Dinner recipe - 21 Feb 2008

There was some talk on the rarely updated family blog a little while back about doing a family cookbook. I might have deflated the idea a little because of the cooking style used in this house. If I ever use a recipe, I never stay strict to it. (See last Sunday's broccoli soup...)

Part of the problem is that I just take what we've got. I see it in the fridge or cupboard, and think, "why not?" and toss it in. Measuring is overrated. Just put in what you think you want.

Here's tonight's recipe -

Ingredients:

• olive oil
• butter
• chopped garlic
  
• some onion (chopped)
• some green bell pepper (chopped)
• some orange bell pepper (chopped)
• some yellow bell pepper (chopped)
• some red bell pepper (chopped)
• shredded carrot
• precooked rice (leftover from the fridge in this case)
• ground beef
• corn (frozen)
• salt
• pepper
• ground mustard
  

Directions:

Pot with cover. Add olive oil, onion, garlic, and butter to pot. Turn stovetop on medium high. Allow onion to start sautéeing. Add all chopped peppers and carrots. Put cover on pot, start defrosting ground beef. (It's in your freezer, right?) When the meat is mostly defrosted, stir vegetables, then drop meat in. Cover and let cook until the meat looks to be cooked. Start chopping meat into pieces, stir until meat is browned. Add salt, pepper, and mustard.

Lower temperature to medium low, add rice and corn. Cover, allow to cook some, stir a couple of times. Lower temperature to simmer, let sit for a couple of minutes until the frozen corn gets heated up, but not all that soft. (This will also make sure you don't cook it so longer that the rice burns to the bottom of the pot...) Add more salt and pepper to taste.

Serve with tortilla strips. (I use them as edible silverware.)

That's all I've got. Who is disappointed?