Here’s a different take on the express lane meals I wrote about in March. The Well blog at the New York Times posted a 10-ingredient shopping list this week that enables us to make five healthy meals. One quick trip to the supermarket and we’re set.
The list assumes we have basics on hand, including “spices, good cooking oils and vinegars, long-keeping carbs like pasta, rice and udon noodles, as well as soy sauce, garlic, lemon, butter and Parmesan cheese.” So with that in mind, here’s the shopping list:
4 boneless chicken breasts
1/2 pound bacon
1 pound shrimp
1 pound spinach
6 tomatoes
ginger
onions
2 pounds asparagus
1 pound button mushrooms
1 loaf of good country bread
Blog author Tara Parker-Pope anticipated my skepticism, writing “Sound impossible?” after the list. It might, if not for the fact Mark Bittman, the Minimalist, is behind the recipes.
From that express-lane shopping list he gives us these five recipes:
Stir-Fried Chicken With Asparagus
B.S.T. (Bacon, Spinach, Tomato) Sandwiches
Grilled Chicken and Shrimp Kebabs With Vegetables
Shrimp With Asparagus and Udon Noodles
Pasta With Bacon, Spinach and Breadcrumbs
And of course we can mix and match to devise other recipes of our own. All of the recipes are included in the blog post along with a few tips, so hit the print icon now then click on over to Parker-Pope’s blog for the recipes.
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OK, I’ll bite! (Haha) I have all the “assumed basics” except butter; I don’t do butter, but I know how to work around that.
As for the shopping list; I will never, in this lifetime, purchase bacon, but I know how to work around that, too! The recipes LOOK delicious, and even though it’s bedtime, are making me wish it was dinner time! Well, there’s always another dinner to be had.
Thanks!
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Hi, Muse – Oh, easy workarounds for you, no question. The recipes do look good; his usually do and are.
LMK if you give this a try. I’m not able to right now but want to. (Have you ever had dinner twice in one night? I have…eek!)