Cooking Alone

Our better half was walking in New York last night during a corporate walkfornoreason-athon. So we set out to make some dinner and lunches. First there was turkey meatballs.

1lb ground turkey
a few mushrooms
garlic
half an onion
bread crumbs
1 egg
chicken stock

Diced up some garlic, the onion, and mushrooms. Dumped in the meat, and mixed it up. Added salt, pepper, basil. Mixed again adding bread crumbs. Added the egg. Mixed again until the mixture was even. Formed gumball size meat spheres. That sounds dirty, yes. Then the meatballs were coated with a final layer of breadcrumsbs so they would stick.

On medium heat, filled a large sauce pan with oil and pat of butter. Just after the butter melted, placed neatly the meat spheres in the pan and covered for about ten minutes, or until the bottom of the meat spheres begin to get crispy. Then flipped them over and added a half can of chicken stock, covered again. Took the lid off, added another small pat of butter and topped with some extra bread crumbs; should have used panko bread crumbs to top, and should have baked for about 5 minutes to crisp them, but did not.

1 can ceci peas
1 can kidney beans
1 can navy beans
1 potatoe
1/2lb Ditilini pasta
handfull of grape tamatos
garlic
half of onion
a few mushrooms
chicken stock

The potatoe, onion, garlic, and oil simmered in a large stock pot for a few minutes until the onion began getting clear. Added sliced grape tomatos and large slices of mushrooms, covered for another five minutes. Then added the three cans of beans including juices, left covered for another 5 minutes. Then added can and a half of chicken stock and pasta, covered until it came to a slow boil. Uncovered and let cook until pasta was ready.

Served with a meat sphere and parmesean cheese. Ate alone. Packed the rest up for lunches.