Greek Turkey Rice

February 3, 2019 5:21 PM

More rice dishes!

I still had those olives sitting in my fridge from the Greek Chicken we cooked a few weeks ago, and I wanted to use them up. And I guess olives means another Greek dish.

Greek turkey rice skillet — *Carefully placed lemons.*

I really like the skillet rice dishes from Budget Bytes, and I hadn't made the Greek Turkey and Rice Skillet yet so I figured I'd give that a try. This was really easy to make, and all of the flavors worked really well together.

Close up of the Greek turkey rice skillet — *So many colors.*

The only modifications we made were using fresh spinach instead of frozen (because frozen spinach doesn't taste as good), and using cilantro instead of parsley (duh).

Eating the Greek turkey rice — *Some people have salt and pepper at the table. We have extra cilantro.*

We may end up making all of the rice dishes in Budget Bytes before my sister leaves.

Makeshift Chinese

January 31, 2019 4:46 PM

This meal was somewhat inspired by the Sesame Slaw recipe I saw on Budget Bytes. Yup, it's something like -2° Fahrenheit outside, and we're making salad.

Salad with cucumber, cabbage, carrots, bell peppers, and onions

This was just one of those meals where I tried to utilize whatever was in my fridge/freezer as much as possible. We still had a small amount of frozen dumplings left over from the dumpling party. We also had one piece of sweet and spicy chicken left.

Preparing dumplings and salad with chicken — *The bottoms of the dumplings are visible this time!*

Oh, and lots of salad dressing packets. I keep buying various salad mixes that come with dressing packets, and then only end up using the veggies since I put them on my tacos.

Our makeshift Chinese meal on the table — *Can you guess which plate is mine and which is my sister's?*

It was a pretty delicious makeshift Chinese meal.

Pouring dressing on my salad — *Action shot!*

Close up of our makeshift Chinese meal

Of course, now we have a bunch of leftover salad. But you know what's great about cabbage? You can always stir fry it...

Filed under: salad dumplings not weather appropriate endless amounts of cabbage

Strawberry Pizza

January 29, 2019 2:09 PM

I really like How Sweet Eats. Jessica Merchant just posts so many interesting recipes. During my food blog browsing I came across Strawberry Pizza with Bacon and Caramelized Onions.

Strawberry pizza before being popped in the oven — *We're trying to conserve electricity by only having the kitchen light on.*

Which sounded real intriguing. I looked at the ingredients and I like pretty much everything that she put on the pizza. Of course I also scrolled through the comments to make sure someone actually tried it and gave it a good review.

Strawberry pizza after being cooked — *It's kind of making the pictures have awkward lighting though.*

Making anything involving dough kind of scares me, but my sister is great with dough so I had to make this while she's here. Plus strawberries were on sale!

Cutting up the strawberry pizza — *My sister calls this contraption a "pastry wheel".*

It was delicious. If I ever make it again, I'd need to make note of a couple of things.

Use two onions. Maybe three onions. Seriously, this needs way more onion.
Get a larger baking sheet so I can make a larger pizza. The pizza crust was a bit too thick for my liking.

Close up of the strawberry pizza — *Concluding with a super artsy shot of a single slice pulled out of the pizza slightly.*

Filed under: pizza unusual food combo

Chili with Chocolate Ice Cream

January 29, 2019 5:00 AM

That's right. I saw this Fire and Ice Chili recipe from How Sweet Eats, and I was so intrigued by the fact that she put chocolate ice cream in her chili.

I am chopping up a red onion — *You can't tell in this photo, but I could not stop crying from that onion.*

I actually looked for dark chocolate ice cream in three different grocery stores, but I couldn't find it until I went to Whole Foods. And then I spent a whole $9 (!!!) for a Haagen Dazs-sized thing of Jeni's ice cream, which is ridiculous.

Okay, but I gotta admit, Jeni makes pretty good ice cream.

Dropping a scoop of chocolate into the pot of chili — *Yeah, a scoop of ice cream in a pot of chili is not the most eye-pleasing thing.*

A very full pot of chili — *It was thiiiiis close to overflowing.*

This was a really interesting tasting chili. It was sweeter and less tomato-y than I'm used to, but I liked it. Not sure I'll ever make it again though, mostly because it took two hours, and that ice cream was stupid expensive.

Bowl of chili with sliced limes and scallions — *Artsy.*

But if I ever see it on sale, I'm totally trying the coffee flavor.

Filed under: chili unusual food combo ice cream

Leftovers and Chicken

January 28, 2019 4:31 PM

I had a lot of rice in the fridge with no protein to go with it, and I also had chicken in the freezer.

I made Sweet and Spicy Glazed Chicken Thighs from Budget Bytes. It was super easy to make, and it tasted pretty good, but I thought it was missing something: fish sauce. That would have made it so much better.

White rice, broccoli, and chicken — *That broccoli just keeps looking yellower.*

Chicken, broccoli, and a side — *When you're running low on cilantro, and all you have left are the stems.*

Filed under: chicken needs more fish sauce

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