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Lazy New Years Week Lunch

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

A Good Start So many tasty things start by throwing some diced onions into a generous blob of butter. (Or okay okay okay, olive oil.) I figured I’d make the usual resolutionish early January post with something that was pretty easy.

I often plan to make stuff on Sunday or Monday that’s easy to take for lunch all week but don’t always get around to it. School starts tomorrow and we’re still restocking our larder (okay, fridge) after two weeks away and I threw together some super lazy super easy spinach hand pies, mostly out of stuff we have on hand. Voila!

Lazy New Year

I used 1/2 a big yellow onion, sauteed in a blob of butter (see above). I added garlic, dried oregano and then a package of frozen spinach to that and let it cook until the spinach was softened and some moisture cooked off. I turned it off. Meanwhile, I took some Trader Joe’s puff pastry and rolled it out a little flatter and a little more oblong, so that each sheet could be cut into 1/6ths. (Squares.) I buttered a 12-muffin tin and stuck each little pastry square down into the muffinhole.

To the slightly cooled spinach, I added a package (small) of feta, crumbled three eggs and some black pepper. I folded the edges over and drizzled/brushed a little more butter around on top. I baked that whole thing until it was nice and brown (25 min?) ta 400.

David ate one warm and declared it delicious, and the rest will be tasty room temp for school lunch this week. It’s not the super scratchiest cooking, but it kinda looks good and it definitely tastes good and the prep time was pretty short.

Slathering Leftovers into Tacos

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

lazy taco

I was hungry, but I had kind of given up on the idea of actually cooking dinner because it was getting late, David wasn’t home, blah blah blah. But he called to say he was on his way and was fine with leftovers. I pulled out the roasted chicken from the night before, cut off the remaining meat from one breast, and added it to a skillet in which I had sauteed some onions and peppers. (Orange and red sweet peppers and a couple jalapenos.) All this went onto corn tortillas lazily rescued from the freezer by the microwave, and got topped with sliced avocado, cilantro and a slathering of Pico Pica hot sauce.

Lazy but hungry victory! Followed by homemade strawberry ice cream.