Daily Mish Mash » Lazy Cooking http://dailymishmash.com A Little Bit of Everything Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:29:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 WFMW: Five Ingredients Or Less http://dailymishmash.com/2008/wfmw-five-ingredients-or-less/ http://dailymishmash.com/2008/wfmw-five-ingredients-or-less/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:30:14 +0000 Jen http://dailymishmash.com/?p=197 I’m such a lazy person cook.  If the dish involves too many steps or too many ingredients, I’m not inclined to try it.

That is why I was so excited to see the theme of this week’s Works for me Wednesday is Five Ingredients or Less Cooking. 

The first recipe that came to mind for me was My Famous Easy Fish Dish.  (It isn’t actually famous in the being followed by paparazzi sense, but it sure is a favorite in our house.)

This is so simple to make and very yummy!

 

Here are the ingredients:

  • 1 lb Fish of your choice (Flounder, salmon, tilapia, mahi-mahi, rockfish, -whatever you like)
  • Italian Dressing (enough to cover fish in bowl)
  • 1/2 cup Mushrooms (sliced)
  • 1/2-1 cup Cheddar Jack Cheese 

Directions:

1.  Clean fish and put in a bowl.  Pour enough italian dressing over fish to cover.  Place in refrigerator for 30 minutes to marinate.

2.  In the meantime, slice mushrooms and grate cheese (if necessary).

3.  Preheat grill to medium-high heat.

4.  Place fish on foil. (You may want to use some sort of non-stick spray.)  Top with mushrooms.  (See photo)

5. Grill for 10 minutes or until fish flakes easily with fork.

6.  Top with cheese and grill until melted (usuallly about another minute or so).

That’s it.  We usually serve  wild rice,peas and salad with this. 

Now I’m not saying this is the healthiest option, but it does beat fast food.  Plus, if you buy organic salad dressing, fat-free organic cheese, etc.. it would help to make it a bit more healthy. 

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Share/Save/Bookmark]]> http://dailymishmash.com/2008/wfmw-five-ingredients-or-less/feed/ 15 Easy Marinades for the Lazy Cook http://dailymishmash.com/2008/easy-marinades-for-the-lazy-cook/ http://dailymishmash.com/2008/easy-marinades-for-the-lazy-cook/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:15:47 +0000 Jen http://dailymishmash.com/?p=18 I really didn’t intend on this blog being all about food, but now here it is day 2 and I’m yapping about what I’m going to eat again.  Well, I looked at my weekly menu from yesterday and saw that I was to have Marinated Grilled Pork Chops tonight.  When I went to the pantry to see if I had one of those 20 minute marinade (ie Lawry’s, McCormicks, Mrs. Dash) I came up empty.  So I had to do one of my least favorite things–go to the grocery store.  After plopping down $2.50 for a bottle of Mrs. Dash’s Zest Garlic Herb marinade it hit me that it would be much more cost effective to make my own marinades from scratch.  I’m pretty sure it would be a lot more healthy as well. 

Off to the internet I went to look for some good homemade marinade recipes.  Here is what I came up with:

A Marinade to Die For  This one has steak sauce, lemon-lime soda, brown sugar, butter and a few other ingredients you most likely have around the house.

The Perfect Marinade Italian dressing is the main component of this one, but it also contains soy sauce, lemon juice and few other ingredients.

Amazing Chicken Marinade This one is mainly for chicken, but does indeed sound amazingly good.

Spiced Herb Marinade for Fish I’m always looking for a new way to cook my fish, so I’ll definitely be trying this one soon.

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