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Rollback Menu: Last Sunday’s Dinner

by J3nn (Jenn's Menu and Lifestyle Blog) on July 7, 2011

Due to busyness and sickness and general craziness, Sunday’s dinner post was somehow skipped over, but not forgotten. Whenever I’m sickly, I crave comfort foods. And comfort food to be almost always involves some sort of Italian dish, or anything carby, really. I made one of the easiest, yet tastiest macaroni dishes that I know: Macaroni with garlic and broccoli with feta cheese. The name pretty much describes the entire recipe. It’s just so simple and delicious, perfect for light summer meals or side dishes. I am crazy about it!

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I don’t really have a specific recipe for this, so I’ll tell you how we made it.

Ingredients:

.5 lb dry elbow macaroni
1 bag frozen chopped broccoli
5-6 cloves garlic or to taste, chopped
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 cup crumbled feta cheese
Black pepper to taste
Salt to taste

Method:

1. Cook elbow macaroni to desired tenderness; drain and set aside.
2. Steam frozen broccoli in microwave or on stove top; drain and add to skillet with preheated olive oil and chopped garlic; mix around
3. Add in pasta, mix and cook together for 4-5 minutes on medium heat.
4. Turn off heat, add in feta or parmesan or grated romano cheese

Makes 8 servings

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Inexpensive comfort food at it’s best AND simplest. Yum! It made a great lunch and a excellent side dish with din-din. You can never have too much comfort when you’re feeling yucky. Smile

On the dinner menu: Grilled grass-fed beef tenderloin pepper + onion kebobs with a side of macaroni and broccoli salad.

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Totally deeeeeeeelicious! The kebobs weren’t marinated, just a little low-sodium sea salt + black pepper. One of my favorite summer meals this season.

What are some of your favorite summery meals? I have a salad post coming up that just might squeeze into my top 20 summer favorites. Stay tuned! Hot smile

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Farewell, Fun and Games!

June 7, 2010 Jenneral Posts

I’m actually relieved that I don’t have any major events for the next few weeks. It seems like I’ve been in nonstop celebration mode for weeks now, lol. I’m so looking forward to a mediocre Monday! We have loooooooooooots of leftovers, so I’m only going to buy fresh produce + dairy for at least the [...]

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Then Days Went By

March 11, 2010 Loot
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I have that 50 Cent song in my head and it seemed appropriate for a title being it has been DAYS since my last update. hehe I’ll try to catch up right now though! Thankfully, Dustin is all better now, so we have been on the go since the weekend. On Saturday we decided to [...]

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Ice and Rice

January 25, 2010 Jenneral Posts
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It seems like every time my cousin Tricia comes over we have some sort of hazardous road condition. This time we had icy roads from melted snow, but thankfully she made it to her destination safely after dinner. I wasn’t sure if I was going to actually make it through dinner on only a few [...]

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