What We Ate 8/2/15 – 8/8/15

Hello my friends! This past week has been pretty low-key for us; nothing too exciting going on now. We were back in Cape Cod the previous weekend and are headed to New Hampshire to visit my family this upcoming weekend. It has been a busy summer but a great one so far! I can’t believe it is already August and stores are putting out all their back to school stuff. I also can’t believe I haven’t been in the back to school rush for 2 years now. These years after graduation really fly by! At least we have good food to enjoy them!

Egg dinner

Sunday: Breakfast for dinner. We had just driven home and didn’t want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen cooking up dinner so we threw together some scrambled eggs and steamed veggies. I always love eggs for dinner for something quick and easy.

Vegan creamy pasta with veggies

Monday: Easy Vegan Alfredo by the Minimalist Baker. We were craving some cheesy pasta but since Rose has recently decided she thinks she is lactose intolerant we skipped the cheese and made a vegan alfredo instead. The recipe was good and we of course added some veggies to ours because that’s what we love to do!

Vegetables

Spring rolls

Spring roll

Tuesday: Spring Rolls with Carrot-Ginger Dipping Sauce from Martha Stewart. We tried a new spring roll recipe and this one did not disappoint! Something about the summer just makes me want fresh raw veggies. The carrot-ginger sauce was messy but oh so good.

Wednesday: Leftover pasta!

sweet potato falafel

Thursday: Sweet Potato Falafel Pitas from Sweat Peas and Saffron. These falafels came out so well. I love sweet potatoes in pretty much anything so I was dying to try this recipe and I’m so glad we did. It was delicious and we now have plenty of leftover falafels for the week!

Friday: Leftover falafels- yum yum!

Zucchini bread pancakes

Saturday: Vegan Zucchini Bread Pancakes by The Vegan and The Chef. Apparently breakfast for dinner was the theme for this week because we couldn’t resist making these scrumptious pancakes after I saw the recipe online. I know zucchini pancakes might sound a bit odd but you must try these they are so delicious! Caroline also has a beet pancake recipe that we are going to try next.

What We Ate 4/19/15 – 4/25/15

Hi everyone! Can you believe April is already coming to an end? I can’t… This year is already going by so fast. Last Monday was Marathon Monday in Boston and Haley and I stood outside in the cold, drizzly weather and cheered on the runners. I always have a great time, but with everything going on after the bombings, I found it particularly emotional being there this year. So we stood outside with chai tea drinks keeping us warm and cheered until we got hoarse and then went home and watched the rest on TV while eating soup. But anyways, what did we eat this week?

Orange cauliflower

Sunday & Monday: Orange Cauliflower based on this recipe. We’ve followed this recipe before and modified it quite a bit. What we did was made the “sauce” part of this recipe (we doubled it) and chopped up half a head of cauliflower and a few carrots. We also added a can of baby corn, a can of sliced water chestnuts, and a can of chickpeas (all rinsed and drained). We dumped these in a large glass baking pan and poured the sauce over and baked it at 425 F for about 25-30 minutes, tossing halfway through.

veggie burger

Tuesday: Veggie burgers with big ol’ side salad. Ok, you all know at this point what happens when we come home from work and we’re both too tired and too uninspired to cook any of the recipes we’ve planned for the week. So we tossed this meal together in about 5 minutes.

red pepper pasta

Wednesday: Roasted Red Pepper Pasta. I love this recipe. Love love love it. We’ve now made it twice. So long as you have the time to roast the red peppers, then this recipe is so easy. What I did to speed things up a little is quarter the red peppers and dry roast them at around 450 F for only about 20-25 minutes. I could eat this pasta forever. Extra nutritional yeast? Yes please!

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Thursday: Roasted sweet potato and zucchini fries with sautéed brussel sprouts, kidney beans, and some chips on the side. This may sound random, but we actually bought a bunch of veggies with the goal of throwing something together. I have this awesome cheesy popcorn seasoning from a spice shop in Portland, Oregon and we tossed the sweet potato and zucchini in it. Yum Yum.

red pepper pasta and brussel sprouts

Friday: Leftover pasta with a side of sautéed brussels sprouts.

BBQ chicken salad

Saturday: Trader Joe’s BBQ pulled chicken salad with avocado, corn, peppers, and tomatoes. Trader Joe’s, oh how you save the day. You have to try this BBQ chicken. It is so so good. Also, this Cowboy Salsa was all sorts of spicy and sweet goodness.

