So I recently made two meals that did not taste horrible and did not make me sick. In fact, they were delicious. So I figured I'd share my new recipes. They are also vegetarian friendly but, unfortunately, vegan hostile .



Study Brick Pasta Salad

I called this Study Brick Pasta Salad because I eat it when I know I'm going to be up late studying. Here's the deal:

Take one bag of wheat curly pasta and one bag of white curly pasta and mix them up

or

Get a bag of tricolored or spinach curly pasta

THE PASTA MUST BE CURLY!!!

Measure out 2 cups

Cut up a handful of baby carrots

Get a handful of snowpeas or some other kind of peas in a pod (like sugarsnap or whatever)

Cut up a quater of a red onion

Cut up half of an avacado

Hard boil 2 eggs

Olive oil

Salt and pepper

Directions:
Cook pasta until done and drain it
Add veggies, eggs and avacado
Add desired amount of olive oil and salt and pepper

You can either eat it right away or put it in you fridge and eat it cold. It is yumazing and very easy to make


The other meal I made is called Ginger Shrimp Pasta. I'll post that recipe later, once I remeber what was in it. It's been a long day for me.

Anyone else have easy, yummy recipes to share?

Sounds good! Thanx for the recipe!

I'll have to give it a try

Really Basic BBQ Sauce

Ketchup
Brown Sugar
White Vinegar
Smoke Flavoring

From there you can tweak it out any way you want.

It's good with Cayene Pepper Sauce added to it.

or use Cider Vinegar in place of the White Vinegar, and add some Apple Butter to it.

or add diced sauteed shallots to it.

If you take some fresh pizza dough, and drizzle it with olive oil and sprinkle it with garlic salt, then bake it till it browns, cut it into breadsticks, the basic sauce listed above makes a great dipping sauce for them.

If you want a thicker sauce, just simmer it for a while

Marinade for Chicken

White Wine
Butter
White Pepper
Lemon Juice
Cayenne Pepper (pinch of it)
Water (to thin it out a little)

Place all the ingredients in a bowl and nuke em till the butter melts, and you can stir it all together. Dip the chicken breasts in it before you throw them on a hot grill.

veggie lasagna


1 pkg frozen chopped spinach
16oz part skim ricotta
2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
any pre prepared pasta sauce..160z at least
barilla no cook lasagna noodles
Pajama cheese..either grated or chunk

pre heat oven to 375
prepare frozen chopped spinach as per package instructions
put into mixing bowl, mix with ricotta
put in 1/3 package of the shredded mozzie cheese
add one egg....mix it all up.
add pepper, italian seasoning, more basil (or use fresh)

take lasagna pan, spray with non stick spray (pref. olive oil variety)
put some sauce in bottom of pan
put layer of lasagna noodles in
put some of the spinach/ricotta mixture on top
put grated pajama cheese on top of that, then shredded mozzie..a little bit, then some sauce
start next layer of noodles/cheese mixture/mozzie/sauce
etc till noodles and mixture are used up
cover with menuminum foil
put into oven for 45 minutes
uncover
cook for another 15 minutes, or till cheese on top starts getting brown
let cool for awhile
eat!

they all sound really delicious. I'm going to have to try the BBQ sauce recipe...I love breadsticks and dipping sauce.

Avocado and Black Bean Salad


1 cup carrot juice
¼ tsp thyme
½ tsp salt
1/8 tsp cayenne or red pepper
Garlic powder to taste (optional)
½ cup quick-cooking barley
2 tsp lemon juice
1 can black beans, drained and rinsed
1 cup diced, fresh tomatoes
½ medium red onion, diced (optional)
1 tsp olive oil
2 diced avocadoes


Combine carrot juice, thyme, salt, cayenne pepper and garlic powder in a saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Add barley. Reduce to a simmer. Cover and cook until barley is tender – about 15 minutes. Let barley cool. Mix all other ingredients together then add barley.
Eat alone or with tortilla chips. Enjoy!

applekisses said:

What time are you serving?...do we have to bring our own chips?

purplerein said:

I am making that tonight, in fact...with grilled chicken and angelfood cake and fresh strawberries for dessert.

applekisses said:

fresh strawberries! what i wouldn't do for some fresh strawberries...

JasmineFire said: