Potato salad

Potatoes were starting to grow things out of their buds... way time to eat them. I didn't what to make for dinner anyways.

Am I going to start blogging my college meal every day? I don't think so. Just these days, I'm getting some kind of food creativity/motivation, so I keep on doing things that are more than simply veggies and rice.

And I'm posting this more more for me to be able to find the dressing recipe again if needed.

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RECIPE

  Ingredients (amounts according to how much is required)

• potatoes
• carrot(s)
• cucumber (leftovers from yesterday's sushi night)
• 1 tsp mustard
• 1/2 lemon's juice
• 1 tbs mayonnaise/vegenaise
• salt and pepper, to taste

  Procedure

1. Dice potatoes, carrots (smaller than potatoes), slice cucumbers however you ant.
2. Steam or boil potatoes until tender. Steam or boil carrots until just cooked.
3. Refrigerate carrots and potatoes until cold.
4. Mix with cucumber slices.
5. In a bowl, mix mustard, lemon juice, mayonnaise, and season to taste. Multiply quantities as required.
6. Mix into the potato salad, careful to not mash the potatoes.

Easiest Pasta

Here's another super simple recipe. It involves 2 ingredients (+ seasoning), plus whatever else you want/have around.

All you have to do is the following:

1. Cook any type of pasta to desired consistency.
2. Mix in some mayonnaise (vegenaise if you want it vegan).
3. Season with salt and pepper.
4. Add some extra stuff (in this one, cashews and tomato).

For step 4, you can really put whatever you want! The first time I've had this type of pasta salad, it was just toasted pine nuts. The second time? Canned corn. I've done it with some carrots, other vegetables, etc. Realy easy for when you want pasta but are too lazy to make a sauce, or if you just don't have a lot of ingredients around. What's best about this recipe is how versatile it is!

Onigiri!

Once again home alone, with some leftover salty, poached tofu in the fridge and leftover rice in the rice cooker, I thought "hey, I can try making onigiri!" (onigiri are rice balls, sometimes with filling, usually wrapped in nori seaweed)

Some of them contain chopped poached tofu and chopped boiled carrots, others have a chopped tofu and mayo mix. I had some leftover chopped carrots, so I added them as a side.

I mixed in some salt, sugar, and rice vinegar into the rice to make sushi rice, just for fun and additional flavor. I even tried making faces with the nori seaweed, but they're kind of failed... =D