Recipes and Foods For The Milk Free

I love coming up with random recipes with whatever I have on hand.  This is one of those recipes.  I came up with this last week the day before I went to the grocery store, AKA the day with little food in the fridge.   I had already been making sausage for my breakfast sandwiches so I just used the sausage that was left over but I’m sure this could also have been made with hamburger as well.

Dairy Free Recipe : Sausage and Rice

This made one serving

1/4 cup brown rice (cook according to package directions)

1/4 cup chopped carrot

1/4 cup chopped celery

1/4 cup chopped onion

1/2 cup cooked ground sausage

1 tsp garlic powder

Instructions

I began by cooking the rice in its own pot then added the rest of the ingredients while there was still liquid in the rice.  This let the veggies cook some while the rice finished cooking. 

 This recipe did remind me that I think I would like a rice cooker.  Does anyone have one?  What do you think of it? Does it work as well on brown rice as white rice? 

Before we lose electricity I have to use everything I can out of the fridge.  This is causing me to get very creative when it comes to what is left in my fridge and the freezer.  The thought of having to throw food away is really bothering me but we’ve got most of it eaten and won’t have to throw away much and I may run whatever is left up to my neighbors. Their bachelors and seem to live on mostly beer so I would feel good knowing that for a few meals they could grill up some chicken or pork steaks.  I wonder if they would take our frozen veggies?

Anyway, I’ve been getting creative.  Here is the dairy free recipe I came up with for lunch one day.

 Dairy Free Recipe: Pasta with Sausage and Shrimp

Ingredients:

1 cup egg noodles

1/4 pound of your favorite ground sausage (I used Italian, make sure it doesn’t have milk in it!)

1 cup frozen shrimp, thawed and the tails taken off

1 cup frozen veggies (I used a broccoli, cauliflower, carrot mix because I needed to use it)

1 tablespoon garlic powder

6 cubes frozen chicken broth

Directions:

Cook the egg noodles according to package directions (boil them). While the noodles are boiling, brown the sausage.  After the sausage is browned add the cooked noodles to the pan with the sausage and throw everything else in there as well.  Cook on medium heat until the shrimp and veggies are heated through. 

Serving Size:

hmmm, this fed me alone for lunch but would probably feed two people if a salad and breadsticks were added.