Re: What is your easiest meal?

Chili!! Instead of a bunch of tomato ingredients, I use Francesco Rinaldi and add all different spices. DH is picky but it's always a hit!!

Re: What is your easiest meal?

Today's dinner was pretty easy. I spread a thin layer of pesto on salmon and sprinkled italian breadcrumbs on top. I baked it in the oven until the salmon cooked through. It turned out pretty good with a side of cous cous and Melissa d'Arabian's Simple and Satisfying Broccoli.

Re: What is your easiest meal?

We always have sausage in the freezer b/c it defrosts so quickly, so our go-to meal is sausage, peppers and onions with Spanish rice.

ETA: recipe

Ingredients:

3 hot sausage and 3 sweet sausage links (or any combo you like)
1 bell pepper, any color, diced
1 medium yellow onion, diced
2 cloves chopped garlic, or 1 tsp garlic powder
1 28-oz can of crushed tomatoes
1 box Spanish-style rice (I prefer Rice a Roni or Goya)

Cook the rice according to package directions.

Heat a little oil over medium heat in a large pan and add the sausage. Brown on all sides and remove (you don't have to cook it all the way through). This should take about 10 minutes. Let cool a little so you can handle it, then slice it on an angle in 1-inch pieces.

While the sausage cools, add pepper and onions to the pan and saute until soft. Add garlic, a little salt, and pepper. Add sausage back into pan and saute until cooked through. Add rice and crushed tomatoes and heat through. Season to taste.

This is our all-time favorite dish, and it's so easy!

Message edited 7/22/2011 10:07:03 AM.

Re: What is your easiest meal?

Posted by muffaboo

Posted by Christine

Posted by rkoenke

I stinnk at making garlic and oil sauce. can you share your secrets?

oh me too!! I tried once and could barely get one bite down.

I add some garlic powder, kosher salt, fresh cracked black pepper, and some oregano to the pan of oil & garlic before I turn on the heat. I cook the garlic in the oil on low so that the garlic flavor comes out slowly into the oil and won't burn--once the garlic is burnt, forget it. After it cooks for a bit, I add in some pasta water (after I drain the pasta) or some chicken broth.

I add lots of locatelli pecorino romano cheese after I mix the oil in with the pasta...like a lottt lol. I LOVE it