Here's an update of the rest of my weekend (which was relaxing and fantastic)...
On Friday I went to the local Catholic Worker house to prepare supper and generally have a grand time. I was told that there was a large zucchini and we were going to use it for a pasta-less lasagna. I wasn't prepared for how enormous that vegetable was. Probably the size of a small child, I should've measured it against the highly energetic six-year-old Scott. He probably wouldn't have sat still for long enough. I'm not exactly sure on the recipe for this, but I'll give it a go (from memory...)
Pasta-less Lasagna:
-Vegetables that you want (we used carrots, eggplant, red pepper, cauliflower, and mushrooms)
-Spinach
-A giant zucchini
-Tofu
-Ricotta Cheese
-Pasta Sauce
-Italian Seasoning
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees
1. Wash and chop veggies (this includes slicing the zucchini to look like pasta sheets, get where I'm going with this? Hope so.)
1.5 Do something with the tofu (yes I know this is horribly vague, but honestly I have no idea what to do with tofu) season I think.
2. In a large pan, layer zucchini slices, spinach, veggies, sauce, tofu, and ricotta cheese.
3. Place in the oven for 45 minutes or until done.
4. Eat and enjoy with an insane amount of people.
That is a horribly written recipe and I apologize, but if you have some cooking smarts you should be able to figure something out from it. It is so very tasty.
Saturday I don't think I actually cooked anything at all. Nope I didn't. I did stop at the farmer's market though. Also, sweet potato sushi is fantastic. It made my stomach smile. For supper I had margarita pizza from Pizza Lucé and that was also like eating a bag of happiness. Though it didn't even come close to the pizza my padre makes, it was darn close and actually made me miss eating at home (hint hint family...)
Today (being Sunday) I was in need of delicious brunch food. I love brunch. Mostly I love "breakfast foods" at non-breakfast times. Luckily I purchased potatoes and garlic at the farmer's market yesterday!! Okay, confession time. I was planning on making breakfast potatoes and specifically purchased breakfast potato things. You caught me. IMPORTANT NOTE: This happens to be the first thing I would be making completely on my own. So I scrubbed and sliced the potatoes, heated oil, cooked the taters, threw in some garlic and onions, salt, and pepper, and BAM! delicious potatoes. Yes, that's right. I am the queen of potatoes. Just call me Michelle Russet, although many of you already do.
Potatoes a la Michelle:
-Potatoes (you choose how many, I don't know how hungry you are!) (I did three medium ones if that helps...)
-Oil (olive is preferred but I only had canola and that worked just fine) about a table spoon for the skillet and a teaspoon for the taters
-Butter (optional)
-Garlic (I used one clove but I could've used more seeing as I love garlic)
-Onion (again, if you love onions, use half! I did two slices of an onion and then fourth-ed those)
-Salt and Pepper
1.In a large skillet heat up oil and butter.
2. Chop up potatoes into small chunks.
3. Coat potatoes with teaspoon of oil in a tupperware or a bag. Add a dash of salt and pepper.
4. Put potatoes in oil. Cook for three minutes, flip, then continue to cook for 5-10 minutes
5. Mince garlic (or you call your father, ask how to de-germ garlic then just leave garlic in large chunks because garlic is delicious) and add to pan
6. Slice onion and add to pan
7. Cook for about 4 minutes or until everything starts looking a delicious brown color.
8. Take off heat, season with salt and pepper, and if you're daring like I am--add cheese.
Boom! Delicious potatoes
If these recipes don't work, don't blame me. I am not an expert on culinary affairs, I'm just making this stuff up. But I would think they work...let me know!
Much love,
Michelle
