Sweet + Savory

Sometimes our dinners are just random. When I was single, I ate a lot of “random” foods–kind of a “throw it all in a bowl and call that dinner” kind of meals. They are easy and quick and that was my style of cooking. If you could call it cooking.

Even though Michael is a foodie and a really good cook, there are nights when we both just feel super lazy and don’t put much effort into our meals. Even on those not-much-effort-nights, I still try to make sure we get some healthy ingredients in the meal.

One Sunday night I pulled out some Costco ravioli from the freezer to use for dinner. If you haven’t gotten the Costco pasta packages, I recommend trying a few simply because they freeze well and are easy choices for quickie dinners when you don’t want to cook. This time we had the butternut squash ravioli in the freezer. We also had some fresh kale. I decided to try this: sauteed kale, onions and two slices of bacon chopped up. Then I added it to the butternut squash ravioli. I shaved some fresh Parmesan cheese on top and drizzled a little bit of olive oil over it before mixing it all together.

It sounds incredibly random and like it would be weird, but it worked. The dinner had that complimentary savory + sweet flavor. The kale and butternut squash went together really nicely! Dinner win!

Bizarre

This next dinner will be classified as “bizarre.” Not bad, just….different. My mom gave Michael a jar of “bacon spread” for Christmas. It seemed weird to us but we decided to give it a try after it sat in the pantry for a few months just taking up space.

It sounds kind of gross, right? It wasn’t gross, just different. First, all the ingredients were natural–no weird additives. One of the ingredients was brown sugar so it gave the bacon spread a BBQ scent and flavor to it.

Michael picked up a loaf of French bread and on one slice spread the Bacon stuff on it and on the other side, sweet mustard. Grilled Cheese + Bacon Spread Sandwich!

Asparagus was the side dish –cooked in a skillet in Grapeseed Oil, seasoned with pepper, shredded fresh Parmesan cheese and this stuff:

Red Salt! It’s so good. I sprinkled just a little bit on the asparagus. I love this stuff. So how was the grilled cheese and bacon spread sandwich? It was okay. It tasted like a sweet grilled cheese sandwich. I didn’t taste bacon at all; it was more of a BBQ flavor. I think the bacon spread would probably be pretty good on a turkey burger. We’ll have to try that soon.

QUESTION: What are some of the random or bizarre meals you’ve had lately?