we had a lot going on this past week, and kevin’s mom was in town for the weekend, so we ate out quite a bit this week, but still got in a couple of yummy meals at home and used up a lot of our CSA ingredients.
when I studied abroad in spain, we had this dish quite a bit, but i’ve strangely never made it myself. it’s actually very simple to make, and takes only about 30 minutes, most of which is stirring and/or watching time. onions, potatoes, eggs, and olive oil are all you’ll need for this, so it’s easy to pull together on a sunday afternoon with ingredients you likely already have, and enjoy for lunches throughout the week (either let come to room temp or microwave for 20-30 seconds). i used the recipe from this cookbook, but this one is very similar. after the eggs are mostly cooked, i would recommend the extra step of putting the skillet into the broiler for 1-2 minutes to fully set the omelet and crisp things up.
one of the many things I’m loving about our winter CSA is that each week we get an email of what’s going to be in that week’s box, as well as some recipe ideas. since this week’s box included bibb lettuce and ground pork, one of the suggested recipes was for pork lettuce wraps. we browned the pork, boiled a pack of ramen noodles, chopped up some scallions, carrots, and peanuts, picked up some sweet chili sauce, and well within 30 minutes had a healthy, simple weeknight meal. the pound of pork was enough for about 3 lettuce wraps each for 2 nights (12 total).
you’ll probably start to see a trend in these posts – we do breakfast for dinner at least every couple of weeks, not necessarily on purpose, but because it’s easy and a great meal solution for the end of the week when you’re not feeling motivated and/or there’s not much in your fridge. we typically just dice sweet potatoes or potatoes for more of a hash, but i thought grating them for hash browns would be good and something a little different. turns out, they were delicious, especially with a fried egg and some caramelized leeks (that were on their last leg in the fridge after not getting used for something else) on top.
this week: i didn’t get a good picture of our CSA bag this week, but we got ground beef, pasta, brown rice, spinach, a delicata squash, a couple of acorn squash, dried oyster mushrooms, and bread. we made a squash pasta last night for dinner that will give us a couple of lunches this week, and we’re planning to make up some burger and grill a couple nights this week since we’re still having 50 degree weather.
what are you making this week?
