Oh hello, here’s a salad we can SINK OUR TEETH INTO. Finally.
I’m all about a main dish salad. I order them often in restaurants because I want to, not because I’m punishing myself for something or feel like I should. BUT, the salad’s gotta be a good one. House made dressings, fun protein choices, crunchy things, etc. If salads on a menu don’t look good, I’m heading straight for ordering a dinner entree during brunch because the smothered chicken is just always so legit, right?
…Today in Quick Dinners With Four-ish Ingredients:
And also What To Do With Baked Tofu!
This is a dinner that I made specifically to pair with the baked tofu from Monday, and one that we make all the time. We love Thai food, and Thai green curry is something that I order almost every time I go to a Thai restaurant.
Curry, though, can take some time to simmer and build flavors. I love doing that BUT definitely only on weekends. Weekdays aren’t the time to add little pinches of this and that or be dealing with whole lemongrass and jalapenos, nope. So THIS Thai Curry is the polar opposite in terms of effort: Vegetables, coconut milk, green curry paste. Full stop, done and done.
…Hellooooooo my favorite type of week – holiday, that is. I’m cooking so many yummy things this week, then in two weeks we go on vacation and the dinner-planning text chain is making me so happy and probably irritating the shit out of my family.
I’m cool with it, and they get dinner out of it.
But this week! Cookouts and sides and salads and watermelon. I want it all, and here are some of our favorites for this week and all summer long.
…Great news! I’ve posted this meal two other times on this blog, back in the archives before I wrote real recipes or took pictures that were attractive.
Now things are somewhat more professional around here, but this Argentinean BBQ remains one of our absolute favorite meals. I’ve been making this for nearly a decade, changing it over the years here and there.
The pillars of this Argentinean BBQ are super simple: a bed of rice with chorizo that is salty and starchy to cradle everything, then grilled chicken and veggies heavily seasoned with salt and paprika. The whole thing is topped with the chimichurri we’ve already made this summer, and the flavors come together to SING, let me tell you.
…You know that when you make pizza in a cast iron skillet it’s done in 10 minutes, right?
That means you can be EATING PIZZA in ten minutes.
Beck’s favorite food HANDS DOWN is pizza. When we are talking restaurants is always what she “suggests” (shouts for), what she’ll gobble up the fastest, and what she’ll do almost anything for, behavior-wise. Yes, we bribe with food. I’m cool with it.
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