The food issue

I've experimented with a bit of recipes lately that I've been loving. Remember that fried rice in my last food post? Omg. My staple. I know Zeb doesn't like rice too much, but he loves the Liquid Amino I put in it(a healthier soy sauce. I recommend it. It's very salty without any salt in it!). 

It's super easy..... Garlic, a little onion(but I forget it a lot!), a small bag of frozen mixed veggies(our local grocery has a mixed bag of lima beans, corn, carrots, green beans, and peas) 2 cups of uncooked brown rice(cook it per your package- think it makes 7 cups cooked?)  pre cooked chicken if you like, 2 or 3 eggs, soy sauce, cook it all in one pot(minus uncooked rice) in that order and you're good! 

Tonight, I made homemade tomato soup and grilled cheese. Doesn't seem like anything special, but the soup has sweet potato, red pepper, onion and fire roasted tomatoes in it. Pretty good in my opinion. For not being a tomato soup gal. The grilled cheese had a few drops of Worcester sauce in it. Made the classic That much better. 

Let's see..... Shopping at Costco has gotten me to explore a little in grains. They sell a brown rice and quinoa with garlic pre packaged for 2 servings. It is soooooo good, I eat it plain. But this specific night(a few nights ago) I cooked up some red pepper, onion, asparagus, and garlic til tender, added some frozen shrimp then tossed in the pre cooked rice/quinoa pouch! OMG. I just had the (tiny bit of) leftovers today for lunch. I will dream about it until I make it again. Luckily, Costco sells all of the listed food items in bulk so I can make it over and over again!

For my birthday, I ordered lobsters to share with my family that came to Tahoe for Christmas... So for the left over lobster we made a lobster corn chowder(barefoot contessa's recipe) which was devine. I had leftovers from that, as per Zeb's request, and it was really good chowder the second night(frozen until the Master of the House got home from work).

Leftovers again from Christmas week with my family, we had beef tenderloin. The Christmas dinner I tried to reenact with twice baked potatoes and asparagus, didn't quite taste the same as what my mom did(she's a great cook), but it sufficed. We still had left over meat, and hubby wanted a beef stew... who makes beef stew with beef tenderloin!!??!!? I reluctantly made it, though. It was really good! I can't remember the recipe... And I didn't get pictures. All I remember is that there were veggies(the same veggie mix bag from the fried rice) and I added wine to it :)

As of now, I have no pictures, so I can't remember what else I made!! I've been making some purées for baby... He loves his sweet potatoes, pears, apples, zucchini, mango, and banana. I've made beets and spinach he still needs to try.

Mango mixed with rice(or oatmeal?)

Can't quite figure out how to eat puffs, but loves the package they come in!