Lunch.

Hm.

I am in the mood to cook today, just for a quickie.

I want noodles in the mix though. Must-- have-- noodles

/me logs onto RecipeZaar

 UPDATE

Great recipes but all look like they'll take time. Here's what I think I'll do then:

1) Boil my pasta

2) boil my shrimp

3) Dry fry my pasta with some tomotoe sauce (almost: gotta have some olive oil!)

4) At the end toss in some cooking wine

5) Garnish plate with leaves, leaves leaves galore...and some of Mommy's cooking:)

Maybe I'll grab some crannie juice too...

I got carried away while freebie-shopping in Second LIfe today, only about made one phone call and didnt make a dent on my part time job search yet.  Wanted to examine some reportedly awesome  skins on certain freebie blogs, but as one of my avatars TP'd into the store, I saw that the creator had just rezzed in ("born" in-world, or the term of 'when you signed up', rezz days are like birthdays in Second Life, don' ch' know?) back in...March....Hmmm. And hooow did their skins look as good as someone say, like, Tuli or Starley?? Skins that kind of quality take a loooong time. Unless they were rezzed under a different avatar before hand. People do that too, switch accounts. I, personally, have 5 and am very fond of two that I use.

 But as usual taht took time:/, and its 1:34 and i've just recovered from "computer" headache enough to prep me some late lunch. Again past the 3- hour mark. Oh wells.

Update-Update

I'm going to make it a habit to resize my pics so that my favorite photo server, Village Photos  permits me to post up pics. I should probably get a Flikr account to, but eeeeeveryone uses it, and i'm not very fond of the Google ads.

Update en Finale

Well!

At 2 pm EST, I had in a simmering bowl my creation....which is yet to be named. But maybe you can name it for me. Anyhooo.....

Prep time: 30 minutes. Calories: No clue really but I think it is under my 400 Cal limit

Ingredients: estimate one serving of pasta, 3 full spoons of spaghetti sauce, about 6-7 pieces of raw, thawed out shrimp,  left- over fried heavily seasoned salmon (I know :( I shoul dhave left that out but oh wells), about a sprinkle of sea salt, estimate of Holland White Wine with a touch of Lemon .

1) Boiled the pasta.

2) Spoon out pasta onto the bowl, using same water toss in the 6-7 pieces of raw shrimp, 4-5 at a time. Took me about 7 minutes.  I then tossed the pasta back into the boiling pot and switched burners so that I could keep the pasta and shrimp hot and not-dry.

3) Took frying pan where the fish was left over night (it was cool donwstairs so dont worry), heated it up, added a little olive oil and shimmied the olive oil with the re-heated fish around.  Next,  I toss in the shrimp and let it fry for a minute with just the oil I had added.

4) added pasta, also a little of the water from the boil, to the frying pan; I let that simmer. Then tossed in the 3 spoonfuls of tomatoe sauce and then "fried"/tossed the pasta and shrimp around with that

5) I then took the wine and while critically eyeing the pan, I guess I liberally sprinkled the dish with the wine...but it must have been maybe a half cup. I didnt really measure...not the way I cook these days:/ .

Then I just tossed it around in the wine for a minute or two, then quickly shut off the stove and poured it immediately into the bowl. The thing looked soo good, that I ran up the stairs to grab my cam and I took a photo. I'll show it here asap as soon asi can find my connecting cord.

Took the first taste. MMMM! I had cranberry juice, with some left over Green Tea (which I had with my breakfast) and had some organic leaves on top. I made it a game with the leaves; I'd cover the top of the bowl with them and eat through, when the leaves were gone I'd cover it again. At least for the most part, some times I'd forget. But wow, I'm happy with this dish.

Did it help? I dont know, it certainly i think is better htan what I have had by myself and I admit it was nice to cook differently than the past few days. Per serving teh wine was 20 calories, the tomatoe sauce (i think at 2 teaspoons?) was at 80 calories, the pasta alone was definitely 140 calories.  Fish and shrimp combined I think accounted for the rest. I admit I think there was a high sodium count. :(  The fish probably exasberated the sodium count I shoul dwatch it next time. I would rather not need a transplant organ, as first off the waiting lists are too long,and ...well I dont want to gross anyone out.

I'm off to take my first shower of the day. its about 2:55 am.

Oh. You say what about my breakfast?

1) Green tea, first time in a while

2) toasted multigrain bread with a spread of Cheez-Whizz

3) Dannon Light & Fit strawberry yogurt, which was 60 calories and has Splenda. That's actually a family favorite.

And...i think that was it. Not bad really. Though I suppose full bodied yogurt with its natural sugar woudl have been better for me.

Right, off I go.