I’ve said it many, many times on this blog, but I feel like I need to reiterate it again: I hate cooking.  I’d rather clean toilets that chop vegetables.  I’m not even making that up.  But alas, may family insists on eating dinner every night.  Sigh.

We eat a lot of pasta dishes because I find them quick and easy.  But on the rare occasion that I’m feeling like Donna Reed, I try to do something different.  Before we had kids, Tom and I used to make foil packets of meat and vegetables on the grill.  They are simple to throw together so we still eat these every now and then – but I put them in the oven these days since our grill bit the dust a while back and we haven’t replaced it.

I consider these foil packet dinners to be a use-what-you-have type of dinner.  They always include ground beef, but the types of vegetables and seasonings change.  One night, I used something odd from the pantry to try for a different taste, and we couldn’t believe how awesome our dinner tasted.  Now, that ingredient is a necessity when we make our packets.

Here’s a {very rare on this blog} recipe for one of our favorite dinners on a lazy night….

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