The kitchen. These days it seems that I spend most of my time in there. With a husband and two children, everyone eats something different for some meals. The infant meal is different than the toddler meal. Hubby has lunch at work. At least 3 out of 4 of us eat the same dinner!
My lunch "sandwich" in the pan. The other two pots are for dinner. Then we have some pineapple muffins for my toddler.
So, as you can imagine, I do a lot of cooking. It's a good thing I enjoy it!
The sandwich recipe is one of my all time favorites. You can find the recipe here, at the epicurious website. I just switched out turkey for chicken.
For dinner we had mensef. After trying a few recipes, mensef really is not that difficult to make!
Ingredients:
2 cups mensef soup starter
1/2 bag mensef bread
1 package lamb chops
1 onion
Handful dried bay leaves
2 cups rice
Pine nuts and almonds
Directions:
- Layer lamb chops in pot, cover with water and add onion. Add bay leaves and simmer until tender (around 1 hour)
- In a different pot place the soup starter on medium heat. Continue stirring until boil. Add meat broth (all) and stir until boiled. Add meat and simmer.
- In a different pot cook rice.
- In pan melt 2 tablespoons of butter and brown nuts.
- In large flat dish lay mensef bread. Layer rice on top. Layer meat on rice and drizzle some yogurt sauce on top. Top with nuts.
- In separate bowl place extra yogurt sauce.
It's really tasty, but one of those dishes that I only like to make once a month. Hey, I try to be somewhat healthy! :-)
Give these dishes a try and let me know how it went!
