a salad. We're going to a Mardi Gras party later tonight and it is snowing really hard right now. The party is just a get together at Applebee's with the people my husband is doing taxes with.....and it's 20 miles away. If this snow keeps up, we may be going nowhere .

I'll serve with salad and we'll finish off that bottle of white wine I opened on Sunday for the Pasta Primavera.

I'm also making a batch of Oatmeal Cookies with Dark Chocolate chips and dried cherries.....

We'll have that for dessert later with cups of Almond Milk

It's raining and cold here but I feel spring is coming and I'm feeling good enough to spend some time in the kitchen...Just got to remind myself not to overdo....

at the local bar!

Yippee!!

(Reminder to self - no posting on DU after returning from Taco Tuesday)

but here at home

have fun @ TT's sounds like a blast!

and at 75 cents a piece, I should have more than plenty.

he'd eat them 3x a week if i'd let him

Some crackers, meh... Not too motivated today, so I go to my pantry and make this soup. Really good!

w/ steamed rice!

King cake for desert! Mardi Gras!

Eggs, diced celery, green pepper, and scallions, with bean sprouts and a bit of soy sauce -- spoonfuls fried in a bit of oil until egg is set and lightly browned.

Cold day-old brown rice stir fried with baby shrimp, frozen peas, frozen edamame, ginger and garlic and pineapple tidbits and a glog of sherry.

Yum! Leftovers will be great.

Cold and rainy here, too. No fishermen on the river today.

By Ethnic Gourmet. It was okay. I didn't feel like thinking of something to make for dinner, and tonight was Aqua Zumba, which runs kind of late. I had the meal in the freezer, it was easy. One of these days, I will make my own paneer...

I had some leftover feta and a little sour cream, mixed rice, a pound of grape tomatoes and a desire to cook eggplant. . My husband brought home a medium size eggplant and a pound of lamb. So I thawed out some of my "trinity" (onion, carrot, celery and garlic I had sweated and froze for future use), vegetable broth, and bell pepper.

I browned the lamb, added more garlic, stirred in the chopped bell pepper, and the trinity, cooked until the lamb was done, added the cubed eggplant, tomatoes, vegetable broth (made from the trimmings of my trinity), rice and sour cream, simmered until the eggplant was softened. Then I stirred in the feta, basil, marjoram, cinnamon, allspice, and some pepper, turned the whole thing into a casserole and baked for 30 minutes, sprinkled some breadcrumbs on top, baked until the crumbs were browned (and I couldn't stand it anymore).

No measurements on most of the stuff, especially the herbs and spices. I just put in what looked right.

That with a tossed salad was a great dinner.

But what the heck did I make? I had looked at a boatload of eggplant recipes, none were quite what I mixed up. So I don't know what to call this!

Help me name it, please!

No baking the eggplant ahead of time or making a separate sauce in my version. I think I'll call it "Lazy Moussaka"! My version has a lot less fat than the real moussaka - in one of the recipes I looked at a suggestion was that instead of cooking the onions and eggplant in a lot of olive oil, simmer in broth.

I used just a little olive oil to start browning the lamb, maybe a tablespoon. There was a little olive oil in the "trinity" mix, maybe a few tablespoons in the entire mix but I only used 1/8 of that. I could cut the fat even more by using Greek yogurt or fat free sour cream. I used what was leftover and the mix was plenty creamy, especially with the 6 ounces of feta.

Thanks for the link - I never had much of an exposure to true versions of a lot of ethnic foods, so I don't know the "standards". I tend to go to Allrecipes and search for ingredients I have on hand, read a lot of recipes, then make up my own version from what I have and what we like. Some results are better than others but I don't what to call them, especially if the recipes I have used for inspiration have lots of different names.

... with chicken, sausage, and shrimp. It was very well received.

Delish!