Challenge

i wonder how i have managed to survive this long cooking for myself, i honestly don't know a thing about it. and most of it comes from a lack of ideas. now i am responsible for feeding myself and my lovely husband. thanks to all of our fabulous friends and family, our house is filled with these wonderful cooking supplies and i am at a total loss. i registered for them so i know i had the intention to use them. once they arrived i seem to have found a lovely place for them in a cabinet or drawer but i have yet to test them out in the dishwasher.

so last night my husband came up with a brilliant idea. he has set up a challenge for me. i have to use either the flame le creuset round dutch oven or the blue le creuset oval dutch oven - i think the difference is what sort of things you can cook in each. the oval one lends itself more toward meats and poultry while the round one can do more of a stew/vegetable stew. but please don't hold me to that. so i have been given 1 week to come up with a simple, cheap dinner to prepare in either dish.

my goal is to create a meal for less than $40 using ingredients that are simple, delicious and take less than an hour to cook.

wish me luck.