lazy and lazier

Monday night, I made a lazy dish of comfort food. To sauteed onions and mushrooms, I added frozen corn, frozen edamame, and frozen Chinese vegetable dumplings. While everything was becoming acquainted in a steamy way, a made a sauce of soy, apple cider vinegar, scallions, and ginger (with a little water). We served the veggies over brown rice, sauce on the side.

Last night, Mr. P wanted to attend a town meeting at 7pm. I (ok, every cook must do this sometimes) opened a can of vegetarian baked beans and another can of brown bread with raisins, heated the beans, had dinner on the table at 6:40, just minutes after Mr. P arrived home. I admit we relaxed a bit over dinner, so he wasn't out of the house until 6:57. But at most he missed the National Anthem and a few procedural notes. And the article we were interested in passed, though only over the first hurdle.