Figure 1. Saturday night's dinner: spinach and cheese quinoa casserole and a Greek-inspired salad (spinach, grape tomatoes, cucumbers, kalamata olives, feta, and a homemade Greek vinaigrette). I try and make new recipes to entertain you guys, but the boyfriend will NOT stop asking for me to make this quinoa casserole - so I gave in (happily, might I add, because it is delicious and easy).
PS - I'm starting a homemade salad dressing series. You guys asked for it (indirectly). Get.freakin'.ready.
Figure 2. Saturday night microwaving: this 2-minute chocolate peanut butter cake. And, sorry folks, the picture is blurry because the cake was steaming with chocolately goodness and I only snapped one picture before i dove in...
Figure 3. Sunday morning baking: this delicious frosted spiced pear cake.
And....come Sunday night I had the intentions of making dinner. A delicious breakfast-inspired dinner at that. And then, I drank a [high gravity] pumpkin beer (Southern Tier Pumpking) and decided all I wanted was NOT to cook and to eat an unreasonably large salad and handful after handful of Quaker Oatmeal squares followed by slices of pear cake. Plan B, folks. Plan B.
Yes to pumpkin beer and plan B. Also, yes to quinoa - always. I just introduced my boyfriend to it too, and thankfully he loves it. I'll have to see what he thinks about the casserole!
ReplyDeletehaha i was amazed how much the beau loved this casserole. he chose it over a meat dish - imagine that!
DeletePlan B is always a good option from time to time! I usually go with that on weekdays when I'm too tired to cook (or stop at happy hour for a beer or glass of wine before coming home). And now you've convinced me to make that casserole for my bf. He's probably love that chcolate pb cake too....and so would I, so making it for him would just be an excuse to make it for me :-)
ReplyDeletehaha yeah i bet your fit beau would love this casserole. just tell him these is lots of cheese!
Deleteoh man that looks amazing! so delicious.
ReplyDeletePlan B sounds fabulous! I've never tried pumpkin beer ... I think I'd really like it.
ReplyDeleteoh girl. you must try pumpkin beer. now!
DeleteI love just throwing together a huge salad for dinner or just even having a nice bowl of cereal for dinner! Sometimes its nice to not cook ! Love your idea of a plan B:)
ReplyDeleteI am so excited for the salad dressing series. I can always use new ways to dress up salads! That microwave cake looks delicious!
ReplyDeleteyay! no soy baby!
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