Happy Monday!
This weekend flew by! On Friday night I just stayed in with BF and we ate leftover Mediterranean food while watching Workaholics (great show, check it out if you like ridiculous humor!).
On Saturday, I went out to Hotel Chantelle for a friend's birthday. This place is great - it has a gorgeous rooftop (where we ate dinner), a bumpin ground floor with loud music and a loud, grimey basement perfect for dancing and sweating profusely - all tied together with a cool crowd. Overall, an awesome place :)
Tonight I decided to use up some of the random food I had at my apartment and make pineapple fried rice! it turned out really well and I made enough for lunches the rest of the week! Score!
I used:
- long grain brown rice
- 3 brown eggs
- vegetable broth to cook the rice in
- trader joes teriyaki baked tofu
- trader joes soyaki sauce (the best!)
- frozen mixed peppers
- frozen green beans broken into little pieces
- chopped walnuts
- red chili flakes
- garlic salt
- 1 can of pineapple chunks in 100% juice
- the juice from the pineapple
- white onion
- 2 pieces of fresh garlic
- garlic olive oil
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| this stuff takes FOREVERRRR to cook but has a great texture |
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| Tofu chopped into cubes, diced onion, chopped walnuts and of course, garlic! |
After prepping the above, I did the following:
- Before cooking other ingredients, I started the brown rice in a pot with vegetable broth. I really like this brand but it takes almost an hour to cook. So annoying but worth it.
- Once the rice was almost finished I started by browning the onion & garlic in the garlic olive oil.
- Added my frozen vegetables until they were a little burnt.
- Added the 3 eggs and let them cook.
- Add chopped walnuts & tofu until browned. Sprinkle with garlic salt and set aside
- Opened the can of pineapple chunks (hate that word) and poured the juice into a glass. Drank half :)
- Poured a bit of soyaki sauce and pineapple juice both into the rice and into the egg & veggie mixture.
- Browned the pineapple
- Add it all together and top with chili flakes & garlic salt et voila!
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| Dinner for 1 plz :) |
This was really, really good.
Since this is packed with protein and good for you grains, it makes a balanced meal. I was full after eating about a cup of this creation! Obviously if you're going to do something similar, you can sub tofu for something else and eliminate nuts / garlic if needed. I rarely follow recipes so I'm not sure what amounts of each ingredient I actually used and will likely never be able to replicate it haha.
What are some of your go-to meals when you're trying to clear your fridge? Do you follow recipes? I have a couple cans of beets if anyone has suggestions :)
