What I [Lazily] Ate Wednesday
Don’t tell anyone, but I’m kind of lazy sometimes.
Actually, it’s not really a secret. If you’ve been reading my blog for awhile, you know I’m not an elaborate recipe kind of girl. Honestly, I don’t have that long of an attention span. A recipe that has 9,000 steps, and takes 4 hours to prepare just doesn’t sound fun to me. And since lately, my food preparation has been for a guy who would prefer a box of Reese’s Puffs instead of a gourmet dinner, I’m not planning on changing my strategy anytime soon.
But I’m getting ahead of myself. It’s What I Ate Wednesday, so I’ll satisfy your voyeristic personalities and show you what I’ve been eating 😉 (I don’t mean that in a bad way. I’m the biggest food creeper ever.)
Lazy Breakfast:
I was craving a smoothie, but since my roomie was still sleeping and my Vita Mix sounds like a jet engine taking off in a construction zone, I decided I’d stick to a simple yogurt bowl.
Trader Joe’s 0% Greek Yogurt (cheaper than Fage!) with blueberries & bear naked granola. Sorry, this is nothing new.
Lazy Lunch:
I was too lazy to pack my lunch and the salad bar at work is pretty delicious so this was lunch! Plus I LOVE avocado (hello healthy fats!) and they always have it at work. Holy yum.
Lazy Dinner:
Ah dinner. As I mentioned last week, I’ve been trying to create some new “His & Hers” recipes, where a vegetarian and a meat eater can live in harmony eat at the same table. It just so happens that these opportunities tend to come up on Tuesdays, which means the recipes falls into WIAW. Anyways.
The veggie-hater suggested pasta, but the conversation went as follows:
Good thing I can read between the lines.
This is one of those recipes that could make someone think you’ve been in the kitchen for an hour, but you’ve actually only been in there for 5 minutes. But don’t tell anyone. (That way, they’ll do the dishes.) The trick is a can of pre-made chili. I got mine from Trader Joe’s but you could use any brand.
His & Her’s Tostadas
- 6 small corn tortillas
- 3 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 can beef chili
- 2 cups frozen tri-color peppers (or you could use fresh ones, I’m just lazy, remember?)
- 1/2 medium zucchini
- 1/2 medium yellow squash
- 1/2 cup salsa
- 1/2 cup cheddar cheese
- Sour cream or Greek yogurt
Heat up the vegetable oil in a skillet and lightly fry the corn tortillas. While those are cooking, heat up your chili and your beans. (These can be done in the microwave, honestly.) The tortillas won’t take long, and once they’re crispy, remove from the pan and add a little more oil. (Using the same pan saves dish-time.) Add your frozen peppers, zucchini and yellow squash in the pan and saute until tender.
For the boy, I topped the tortillas with the chili, a bit of peppers, cheese and Greek yogurt. (He thought it was sour cream… and when he asked for more, I confessed it was Greek yogurt. He almost had a tofu meltdown but then decided it really did taste good.)
For mine, I just topped one tortilla with a ton of vegetables and salsa. (Basically what I would make here…)
I love making fancy dinners, and love this recipe! I am glad your a massive food creep btw!! I am too 🙂
it depends on my time, I do like making a homemade lasagne which takes at least and hour
I like preparing special dinners – but only if I’m cooking for someone else as well. I can’t seem to justify spending that much time on just myself.
Actually breakfast is usually the meal I put the most effort into – all the rest of them usually amount to looking in the fridge, dumping a bunch of ingredients together and hoping it tastes ok 🙂
That’s so true! If it’s just me, it seems like a waste to buy all the ingredients! I usually just have veggies and a sweet potato or something like that!
haha, his enthusiasm is great! You cant tell they are ‘lazy’ though – they look so tasty =] Id pay you to come cook dinner for me!
Cooking is calming to me so I sometimes like to go all-out. But when I want something fast, my go-to is an egg scramble with lots of different veggies.
we would get alone! im legit THE LAZIEST person u will ever meet
Haha. I love his tostada enthusiasm.
I am definitely more of a spend 4 hours in the kitchen kind of person. Well, usually.
I definitely have my days where I tell my husband to either make me spaghetti, mac and cheese or go buy a pizza cuz I do not feel like doing anything. That is pretty much the extent of his cooking capabilities.
I like to make fancier dinners because it’s relaxing to be after a long day. It’s my creative outlet!
P.S. Your “lazy” breakfast looks fantastic to me!
Your dinners sound like mine! I sneak things in for my boyfriend to eat and only confess they’re in there after he raves about how delicious it is! I like being sneaky like that! 😉
If you tell them ahead of time, then they claim they don’t like it!!
haha sounds like things are improving with the veggie hater! 🙂 Obviously now you know Mexican food is a hit!
I bounce back and forth between lazy days and days where I really want to cook up a fabulous meal and I don’t care if it takes all night! But I love to cook so that is a bonus. Overall though, I’ve been partial to quickie meals lately with my busy sched. i.e dinner tonight was oatmeal. :/ but it was delish!