Another night, another McDougall recipe this week. His is Baked Penne Florentine, but I added the baby bellas to make it a little more substantial and add some more flavors to this dish and it turned out to be good! It uses cashews as the base of the creamy sauce so it adds protein with…
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Easy Falafel Wraps
Today was the last day of school with kids and I feel like I’ve been exhausted for weeks now! There’s been so much going on, and on top of it I’m moving classrooms so I’ve been packing and moving it all down the hall. Luckily my kids helped me move almost everything so they’ve been…
Cauliflower Dal
I made another McDougall recipe last night and this was for cauliflower dal. It’s oil free and made from whole foods to make a simple dal recipe. It has potatoes, cauliflower, split red lentils, and spices that come together to make a mild dal, and I actually added more spices to mine than it called…
Oil Free Lentil Sloppy Joe’s
I’ve made lentil sloppy joe’s in the past several times, but this time I tried the Dr. McDougall recipe who is the founder of Starch Solution. His recipes are oil free, low fat, and are mostly starch based meals. This recipe used more whole food, as where the others had ketchup or BBQ sauce added….
Meal Planning 5.20.18
Above: quick lunch of leftovers today! I diced some leftover potatoes with onion powder, chili powder, garlic powder, and pepper then baked on 425* for 30-35 minutes then put them on a bed of spring mix, carrots, tomatoes, and avocado. I used a little bbq sauce and green goddess dressing as dressing for it. Today…
Marinated Portobello & Broccoli Over Rice
Cooking vegan dinners can be so simple, and only a few ingredients are needed to have a well-rounded nutritious meal. A lot of people ask me “So what do you eat?” and there’s so much I do it that it takes a while to answer that question. I focus on all I can eat that…
Creamy Avocado & Asparagus Potato Salad
It’s the week of potato salad! I made a more traditional mustardy potato salad for Mother’s Day, but I saw this recipe in the Oh She Glows cookbook and it looked like it would be worth having potato salad twice this week for dinner. I was correct! It was a really filling yet light dinner…
Mother’s Day Munchies
For Mother’s Day we went to church, had lunch, grocery shopped, and then had a picnic in my Grandma’s backyard with the family. I have a big family so it’s always a party whenever we get together! Everyone (except moms) brought something to share so it made it easy, and I was in charge of…
Meal Planning 5.12.18
Josh and I decided we need to start having weekly date night like we used to because the grind of work and school are wearing us down and we need something fun to look forward to every week to get out of our routine. We had an impromptu date last week and tried out an…
Balsamic Roasted Veggie Pasta
Well you would think this would be a super easy throw together meal that would be really hard to mess up, right? Apparently I found a way to do that! I think this could have definitely been great with whole wheat pasta instead of using the brown rice and quinoa pasta that I used. When…
Vegan Singapore Noodles
I’ve ordered Singapore noodles a couple of times from Asian restaurants and have mixed feelings. I usually like thicker rice noodles and sometimes their amount of curry is off. It’s good if you can’t decide between curry or noodles, but it’s the canned yellow curry powder taste. I found a recipe on Pinterest for vegan…
Meal Planning 5.6.18
As school is coming to an end and summer is approaching, I’m exhausted! It’s also Teacher Appreciation week so I’ll go easy on myself and make some easy meals that don’t have tons of ingredients or lots of prep. The weather has warmed up by about 20 degrees in two weeks so the time for…
Crunchy Quinoa Tacos
Taco Friday!!! A little early for Cinco de Mayo (which we’re still celebrating today) but you just can’t have too many tacos. There’s so many fillings to add to tacos, and this was something I would never have made before but it was really great! Josh was so tired from 3 finals in two days…
Saucy Asian Eggplant, Mushroom, and Bok Choy
While we were at Atlantis we had a really yummy Chinese garlic eggplant dish one night so I wanted to make something similar at home. I was going to make this with broccoli, but decided to switch it up and use baby bok choy. I’m always up for a stir fry and I can’t believe…
Tofu and Veggie Scramble and Breakfast Potatoes
“Is that scrambled eggs?!” you ask. No! Can you believe that it’s crumbed tofu and it mimics the texture of scrambled eggs? It’s true, try and see! This is a meal that I usually don’t think to make on weekends when I actually have time, so it’s a great breakfast for dinner meal. Who doesn’t…
Meal Planning 4.30.18
I just finished meal planning for the upcoming week and this was the first time I was struggling to pick things that I wanted to make. Nothing sounded good to me…nothing really caught my eye… anyone have days like this? Luckily this week have have a few nights out, so I only needed to come…
Empty the Fridge Buddha Bowl
After a week of cooking, there’s odds and ends of extra produce and I just want to make something to use everything up and not waste it. “Waste not, want not” as Granny used to say! This buddha bowl is the perfect way to use all of the food in your fridge and turn it…
Chana Aloo (Chickpea and Potato Curry)
One of my friends had surgery last week so I’m bringing her dinner tonight and prepared it last night so it’s all ready to go. She loves Indian food so I made a chickpea and potato curry dish and am serving it with brown basmati rice and whole wheat pita bread. She’s a real foodie (I…
Family Fun Sushi Night
I’m lucky enough to have a cousin bestie and we’ve been talking about getting together for sushi night since I started making it a few months ago! It was past due. It’s her fiance’s birthday on Friday so I thought this week would be perfect to finally have sushi night and celebrate. I invited them…
Meal Planning 4.26.18
I made this roasted eggplant and hummus pita one day for lunch this week and used up some leftovers I had from the lasagna. I toasted the roasted eggplant in the toaster oven topped with some low sodium soy and nutritional yeast so it formed a glaze on the eggplant and then added hummus, cucumber,…
The Charming Chickpea 