Monday, April 1, 2013

weekend review: a non-traditional easter

Since I just spent a long week with my family, this year Easter was low-key and didn't involve a traditional large Easter dinner. Instead, I stayed home and made my boyfriend and I three of my all-time favorite meals. Hands down, if you haven't tried these yet, you must. No really, you must.

Figure 1. Thursday night's dinner: butternut squash mac and cheese with caramelized onions, bacon, and apple on top of steamed spinach.

Figure 2. On the stove: P.F. Chang's lettuce wrap filling.

Figure 3. Friday night's dinner: P.F. Chang's lettuce wraps. And yes, because we are fancy - my boyfriend and I usually sit down in front of the TV with the wrap filling, a head of romaine lettuce, and a ramekin of coconut aminos for dipping (he adds extra Sriracha and rice, too).

Figure 4. Sunday night's dinner: skinny tuna noodle casserole alongside 'on-the-fly' sauteed asparagus with smoked paprika and lemon.

Oh, and by the way. You will see these again because they are so delicious I just can't (and won't) stop.

6 comments:

  1. Everything looks so good! :) Hope you had a great Easter!

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  2. Your low key Easter sounds really nice - and delicious. I am obsessed with those lettuce wraps!!! And now I need to pin the other 2. ;)

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    1. yes you do my friend. yes you do! (oh wait! and i see you did pin them) let me know when you make them you will die

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  3. I neeeed that mac and cheese in my life! Is the texture of the apple strange in the pasta? The flavor combo sounds like heaven but I'm a little weirded out by taking a bite of pasta and ending up with the crunch of an apple. Is it different than I'm thinking?

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    1. no it isn't different than you are thinking. the first time i sauteed the apples a bit to soften. but this time i didn't. somehow it works - like magic.

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  4. Oh. My. Heavens. I need to make that mac & cheese (sans the bacon) ASAP. I'm literally drooling over that picture...
    I'm glad you enjoyed your low-key Easter. Mine was the same way. (:

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