What I've Been Eating The Past Two Weeks

I have been making a lot of wonderful meals lately. Most of them include a lot of beans and vegetables. I have been pretty proud of the cooking since I made up three of the recipes myself. We have certainly been enjoying the foods! Here is what we have eaten lately.

Melissa's Black & Red Bean Pasta

I am very disappointed to see that I didn't get any good photos from this dish. For some reason, they are all blurry! But I thought this was a beautiful bean sauce with the greens and black and red all mixed.

This is a fairly simple bean sauce with black beans, red kidney beans, white onion, and kale. The sauce was Newman's Own marinara sauce and I served it over whole wheat couscous. It was really good with the couscous and was a good way to change up the idea of bean pasta. I am happy about making up this as well as the other bean recipes!

Melissa's Asian Noodles with Spicy Peanut Chicken and Egg Drop Soup

This is another meal that I created out of a mixture of things leftover from months before when I was making pad Thai and other Asian foods. I used rice noodles for the pasta, and the chicken and sauce included: a sauté sauce I got from HEB, some chili sauce, sesame oil, soy sauce and lots of garlic cloves. The result was very tasty! And I had some easy egg drop soup packet, so I put that on the stove, stirred in some eggs and made the soup!

Spaghetti Squash Pasta

This meal is pretty much total vegetables!! So if you ever want an entire vegetable meal, here it is!

I had never experienced spaghetti squash before, so I enjoyed discovering something new! It was pretty amazing to me how you just cook the squash in the over, and then it all comes apart into noodle like pieces! Very fun!




For the sauce, I used a red sauce I already had, and threw in a bunch of vegetables such as: green pepper, onions, garlic, carrots, zucchini and kale. Then I put cheese on top. This was a very good meal!

Chicken Salad Sandwich

I know I have posted about making chicken salad sandwiches before, but I just really liked this photo, so wanted to display it! It is also something yummy that we ate recently, and that is kind of like my "theme" right now.

Minestrone Soup with Chicken, Beans, Veggies & Rice

I have made the soup before, it is a recipe I got that is a copycat version of the Olive Garden's minestrone soup. I really liked it before. This time, I changed it a little by using kale rather than spinach (because I had kale and no spinach). It is full of good vegetables and beans like zucchini, carrots, onions, green beans, garlic, red kidney beans, white beans, tomatoes and spinach (or kale).

The chicken meal that I made with it was good too and made up of many of the same ingredients. It included chicken, red kidney beans, black beans, carrots, green pepper, onions, kale, tomatoes and rice.

These meals together made for a very nutritious lunch!

Fettuccine Asparagus with Cream Cheese Sauce

I got this recipe out of a Taste of Home recipe book and modified it a little. This is a tasty pasta that includes fettuccine, asparagus, sliced garlic, sliced yellow onion and long shreds of carrot. The sauce was good, I wanted an alternative to Alfredo and I found it! (Alfredo is tasty, but pretty fattening too!) You just melt some cream cheese and milk and there you have it!

Quiche (sort of) with Potato Cubes

As we were leaving from our beach vacation, my mom made what she called a quiche with no crust for breakfast in order to help us use up the eggs we had leftover. It was really tasty. Then when we got home from our vacation, I noticed that I had a ton of eggs, so I decided to make my own version of this crustless quiche.

I basically put eggs, kale, onions, tomatoes, cheese and whipping cream into a bowl and mixed it all. It came out almost great, but fell short because I had put in way too much cream compared to the eggs and so it didn't have a good enough egg flavor. But it was ok. Maybe I made it right for a quiche, but I was hoping for more of an omelet flavor - I'm not sure. But next time, I will have more eggs and less cream.

The potato cubes were simple and yummy!

Melissa's White Bean Pasta

I was intending on making bean pasta since I hadn't gone to the store yet for the week. I generally consider bean pasta to be a quick and easy meal to fall back on, since it is easy to keep a can of beans, prego and pasta stocked. However, when I noticed what items we did have in stock, I quickly put together a more intricate bean pasta which is very yummy.

The sauce is Newman's Own marinara sauce with white beans, kale, onions, garlic, green pepper, artichoke hearts (from a can), some ground flaxseeds and cheese to top it all. I am the most proud of how it was a very healthy meal while still being good tasting to us.