Experiment # 3 Green Goodness

The weekends involve very little cooking for me. My body is in rest mode and doesn't usually require much, and also I am admittedly much lazier on the weekend and really don't want to get up and cook. Whoops.

But today it's just something really simple...

In one 10" skillet combine
1/2 small sliced onion
1 lean meat patty
2 cups frozen broccoli
2 cloves garlic (minced)
1/2 a lime squeezed and then added to the group
1/2 green bell pepper sliced
1 handful raw, shelled sunflower seeds

crushed red pepper
ground black pepper

Cover the skillet and let simmer for 8-10 minutes. Flip the patty and stir the veggies around, cover again and let simmer for 8-10 minutes.

All in all it took about 20 minutes beginning to end (even with the slicing and chopping!!) so it is super simple and a perfect lazy Sunday kind of meal that is full of natural flavor and pretty darn satisfying if I do say so myself.

Experiment #1 - Shrimp & Scallop soup

This is a total stretch for me. I RARELY follow recipes or plan my meals out. I simply go by what is in my fridge, and what flavors I know work together... or flavors that I am curious of combining.

I don't go out and buy the finest ingredients or anything particularly difficult to find. I happen to be on a relatively tight budget, and out here in West Texas, we don't exactly have a ton of exotic marketplaces so it should be fairly easy for people to go and find exactly the items that I use in all of my cooking. I'll try to say where it is that I get my ingredients and hopefully eventually start adding pictures along with the posts so that it gets even easier to determine what it is exactly that I might be rambling about...

That being said, this is the first Flavor Experiment, Recipe Experiment, whatever you may want to call it...

This one is for a 3 Liter crockpot ( adjust amounts as necessary)

1 1/2 cups raw (i used the frozen, in a bag kind) baby scallops (100-200/lb.)
20 (give or take) large shrimp(40-60/lb) - I used cooked, tail-on, peeled, deveined

both can be found in the frozen seafood section in Walmart (like I said, nothing fancy, right?)

1/2 of a large purple eggplant cut in fairly large chunks
1 medium yellow onion diced
1 cup chopped celery
chopped cilantro leaves
chopped green onions
2 garlic cloves (minced)
2 carrots (sliced)
handful of asparagus spears (chopped)

chili powder
freshly ground black pepper
cayenne pepper
red chili pepper flakes

1 1/2 cups water
1 cup chicken broth


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combine it all in the crockpot and let simmer until ready (you may want to salt to taste or add different spices, but my diet - the Paleo Diet - won't allow for very much salt at all)


And... that's it! This should feed me, single young woman that I am for at least 4 meals, though it's possible it could feed me more. Never made it, I have no clue. I'll comment with the success or failure, and how much it ends up feeding me