Teacups and Toasters

Alternate Title: My Daughter Notes that I’ve Lost My Mind

Alternate Alternate Title: My Husband States, “What’s that smell?”

Yesterday was fun. It was productive. It all started in Kroger’s while pushing my happily, joy riding in a blue car cart, daughter along the salad dressing aisle. I wanted some Creamy Italian dressing for dipping baby carrots. I found that. AND THEN I found a closeout item! The bottle read, Thirty Minute Marinade -Thai Curry Ginger with Coconut. It looked pretty. SEE!

So, I took it home. It was a buck and ten cents. I also picked up some other new things to try. Like This!

No worries, I don’t like to look at raw meat either, so we’ll cook it up in a second. After you see my next never before eaten item!

Tada! Before yesterday, I’d never had an acorn squash. It was hard to cut. My knife got stuck.

Alas, I finally unstuck the knife after some seriously funny moments in which I was thankful to be the only one in the kitchen. So, whilst jamming to the SpiderMan2 soundtrack I made a dish that I had never afore made. It turned out like this:

I thought it was tasty, but the kitchen does still smell like curry.

Grab a bottle of the closeout marinade at your local Kroger and kick it up with this recipe:

YOU WILL PERHAPS NEED:

1 acorn squash cleaned, peeled, and sliced

Approx. 4 cups of brown rice

2 cups chopped and washed broccoli florets

1/2 bottle of Thai Curry Ginger w/Coconut marinade from Kroger by Kroger

1lb of ground lean turkey

HERE’S WHAT YOU DO WITH IT:

1. Pour 1/2 bottle of marinade overtop of turkey and place in fridge for 30min or more

2. Prepare the rice (prep differs depending on whether it’s instant, or not) Follow the directions you have at home

3. Set the rice to the side

4. Place sliced acorn squash and broccoli florets in a small pot of water and let them soak about 15 minutes. You can turn the heat on under the pot if you wish to soften them up a little more. It’s really a texture preference.

5. Once 30 minutes have passed cook the turkey on medium heat in a large skillet sprayed with no stick spray.

6. Once turkey is fully cooked add in the rice, acorn squash, and broccoli. Be sure to drain the water out of the acorn squash and broccoli before adding it to the skillet.

7. Toss and add some more marinade.

8. Cover and cook on low heat for about 8 minutes.

9. Eat it up.

10. Don’t be offended when your two year old asks for tomato soup instead.