It might look like I cook a lot, but truth be told, I’m a pretty lazy cook. Seriously. Yesterday started off promising. I normally make scrambled eggs for breakfast because it’s easy. Crack some eggs into a pan, scramble. But I went out on a limb and made a smoothie.
This was Laura’s Carrot Cake Batter Shake. It had whipped cream because it was Sunday and that made it acceptable. I don’t know why I think that making a smoothie is any more difficult than making eggs. Really, it’s because I hate that I can’t put the Vitamix in the blender. First world problems, I know.
I had this grand plan that I was going to make this delicious looking salmon recipe for dinner. I had even bought myself a nice piece of salmon the day before. But then, somehow, I ended up mixing a can of tuna with some hummus and calling it dinner instead. Salmon, tuna, same thing? Eh.
So, today I was determined to make the salmon, mostly because it had already been in the fridge for two days and I needed to cook it before it started to go bad. But once I looked at the recipe a little closer, I realized it seemed sort of complicated and did not jive with my lazy girl cooking style. So what did I do? I put some onion dip (Sabra Greek Yogurt onion dip which is awesome) on the salmon instead. Fancy salmon recipe, onion dip salmon recipe, same thing too, right?
I did saute some kale with some onions and mushrooms and olive oil as a side. I decided, however, that I wanted to put it under my onion dip salmon to make a pretty salmon salad so it could at least look like I was a non-lazy cook.
Pretty, but genius here forgot that my salmon had skin on it, so after I ate it, I had to take the skin off the kale and throw it away before I ate the kale. Oops. This is what happens when I try to be ambitious.
Look at you! Making salads and smoothies.
So did you like it?
Yes, it was delicious. I might even make it for breakfast tomorrow too!
I go through stages with how ambitious I am with cooking, right now is a super lazy period. I feel you!
honestly, I’d call myself a lazy cook too. I pin a TON of recipes all the time but have yet to make a single one. I go to the same usual meals most of the time, with few ingredients in them…the more ingredients on the list, the less likely it is I’ll EVER attempt the recipe!!
I do try to make a point to make some of the things that I pin, but the pin to actually make ratio is pretty uneven.
If I were the one responsible for meal planning and execution, we’d have the same 5-7 things all the time, and one of those would be ordering pizza. Thankfully, Jerry does 99.9% of all that jazz so I have time for other more important things. Like surfing the web.
I think I NEED to become more of a “lazy cook!” Honestly, I spend way too much time making things- and way too many calories too! I need to do more simple” things requiring fewer ingredients- at least for 2 out of 3 meals. I need to realize that it’s OKAY to have some store-bought waffles or a (P28) bagel for breakfast- it doesn’t have to be a huge production every single day.
I’m a total lazy cook too, I feel bad because I’m home all day, but I would rather have a cheap, easy meal than spend all day making a meal! When I first started staying home, I was making these really elaborate meals every night, that got old really quick!
That smoothie sounds awesome. I’m lazy about making smoothies because I hate cleaning the blender lol!