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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1243010" data-attributes="member: 5171">Okay, here's a random meal that I stole from my local restaurant.  It looks a lot more impressive than it really is, which is great when you're trying to impress your wife.On one range, get some water boiling.  On another, put in some olive oil (flavored if you can get it) and toss in some chopped onions.  Stir-fry them on low-medium (say, 4-5 of 10) until they turn clear -- if they immediately brown, you've got the heat on too high.Then add some nice pasta, like raviolis, to the boiling water, and add some good veggies to the stir-fry.  My personal faves, for personal taste and health benefits, are broccoli and red peppers.  Sitr-fry these chopped-up guys while your raviolis get going, and add spices that complement the ravioli -- for a nice artichoke ravioli, I'd go with onion salt or maybe celery salt, and for a soy vegetable ravioli, I'd just go with garlic salt (but then, I'm a garlic abuser).Near the end, throw in some nuts for the stir-fry -- walnuts or almonds are good, pine nuts work well, too.Toss the raviolis in a collander, and shake 'em out.  Cover two plates with a bed of spinach, add the stir-fried veggies over that, then put the raviolis over that.  Finish up by spraying a little bit of butter spray or something to give it some flavor, or maybe some nice cheese shredded or sliced, laid lightly over the top.  Nuke each plate for maybe 45 seconds (on a low setting) to get the cheese to melt into everything a bit.You end up with a vegetarian meal that is relatively low fat (depending on whether you're using a low-fat cheese, or even a soy cheese alternative, since it's just part of the mix -- you don't necessarily need real full-blown cheese here), high in protein, and that has a ton of vegetables.  If your taste is like mine, it also tastes good. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Mileage may vary, of course.  And according to my (very polite) wife, it looks a lot harder to make than it really is.  I can make pasta, I can stir-fry, and I can put spinach on a plate.  Ta-dah. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />(And dude, I might've bogarted a bit, but Tom Cashel is drinking the granola-water, man!!!)</blockquote>

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