Tag: vegetarian
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Rainbow Vegetable Saute with Wild Rice
“Eat the rainbow,” a vegetarian friend had told us. Thus when this recipe appeared in one of the newsletters I read I had to try it. We enjoyed the version as I adapted it and look forward to having it in the future with a few tweaks. However my style of cooking differed from the…
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Pesto Asparagus with Penne
This one pot meal comes together in about fifteen minutes. This recipe makes two servings.
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Greek Garbanzo Bean Salad
This has become our favorite summer salad! Given our nomadic lifestyle, aiming to live on the cusp of summer, it frequents our table. All of the ingredients, except for the beans, we buy fresh for a crisp crunch and bright flavor.
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Broccoli Alfredo
I do not recall ever making this with chicken. In a list of meals we have made this is listed as “Chicken” and Broccoli Alfredo with the list of ingredients altered with an option of tofu.
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Ravioli in Brown Butter Sauce
A similar recipe with peas has frequently graced our table. On finding a similar recipe with asparagus I combined the best of both, as shown below. A subsequent find suggested using zucchini and almonds. This option proved to be the best. For ravioli we prefer spinach and cheese filled from Costco. We cook 9 ounces…
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Pasta with Green Beans
You will love this fast, nutritious, and tasty Instant Pot meal. All the ingredients store well and might already be in your pantry. Since the sauce and the pasta cook in the same pot, clean up is quick and easy.
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Mac and Tacos
Macaroni and cheese meets tacos. In an Instant Pot this is a quick, nutritious, and tasty meal. This could serve 4. Although Lori and I finished this for main meal.
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Stir Fried Leftovers
When I intentionally cook more than we will eat for dinner, I carefully package and freeze extra portions, occasionally carefully layering and arranging partly cooked ingredients so the dish will finish cooking when we defrost and microwave it later. We call those meals “planned-overs.” This recipe is for leftovers, servings of vegetables and meat that…
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Fettuccined Vegetables in Creamy Sauce
This dish developed when we had visited a restaurant that was changing its menu: Several items on their old menu were no longer available and their new menu was not ready. I opted for their fettuccine Alfredo and their sautéed vegetables, which they listed as two separate items. Individually they were fine, but after I…