garlic mashed potatoes, red pepper rice and salad

my cooking is often accompanied by a yummy beverage of some sort :)

needed to use:

grilled red peppers

garlic mashed potatoes

rice leftover from the Epic Chinese Food Excursion this week :)

random salad veggies

i had stir fried up some red peppers a couple nights before and got too full from the mashed potatoes to do much with them.  (then i had a super random dream about hanging out with the obama’s at my mom’s house for a meal and suggesting the peppers i had made the night before...)  i put them in the big frying pan with the (brown) rice and some bragg’s to soften the rice up a bit and add some flavor.  (i should have put a little water in there too, as it ended up being a little bit dry, but not bad.)

i heated up the mashed potatoes in another pan, and chopped up what veggies we had for a salad of some sort.  (i can’t help it: fresh vegetables are good for you and i insist on trying to eat some whenever i’m in charge of dinner--thanks mama! :)  it ended up being cucumber, tomato, and celery (chopped into small bite size pieces--i chose to eat mine with a spoon), sunflower seeds, raisins, oil and vinegar.  (i always grind a little salt on the top for myself.)

some fresh green onions made the rice and peppers quite pretty, and that was it!  i had to call will downstairs only a few minutes after i started “cooking,” easy :)

garlic mashed potatoes, red pepper rice and salad

approximate price: $6