Sunday Dinner

Anyone who lives on their own knows the story - Buy groceries, make a meal that can feed four and after doing all the cooking and washing-up you watch a lot of perfectly good food go bad. OR, you're extra naughty and just go out for meals everyday.
Neither of these are financially friendly, thus a friend and I have started up a new Sunday dinner tradition and so far we are loving it. Cooking together is always fun and sharing a dinner is special but this way it comes the bonus of having just the right amount of leftovers to feed us for a few days, without getting tired of eating the same thing breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Our first dinner's menu was:

• Sauteed beet greens (Cooked with butter, salt and pepper mid-heat)
• Tortilla chips with salsa and spicy smashed black beans (Bacon fat, garlic, black beans, cumin, cayenne powder and smash them roughly with a fork. A personal favourite. Easy, tasty protein for when you aren't hungry but need to eat)
• Homemade "hamburger helper" (Cook ground meat, drain, add peppers, diced tomatoes, black beans, spices, water and/or milk (optional) corn and aromatics. Bring to a boil and add a bunch of dry pasta noodles and continue to boil until noodles are tender. Add cheese and you're done! One-pot meal!)

• Roasted Yukon Gold potatoes with onions (Quartered, tossed with olive oil, salt and pepper, 450 oven for 40-ish minutes)

• Arugula, roasted beet, walnut and goat's cheese salad (Roast beets skin-on and wrapped tightly in foil in a 400 oven for 40-ish minutes, toast walnuts and put it altogether)

• Homemade raspberry froyo with Nutella (With a hand blender, blend frozen raspberries and a dollop of vanilla yogurt. Serve with a teaspoon full of nutella)

 A great deal of our meal was picked by us and my buddy set our table next to the garden patch! A lovely way to spend a Sunday evening!