Made with chicken broth, salt & pepper, extra-virgin olive oil, shallots, minced garlic, mushrooms, arborio rice, white wine, asparagus, and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.
Recipe for—Mushroom-Asparagus Risotto
So, if you have nothing else to do today, make yourself a simple and divine risotto dish.
Take-Away Life Lesson: Season it well; otherwise, it can be a little bland.
Made with sourdough bread, drunken goat cheese, baby arugula, butter, and roasted shallot mayo.
Roasted Shallot Mayo made with shallot, garlic clove, olive oil, salt & pepper, and mayonnaise.
Well, this was my first time having drunken goat cheese. Even though I had never heard of drunken goat cheese before, I already knew where I’d easily be able to locate some—at the health food store.
Whole Foods has hundreds of every type of cheese imaginable. When I went to the cheese department to ask for it, they gave me a sample of it. I could really taste the wine inside the cheese. It was marvelous—then again, I’m a cheese lover through and through after all.
Roasting the shallot and garlic in the oven for an hour caused the kitchen to have that strong garlicky smell just permeating throughout the house.
I ended up with WAY more arugula than what was required for two sandwiches. There was only one size arugula container for purchasing. I had no other use for the rest of it and I certainly didn’t want to make 30 grilled cheese sandwiches!
The recipe didn’t specifically say to spread both sides of both slices of bread with the mayonnaise mixture, but you’d probably want to in order to get that crisp golden brown color on each slice as it’s frying side down in the skillet.
Recipe for—Drunken Goat Grilled Cheese
So, if you have nothing else to do today, try a sample of drunken goat cheese at your local store and then wander home and make a grilled cheese sandwich out of it.
Take-Away Life Lesson: Make sure you can put the rest of the huge batch of arugula to use for some other reason if the only possible size that you can buy it in is a large batch to begin with.
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Made with ground beef, steak seasoning, smoked cheddar cheese, Dijon mustard, mayonnaise, French fried onion pieces, and whole wheat hamburger bun; topped with creamy mushrooms made with shallots, minced garlic, cremini mushrooms, balsamic vinegar, beef broth, Mascarpone cheese, chives, and salt & pepper.
Oh, yeah, look at that burger.
Recipe for—Creamy Mushroom Cheeseburger
So, if you have nothing else to do today, mix up some fun and new toppings to add to your hamburger.
Take-Away Life Lesson: Getting creative in the kitchen can make your burger taste different from the standard.
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Made with black-eyed peas, crumbled bacon, smoked ham, onions, scallions, green bell pepper, minced garlic cloves, dried thyme, butter, cayenne pepper, chicken broth, and salt & pepper. Served with Rice Pilaf made with long-grain brown rice, shallots, butter, chicken broth, and salt & pepper.
Oh, MAN! This is SO righteous! Now this is some GOOD STUFF. I couldn’t stop eating. The combination of all the flavors was crazy good.
Recipe for—Black-Eyed Peas with Bacon
So, if you have nothing else to do today, make some Hoppin’ John black-eyed peas deliciousness.
Take-Away Life Lesson: Bacon and ham can amp up almost anything.
Made with zucchini, flour, panko bread crumbs, parmesan cheese, fresh parsley, red pepper flakes, eggs, water, salt & pepper, and canola oil; Spicy Dipping Sauce made with sour cream, buttermilk, shallots, fresh chives, cayenne pepper, hot sauce, and salt & pepper.
There’s no way you can eat just one of these. The crispiness of the zucchini made eating these so much more enjoyable.
They’re so good you don’t even need the dipping sauce to eat with these.
Recipe for—Fried Zucchini & Spicy Dipping Sauce
So, if you have nothing else to do today, take some zucchini, slice them up and fry them.
Take-Away Life Lesson: The healthiness of the vegetable zucchini and the badness of the frying sort of kind of cancel each other out, you could say. So fry away!
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Made with canned green beans, cheddar cheese, olive oil, chopped shallot, sliced mushrooms, flour, milk, cream cheese, salt & pepper, Parmesan cheese, dinner rolls, soy sauce, dried thyme leaves, and fresh chopped parsley.
I loved trying a new spin on just plain old regular green beans. I’d eat green beans for days made like this.
Recipe for—Sister Schubert’s Green Bean Casserole
So, if you have nothing else to do today, jazz up your green beans next time you have them as a side dish.
Take-Away Life Lesson: Vegetables always taste much better when you jazz them up—and crunchy crumb toppings never hurt anyone.
