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.

Tomato, green pepper, onions, black olives and pine nuts pizza

For this pizza, I put the tomatoes and onions underneath the cheese, so this is what it looked like.

As you can see, the cheese totally hides the tomatoes. I also put green peppers, pine nuts and olives on the pizza.

Garlic Breadstick Pizza

For this "pizza", I bought some garlic bread dough and basically stuffed it with pizza sauce, cheese, and onions. It was pretty good, although I think I prefer my other crust better.

Green Pepper, Olive and Pine Nuts Pizza

This pizza includes: green peppers, olives and pine nuts. As for the cheese, I put cut up pieces of mozzarella cheese and also sprinkles a mixture of yellow and white cheese (called fiesta blend form Wal-mart). The mozzarella cheese turned out really good on the pizza when melted!

Also, you might be able to notice that I did the crust right such that it sticks up around the edges. I can't always get it right, but it's fun when I do.

Green Pepper Pizza

This was a yummy pizza, and I really liked the colors. The green peppers certainly make the pizza look pretty.

Cilantro Soup Pizza

I don't remember exactly how I came up with this idea, but I really like it. Since my family loves the cilantro soup so much, they should enjoy the pizza too. It pretty much has all the same ingredients.

You chop up the green onions, white onions and green peppers.

Then in a bowl you mash the beans, and add rotell.

Then you spread the bean mixture over the pizza.


Then add the toppings on top.

I was planning on putting cheese on the pizza, but I forgot to! As it turns out, it tasted good without the cheese, but it did taste a little less pizza like because of it. I might try making it with the cheese sometime as well. I would definitely say this was a success though.

Fake Pepperoni Pizza

I finally have been in the mood for pizzas again. I was making many pizzas before I got pregnant, and then I lost all interest in pizzas until just this month (the third trimester). I have been trying to get more complex carbohydrates, so for the crust, I took the Walmart pizza crust mix and added ground flax seeds, wheat germ and vital wheat gluten. That gave it some extra nutrients, and it didn't make it taste bad or anything. I like it this way rather than using whole wheat flour since the crust is always hard when I do that.



The toppings were: fake pepperonis (made of soy I think), roma tomatoes, white onion, cheese of course and some basil for seasoning. Oh, and I usually use Prego spaghetti sauce as the sauce, but this time we tried Bertroli's marinara sauce and wow it was good!! The pizza overall was amazing.