Monday, November 19, 2012

weekend review: meaty

I usually try to cook at least one vegetarian meal during the weekend. I'm not a vegetarian, but I do try and limit my meat intake. When meal planning for this weekend, all the recipes that spoke to me had meat. Eh, I'll consider it training for Thanksgiving...

Figure 1. Friday night's dinner: crockpot cheddar beer chicken tacos (7/10; delicious and easy) and spicy roasted cauliflower (9/10; one of my favorite ways to cook cauliflower).

Figure 2. Saturday night's dinner: crispy pork medallions (7/10), spiced pumpkin cornbread (10/10), and creamed spinach and mushrooms (6/10; I always pile my creamed spinach on top of raw spinach for volume). This was my boyfriend's favorite meal of the weekend.

Figure 3. Sunday night's dinner: homemade P.F. Chang's lettuce wraps (10/10; this meal was AMAZING! I raved the entire time. You must make this if you enjoy PF Chang's wraps), rice, and broccoli and cauliflower roasted in chili oil.

9 comments:

  1. Great eats! I have been wanting to make some spicy cauliflower, but have yet to do it. I really want to try different dishes for the holidays this year...you know, instead of the traditional ones! :)

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    1. i agree - sometimes it is really nice to change it up at the holidays. im sure everyone will love this cauliflower.

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  2. I just pinned so many recipes from this post! We don't have PF Changs here, so I really want to try making those lettuce wraps!

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    1. haha pin away girl! the lettuce wraps are great. i don't have a pf changs in my town either. this is just as good - even better b/c it isn't so crazy greasy.

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  3. I love making homemade lettuce wraps, these meals look amazing. I am always blown away by your meals

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  4. You're making me look bad with all of your delicious looking dinners :P I've had almost no motivation to cook dinner lately so most of mine end up being anything I can throw together in 5 minutes. Can I come move in with you?

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  5. I've been looking for a crockpot recipe to use on my man friend this weekend ... those tacos sound promising!!

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  6. I have been wanting to try roasting cauliflower for a long time - I think it's one of the only veggies I haven't yet tried to roast! Pumpkin Spiced Cornbread sounds awesome!

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  7. Haha okay so most of your meals didn't talk to me this time lol - but I loooove the sound of the pumpkin spiced cornbread!

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