Category Archives: Meatless

Nutty Stuffed Mushrooms

Nutty Suffed Mushrooms

I made these last night and they turned out really good. I found the recipe on allrecipes.com, I actually made them as our dinner meal. Got a big tub of mushrooms from Costco and I had the rest of the ingredients although I subbed sharp cheddar for the grated parm cheese. I made smoothies (I dump a bunch of frozen fruit from Costco’s frozen section, a little orange juice and milk into the blender and there ya go!)to go with these as our meal and I thought it was a lovely healthy meal (although I don’t think the family, minus Guenna who loved them, thought they should be the main course. They were fairly easy to make, great for a side or an hors d’ oeuvres. (Note to mom-this is not necessarily a meal for toddlers-I haven’t met many toddlers who are crazy about cooked mushrooms! :)

Nutty Stuffed Mushrooms

Ingredients:
18 large fresh mushrooms
1 small onion, chopped
3 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup almond meal
1/4 cup finely chopped pecans
3 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon dried basil
dash cayenne pepper

DIRECTIONS

1. Remove stems from mushrooms; set caps aside. Finely chop stems; place in a paper towel and squeeze to remove any liquid. In a skillet, saute chopped mushrooms and onion in butter for 5 minutes or until tender. Remove from the heat; set aside.

2. In a small bowl, combine the bread crumbs, pecans, Parmesan cheese, salt, basil and cayenne; add mushroom mixture. Stuff firmly into mushroom caps. Place in a greased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan. Bake, uncovered, at 400 degrees F for 15-18 minutes or until tender. Serve warm.

Veggie Wrap

Veggie Wrap

2 Tbs olive oil
1 cup diced eggplant
1 cup diced zucchini
1 cup diced bell pepper
1 cup diced onion
1 cup sliced mushrooms
1 Tbs chopped Garlic
1/2 cup spaghetti sauce
1 package tomato and basil wrappers (large size
usually 8 to a pack)

Saut

Broccoli

Some ideas about what to do with broccoli:

  • We cook mac noodles; cut up cheese cubes and add to the mac, keeping the lid and stirring as necessary to melt the cheese, then pour the drained broccoli in the mac & cheese to combine. It is very good if you like broc & cheese or mac & cheese.
  • Sometimes we use leftovers in eggs. Scramble up some eggs with the broccoli and some ham (even lunch meat works) melt some cheese over it and it makes a good meal. You can also spoon the eggs into tortilla wraps and add some hot sauce for breakfast burritos.
  • How about a quiche?
  • How about just adding some cheese and evaporated milk to it? Just cook and stir til the cheese melts.
  • I would cook some pasta. Add the broccoli, butter and
    garlic powder and sprinkle with Parmesan. If you are
    doing for a lunch add shredded cheddar and it's a
    meal.

Italian Vegetable Soup

Italian Vegetable Soup

By Melanie and Modified by Heidi

1/2 cup dry navy beans
1/2 cup dry chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
Water

4 cups chicken broth
1 cup carrot – sliced
2 medium red or gold potatoes – cubed
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 medium onion – chopped
2 cloves garlic – chopped
2 cups diced peeled tomatoes
2 cups cabbage – sliced thin
1 zucchini – sliced
1/2 cup celery – sliced
2 teaspoons dried basil
Ground pepper to taste

1/2 cup pasta

Soak beans and chickpeas overnight. Drain, rinse and
place in crockpot. Add all other ingredients except
pasta and cook for about 8 hours on low.

About 1/2 hour before you are going to eat cook pasta
according to directions and add to soup.

Serve with a crusty bread and some cheese.

Serves 6.