Veggie Meal Plan

I'll be spending parts of this week mourning the fact we don't have a barbecue. These mushrooms are so good when smoky and charred! Instead they'll have that boring "I've-been-cooked-in-a-cheap-non-stick-frypan-what-of-it?" flavour. Lucky they'll still be delicious. 

I'm also thinking of recreating a couple of Meet Me At Mikes recipes... I saw that potato curry recipe and my mouth cried. YUM!

 ♥ cajun mushrooms with potato salad ♥

♥ ratatouille pasta ♥

♥ Korean bbq stir fry with hokkien noodles ♥

♥ felafel kebabs with hommous, tabbouleh and tzaziki ♥

♥ pumpkin and feta brown rice burgers ♥

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♥ cherry afternoon tea cakes ♥

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♥ veggie omelet strips ♥

♥ whole nectarines ♥

See you at the beach!

Meatless Monday - Teriyaki Eggplant with Wasabi Mash

This dinner is so easy it's almost criminal.

I like to brush teriyaki sauce onto eggplant slices and pop them in a reasonably hot oven until cooked.

Then I add wasabi to normal mashed potatoes... to taste.

It's nice served with a little combination of mixed steamed veg, sometimes with a little extra teriyaki on those too - a great mid-week meal.

I've loved seeing what everyone is linking up with each week - although I'm swimming in recipes and ideas, there's always something out there that I didn't think of, or had forgotten, and I get all inspired again. The blogosphere rules!

If you want to play along, here is the lowdown:

♥ The linky will be up at 9am every Monday morning, and will stay up until the following Sunday.

♥ Grab the Meatless Monday button and put it in your post, and even on your sidebar if you're feeling generous.

♥ Visit at least one other blogger and leave some love. This is so much more cool if we're in it together!

Halloween Candy Corn Bark + Meal Plan

Halloween is a little bit fun.

I love scary movies, gory costumes and any excuse to decorate the house. This year has been pretty quiet, given I'm so busy, but I'll never let a "holiday" go without making some kind of themed food. I've seen Christmas bark made before, with crushed peppermint and other goodies, so I thought why not Halloween too?

I'd had some candy corn I bought in the last order from USA Foods, but I don't really like it... shock horror, I know. Mixed with chocolate, though, it's much more fun!

And so easy. Melt some chocolate, spread it out on foil or waxed paper, dot your goodies over, refrigerate. Something different!

Halloween dinners usually are something entirely normal, but given a stupid name for the evening. The grosser the better! Brains, guts, eyeballs, blood, anything goes at this time of year :)

I'm pretty sure I'll be telling Veggie Dad his fried rice is actually maggots.

♥ veggie fried rice ♥

♥ meatless spaghetti and meatballs ♥

♥ homemade pizzas ♥

♥ veggie kabobs and baked potatoes ♥

♥ mushroom steaks with baked sweet potatoes, corn and green beans ♥

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♥ candy corn bark ♥

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♥ roasted eggplant and zucchini puree ♥

♥ grape and pear puree ♥

Meatless Monday - Mexican Pizza

For more info about my Meatless Mondays linkup, go here, or the Meatless Mondays tab at the top of the page. Link up with your own - I love seeing what people are eating!

This week is an easy dish that I like to grab when I'm starving. Mexican seems to work really well for fast food! I usually make a burrito or a quesadilla, but this dish was born from me getting thoroughly sick of both of them and wanting something a little different. You can absolutely use a proper pizza base, or make your own dough, but I just used a tortilla and ate it with a knife and fork, because it tends to go a bit soft. It can also be made for as many people as you want, I won't give measurements :)

Ingredients
1 tortilla per person
refried beans
salsa
sour cream
guacamole
fresh tomato
sliced green onion
coriander/cilantro
any hot sauce you wish - I used Tabasco and the sauce my chipotles came in.

Directions
1. Preheat oven or grill/broiler.

2. Spread refried beans on tortilla and top with salsa. You can also mix the two if you like. Sprinkle cheese over and bake/broil until cheese is golden and tortilla is crisp.

3. Top with sour cream, guacamole, tomato, onion and coriander/cilantro. Sprinkle over hot sauce.

Pretty easy, huh?

Usual spiel:

♥ The linky will be up at 9am every Monday morning, and will stay up until the following Sunday.

♥ Grab the Meatless Monday button and put it in your post, and even on your sidebar if you're feeling generous.

♥ Visit at least one other blogger and leave some love. This is so much more cool if we're in it together!

Check out last week's link for inspiration.