Colorful Dinner

Last night I cooked two new things. John thought the presentation of the plate was so pretty, I just had to take a picture to commemorate the occasion. Honestly, I just dished it up like I normally would, it just happened to look like that. I personally don't think it looks very pretty, just colorful. I don't do the whole "plating" thing. It's a waste of time and effort because you're just going to eat it anyway and the plate will be a mess when you're done. Regardless, here's dinner from last night:

I've been trying to find more vegetables to make and add more main dishes without pasta (or cream cheese) to the list of things I make. So, last night's dinner was meatballs with sauce. The meatballs had egg, oatmeal, hamburger, and spices in them (thanks Aunt Karen for the recipe). The sauce was mostly ketchup (Heinz only!), some brown sugar and a couple spices. They were very good and very moist. The broccoli, I boiled, then made the topping with cream cheese, a ranch packet and some milk, then topped with cheddar cheese. It was good, but a little rich. Maybe a little less ranch mix on top would have been better. Then I just made garlic bread with some Brummel & Brown (yogurt butter), and garlic powder.

I didn't exactly succeed in removing the cream cheese from the dinner. But I can pretend it's healthy because it has broccoli in it.