Scratch Cooking October 21st

What is it about breakfast for dinner? It's just so nice when you don't feel much like cooking and not in the mood to eat anything in particular to have some pancakes or scrambled eggs for dinner.

My intention was to make pancakes for dinner, but my daughter decided to make herself French toast for a snack, so that plan was foiled. So instead, I made some buttery rice (1 cup rice, 2 cups water and about a tablespoon of butter, some salt and pepper), sauteed some broccoli and onions and added in 2 beaten eggs. It wasn't exactly breakfast for dinner, but it was close.

Our dog actually stole a little off my daughter's plate. Have you ever before known a dog that likes broccoli? Ours does!

My daughter asked how I made the rice so buttery and my answer was...butter! It is true that just about everything is better with butter.

So it was a very simple dinner tonight, prepared and ready in about 20 minutes. And guess what, nothing pre-cooked, canned or packaged was used.

I don't know what I will do tomorrow night. My daughter asked if we were also giving up buying groceries and I had to remind her that I don't have a car, which makes grocery shopping a little difficult. I have my bike, though, and nothing to stop me from running by the co-op or the fish store for some supplies. So I guess I don't really have an excuse except that I haven't felt like going to the store.

I have some lentils in the house, so if I still can't manage to drag myself there, lentils for dinner it will be!