This is a great recipe that uses pizza dough, cheese, and cold cuts to make something delicious and easy. You can serve it without or without a marinara dipping sauce depending on how you feel. I love the way it looks and how quickly it comes together.
Last week has a huge downer and I feel like you can actually see that in my food. Even though I managed to make a whopping all five lunches I feel like they’re less cute and less interesting than they had any right to be. Also, so many apple. So many.
Caramelized Onion and goat cheese tart, side salad, tomato soup, apple 
Baked Chicken with Apple and Rosemary, Spiced Rice, Carrots and Hummus, Kiwi 
Lentil Falfel, Yogurt Sauce, Couscous, Apple 
Vegetable Lasagna, Side Salad, Apple and Kiwi 
Squash and White Bean Saute, Cornbread, Apple
So my freezer is full of ice because of a variety of reason and I’m trying to use up all the stuff in it so that I can flush the whole thing out and basically hit a total reset of the ice level in my freezer. This actually helped me make a menu (restriction really does help with creativity I guess).
Saturday leftovers
eating out @ Georgia Tavern
Sunday pancakes and eggs
vegetable pizza
Monday black bean chili, cornbread, salad
chicken and dumplings
Tuesday aloo puffs, baked green beans, fruit
pasta with vegetable sauce
Wednesday turkey burgers, french fries, salad
salmon, couscous, roasted veg
Thursday chicken and dumplings, fruit, baked green beans
black bean chili, bread
Friday out with coworkers
turkey burgers, french fries, salad
chicken and dumplings
vegetable pizza
aloo puffs
black bean chili
turkey burgers
french fries
black beans x 2
apples
grapes
zucchini
carrots
onions
potatoes
peppers
salad
pasta
flour
bread
burger buns
milk
pizza cheese (200g)
cream
cat food x 2
frozen green beans x 2
frozen corn
frozen green peas
chicken breast
ground turkey
I added a new category for “vegan” recipes.
I pretty much never intend to make vegan food but in the course of making vegetarian food I do make plenty of vegan food as well. This tag will include recipes that are vegan (naturally!) or ones that would easily be vegan by replacing the cooking fat (usually butter) with oil or honey with sugar in places where it won’t too significantly change the recipe at all. Most of these don’t EXPLICITLY say to replace these products so but I will attempt to suggest it in future posts I plan to tag as vegan.
While in a technical way you could make my Broccoli-Cheddar Soup with vegan milk substitutes and vegan cheese, the consistency of the recipe would likely be pretty heavily changed and you’d have a way better time finding recipes already geared around those ingredients.
Most recipes of course can be adapted to be vegan, some by simply removing meat or replacing it with a meat substitute or by using vegan substitutes for butter, milk, and eggs but you might notice I don’t really eat meat substitutes and I’m not a fan of things like seitan and tofu in place of meat so I’m going to just trust you’ll make your best judgements about recipes and I’ll keep trying to helpfully tag recipes.
Happy cooking!
This week the theme was basically just nice hearty comfort food to herald in the cold weather. There’s plenty more delicious comfort foods in our future, chicken and dumplings comes to mind but that’ll have to wait for another week.
Breakfast Roll Up, Roasted Sweet Potato, Side Salad, Apple
Homemade Spaghettios with meatballs, salad, bread, apple
Baked Chicken, Green Beans and Tomatoes, Spiced Rice, Chocolate and an Orange
Spinach Mac and Cheese, Sliced Orange, Coleslaw
It’s very cold and snowy now so it’s time for delicious winter food even though it’s not yet technically winter.
Saturday scrambled eggs with toast
out @ Milan’s
Sunday grilled turkey and avocado wraps
onion and goat cheese tart, tomato soup
Monday onion and goat cheese tart, tomato soup
lentil falfel with yogurt sauce, couscous
Tuesday baked rosemary chicken with apples, rice, salad
vegetable lasagna
Wednesday lentil falfel with yogurt sauce, couscous
squash, white bean, and spinach saute, cornbread
Thursday vegetable lasagna, salad, fruit
baked rosemary chicken with apples
Friday squash, white bean, and spinach saute, cornbread, fruit
lentil falfel with yogurt sauce, couscous
baked rosemary chicken with apples
squash, white beans, and spinach saute
lasagna
cornbread
tomato soup
onion and goat cheese tart
lentil falfels
apples
grapes
kiwis
squash
tomatoes
mushrooms
zucchinis
avocado
cheese
canned tomatoes (2)
white beans
onions
lentils
bread
milk
butter
ricotta
mozzarella
puff pastry
goat cheese
cat food
TP
Just a few simple ones from the week. Sometimes you gotta just keep things easy and moving I suppose.
Pasta with vegetable sauce, side salad, rye bread, apple
Mini homemade vegetable pizza (zucchini, pepper, onion), chocolate, carrots and hummus
Chicken tikka masala, rice, grapes
Minestrone, side salad, white bread
Despite the fact that menu take literally 10 minutes to post somehow last week I forgot to post one. I’m just going to let that go gently and wave goodbye to it because it was a fairly boring week anyway with only one new recipe. Because of that I decided to make this week a little more exciting though.
Saturday leftovers from the past week
out @ ??
Sunday pancakes and eggs
baked chicken tenders with green beans and tomatoes
Monday Eggy Breakfast Wrap, candided sweet potatoes, fruit
vegetable yakisoba
Tuesday homemade spaghetti-o’s with mini meatballs, white bread, spinach salad
homemade pizza
Wednesday creamy mac and cheese with spinach, apple, coleslaw
baked chicken tenders with green beans and tomatoes, salad, apple
Thursday out with coworkers
creamy mac and cheese with spinach
Friday vegetable yakisoba, plums, miso soup
homemade spaghettios, bread
Homemade Spaghetti-Os
Baked Chicken Tenders Tray
candided sweet potato
lavash egg wrap
mac and cheese
vegetable yakisoba
chicken breast
green beans
cherry tomatoes
spinach
sweet potatoes
oranges
plums
apples
turkey (ground)
white bread
pasta sauce
lavash
canned tomato puree x 2
cream
elbows
cheddar cheese
milk
yakisoba noodles
frozen veg
muesli
butter
coleslaw mix
You could easily add whatever you want to this but to make it as straight forward as possible all I did was add a bag of frozen “stir fry” vegetables, making this meal take all of 10 minutes to come together without bringing out any chopping board. It does take 2 pans (one to boil and one to fry in) but you could probably do it in one large sauce pot if you were really lazy.
I actually made all 5 days of lunch this week instead of 4 just on a whim. I don’t think it’s any harder or easier to do so but I feel pretty satisfied about it anyway.
Turkey sandwich, kiwi, boiled egg, pickles, carrots and red peppers with hummus
Roast Drumsticks with Potatoes and Carrots, Salad, and Apple
Creamy Broad Beans, Rice, Hot Sauce, Greens with Orange Segments
Chickpea Curry, Rice, Apple
Creamy Chicken Soup with Sweet Potatoes and Rice, Bread, Pickles, Kiwi and Orange