i had some dried rigatoni that i needed to do something with, and the thought of just buying a jar of pasta sauce wasn't really appealing to me while i was trying to decide on meals for this week. i love that this bolognese recipe is labeled "fast" even though it simmers for 90 minutes after most of the ingredients have been added. i used 7 carrots instead of 6 since that's how many i wound up buying. me being me, i used 15 cloves of garlic. i couldn't get ground sirloin and used ground beef instead, and i wish i'd skimmed some of the fat off after browning the meat. i have some in the freezer that i'll use for baked potatoes and maybe some other pasta dish whenever the mood strikes. it could probably stand a little more salt, but i've been eating this with the aforementioned rigatoni and sprinkled with cheese and it was fine for me.
i made these rice cakes so i could have them for breakfast this week. i used full-fat cheese because that's my preference. i'm sure if i had the patience to chop my broccoli and onion into even pieces, the finished product would've been more visually appealing, but the flavor's there and that's all that matters right now. i've been eating them along with some breakfast sausage and i'd make them again, possibly with some sort of chopped and cooked meat (bacon? bacon sausage? pancetta? crumbled sausage?).
the tex-mex pork was meant as an alternate dinner option if/when i grew tired of the pasta, but i brought the wrong type of salsa and the texture was all wrong. i ate some of it over rice topped with sour cream since i had sour cream in the fridge already, but i wound up using the rest of the pork in my lunch salads. it tastes fine, but i want to try it again with a chunkier salsa. might also try it with salsa negra - the texture probably won't be right, but it's salsa negra and i don't think i'll care as much.
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