Easy Dinner Tonight
Apr 3rd, 2007 by Bethany
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Tonight I made an easy dinner. Ever since my parents started training us to cook by assigning each kid a day of the week to make dinner I've been searching for easy, healthy dinners (most of my nights to cook in high school were spaghetti, garlic bread, frozen broccoli, and green salad with ranch dressing). Early in our marriage Colin introduced me to one of his family's favorite easy meals: curry.
In the international section of the grocery store, usually near the soy sauce or rice or rice noodles, you'll find little gold boxes of curry mix. You brown up some meat or poultry or seafood or tofu (protein something or other) with onions, add whatever veggies are in your refrigerator or freezer, simmer it for 10 minutes while you put the rice on to cook, take it off the heat and add in the crumbled up curry mix and stir it up until it's all integrated. Then you simmer it another five minutes and you're ready to eat!
Tonight I added frozen squash as the veggies and used some beef I've been meaning to use up (oddly, even though I believe that curry is an east Indian food, the package recommends using beef). Colin's family likes to add what I think of as Hawaiian Haystack toppings; things like shredded coconut, raisins, diced tomatoes, chopped green onions, diced hard-boiled egg, and crumbled bacon. Tonight we used raisins, tomatoes, green onions, and hard boiled egg because it was what was on hand, but you can use nothing on top and it's still great. In fact, if you don't add veggies to the curry it's still great (but much less healthy).
So, you top a hill of cooked rice with the curry, then top that with the toppings, say a blessing on the food, and go to!
