Vegetables

Easy Lasagna with Extra Veggies

I like to make a batch of roasted veggies to serve on the side of any dish I make during the week. If you don’t have any made up and don’t feel like making them, they can easily be left out. What makes this recipe ‘easy’? Well, it assumes the roasted vegetables have already beenContinue reading “Easy Lasagna with Extra Veggies”

Baked Acorn Squash

Baked acorn squash is so easy to make and is the perfect side dish to Thanksgiving dinner or Sunday meatloaf. Ingredients: 1 large acorn squash 2 Tbsp butter salt & pepper Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut the squash in half and scoop out the seeds. Place cut side up in a shallow bakingContinue reading “Baked Acorn Squash”

Roasted Parmesan Zucchini Spears

My ‘cup runeth over’ with zucchini from our garden so my BIL shared this recipe with me that he made the week before. Ingredients: 1 extra-large zucchini, 3 large or several medium/small (yield: 6 cups cut up) 1/4 c butter, melted 1/4 tsp salt 1/8 tsp pepper 2 tsp garlic powder 2 Tbsp grated parmesanContinue reading “Roasted Parmesan Zucchini Spears”

Healing Vegetable Soup

As someone who deals with various tummy issues sometimes I just need something simple to allow my gut to heal. This vegetable soup is so easy to make using coleslaw mix. I found a kale coleslaw mix, so I didn’t add the extra kale. For dinner I served with a two-ingredient bagel on the sideContinue reading “Healing Vegetable Soup”

Mediterranean Vegetable Bake

I absolutely love this recipe and it’s a great way to use zucchini when it’s in abundance in the middle of summer. Although truthfully, I make it with whatever vegetables I have in the fridge. I’ll swap kale, spinach and swiss chard interchangeably. Sometimes I will add eggplant. If I don’t have mushrooms around, I’llContinue reading “Mediterranean Vegetable Bake”

Roasted Italian Vegetables

Roasted vegetables is, in my opinion, the yummiest way to eat vegetables. I bake up a pan then they’re in the fridge for the week to serve on the side of meat, stuffed into a sandwich or thrown in with a salad. Ingredients: 1 red pepper 1 yellow pepper 2 zucchinis 1 sweet onion 4Continue reading “Roasted Italian Vegetables”