||Day Thirty-Eight||
Today was fairly uneventful. I woke up early-ish for the first time in a while. Then I headed down to my mom's office building, and helped her clean/move to a different office within the building. Since none of that was particularly blog-worthy, I decided to highlight my dinner tonight.
This is actually one of my favorite meals because it seems somewhat guilt-free, but it's also super easy.
I guess you could called it "Veggie Pasta". Essentially, it's cooking vegetables (I particularly like zucchini and tomato) in olive oil and then putting it over pasta instead of using marinara or alfredo.
Even though it seems pretty self-explanatory, I'm going to break it down.
For this dish I use:
1 whole zucchini,
1 whole zucchini,
2 roma tomatoes, and
1 box of pasta (tonight I used fettuccinie)
{Step One}
Chop up vegetables of your choosing into bite-size pieces. If you you're going with something like zucchini, it's important to cut the pieces fairly thin so they cook all the way through and more quickly.
{Step Two}
Pour a small amount of olive oil in skillet and add vegetables. In my case, I'm cooking the zucchini first because it will take longer than the tomatoes. I also like to add salt at this point (I prefer Sea Salt because it's coarser) so that it gives the vegetables some flavor.
{Step Three}
Sauté the vegetables until the start to turn slightly brown, making sure to cook both sides.
{Step Four}
(Optional) Add tomato. As a person who just whole-heartedly loves tomatoes, I think these make the dish. I like to add them in near the end of the cooking so that they don't get too mushy.
{Step Five}
Cook on low until ready to serve.
{Step Six}
After cooking pasta, top with your cooked vegetables and parmesan cheese. The key to making this dish "guilt free" however, is to have more vegetables than pasta; especially if you're like me and enjoy your pasta with garlic bread on the side.
Unfortunately for me, I have yet to master the vegetables to pasta ratio, and finished my meal feeling slightly guilty. So to ease my mind, my mom and I took our dogs for an evening walk around the block.
And of course, my makeup-less challenge day five.
I don't know why, but today I felt more self-conscious today than I have the past four days. I feel like this may be attributed to the fact that I didn't do anything to my hair today after I showered; unkempt hair along with not wearing makeup just made me feel like I wasn't put together. It bothered me.
I've also pretty much decided that I will continue to not wear makeup for at least two more days, that way I will have gone one week without it. Honestly I miss wearing makeup. It's not so much that I feel like I need it, but just that I like having the ability to change my look with how I feel each day, if that makes sense. But the important thing is that I feel comfortable enough with myself to not wear makeup, if I so choose.
I feel like these past few days have been fairly busy, and yet I'll struggle with finding something interesting to blog about. I also feel like I'm "cheating" on my "taking a picture every day of summer" challenge, because I want the pictures to be meaningful so that when I look back on them in the winter I can see the pictures and thing "Oh yeah, that was the day I went to ___", or whatever.
Hopefully, I can start to change that soon.
♥K
