{"id":15813,"date":"2019-01-27T18:39:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T18:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=15813"},"modified":"2019-01-27T18:39:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T18:39:25","slug":"easy-weeknight-dinners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/27\/easy-weeknight-dinners\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy weeknight dinners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because so much of our stuff is in storage and our kitchen in our rental is tiny and the oven stopped working and yada yada yada I have been doing more and more easy dinners.<\/p>\n<p>Two of my favorite ones lately are pan nachos (fortunately our toaster oven is also a convection oven). I started making nachos this way about a year ago. So much better than the microwave.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_9585-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_9585-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_9585-600x899.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_9585-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_9585-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_9585.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Really you can add whatever you want. I usually do refried beans, black beans, sometimes chicken but usually not, jalepenos, corn, cheese, and salsa.  My favorite salsa is from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.costco.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Costco<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_7227-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_7227-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_7227-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_7227-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_7227-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_7227-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_7227-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_7227.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>  It has all kinds of healthy yumminess in it.<\/p>\n<p>Homemade guacamole on top \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>My next favorite quick meal is cauliflower pizzas.  Also from Costco.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/imageService.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/imageService.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/imageService-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/imageService-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/imageService-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I add turkey pepperoni to the top and the great thing is they cook super fast because no bread.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/5lzQKTP7TBC3OPhyfPJow-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15819\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So there you go. Two easy dinners that aren&#8217;t Mac and Cheese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because so much of our stuff is in storage and our kitchen in our rental is tiny and the oven stopped working and yada yada yada I have been doing more and more easy dinners. Two of my favorite ones lately are pan nachos (fortunately our toaster oven is also a convection oven). I started making nachos this way about a year ago. So much better than the microwave. Really you can add whatever you want. I usually do refried beans, black beans, sometimes chicken but usually not, jalepenos, corn, cheese, and salsa. My favorite salsa is from Costco It has all kinds of healthy yumminess in it. Homemade guacamole on top \ud83d\ude42 My next favorite quick meal is cauliflower pizzas. Also from Costco. I add turkey pepperoni to the top and the great thing is they cook super fast because no bread. So there you go. Two easy dinners that aren&#8217;t Mac and Cheese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_9585.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15821,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15813\/revisions\/15821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}