Healthy Vegetarian Meal Plan – 2.8.20

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Happy Saturday! If you’re following along with the flu saga of 2020 then you should that I was febrile all day yesterday but it broke somewhere in the late afternoon and hasn’t come back since. I felt pretty crappy when I had the fever and have a very mild runny nose, but otherwise I’m okay. Was it really the flu? Was it some other non-specific viral illness? WE WILL NEVER KNOW. What I can say for sure is that if it was the flu, then tamiflu is magic especially if you take it before you’re symptomatic.

Onto more exciting things, like FOOD! Here’s what we’re cooking this week:

  • teriyaki tofu bowls – love these for easy dinner and meal prep
  • vegan meatball subs – mega comfort here!
  • roasted vegetable fajita lettuce wraps – so cute and colorful
  • immunity boosting turmeric soup – yep, that’s what I need
  • vegan mushroom bourguignon – fancy!

Happy eating!
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Caramel Canvas Blondies

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Rich and gooey caramel canvas blondies made with a base of brown butter and brown sugar to lend a luscious butterscotch flavor. These are the perfect blank canvas for all of your favorite cookie mix-ins, though here we used chocolate chips and pecans.
Caramel Canvas Blondies

OF COURSE I had to go and have an accidental flu exposure the exact most inopportune week of all time!!!!

Maybe I mentioned this, but my SIL is getting married this weekend. We are all in the wedding, Remy included (get ready for some majorly cute flower girl pictures), and so the flu is really just not going to work for us.

Not. At. All.

If you’re wondering whether I went and got myself an emergent tamiflu prescription for prophylaxis…..yes. Yes I did.

Not proud of it, but it was clearly necessary. Mostly for my peace of mind.

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Super Green Kale Polenta

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Super green kale polenta made with a kale puree, handfuls of parmesan cheese, and dollops of mascarpone cheese.

Super Green Kale Polenta

It’s my birthday month!!

That means I get to eat all the cake (<– it’s calorie free in your birthday month, obvs) along with all of my favorite green food and my family CAN’T EVEN COMPLAIN.

Well, they can. And do. But I just don’t listen.

Like the night we had this kale polenta and you should have seen all the eye rolls and heard all the emphatic sighs of disbelief coming from the peanut gallery. But then ALL THE SILENCE as they shoveled all the spoonfuls into their mouth.

Total mom win.

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Vegetarian Black Bean and Cheese Ancho-ladas

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Vegetarian black bean and cheese enchiladas made with a homemade ancho pepper enchilada sauce.
Vegetarian Black Bean and Cheese Ancho-ladas

These ancho-ladas are a day late to make an appearance at your Superbowl party but RIGHT ON TIME for Taco Tuesday and the rest of your life!!

And really you will be making them for the rest of your life because they are insanely delicious and insanely easy.

What a catch.

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Healthy Vegetarian Meal Plan – 2.1.20

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Hi, happy Saturday!!

I was reading this interesting article the other day about how weekend baking/cooking projects are becoming the new trend among millennials, along with owning KitchenAid stand mixers and Le Creuset Dutch Ovens to make them. The bake- and cookware are almost status symbols or conversation pieces. What was most interesting (to me) is that these same twenty-somethings do almost no home cooking during the week (due to perceived lack of time/energy), only these specific weekend challenges. I had to laugh a bit at that because I definitely thought I had no time when I was twenty-something and had no children…but now that I have Remy I really have no time, but have to make sure dinner gets on the table somehow even more so than I did before! It’s the irony of aging.

Thankfully we have meal planning tools to make all this cooking/meal prep a bit easier (MILLENNIALS, ARE YOU LISTENING?!?!).

Here’s what we’ve got for you this week:

  • vegan tacos with tahini cheese – wow, yes
  • slow cooker curried butternut chili – making life so much easier on a Monday
  • black-eyed pea stew with green herb smash – that green herb sauce is LYYYFFEEE
  • roasted garlic spaghetti squash with sun-dried tomatoes – sounds so good
  • one pot garlicky chard with chickpeas – totally want to try this

Happy eating!

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Superbowl Cupcakes

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These superbowl cupcakes are perfect for game day but also for any celebration! Chocolate cupcakes topped with peanut butter frosting and fun snack food garnishes.
Superbowl Cupcakes

I can count on zero fingers the number of times I’ve watched a superbowl (or any football game for that matter) all the way through.

There was one time in college where I physically sat through the whole thing, but I can’t say I paid attention for even a single minute. There were too many other things to occupy my mind like beer and snacks and gossip and did I mention SNACKS?!?!

Clearly you can see where my head is at.

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