Fall break is coming! And that means it's time to take a break from the dining hall. Go home, give your mom a big hug, and beg for your favorite comfort foods. Hit the road and find some excellent restaurants to give a try. Or shake the dust from your recipes, open up the kitchen and get cooking. The last one is my plan. I can't wait to try out some of the dishes I haven't had time for since I've been bogged down with school. But until then, here are some new dining hall recipes to get you through the rest of the week.
This week's recipes:
Spanish Rice and Salami
So if you were really going for the Spanish flair, this dish would be called Spanish Rice and Chorizo, but good luck finding chorizo (Spanish pork sausage, spiced with different flavors such as paprika, red chilis and garlic) in the dining hall. Instead we hearken back to those old Italian peasants and their own version of cured sausage - salami - which is tasty too. It gives the dish much the same effect.
1. Fill a bowl with the Spanish rice from the Mexican Bar.
2. If the rice does not include beans already, add in black beans.
3. Add in cheddar cheese, cubed salami (Every few days they do not have salami, but the seasoned chicken from the Mexican bar is a good substitute), diced tomatoes, diced onion and bell peppers (diced is best, but they will be heated up and made soft enough to use the sliced kind if that is all that is available).
4. Dash on some red pepper flakes from the pizza area.
5. Mix together.
6. Heat in the microwave for at least a minute. Serve with a tortilla you have warmed in the Panini press until it starts to brown and bubble.
Root Beer Floats
Root beer floats, or Black Cows as my Grandma always called them, are a deliciously sweet and crisp dessert. And so easy. Not big on root beer floats, per se? Try orange fanta and vanilla ice cream for an orangesicle like taste.
1. Fill a cup with either vanilla fro-yo or ice cream.
2. Add in root beer. You may have to let the foam go down a couple of times before you can fill the cup to the top. Tada!
Quick Tip
Want something sweet but are tired of fro-yo and not ecstatic about the other dessert selections? Try taking the corn bread from the home-style bar and dribbling honey over it to make the perfect blend of sweet and savory.
Thanks to Katie Valko for reminding me about Root Beer Floats...how could I forget? Have your own dining hall recipe? We would love to feature it! E-mail mfordice@nd.edu.