What We Ate 4/5/15 – 4/11/15

How was everyone’s week last week? Hopefully warm and sunny! Happy late Easter and Passover for those of you who celebrate. Rose wanted to keep Passover a few nights this week so we incorporated some Matzo into some of our meals. I enjoyed making and eating the Matzo pizza the best! Pasta with veggies

Sunday: Leftover T. Joe’s Girasoli Ricotta & Lemon Zest with broccoli, zucchini and tomatoes tossed with olive oil and some nutritional yeast (loving this stuff right now).

Rice bowl

Monday & Tuesday: Leftover spanish rice with beans, corn, avocado, and ground turkey. We had this rice leftover from last week and just made another bowl full using ground turkey instead of carnitas. This is one of our go to meals in some form or another and we always love it!

Matzo brei

Wednesday: Matzo brei. Happy Passover! Rose really wanted to make some Matzo brei and I really wanted to try it so she whipped some up. For those of you who don’t know, to make Matzo brei you just whisk up 2-3 eggs in a bowl with 2 tablespoons of milk and then break up 1-2 pieces of matzo into it. I added a few dashes of cinnamon for flavor, then scramble it up like eggs in a skillet with olive oil or butter. We had some asparagus and sweet potatoes on the side as well as some coconut yogurt with granola to match the breakfast theme.

Veggies and burger

Thursday: Veggie burger with extra veggies on the side and some cheddar bunnies. We were planning on having something different but my schedule changed last minute so we threw this together instead. Got to love those cheddar bunnies!

Friday: Out to eat at Yardhouse in Fenway. We were celebrating Rose’s birthday as well as getting a new apartment so we went out for some cocktails and dinner at Yardhouse. We both ordered tacos and they were very very good.

Matzo pizza

Saturday: BBQ Matzo Pizza with BBQ veggies. We put some BBQ sauce on top of Matzo along with some cheese and big yellow tomatoes slices. On the side we had some fresh veggies sprinkled with a BBQ seasoning mix we had on hand. Yum! The veggies we so fresh and delicious!

What We Ate 3/29/15 – 3/4/15

Hello! We are back with another what we ate this week. Last week things got a bit hectic for us and we sadly weren’t the greatest at documenting what we ate. But, we are back this week with some yummy recipes we tried and enjoyed. Enjoy!

Turkey burger and fries

Sunday: Broccoli Rabe Turkey Burgers from Skinnytaste. These were sooo good! I don’t know if it was because it was sunny out and the birds were chirping and it just felt like the perfect spring day to have some burgers and fries, but this meal was perfect. We paired the burgers with some homemade french fries that we will post later!

Monday: Leftover turkey burgers. Still good!

Fiesta bowl

Tuesday: Fiesta Bowl with Mexican Rice. Oh Trader Joe’s how I love you even more that now that I have this recipe (if that’s even possible). This bowl was filled with a delicious pile of beans, rice, corn, avocado, and some beef. Yum!!

Cauliflower

Wednesday: Crispy Orange Cauliflower from Fork and Beans. We modified this recipe a bit because we didn’t want to fry it in oil. Instead we skipped the flour mixture and just made the sauce and baked that with the cauliflower in the oven. It turned out really well!

Thursday: Leftover fiesta bowls

Acai bowl

Friday: This was a bit of an odd day as I had a stomach ache so not much sounded good. I ended up with an acai bowl and Rose had some leftover turkey burger with a salad and fixings. Sometimes our meals become quite random..

pasta with broccoli

Saturday:Trader Joe’s Girasoli Ricotta & Lemon Zest. I don’t think I mentioned yet how much I’m loving T.Joe’s lately.. This pasta was delicious. We steamed some broccoli, asparagus, zucchini, and peas then tossed it all together with some lemon oil and salt and pepper. It really hit the spot!

What We Ate 2/15/15 – 2/21/15

Hello! Hope everyone’s week was good. We had a short week due to President’s day so we decided to drive up to NH for the weekend. It was great being able to catch up with my family and to get away from the storm that hit Boston. Even though we were away all weekend and were exhausted from driving all day on Monday, we quickly planned a few meals over dinner and then ran to the grocery store before the Bachelor. Is anyone else following this season of the Bachelor?? It’s been craaazy lately. Here are the meals that we came up with for the week:

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Sunday: Chili. My mom kindly made us all some turkey and bean chili, which was perfect for the chilly night that we had. It was delicious and filling; we added some chopped avocado to ours and had a small side salad.

Monday: Leftover sweet potatoes. We had made this meal for my family on Saturday and decided to take the leftovers with us back to Boston. Good thing we did because we were both starved and exhausted at 6pm and were glad to be able to just reheat these up.

