What We Ate Wednesday: Every Wednesday I write a blog post with all of the vegetarian dinners we ate this week.
Y’all. I forgot to tell you. I had bacon last week! I was eating breakfast potatoes at a restaurant in California and didn’t realize there was bacon in it. And guess what?! It wasn’t NEARLY as good as I remembered. Bacon has become such a trendy food in the time since I became a vegetarian, so I think I started building it up in my head. But when I had it, it was just meh. So, hooray! I don’t miss eating sweet little piggies one bit now!
In other news, I will only be doing TWO more WWAW posts!! At that point I will have done one full year of What We Ate Wednesday posts, and I am kind of getting tired of writing them. But I hope to still post occasional recipes!
Wednesday: Macaroni and Cheese and Kale Salad
I made Grandma Katie’s macaroni and cheese to celebrate the kids first day of school! This is definitely their favorite dinner. I also made this kale salad which I like even more every time I eat it. (Btw, I almost always use Parmesan, not Pecorino, because that’s what I have in the fridge.)
Thursday: Party Food
Ben’s amazing former boss, Congressman George Miller, is retiring from Congress this year and so on Thursday we attended a retirement party for him. It was such a great party honoring an amazing congressman. I can truly say that our country is better because of him!
Friday: Lost Dog Pizza
I wasn’t feeling so hot Friday afternoon so when Ben got home, he took the kids to go pick up pizza from Lost Dog. Yuuuu-uuum!
Saturday: Beet Salad, Burrata, and Baguette
I made this dish but used burrata instead of Bucheron. It was really good but I didn’t care for the greens–too bitter. Next time I will leave them out. We had been at a birthday party earlier, so the kids had already eaten. I don’t think they would have been too jazzed about this one!
Sunday: Quesadillas and Mexican Street Corn Quinoa Salad
We had some corn in our CSA, probably for the last time this year, so of course I had to make this salad! I also made some delicious flour tortillas using half white whole wheat flour and half plan white flour. I quadrupled the recipe to make 32 tortillas because they freeze really well.
Monday: Peach Pasta
I saw this recipe on the thug kitchen’s facebook page and knew I had to try it. I added feta to mine because I like to add feta to everything and Ben and Campbell added Parmesan to theirs. And I used peaches instead of nectarines because that is what I had.
Tuesday: Breakfast for Dinner
Green eggs using Mizuna from our CSA, biscuits (half whole wheat, half not), and hash browned potatoes (using CSA potatoes that I shredded, par boiled, and froze a few weeks ago).
It’s been a year of Wednesdays already! Wow. Sweet picture of you guys with GM. I always forget just how tall he is!
Three cheers for George! Also, your Grandma Katie’s mac and cheese is my favorite dinner too. 🙂