Cold Weather Means Home Cooking

So trying to get back into a cooking route as last month or so been kind of crazy and more venturing out for dinner/meals. That being said already cooked twice so that's a good start. I'm guilty of buying stuff in the store and totally forgetting about it. So believe it or not I've never made fried rice before. Karen always has and it's good so really no reason to attempt it. I saw the recipe for Skinny Taste's cauliflower fried rice and that lead to wanting to make fried rice. I had already bought the cauliflower but needed the vegetables. Being lazy I grabbed a frozen pack of stir fry vegetables from the Freezer section without looking. Get home and realized it was a pack that included rice. in addition to that it was a microwave steamable.

What laziness will get you when you're just going for vegetables

So already had rice in it in addition to being 60 calories a serving (by itself) so figured why waste the cauliflower. Couple of things to gripe about before I get into the outcome. 1) Don't have it located in with just frozen vegetable. Maybe next to frozen meals? 2) Package indicated a serving was 3/4 cup and that it contained 3 servings. I don't know how the packaging plants measure out their product but if there were 2 1/4 cups of Stir-fry vegetables in there then I'll be damn. Some reason frozen vegetables all seem to have this issue of saying there's a certain amount when really there isn't. But I digress...

Pretty much lazy man's version of fried rice- I microwaved the bag per the instructions of 6 minutes. Once that was done I threw it in a wok with some butter- minus the bag for you weirdos out there. Added two eggs, my homemade teriyaki sauce and stirred it up still the eggs fully cooked. I think the whole process took less than 10 minutes. Some where out there Chef Gordon Ramsey is calling me a f*cking donkey.

Donkey's Fried Rice

All that being said this actually came out tasting pretty good. I know it it was cause Karen mentioned it more than once and said I should make it again. In case you're new to this blog, Karen is a very picky eater so you have to at the very least think man he made some decent food for a f*cking donkey.

Was having some crappy weather yesterday- tornado sirens, rain, windy, etc. Luckily no tornadoes touched down here. Fairly certain didn't see any hail either so lucked out there as well. That being said we had a record breaking January and February in Illinois were no measurable amount of snow was recorded. Sure enough March 1st hits and Mother Nature was like nope let there be snow! We'll see if anything happens but one thing for sure is that its pretty cold. That being said I wanted to make soup. Figured why not go for something I've never made before and decided to go for tomato soup as I would like some grilled cheese at some point.

Chopped up onions in butter

Added diced tomatoes to the mix

Finished product

Got the recipe from Food Network: Best Tomato Soup Ever. I mean title alone kind of meant it should be tried/tested. Never watched the show The Pioneer Woman but have seen her wares for sale (not a code for anything) at Walmart. Have no clue what makes her a pioneer woman but one thing for sure is she knows how to put together a tomato soup. Only variations I made were not adding sherry or parsley, using Adobo instead of salt and pepper, and adding a packet of Sazon (my addiction).  I think Chef Gordon Ramsay would be proud of me on this one. 

#FNDonkey,

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