30 Day Picture Shenanigans: Day 7

30 Day Picture Shenanigans: Day 7 (kind of) - My Dinner

Many people find great satisfaction in preparing a nutritious home-cooked meal for their family.  I am often one of those people.  We have always eaten pretty healthily, but lately we have eliminated most of the meat from our diets and made a few other changes for the better.  I love buying fresh foods at the grocery store (or the farmer's market when I can get there) and playing with new recipes, knowing that I am doing something good for the ones I love. 

Some days, however, I really just don't want to fricking cook.  I don't like going to the store on weekends because, how do I put this...people are stupid.  For today's picture shenanigans, I am going to share my go-to recipe for those nights when you just want to be lazy.

Lazy Night Dinner:
(Serves 3-6)

Step 1: In preparation for tonight's dinner, earlier in the day (while still at work), call/text your boyfriend/husband and say something like "Oh, hey, I know we've been eating so well lately, but for some reason I'm just having a craving for fried chicken and mashed potatoes!  So silly!"  Let simmer in man's brain for 3-4 hours.

Step 2: Walk in the door and say "Hmm...we really don't have much for dinner, but I'm sure I could throw something together.  What do you have a taste for?"

Step 3: Examine menu of nearby restaurant; place order by telephone; wait 20 minutes while boyfriend/husband drives to the restaurant.

Step 4:

Open the paper bag that boyfriend/husband brought home and remove paper box and styrofoam containers.  Ignore the cat whining at your ankles.  Suppress your urge to bitch about why anybody is still using styrofoam.  Push the cat off the kitchen table.

Step 5:

Open containers.  Push cat off of table again.  Try to block out the increasingly annoying sound of the cat whining.  Sneakily pick off a chunk of crispy, fried, deliciousness.  Try to ignore the guilt arising from breaking your diet.  Push cat off of table.

Step 6:

Plate the food.  Lock the cat in another room.  Enjoy!

(Side note:  Okay, so, clearly I skipped a day in the 30 Day Picture Shenanigans.  I'll just do two today.  I really didn't feel like doing anything yesterday.  I ordered fried chicken, for crying out loud.  (Side side note: The chicken was delicious and totally worth it.)  Also, I have a confession...I didn't actually take any of these pictures last night.  I was too busy shoving my face full of crunchy, salty goodness.  It was only after everyone had eaten that I remembered that I was going to do a blog post about the dinner.  So, this morning, I took everything out of the fridge and snapped pictures.  I even put cold food on a plate and was just going to put it all back into containers.  Then, Mr. Sty walked into the kitchen.

Mr. Sty: Didn't you just eat breakfast, like, 2 minutes ago?
Me: Yes.  I'm taking pictures of this for my blog then putting it all back.
Mr. Sty: (long pause) Uh...I guess I can just eat that...

I found this hysterical because he usually doesn't eat breakfast at all, let alone a chicken dinner at 9am.  10 minutes after eating he declared that he needed to lay down.  You don't feel well after eating fried food at the crack of dawn?  No shit!  He is currently lounging while saying that everyone who reads this will make fun of my "ugly green dishes".  That's another story.  Damn, this was the longest side note EVER.)

(Out of focus picture of chicken dinner.  It looks so good, but it hurts my eyes...)