Creative Couscous

In about an hour I will be heading to the salle de réunion (meeting room) of my apartment building to meet my fellow residents. Yes, the night of the Anglophone coming-out party has arrived. There are signs everywhere, and we have at least two attendees, Ajit our Indian neighbor, and François our English tutoring student. We, the Anglophones, are eating an "early" dinner tonight (in France eating dinner before 8pm in unheard of), opting to chow down at 7pm in order to not have awkward tummy grumbling while meeting our French (and Brazilian, Chinese, and Indian) neighbors. So, I wanted to take the opportunity, since my dinner is done 20 minutes before schedule, to make my first recipe post.

Inspired by one of my favorite stuffed pepper recipes and my favorite Indian restaurant in Northfield, MN, I have created Creative Coucous.
Here's the recipe that I'm making up as I type, based on what I just made up as I cooked:

Ingredients:
1 T olive oil
1 clove of garlic, smashed and chopped
half a white onion, chopped
half a red pepper, chopped
10 dried apricots, sliced
20 cashews
about 1.5 cups couscous, medium grain, prepared (should yield about 3 or so cups when prepared)

1. Heat up oil in frying pan over medium heat.
2. Chop garlic and onion and add to pan. Then add chopped pepper. Sautée until they smell really good.
3. In the meantime, make couscous.
4. Add sautée mixture to fluffed couscous, then stir in apricots and cashews.
5. Add salt and pepper to taste.
6. Enjoy while watching "The Great British Bake-Off" finale with your two English friends before going to your awkward coming-out party held by your jovial match-making landlord.

Cheers! I'll let you know if I lock eyes with my future French husband (aka my dad's worst nightmare).