In the last few weeks I've just been too tired to do a lot of cooking. I've been too tired to do a lot of grocery shopping. Between my big belly and horrible leg cramps I have been hobbling around and looking really funny and off balance.
My lazy cooking includes a lot of pizza. Since it's lazy I use jiffy crust. Sue me. I was also too lazy to take pictures.
But I still try to cover the pizza in as many vegetables as possible. So I cooked up onions, garlic, zucchini, mushrooms, & yellow bell pepper in some canola oil. Then I add some white wine and coarsely chopped kale and cover to steam. Now, some folks might be really grossed out by kale on pizza. Spinach, maybe, but KALE?! All I have to say is: Prego says Nomz! And I added pepperoni and mozzarella.
I like to cook up a nice veggie mixture, like the above pizza topping, use half for one meal and half for another. It saves a lot of time. Knowing that the next day would be busy, I put together a crustless quiche with my leftover veggies, cottage cheese that needed to be used up, and some feta. I fridged it overnight and threw it in the oven the next morning. Of course I went back to bed while it was baking. The cottage cheese was kind of a perfect filler-cheese while the feta packed an amazing punch.
My other lazy meal? Brown rice (cooked with chicken stock) with onions, garlic, green bell peppers, squash, black-eyed peas, and mozzarella. I threw this together with just stuff I had on hand.
I've been very squash centric lately.
Other things I need to do:
1) Use the damn chicken carcass in my freezer and make some chicken noodle soup.
2) Cook up that cabbage in the crisper before it rots on me. (Bierocks, most likely)
3) Make more flaxseed almond waffles to freeze individually! This is one of my favorite breakfasts & snacks. Definitely deserving of it's own post.
One other big project I need to get on is making meals to freeze for after the baby is born. Because if I think I'm tired now, I probably haven't got a freaking clue what tired is yet. So in between naps and crocheting, I'll get around to it.
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I think it's quite alright to be lazier than normal when you're growing a baby in your guts! Take it easy on yourself and enjoy some simple meals. Your simple cooking is still more nutritious and probably tastier than what lots of other folks are preparing in their kitchens. I would love to try your bierocks someday!
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