Rainy Night Dinner
All this rain in the northeast has been saturating in more ways than one. I spent some quality time with my ShopVac draining my basement this morning, "hosted" a Temple meeting, and at one point had 5 kids in the house playing at once. So although I was out of fresh vegetables I was determined to make a good dinner without leaving the house to go food shopping. We had friends join us which gave me increased motivation.
Here's what was in my bowl tonight:
- 4 oz tilapia
- paprika
- dried dill
- oat bran
- skim milk
- 6 oz frozen spinach
- 3 oz frozen lima beans
- 3 oz Trader Joe's Wild Mushroom Rice
- 1 T Smart Balance Light
- 1 T tartar sauce
To be honest, I should have had another 6 oz of vegetables too. If it had occurred to me earlier, I would have added grape tomatoes to my bowl
To prepare, I did the following, half hour before we sat down to eat:
- Poured skim milk over frozen Tilapia (thanks, Costco) in a baking pan. Sprinkled each filet with paprika, dried dill, and oat bran. Baked at 400 degrees until cooked (probably 15 minutes - a toaster oven works great for this).
- Prepared Trader Joe's Wild Mushroom rice in the microwave.
- Heated frozen lima beans in microwave.
- Heated frozen chopped spinach in microwave.
Nothing fresh about this dinner but it was quick, nutritious, delicious, *and* I have leftovers for tomorrow.
What did you have tonight?
