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What we ate 3/1/15 – 3/7/15

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Hello all! This past week we had some super yummy meals that we are dying to share with you. We are constantly trying out new recipes and look forward to eating them each week. The meals we chose this week certainly did not disappoint! Read on to find out what we made. IMG_0335 Monday: Cauliflower, Potato, Onion, and Lentil Curry with Naan. We had an Indian Korma simmer sauce we bought at Whole Foods so we threw all of these ingredients in a large pot and let it cook for about 30-40 minutes then served with some naan. It was pretty good but could have had some more flavor. IMG_0340 Tuesday: Naturally Ella’s Curry Grilled Vegetables with Chickpeas and Creamy Polenta. This was the first time we have had polenta and it was pretty good. We were a little confused by it so we will continue to experiment with other recipes that use polenta. The veggies came out great! Just for the record though, if you follow this recipe, Naturally Ella calls for 1 cup of “polenta” but she means yellow cornmeal. You are making polenta, not adding polenta to water.IMG_0343 IMG_0352 Wednesday: Half Baked Harvest’s Chopped Asian BBQ Chicken Salad with Honey-Sesame Crackers. This salad was sooo good! And the crackers, oh yum. I could just eat those crackers all day long. We marinated the chicken overnight and then tossed it all with a big salad with carrots, lettuce, snap peas and some roasted broccoli. IMG_0361 Thursday: The Almond Eater’s White Bean Breakfast Hash. Yum! Another delicious dish this week. We didn’t have white kidney beans so we just used red kidney beans and it turned out great. We served ours over some spinach and had some leftover sweet potato and made plantain chips to go with it. For the plantain chips, we just sliced up the plantain and sauteed it in coconut oil, flipping halfway through and watching so the plantains don’t get too too dried out.IMG_0373 Friday: Salad and random leftovers. It wouldn’t be a normal dinner week for us if we didn’t have a random leftovers night. We each made salads with scraps of leftovers that you accumulated through the week. We also made some snack plates full of fruits, veggies, and some pretzels.

Saturday: Leftover white bean and breakfast mash. Still good the second time around!

What We Ate 2/8/15-2/14/15

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Hello!

I hope everyone had a good week and aren’t buried in snow like we are here in Boston. Anddd we are only expecting more this coming week as well. I don’t think there is anywhere left to pile snow up anymore. We shall see Boston, we shall see.

Here is what we munched on for dinner last week. We had pre-planned what we would cook each night so there was no wasted time figuring out what we wanted each night. This is especially helpful if you work till 5 and still want to get a workout and/shower in before dinner; every minute counts!

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Sunday: Whole Living Lauren Tomato, Chickpea & Sourdough Bread Soup. With the snow already starting to fall outside, this was a perfect meal to end the day with all curled up on the couch to watch the Grammy’s. We used less broth than the recipe called for as we didn’t want too too much leftover, plus I don’t know about you but I like more stuff to broth ratio in my soups. We had some crusty, crunchy bread we ate on the side of this. Also, as a side note, we had plain pasta we added to this for our lunches and it was a delicious addition.

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Monday: Leftover pizza. It was National Pizza Day so naturally we had to have our leftover pizza we made on Saturday of last week. It was just as delicious leftover as it was when we first made it. I like my second-day pizza cold (is that weird?) so there was no need to even heat anything up!

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Tuesday: Pinch of Yum’s Lentil Curry Bowls. This was delicious! We had another snow day on Tuesday so we had plenty of time to make this meal; having time to make it was what worried me when we picked it for the week. But the snow gods prevailed and we had all afternoon to slowly cook the lentils. Yum yum yum. Definitely going to make this again. We skipped out on the rice because we thought lentils were filling enough for us but we did add some avocado and piled on the cilantro cashew sauce. We also roasted some zucchini with the carrots as we had some lying around.

Wednesday: Leftover Lentil Curry Bowls. Which was good because yet again we were both stuck in crazy snow traffic after work. By the time we were home we were starving so went straight to the fridge and pulled out our leftovers; still delicious.

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Thursday: How Sweet It Is Winter Chopped Salad with Roasted Sweet Potato and Blood Orange Vinaigrette. This salad was amazing! We’ve been loving blood oranges lately so we decided to try this salad out and it did not disappoint. The sweet potatoes were scrumptious as was the blood orange vinaigrette.

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Friday: Molly’s! We drove home to my house in Hanover, NH. Once we got there it was late and we were craving their barbecue pizza so we ordered one to share and a “kale” salad that turned out to not be kale or that good for that matter. The pizza didn’t disappoint though! Olive was itching to steal a piece or two.

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Saturday: Homemade sweet potato skins and a side salad. We cooked dinner for my family and were both craving sweet potatoes. We were going to do the same salad as Thursday but thought my family would need something a bit more hardy. We made potato skins topped with sautéed onion, pepper, corn, and white beans on top. They topping mixture was seasoned with chili powder, paprika, garlic powder, salt, and pepper.