I love being creative in the kitchen and coming up with new concoctions. I am also a very simple cook. I like having basic building blocks to work with.
Sometimes I just like to cook up a large batch of something and just eat off of it all week, mixing and matching whatever I have in the fridge. I am still ever-so-impressed with my purchase 25 lbs of whole-grain rice for just under $18. It is not that hard to cook up a batch and just keep it at the ready. It is cheap and I have whole-grains in my diet on a regular basis--that's called being strategic with time, nutrition and finances.
Rice by itself doesn't do the trick, though, so it goes into things and things go into it--I may spoon it into soup, lob it onto a burrito, fry it up with an egg and some veggies, or just mix things into it. One of the best meals is to take this rice, some cooked ground beef and add hot sauce. Even better if I can saute in some peppers and onions, too.
The other day I added the contents of a can of salmon (wild caught) to the rice, and then chopped up a garden-fresh red tomato.
I live and often eat with vegetarians, so keeping dishes separate can be beneficial for them, as well.
Today's meal? Rice with a pile of bacon, some skin-on baked potato pieces and some cherry tomatoes. All mixed together in bacon juices. It takes like something I spent hours cooking, when in reality I just took a bunch of leftover and out laziness just brought them all to work together in one bowl.
Yum! We often fry up some ground turkey and mix in rice, chili powder, onions and some garlic and throw salsa, cheese, and sour cream on top, and whatever veggies we have laying around. Chard is surprisingly good in it. Leftover cooked carrots work pretty well too.
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