whispercricket

I was so close to giving up on cooking and just ordering takeout tonight...but then I realized that it wouldn't help anything. In the end, cooking took less time than ordering in anyway. This needs to be a lesson for me.

So dinner was: Start water boiling for noodles. Take a couple of garlic chicken sausages from the freezer and shove them on the preheating George Foreman grill. Skin some carrots; chop them. Chop an onion. (Chop them really really fast to use up excess energy - just make sure to miss your fingertips.) Add noodles to water. Separate the sausages as they have warmed enough not to be frozen together. Have an

arawen who has wandered in grab the need-to-use-now broccoli from the fridge and cut it up, as well as tend the sausage (cut up and put back on grill). Start olive oil + walnut oil heating in a pan on the stove. Chop a few garlic cloves. Add garlic to pan; saute. Add onion to pan; saute. Add carrots and broccoli to pan. Dither over which bottled sauce to use in lieu of any other idea - finally decide on the red pepper + sesame one that's been sitting in the cabinet for years (good, though). Have

arawen drain the noodles (and butter them, because hey, it's healthier than eating out, and they're eggless egg noodles). Add sausage to pan. Add sauce plus some lemon pepper (why not - goes with everything). Stirfry a little longer until done. Eat over noodles (eat way too fast because it's late and you're really hungry) with a little salt and pepper.

Took about 20 minutes to make, and the hardest thing to find was the

arawen (optional for the recipe, but if you have one, why not? :) ). Why do I forget that cooking can be easy like this...