What’s for dinner?

Tonight I looked into the frig and pantry and asked the cooking spirits to speak to me.  I had an eggplant, a zucchini, an onion, Roma tomatoes, and red and orange bell peppers.  Sounds good to me.  As I started butchering the veggies and sautéing them a vague memory hit me and I realized I was making something akin to Ratatouille.  I decided to serve it with some pasta.  Everything was going fine until I had a pasta accident and dumped the pasta into the sink.  LOL  I started over with the pasta and by the time it was done my ratatouille had cooked down into a thick sauce.  So dinner tonight ended up being Ratatouilleish Sauce Over Pasta.  I added a little Parmesan to mine when plated.  Seriously, yum.  :) 

Had a lazy dinner of spicy instant noodles with mushrooms, a poached egg and dumplings. 

Veggie Lettuce Wraps

Aside from the Veggie Lettuce wraps, I had a veggie burger with pickles and a perrier.

Had a craving for Singapore noodles but I didn't have rice vermicelli so I just substituted it with regular vermicelli pasta (it came out a bit mushier than I wanted though). Didn't have much greens to add to it either so it ended up being mostly chicken and shrimp with some carrots. It turned out well for my first try but I would definitely add less sauce next time too. 

Brown rice, black beans, and broccoli with carrots.

Is it considered fusion cuisine if I made the black beans with chili seasonings and the rice with an Asian spice mix? :D

Yemista (stuffed tomatoes, peppers, zucchini & vine leaves with rice). :) It's their season, so we had them twice this month already! :)))

Greek Gemista/Yemista (the image is NOT mine!)

And tomato scrambled eggs for late night snack - my picky little brother only eats the rice from inside the tomatoes in yemista, so I used the tomato shells he removed the rice from, and made yummy scrambled eggs with it! :)

 The Butterfly:

Is it considered fusion cuisine if I made the black beans with chili seasonings and the rice with an Asian spice mix? :D

Sure it can! It's whatever you want to call it, Mexican-Asian fusion cuisine maybe! (Hey, I pretend to eat Chinese food whenever I cook a pack of quick-cooking noodles, lol. And Indian food whenever I put Masala spice mix of my own making into something!)   ;) 

Totally unrelated, but we need to make a Sister Forum Post: What's for tea? or What tea/herbal infusion are you drinking right now?, because I'm making different iced tea recipes every day lately, and I need to share my enthusiasm for tea as well as food somewhere in MDL!!! :D