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 can totally relate to that! My meals are lazy meals a lot of the time 🙂
Hehe oh can I relate to being a lazy cook. It’s funny because I used to be really into it, and had no problem spending an hour in the kitchen prepping an elaborate dish, but now I can’t really be bothered anymore. Anything with too many steps or ingredients just turns me off completely, which might explain why I’ve been enjoying cereal for dinner on quite a few occasions lately. Maybe I’ll feel more like cooking when it gets colder and I’m spending more time inside, but now… not so much.
I don’t like long recipes either! I keep it simple in the kitchen! Great idea for tostadas… love the “tofu meltdown” part… sounds like my husband when we were first dating. Now he eats mostly vegetarian meals at home 😉
wow, I’m impressed!! I still can’t get the veggie-hater to try my vegetarian food… but I think I’m slowly making progress!
Hhahaa I had to laugh at the tostada enthusiasm…. seemed very excited 🙂
I use greek yogurt in place of sour cream all of the time, especially in dips, and it’s so so good and obviously healthier!
I love mexican dinners, they are so easy and bursting with flavor. Love the chili added on yours, great idea and sooooo much less work!! Awesome! 🙂
I did the greek yogurt in place of sour cream here too but I didnt say anything until after several trys with it. You can’t even tell the difference it’s so good.
It’s funny too, because I HATE sour cream. Like I won’t even taste the stuff. But greek yogurt is one of my favorite foods ever! I just can’t eat it without some stevia in it, haha
I’m totally a pour me a bowl of cereal kinda gal, I’m the laziest cook on earth! I love your breakfast bowl, the bloob action has me droolin 😀 Happy WIAW!
Hahaha- I think that Mexican was a good idea from the looks of all those exclamation points!
It definitely made it easy to decide what to make! 😉
I’m always put off by recipes that are too elaborate or require too many ingredients. My favourites are the ones that LOOK elaborate when they’re done but require very little effort to prepare 😉
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Aw, thanks so much Carly!! I’m glad you stopped by 🙂
I’m pretty lazy too, it’s fun 😀
Love this meal idea – we do mexican food a lot as it’s pretty easy to accomodate both of us.