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No-Cooking Dinner

dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m

14 years ago

Went to a wedding yeaterday. Too much food yesterday, and too tired to cook today.

A simple no-cooking and no-recipe meal.

Sashimi.

dcarch

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User
14 years ago
I love the first picture. Beautiful, colourful, fresh sashimi.

~Ann
teresa_nc7
14 years ago
That is lovely!

Same here: worked in the yard today + gift card = grilled salmon salad for dinner.

Teresa
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lsr2002
14 years ago
That looks delicious, I love the flower and the daikon shreds and the beets. All the fish looks fabulous. Was that for more than one person?

We had an easy no cook lunch,went out for a little bit of sushi and going to a birthday party tonight.

Lee
mustangs81
14 years ago
Too tired?? Do you know the energy and it would take for me to create something that awesome? Too tired, no cook for me would be a bowl of cereal.

Very nice.
Bumblebeez SC Zone 7
14 years ago
That's one of the most attractive plates, to me, that you've made. Beautiful, but it's still cooking! As you well know.
foodonastump
14 years ago
No cooking? How was the rice prepared? ;)

Looks delicious. Quite coincidentally, last night I was too tired to cook ended up with raw salmon and tuna as well. In the form of rolls, which were neither homemade nor plated as attractively.
annie1992
14 years ago
dcarch, that is absolutely beautiful and it looks delicious. Like Cathy, my "no cook" meals tend to be something like a bowl of Cheerios. If I'm too tired to cook, I'm too tired to think!

Annie
ynnej
14 years ago
I can't stop marveling at what you've done with those beets!
dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m
Original Author
14 years ago
Thank you everyone. I appreciate your kind words.

Teresa, many of my plating have been inspired by your beautiful quilting.

Lee, there was not that much food on the plate, just enough for one.

Cathy, it looks more completed than it really is. Sliced beets cut to a square, packed rice in a mold, and dumped fish randomly on the plate.

Bumblebeez, no there was really no cooking. Except the fish, everything was leftovers.

FOAS, if you look carefully there are three different cooked rice there. They are all small quantity leftovers.

Annie, I too have had Cheerios for dinner. They are pretty good.

Jenny, those are leftover beets. If you look again, you will also see yellow golden beets there. Really was a no-cooking dinner.

dcarch
westsider40
14 years ago
Yeah, right, real simple.
jenn
14 years ago
Beautiful!! That is an amazing work of art.

I'm with mustangs, an easy no-cook dinner is a bowl of cold cereal, or yogurt w/nuts and fruit.
lbpod
14 years ago
I love Cheerios too, but I like to
put some preserves, or jam, or jelly,
(Lord, I can't keep them all straight in
my head), in a bowl, (they don't
have to be homemade), and microwave them
until they turn into a sort of 'syrup',
and then drizzle the results on the Cheerios.
Yummy, but nothing to write home about.
BUT, if you add a big scoop of your favorite
ice cream, then you are treading the line
between dinner and dessert. This also works
especially well with my next favorite cereal,
Rice Chex.
jolj
14 years ago
Roast beef and/or roast turkey on rye or wheat, with tomatoes,onions,sweet peppers, lettuce,cucumber, olives, 2 or 3 cheeses.
caminnc
14 years ago
WOW, that is beautiful. You should go on America's got talent, haha!!!

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