Healthy Vegetarian Meal Plan – 8.10.19

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Happy Saturday friends!!!

I am SO happy to have two days off after last week’s working weekend. Today we are celebrating by going for a run! It is a Summer Streets weekend here in the city and so Park Avenue is closed off to traffic so that runners and bikers and walkers can use it for their exercise. It’s AMAZING. We’ve been doing the same weekend running route for a few months now and so it will be a welcome change. Then we’re going to my in-laws’ to spend some time at their pool! Sunday is wide open still, and I’ve basically only got plans to make a pie. What else is new, haha???

Here’s what we’ve got on this week’s meal plan!

  • one pot tomato basil quinoa – so summery!
  • pasta salad with lemon poppy seed dressing – never seen a dressing like this on pasta before
  • chickpea and lentil taco bowls – meal prep perfect
  • roasted eggplant and hummus tartines – shockingly easy and so yummy
  • sweet potato and black bean enchiladas – LOVE these flavors

Happy eating!

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Marinated Sweet Pepper Salad with Basil, Capers, and Pecorino

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A summer salad made with surprisingly addictive marinated sweet peppers, fresh basil, capers, and shards of pecorino cheese.
Marinated Sweet Pepper Salad with Basil, Capers, and Pecorino

I’m just a girl standing here with a recipe for HOMEMADE MARINATED SWEET PEPPERS asking you to love it.

Part of that involves forgetting everything you thought you knew about roasted peppers, especially the storebought premade jar kind. Not that there’s anything overtly wrong with those but once you try these peppers you will quickly realize that there is also not a whole lot of anything right.

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Watermelon Splash Summer Cocktail

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Watermelon splash is a super refreshing summer cocktail made with fresh watermelon juice, white rum, and lime juice. Sip this on the beach or sitting poolside and you can’t go wrong.
Watermelon Splash Summer Cocktail

Have you found your signature watermelon summer cocktail yet?????

I feel like we all need one.

Especially after working all weekend and still having another five full workdays left to go before the next day off. The twelve day in a row workweek struggle is REAL, y’all.

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Healthy Vegetarian Meal Plan – 8.3.19

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Hey frrraaaannnnddsss.

I’m working for the weekend. And I just had a LOT of coffee. Can you tell?

Let’s do this!!! Here’s what we’ve got on this week’s meal plan:

  • EASY black bean burgers – lurrrvveee a good veggie burger
  • avocado pesto zoodles – SO. GLORIOUSLY. GREEN.
  • vegetarian stuffed peppers – yuuummmmm
  • farmer’s market salad with cherries, sugar snaps, and feta – light and fresh!
  • buddha bowls with peanut sauce – just can’t go wrong there

Happy eating!

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Sweet Cherry Streusel Pie

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A lightly spiced sweet cherry streusel pie that tastes like a warm hug and is an excellent use of one of summer’s best stone fruits.
Sweet Cherry Streusel Pie

Yesterday we had friends over who were visiting from out of town. It was kind of a spur of the moment decision after we got rained out of our original plans, which were to let the kids expend all of their energy at a playground and then go out to a low key dinner.

Womp womp. This is what happens when no one has the foresight to check the weather. I mean, I didn’t even bring an umbrella with me to work yesterday which was clearly a poor life choice. Thankfully the downpour happened as I was on my way home, so I didn’t have to spend the whole day in wet shoes (THE WORST).

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Burrata Caprese with Tomatoes, Peaches, and Basil Vinaigrette

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This burrata caprese is the ultimate summer dinner for when you just can’t bear to turn on your oven but you still want to eat something delicious. It combines creamy burrata cheese with summer’s best tomatoes and peaches, and a fresh basil vinaigrette.
Burrata Caprese with Tomatoes, Peaches, and Basil Vinaigrette

Burrata caprese is about to be the best thing we do this summer.

I took one bite and declared to my husband that it was probably the most fabulous thing I was going to make all summer, so he should brace himself.

I WAS RIGHT.

It just makes me endlessly happy.

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