Dinner and moderate exercise!

Today in Turning Ingredients into food, RantWoman presents both moderate exercise and two "I made it up all by myself recipes. Will RantWoman soon be starting her own cooking Youtube channel? Probably not, but getting a couple hours of moderate exercise and using what one has on hand is a better--and cheaper--idea than going out into the cold and dark to walk around at a grocery store.

So let's cook, with an eye to easy reheat prep for several meals.

Impromptu chickpea curry, featuring, not in order of proportions:

a splash of olive oil in a skillet to start the saute on medium heat.

(RantWoman has an electric stove. The burners retain heat even when turned off so be sure to stir enough to avoid scorching anything.)

half an onion minced

as many cloves of garlic as one feels like, minced.

one yam chopped

two medium potatoes scrubbed and chopped

one 6 oz can of pineapple juice and a splash of water if needed

turmeric and cumin

a couple pieces of candied ginger because that was what was on hand.

1 15 oz can of chickpeas drained and washed

a package of frozen riced cauliflower. RantWoman is not sure whether it was about a pount or a little less.

Note: NO SALT ADDED.

Add the ingredients in succession to the skillet. Let everything get hot and bubbly. Simmer until the yam and potatoes are chewable.

RantWoman thought of adding some curry paste but opted not to this time.

The recipe yielded what will probably be 3 generous servings. RantWoman was pleased with the results and may or may not make this exact recipe again.

background: RantWoman has fallen in love with some different curry and legume packets available on Amazon. RantWoman does a certain amount of shopping for non-perishables on regular Amazon delivered on Prime rules rather than minimum purchase required to get free deliver from Amazon Fresh. RantWoman loves free delivery and most of the time can shop ahead and schedule the deliveries on her Prime day.

RantWoman also shops in person and lately, since the minimum purchase required for free delivery has been lowered to $100 RantWoman still does a delivery order about once month.

RantWoman generally likes the flavors of these premade dishes but reads the label. RantWoman prefers not to eat things that have more than 20% of the RDA of sodium per serving. To dilute the sodium level, RantWoman tends to stretch with some kind of sauteed vegetables to increase the number of portions and then to eat the dishes over rice. RantWoman thought she had a chickpea curry packet but could not find it. Hence the improvisation with what's on hand. 

Turkey vegetable stew with cassava rotini.

splash of olive oil to start the saute

the other half of the minced onion from above.

as much garlic as one likes minced.

chopped green pepper and celery.

1 or 2 ground turkey patties

clean out the very end of a jar that had ground white pepper

two gorgeous heirloom tomatoes offered by a neighbor who does not eat tomatoes, put into the stew so they do not rot in RantWoman's refrigerator.

part of a packet of frozen broccoli.

a handful of broken walnuts.

While all of these are simmering together, cook an 8 oz. box of rotini separately. Cassava pasta can get mushy really fast so leave it al dente figuring it will finish cooking when reheated to serve.

Background: RantWoman has a friend who seems to buy foods in quantity and then decide she does not want to eat what she has bought. RantWoman is glad to receive the rejects but frets a little about whether there is anything to be worried about psychologically. 

The riced cauliflower, turkey patties, and rotini all came from RantWoman's friend. RantWoman may or may not buy more of any of them.

The chopped celery and green pepper were frozen from RantWoman's most recent Amazon Fresh order. They work fine for cooking like this and also work better in RantWoman's small freezer than when RantWoman was experimenting buying frozen entrees to fill out Amazon fresh orders.

The dish turned out spicy from the white pepper and maybe a little undersalted. RantWoman will probably sprinkle with some kind of grated cheese when eating.

The arbitrary quantities here will yield 4 or 5 servings over the week.

And finally, a curry recipe by someone who clearly knows what she is doing.

(Weird asterisk: RantWoman has enough trouble keeping her own hair which usually lives in a French braid, out of food. RantWoman has NO IDEA why all the lovely curls here don't wind up either in the food or on fire. RantWoman is not going to worry further but just noticing!)