One dish wonderfulness

When you live in a busy household quick, hearty, one dish meals are greatly appreciated. I was browsing my various foodie sources and stumbled upon this wonderful recipes that seems to have everything I had in my fridge, and was extremely time efficient.

The recipe is here: http://www.countryliving.com/recipefinder/easy-pantry-pasta

Essentially speaking, you could pretty much make any part of the recipe and the wait time on that part would be perfect prep time for the next step. Plus it covered almost every part of the food pyramid.

Any one who knows me well knows that I love red-- so when I saw the half a bell pepper in my fridge, I couldn't help cutting a bit into cubes and dropping it in to give the final product some color and crunch.

If you put red wine on it... I would eat a bale of hay

Here is my dinner from a couple of nights ago. An easy, quick, tasty meal great for weeknight dinners. I made polenta (1/2 cornmeal, 1 cup milk, 1 cup water, some red pepper flakes, and a dash of salt) with a mushroom, red swiss chard, orange bell pepper, ginger, garlic, a dash of lemon juice, soy sauce, and red wine topping. On top of all of this was a fried egg and on the side (because my roomie has this strange need for all meals to have at least two dishes) was some home made yam fries with a ketchup + Siracha mixture. Enjoy the photos!