Thursday, June 20, 2013

Connie and Kale!

It was a perfect day:  Connie was here!  We ran at the park, we picked some kale from the garden, we made stir fry and cocktails...pretty sure doesn't get much better!

We definitely had fresh kale, but I was pretty low on other produce.  Pulled out some old carrots that were still good, onion and garlic of course.  And that was all we needed.

I chopped the carrots and kale.  Connie cut the onions into bigger pieces and I really liked it that way.  Seemed to enhance it's flavor and sweetness.  She also used rice vinegar along with soy sauce and the taste was out of this world!  I mean, we love stir fry's over here any way it falls on our plate, but this was especially tasty...

Stir fry usually means higher heat for a shorter time.  Turn off the heat at any point and call it ready when the vegetables are the way you like them.  Use olive oil, coconut oil, canola it doesn't matter.  If you wanted extra protein add some tempeh, tofu, or meat.  We just put ours over brown rice.  Delicious.

Friday, June 14, 2013

I will call it, "Mujadara Lasagna!"

Mujadara Lasagna

In my fridgerator I had a massive amount of lentils and rice.  I way over-estimated how much I would need for hosting 2 meals for friends.  I also had a nearly full jar of marinara sauce and a whole package of white corn tortillas barely touched.  We (I) was getting pretty sick of just rice and lentils for dinner so I decided to make a mexican style lasagna using the tortillas as noodles.  I have seen this done a couple times before.

I chopped some onion and garlic.  Sprinkled half on bottom of dish with some sauce.  The next layer were oiled tortillas overlapping to cover entire dish.  Lentils and rice was next, then sauce, grated cheese, more tortillas, onion/garlic, rice/lentils, more sauce and topped with cheese.  You can obviously layer however you desire-- Have fun and be creative!

I seasoned with oregano (for the Italian part of it) and cumin (for the mujadara part!) and baked in a 350 degree oven for 15 minutes covered then 15 minutes uncovered. 


Would be perfectly completed with a fresh green salad!