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[quote=Anonymous][quote]You are anything but lazy! I'm impressed...and hungry after reading about your amazing cooking![/quote][/quote]

LOL, I am super lazy. I actually didn't start trying to hack my cooking until I had the kid - until then, me and the hubs were dinner party type people, but we ate out like 8-10 times a week. We were paying money for just ok food!

I started watching Week in a Day w Rachel Ray and I thought that concept was cool. My weeks are really crazy (I'm in news, I have no effing idea what's going to happen when I go to work) so basically my Saturday afternoons or Sunday afternoons (sport season depending) are cooking. I'm actually trying to prepare for a store run now. So basically, I think of four or five things to cook and make them all at the same time, and then just eat off that. And that normally takes us at least to Wed or Thurs, and if at that point we surrender to take out I am cool with that.

Soup, to me is the easiest thing because once you get the hang of it, you just freestyle. So my first ribolitta was by the book and very italian. The next one I made I decided to throw black eyed peas and collard greens in with some of the other ingredients and stir it around. I make a soup similar to the Zuppa Toscana at Olive Garden, and that's just broth, water, potatoes, onions, and italian sausage + seasoning.

This week, I am experimenting with rice. I saw on a cooking channel show this cola-coconut rice (basically - get rice, rinse, add equal parts coca cola and coconut milk in place of water, cook as usual) and that was a hit around here, but it didn't last long. So now I am thinking about how to scale it.  I'm also kind of obsessed with the bowls from Cava Mezze so I am trying to figure out if I can make something similar for day to day eating at home. And there's a really good thick dominican stew recipe that also uses rice:

http://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/zoe-saldana-0

So dominican stew and ribolitta are the bases this week. Big pot of rice. Greens. I'm going to look through Afro-Vegan for tasty veg ideas, pick up some fish to keep on hand, and some oatmeal/pumpkin bread for the mornings (box not scratch I'm not superhuman) and that's the food this week.

Hope this helps![/quote]

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