Sushi!!!

I know some people are really scared of sushi. I’m not one of those people. There are very few things I will not eat, and I will try it once before I decide I’m not going to eat it again. I’m pretty hard to gross out.

So anyway, back to sushi and why I’m a big fan. I found it’s the best quick meal when you’re starving and wondering through the grocery store. Think about it. You know it’s fresh, it has to be. You know there’s not much salt or preservatives in it; all that’s in it is raw fish, rice, and seaweed. How bad could that be? And my favorite part, it’s ready to eat. You could eat it in the car on the way home from the store. I wouldn’t recommend it, sometimes the rice falls apart, but you could if you really wanted to.

Beyond the whole “it’s healthy” thing it’s actually really tasty. It’s how I get to eat salmon. I can’t do cooked salmon. I know I said I eat almost everything. Fish is almost 100% out for me. I just don’t like how it tastes or how it feels in my mouth. So I find other ways to eat it. I can roll the raw fish any day of the week. Throw it on the grill and it’s over for me. I can’t take it. I know I’m super weird but I’m ok with that.

The nice thing about sushi is that if you’re weirded out by raw fish you can get sushi with cooked fish. Your options are limited to shellfish but you can get the happy combination of fish, rice, and seaweed without the rawness of normal sushi. I actually like to switch it up every once in a while and pick up Philadelphia rolls or rolled sushi with smoked tuna.

Fast track dinner

I’m not usually so busy that I can’t stop for a meal but there are a lot of times that I’m so hungry I just don’t care to cook. I’ve tried to find ways to cook faster but not lose the flavor and the health benefits of a fresh home cooked meal.

The best thing I’ve found so far for veggies is frozen. Frozen spinach and broccoli are the 2 greatest things for me when I’m too lazy to cook. They’re fast and easy, just throw them in a bowl in the microwave add butter, salt and pepper and you’re good to go!

My biggest challenge I think has been potatoes. I love potatoes but they usually take so long to cook that it’s not worth the effort. Solution: chop it! I throw my potato in the food processor and pulse for a few seconds (yay it’s dishwasher safe). Then heat up a pan on the stove and put down a little bit of vegetable oil, just enough to coat the bottom of the pan throw the chopped potato down and let one side brown, flip the whole mess over and brown the other side. You could also mix it while it’s cooking so you end up with more crunch and less cooked but not fried potato. I prefer it as a potato pancake esq side dish. To finish I add a little salt and pepper (sometimes some poultry seasoning too)

No dinner is complete without a meat so to finish off my quick dinner I take a chicken breast and cube it and throw it into a heated pan with some olive oil and seasoning (either a poultry mix or just salt and pepper), I put a cover on the frying pan and let it cook for a few minutes, then turn all the pieces of chicken over and let the other side cook for a bit.

Soup to nuts you should be able to have dinner for 1 or 2 on the table in about 25 minutes.