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[mmcnealy]

Meme from ornerie
"What do you do for pantry based quick meals that are waist friendly?"
These were developed for those nights when the baby is cranky and dinner needs to be done NOW. I make the brown rice up in advance and have a container of it in the fridge. I have a lot of stuff that's in the freezer, chicken breasts, frozen veggies, fish, meat, etc. I also tend to make enough for lunch the next day.  I need to eat a lot of protein both for the baby and just because I don't function well on a higher carb diet.

My quick waist friendly meals are:

Breakfasts/Lunches
- Sliced turkey lunch meat, apple and yogurt
- Bob's Red Mill Gluten-free hot breakfast cereal with dried fruit added at the same time as the cereal. Serve with sugar and soy milk and its 4 points that will last you till lunch.
-Leftovers

Dinners
-Chicken breast stir fried in 2T Italian dressing served with brown rice and veggies

- Beef cut into small cubes and stir fried with Thai sweet chili sauce and soy sauce, served with no-fat refried beans and corn tortillas or tortilla chips (The sauces make the beef taste very much like carne asada)

- Beef and broccoli stir fried with soy sauce, served over rice.

-Scallops sauted in a non-stick pan with a little butter, splash of lemon juice and two splashes of white wine, served over brown rice or potatoes. The non-stick pan is key with this recipe, cast iron doesn't work.

- Broiled pork chops with rice and Thai sweet chili sauce (or cranberry sauce), veggies

- Baked fish, potatoes, veggies

-Pasta florentine: Brown rice pasta with frozen spinach and romano cheese stirred in, topped with a chunky tomato sauce (leftovers are especially good the next day)

-Sauteed mushrooms and cold sliced roast beef.
- Frozen soup out of the freezer.

I have other recipes that are quick but don't fall into the "Easy to cook with a screaming baby distracting you"  or "Waist friendly"  catagory. Pancakes are a great, but are hard to flip while holding a baby in one arm, especially when said baby is trying to grab the spatula. :D

Comments

[ornerie.livejournal.com]

have you had any luck making risotto out of brown rice?

my mouth really wants butternut squash risotto,and I can do with lower fat but it has to have that arborio mouth feel....

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

No, but I've got a new risotto recipe that calls for cooking the rice like pasta and I've been meaning to try it with brown rice.

Guess what I'm making for dinner tonight? :D I'll let you know how the brown rice risotto turns out.

[ornerie.livejournal.com]

somebody once told me that any short grain rice would work for risotto, so I have some brown short grain that I will give a whirl.

between the two of us I bet we can get this to work :). I loves me risotto....mushroom or squash or anykind!

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

I just tried it and posted the recipe. The rice is a bit chewy but its good.