Rice Kalabush

I've been thinking... There are so many beautiful cooking/baking blogs out there with wonderful photos. Probably by the millions. Why should I continue with this blog? It certainly doesn't get read by the masses. Why load the world wide web with yet another mediocre cooking blog? I have contemplated on quitting. But then it occurred to me that by having this blog I end up trying to create nice-looking and tasty dinners. It kind of "forces" me to do so. So if I get something out of it, why not keep doing it?

One such nice-looking and tasty dinner was the one I made last night:


I wanted it to be quick and easy and use whatever vegetables we had in the fridge and needed to be used immediately.
I titled it rice kalabush because I used kielbasa as a proteinaceous topping and kalabush (meaning a prison in Turkish, I think) sounds close enough. Also, this could be a good prison food :)

The ingredients I used (feel free to substitute with whatever vegetables you have and need to use:

• Chopped 1/2 onion
  
• Chopped 1/2 green bell pepper
• Chopped 3 large roma tomatoes
• Coarsely chopped 5 large white button mushrooms
  
• Chopped ~1 c fresh spinach
• 2 Tofurky kielbasas, sliced 1/2"
  
• 1 cup corn kernels
• 1 T oil
• 1 T vegetable broth powder
• 1.5 c non cooked rice
• Salt
  

The way I made it:

• Cooked the rice
  
• In a large frying pan over medium-high, heated oil and sauted onion
  
• Added the kielbasas, until both sides were browned, then pulled them out and set aside
• Added the green bell pepper
• Added the rest of the vegetables
  
• Added vegetable broth powder and salt
• Cooked until it seemed juicy enough to soak the rice in, reduced heat to low
  
• Added the cooked rice, stirred, took off flame
• Served, topped with kielbasa slices

Even though the vegetables are full of flavor, it might be worthwhile experimenting with some spices. Maybe paprika?