Dani Spies

you have all your veggies prepped and ready to go (I told you it was a BIG IF!).

Now here's the deal... I don't mean to sound like a broke record people BUT the only solution that I have found for saving time in the kitchen (especially when it comes to week night dinners) is pre-preppin'.  Ya just gotta put a little for-thought into the meal plan for the week if you don't want to get sucked into the: "I'm-too-tired-and-hungry-to-care-so-i'll-just-eat-a-sleeve-of-cookies-for-dinner" vortex (don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about!).

Now, I didn't prep my veggies on the weekend for this dinner, but I did chop them up during the late morning while Katie was sleeping.  Which was my saving grace because I just didn't have the same kind of time when dinner came around.  So.... blah, blah, blah, blah, blah... all I'm saying is,"PRE-PREP!".

This recipe was inspired from a recipe in the South Beach Cook Book.  The first time I made it I followed the recipe verbatim BUT it was a little too ho-hum for my liking SO I made it a second time and gave it a little dani d. spin (dani d. is what all my friends call me... and don't ask why, because the d. has NO meaning).

Basically I cut way back on the coconut  milk, added some ground ginger for spunk and a little arrowroot to thicken up the sauce a bit.  The ginger really gave this the kick that I was looking for... yum!

I have also been experimenting with different oils and find that cooking with coconut oil is a great option for high heat cooking, like stir-frying.  It has a much higher smoke point so it does not oxidate (like say an olive oil would) when working over high heats.

Overall a really QUICK, clean, simple, and d'lishes dish (as long as you do a little pre-preppin';)). 

Onto another topic... I hope to post a video sometime next week.  Beng and I shot a ton of videos when I was preggo that never got edited so I wasn't able to post them.  So technically they are "new" videos since you will have never seen them before BUT they aren't current.  Either way, I'm still feeling excited to get back to sharing some videos SOON!!