Sunday, August 23, 2009

New Cool Song

BellX1 - The Great Defector. Love It.

Friday, August 14, 2009

The MBA Widowhood Diet

With my perennial dining companion at Michigan State doing his first MBA residency week in East Lansing and with a refrigerator overflowing with summer squash coupled with a hectic work week, lots of sports to play, and extra household chores to attend to, I tried to decide a strategy to efficiently cook healthy, tasty snacks for myself using up the produce at hand. Feline preferences not withstanding, I resorted to vegetarian fare - and came up with a nifty little recipe. The results can be used in several different ways (I would have the Quesadilla one night and the pasta for lunch the next day).

1 medium summer squash - sliced thin (ovals cut into halves or quarters if too big)
1 medium zucchini - sliced thin (ovals cut into halves or quarters if too big)
1 onion diced medium
2-3 jalapenos, diced (seeds removed on preference)
3-4 mushrooms sliced thin
Garlic Powder
2 tsp Cumin
Olive Oil
1 can black beans rinsed/drained

Heat approximately 2 TBSP olive oil in large skillet

Add onions and saute 1-2 minutes. Add remaining veggies, season with garlic powder to taste and cumin, and saute until soft but not mushy about 10 more minutes over low heat. Add black beans and saute 2-3 more minutes until heated through.

Serve 1 of 3 ways:

Pasta:

Toss 2 cups of mixture with 2 cups whole grain fusilli pasta cooked as per package directions (optionally top with grated parmesan cheese).

Quesadilla:

Spoon about 1/2 -3/4 cup of mixture into flour tortilla, add a small amount of shredded jack cheese and fold over in half. Heat in a preheated Forman Grill for 5 minutes. (serve with optional salsa and sour cream).

Plain:

Terrific as a stand-alone dish.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Hockey - The Best Sport Ever

How do you define an addiction? I suppose we could talk about coffee. I can't function without it in the morning. But I've reached new levels with my love for hockey and it manifested itself during a rainy August Saturday. I played drop in hockey last night. I will play drop in hockey tomorrow morning at the same rink. But today, I was sad because there was no hockey. Due in part to the torrents of rain that kept me indoors most of day? Perhaps. But I even spent 2 hours this afternoon watching a replay on some college sports station of last year's GLI championship (and I already knew the outcome) with Michigan beating Michigan State 5-1.

After tomorrow's hockey, there will be no hockey for me until Wednesday. Maybe I will take my stick out and practice shooting in the driveway....