On the way home this afternoon I stopped at Costco. Beaucoup dollars later I emerged. Among my purchases: a flat of tree-ripened nectarines and a bunch of stew meat.
The latter went into the slow cooker on a bed of sliced onions. I poured three small tins of medium Hatch chiles on top along with a handful of sun-dried tomatoes. Freshly ground black pepper, freshly ground sea salt, some thyme, and I turned that puppy on. Much later I thickened it with arrowroot.
Later I put brown rice in the rice cooker. You see, this is cooking for lazybones.
Then I sliced up most of the nectarines and made a nectarine crsip.
And finally I sauteed the zucchini from my yard (picked last weekend and still with firm texture) in lots of butter with salt, pepper, a splash of white balsamic, and a splash of brandy.
En voici le résultat.
Beef and green chile stew with brown rice and sautéed zucchini
Nectarine crisp warm from the oven with a scoop of mango ice cream
Life is good.
--the BB
9 comments:
makes me hungry just to read about it.
Wish you'd been here to share it.
You amaze me calling this for 'lazybones'. Nearly all my cooking involves removing package from freezer, reading instructions and putting into microwave. However sadly I could not eat your dish as chili aggravates my hiatus hernia. You can imagine that I do not remember when I last entertained other than with bought cake and coffee. I prefer to meet friends in a restaurant.
LOL. Brian, most of my suppers are cheese and crackers, or something I really shouldn't be eating, or possibly nothing at all.
For 24 years my ex and I cooked for each other, almost entirely from scratch. Granted, I was cooking from scratch tonight, which is why I am proud enough to show off pictures. But tossing it in the slow cooker (and not even browning the meat first!), using a rice cooker so I don't have to boil water or adjust gas flames, I found it a pretty painless meal to prepare. Not a lot of stirring and tending, not many steps.
My ex is more Julia Child - start the sauce the day before....
Speaking of whom, I bought Julia's book on which half the recent movie was based. Look forward to it.
Delicious! Too bad you're so far away ;=)
Paul, I don't know what you think you're doing, luv, but I already ate supper, and now I'm hungry all over again.
Mimi, as you have chided me before: Try to keep up, love. That was Sunday's post, you should have gotten hungry then. LOL
Tonight all I can do is cry.
Paul, I'm so sorry. I pray for heartsease for you, mon cher. It's a terrible tragedy.
You won't believe this, but my word verification is "hanki". Here's a hanki, luv.
Thanks, Mimi. I shall go through several tonight. I really appreciate your support today, very much.
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