20 min Tilapia

Garlic tilapia with mashed potatoes and steamed asparagus with grated parmesan on top. 

Sometimes we just don't feel like cooking. The nights when we do, we do it up but do it quickly. We are trying to make a conscious decision to eat more fish. I just have to figure out a way to make it not taste like fish :)

RECIPE

1. Marinate:  2 fresh squeezed lemons (save lemon after squeezed), 2 garlic cloves minced, rock salt, and pepper. I like to let marinate for a few hours or overnight. 
2. Preheat oven to 350. 
3. Make little tilapia envelopes with aluminum foil. I buy the pack that each foil is 12x12 inches. Place tilapia in center and pour a little of the marinate (that is left), on top. Fold in each side with leaving a little tent, so the steam can leave. 
4. Place in oven for 16-20 minutes. 
5. Mash potatoes were left overs. (golden potatoes, mashed with butter, fresh garlic, milk)
6. While that is cooking, cut up asparagus and steam (you want to do this about 6 mins out on the tilapia being done, asparagus gets cold quickly) take the lemon, grate the rhine over the asparagus. 
7. Pile it up- mashed potatoes, tilapia, asparagus, lemon grated, grated parm
8. EAT! 

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Foodies...Fast New Yorker dinner!

Being a New Yorker can be tough on the stomach sometimes. Most of the time it is so easy to pick food up on the way to and from work, but that doesn't always work on our budget, so we come up with easy quick meals that are oh so very tasty.
What you will need (for 2 servings):

• 1 pepper (I prefer red or orange, green don't have enough punch for me)
• 1/2 yellow squash, chopped
• 1 bag of cous cous (we use the kind you boil up water, pour and top with lid till it is solid, about 5-7 minutes) 
• 2 Thin n' Trim sausages, we use the Buffalo Chicken (we like it hot)
• 2 garlic cloves
• Mrs. Dash's extra spicy seasoning

Get the cous cous out of the way, boil some water, place the desired amount of cous cous in tupperware, boil water and follow instructions on bag. Cooking the other ingredients; turn stove top on low in medium sized pan, sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon olive oil, wait for heat to kick in, mince up garlic, let simmer for a second, letting the delicious aroma fill your house. Add in chopped pepper and squash. Chop up the sausage, place in pan and let everything simmer together for about 3-4 mins on medium heat. Plate; one scoop of cous cous, and a heaping serving of everything that is in the pan. Sometimes we add a dash of Frank's Red Hot Sauce cause "I put that shit on everything."