I want to keep in low-key today, so I'll just share my dinner.
I've started writing out a day-by-day plan for what Aaron and I eat for dinner, in order to make grocery shopping easier. I made my list at the beginning of the week. I'm really a fan of doing this! I like to plan and I like to make lists, so it works. AND, grocery shopping with Aaron is much easier when we have a very specific list. When we don't, we tend to get distracted and buy a lot of random stuff that can't possibly be put into a good meal. This new way a little less fun, but much more organized and we get much better, healthy dinners out of it! Welcome to adulthood, I suppose. :)
So the plan was going GREAT. I made Poppyseed Chicken last night. (my mother's famous recipe!). Aaron LOVED it. One of my greatest joys in life is for others to enjoy my cooking! But I actually ended up eating a waffle. I know that sounds ridiculous but I was seriously craving a waffle. I'll be having the leftover poppyseed chicken for lunch tomorrow. :)
So, today. I was supposed to make a pizza casserole dish. But I wasn't feelin' it. (So much for my great weekly plan so far). I started scrolling through pinterest foods to find an idea. I finally decided on stuffed peppers. I had never made them before, and couldn't really find a recipe that I wanted to follow. So, I created my own! I'll include the recipe and pictures, just in case you'd like to try some yourself. :) I honestly didn't know how "thrown together" this meal was until I just typed all of it out . . .
I started out by chopping off the tops of the peppers. Cooked some rice, browned some beef, and sauteed some chopped peppers and onion. Threw it all together in a bowl and added about half a can of corn. I added some spices . . . I think I used paprika, oregano, a little bit of some fired red pepper, and then some salt and pepper. Next, I poured about half a bottle of taco sauce into the mixture. (That's all I had left in the jar. If you are trying this, I would recommend a 3/4 to a whole jar of it. I didn't end up with the amount of flavor I was hoping for.) I put the bell peppers into a dish and spooned the mixture into each one. Lastly, I sprinkled mozzarella cheese on top of each pepper. (A mexican blend or some cheddar would probably taste best, but mozzarella is all I had!) Set the oven to 400 degrees and left them in for 30 minutes! ***Another tip: When I cut the pepper tops off, I chopped up what I could of the top and included it in the beef mixture. That was probably not the best. It made the meal a little TOO pepper-y. In the future, I would just leave the extra pepper out and maybe add some black beans instead. I ended up with a lot of extra beef mixture after I filled the six peppers, so I dumped it in a freezer bag to fill up a few bell peppers for a future meal. Waste not!
For dessert, I followed a Pinterest recipe for Baked Apple Donuts, found HERE
They are deLICIOUS!!!
Follow the recipe, BUT I will warn you. Be sure to ONLY bake them until they are lightly golden. At first, I waited until they were almost brown. For the second pan, I only waited until they were lightly golden, and they turned out perfect. The darker ones still taste great, they are just a little crunchier. Depends on how you like your doughnuts, I suppose. In the picture, you can see the lighter compared to the darker.
Aaron and I both loved these. The stuffed peppers tasted great, but would have been much better with the extra taco sauce! Tomorrow, we'll be having homemade chicken-bacon pizza with a ranch-garlic sauce. Yay :)
Have a blessed day!
He answered: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"
Luke 10:27
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