In order to play/record/mix/jam at your best, you need to eat a healthy diet. Here is an easy recipie, which if you shop around, you can feed your band, your tech, your roadie, and your roadie's girlfriend for under twenty buxx, not including the beer. Incudes grease, which is one of the four basic food groups of recording (the others being caffiene, nicotine, and sugar).
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Food items you need....
- 2 large green bell peppers
- 2 large tomatos
- 3 large carrots
- 1 large broccoli or equal size of bagged broccoli flowerettes
- 4 to 8 medium to large sized portobella mushrooms
- 30 or so fresh green beans - chopped
- 2 small onions or 1 medium onion
- 1 medium eggplant
- Mrs. Dash brand seasoning OR fresh ground pepper
- 1 six to eight ounce can of tomato sauce - Hunt's brand perfered (or if your a cheap-ass like me, Price Rite store brand will work as well)
- optional - Two to three cups of shredded mozzarella cheese
- optional - one-half shot-glass of barbique sauce - McCormick's original or Sweet Baby Ray's original prefered, Hunt's original will work.
- penne pasta
- OLIVE OIL
- optional - ground beef or chicken... (and when I say "optional", with the eggplant, you can very well go without the meat!)
- OPTIONAL IDEA - Bread crumbs or bread cubes could be added to this dish, although I have not tried it yet.
- Large size "dutch oven" or comparable baking dish
- Fry pan
- cutting board
- cookpot with colander and lid
- cookpot for pasta
- knives or choppers and whatever other utensils required to prep and serve the food (and most of us should be smart enough to know the difference between a cheeze grater and a pepper grinder much less a knife and a fork...)
- Preheat oven to 300F. While oven is warming up start prepping items.
- Grease dutch oven and frypan with olive oil. Add half-shot-glass of barbique sauce to the bottom of the dutch oven.
- Boil penne pasta until tender. When pasta is tender, drain water from pot.
- Place colander in cookpot, add water to cookpot and bring to boil - peel, chop and steam carrots. When carrots are hot, remove from colander and place in dutch oven. DO NOT OVERCOOK CARROTS! MUSHY CARROTS ARE GROSS!
- Place broccoli in cookpot - steam broccoli in the same process as you steam the carrots. When hot, place in dutch oven. DO NOT OVERCOOK BROCCOLI! MUSHY BROCCOLI IS GROSS!
- Steam green bean pieces, add to dutch oven when hot.
- {EDIT} I forgot to add the mushrooms... Slice and saute the mushrooms at this point. Add to mix.
- Peel and lightly saute eggplant, add to dutch oven when hot
- Dice and lightly saute onion - place onion pieces in dutch oven.
- Mix broccoli, carrots, eggplant, green bean pieces and onion together.
- Dice and lightly saute green pepper. Add to dutch oven over top of carrots and broccoli.
- Dice and lightly saute tomatos. When tomatos are up to "temperature", add can of tomato sauce and bring to a boil. When the mixture is hot, add to dutch oven over top of everything else already in dutch oven.
- Add a light sprinke of Mrs. Dash seasoning or ground pepper.
- Cover dutch oven and place in oven for ten to fifteen minutes, until hot through.
- Remove dutch oven lid, evenly cover with cheese, and place back in oven until cheese is melted.
ENJOY!!!
