Quinoa and other ingredients, makes for a nice dinner

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dinner, ingredients, postaday2013, protein, quinoa

Last night I had zero inspiration for dinner, I hate it when that happens, my hubby called and kindly informed me what was circling his brain in reference to din-din. He was craving quinoa with a pilaf twist to it and we had all of the ingredients right there at my disposal, so no problem, off to the chopping block I went. Now making quinoa is beautifully easy, heat water to boil, put quinoa in, cover and simmer for twelve minutes, fluff, shut off the heat and let stand for five minutes, all this easiness and plus it is a grain that is a complete protein, what can be better than that? The pilaf part was more labor intensive, chopping into small dice; carrots, celery, red pepper, yellow pepper, orange pepper, two vidalia onions and six cloves of garlic, crushed and minced. Once everything was diced, the easy part was sautéing it until everything was nicely caramelized and incorporating the vegetables into the quinoa. This was a hit last night, but the two men in my life were saying that it lacked a certain carnivorous quality.

Tonight the lack of meat was rectified with sausage. Sausage, like bacon, makes everything tastes better, at least in my book. I must say that leftovers are such a wonderful thing, even if you have to tweak it a little bit, the tweaking never takes too long and everyone is happy once again, fed and satiated.

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Think of your blog as a mirror: what does it reveal? Consider your blog name, theme choice, design, bio, posts… what does every element tell you about yourself?

My blog is very simple in every aspect imaginable. The name was easy, since it is about me and my life, I named it laurieancihols. I am not very good at coming up with titles or clever "jeux de mots" (word games), so I always keep it simple. Actually my blog is very similar to my mirror, what you see is what you get. Ever since I was 15, I made it a habit of not wearing makeup because I had seen many of my friends the next morning without their "face" and I didn't want to have that be something that defined me, my "face". So I took that to heart and tried to live with the adage "what you see is what you get morning, noon and night, no surprises"

The same goes with my blog, whenever I write a post, it is done as a stream of consciousness, I reread what I have written to check for spelling errors and punctuation but rarely do I rework it, it flows from my brain through my little fingers, to the keyboard and onto the screen, so from within my mind "what you see is what you get" as well.

I like simplicity, it makes life for me more understandable.