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Tuesday: Salad and veggie burgers. We both ended up working late Tuesday and were too hungry to make any of the meals we had planned so instead we threw together some salads and each made a veggie burger. We also had some pretzels and hummus on the side.

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Wednesday: The Almond Eater’s Hawaiian Barbecue Beef Tacos. These were absolutely delicious! We’ve never been the greatest at cooking beef so we’ve been experimenting with it lately and were pleased as to how the beef turned out.

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Thursday: Pinch of Yum’s Light Orange Beef and Broccoli. This was also super delicious. We used the rest of the beef we had leftover from the previous night and tried this recipe out, it did not disappoint. Pinch of Yum always has the best recipes.

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Friday: Tortellini with veggies. We both had to work late and ended up getting home later than expected, so we decided to just make something simple. We had recently bought this ricotta and spinach tortellini at Trader Joe’s and had some plain red sauce and veggies we mixed in. It was good; simple and easy.

Saturday: Wegman’s prepared food. We were out shopping late and seemed to have “accidentally” planned that we would end up at Wegman’s so we both made a plate of their prepared goodies.

What we ate 2/1/15-2/7/15

Hello! We are back sharing what we ate this past week. I’m glad people liked last weeks, so we are going to continue to share our meals of the week. I love to read other people’s post like this as it gives me inspiration for new meal ideas and it’s also just fun to see inside people’s daily schedules and plans. Does that make me sound creepy? Probably, but oh well!

This week was one that was a bit hectic as we didn’t pre-plan our meals too well. We didn’t need much in terms of veggies and fruit at the grocery store so we only bought the necessities to get us through the week. The week was full of lots of leftovers and random meals, but it also shows you what you can whip together when you having nothing planned. Which, let’s face it, happens more often than not. Without further ramblings, here is what we had to eat last week.

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Sunday: Superbowl Sunday! This meant nachos, and lots of them! We cut up a big sweet potato into thin slices and then baked it in the oven. While that was going, we cooked some ground turkey with taco seasoning and a yellow onion. Once everything was done cooking, we spread out some chips with the cooked sweet potato slices and then topped the nacho pile with the ground turkey, onion, tomatoes, corn, pinto beans, and cheese of course! We stuck that into the oven for about 5 minutes and then enjoyed it with some fresh lettuce and avocado/salsa on the side. It was a perfect game day treat that wasn’t too heavy.

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We also snacked on some popcorn and a homemade dark and stormy as the game wore on.

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Monday: Leftover nachos, because we are just 2 people and always cook wayyy too much, and because leftover nachos. We had another big snow storm on Monday, which meant we had to trek through a lot of slippery snow and shovel out our parking spot. We worked up quite a hunger and were glad we had more nachos to warm us up.

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Tuesday: Veggie burgers and random sides we could throw together. So, as mentioned, it snowed a lot yesterday. Like a lot a lot. Like sit in traffic for 2 hours and get home ravenous a lot. Yesterday it seemed liked no one was on the road as it was still snowing, but today all of a sudden everyone and their grandma was driving. Traffic was horrendous and so our 4 o’clock snacks didn’t quite hold us over long enough to cook a decent meal. Instead we did our go to meal: veggie burgers. These ones are our absolute favorite, especially with avocado all smooshed on top. We cut up some veggies and an apple for the side and grabbed some hummus to dip in. We also had some cheese puffs because we snack like we’re 10.

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Wednesday: Pasta and veggies. We had a lot of veggies that needed to be used up so we boiled up some water and made pasta to go with them. We used zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, snap peas, carrots, and tomatoes. All we really do is steam up the veggies and toss them in with the pasta and sauce or pesto as you please!

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Thursday: Brussel sprout salad with bread and butter and a blood orange. We were both really craving crunchy bread so we bought a baguette at the store and had that with a little bit of butter and some fruit and veggies on the side. We sautéed some Brussel sprouts just with oil and salt and pepper then sautéed on the side some corn and tomatoes. We also just bought some very very delicious blood oranges so we each had one of those as well.

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Friday: Big salad. As we still hadn’t planned any meals or gone to the store we were left scrounging and both ended up with big salads. I put some leftover pasta in mine.

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Saturday: Pizza! We had this black bean pizza crust from Whole Foods in our fridge so we decided to make it pizza night. This pizza was topped with Brussel sprouts, carrots, tomatoes, corn, and mozzarella cheese. We were scared that the dough was going to be very bean-y but it wasn’t, and it turned out delicious.