick is picking the right ingredients, organization and organization.
This was chicken lentil soup with thin pizza - All you need is to add lentil, carrot, celery in a pot with water. Season with spices and let it boil. At the end, add some already cooked chicken and the soup is done in 20 min. For the pizza, use thin flat bread, spread with tomato sauce, add sliced cheese, cooked spinach, and baked.
This was beet soup - Again, an easy soup to make, add chopped beets, carrot, celery, turnip, tomato paste in a pot with water. Add spice and herbs. Turn on the fire and the soup is done on its own in 30 min. I love to serve with sour cream and a piece of toast.
This was steamed cabbage rolls - The night before, I marinated some ground beef & pork with spices and cooked rice. In the afternoon, I boiled a cabbage to prepare the cabbage leaves. At night, I pour some tomato sauce in a pot and roll up some cabbage rolls and place in the pot to cook. In 30 min. you have the quickest cabbage roll to enjoy!
This was curry chicken with potato and carrot - Chop up the multi colour carrot and chicken ahead of time. When ready to cook, fry the chicken, chop some potato and add to pan, also add the carrot, coconut milk and spices. Let it cook for 30 min. I used a rice cooker for the rice.
This was spinach cheese egg omelette on a Friday night when I was too tired to cook. I also have some cooked beans in the fridge, that just require some seasonings.
Dinners this week was as easy as 1-2-3 and they were satisfying to say the least. This week, we caught up on Homeland, Silicon Valley, Last men on earth and we even watch an episode of the old Larry David.
Overall, a relaxing week with lots of comfort food and fun tv watching!
How about you - good week with good food and good shows?