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Cooking Adventures: March Edition!

March 27, 2018

I really do. So back again sharing some foods I’ve cooked and foods Ive eaten since the last time…which you can see here & here.

Chili Lime Chicken Quinoa Bowls

another pizza night

*In an effort to maybe do something healthier for once I accidentally picked a SUPER thin crust that actually turned out to be basically a wrap. So I put the 3 in the package together to form a semi decent crust. Lesson learned…stick to my normal crust.


Pepperoni, italian sausage, pineapple, onions & jalapenos(one w/cheese, one w/out)

Udon noodles w/chicken or salmon & Peanut sauce

*this was probably the least appetizing looking meal i’ve made in a while but I kind of threw it all together. I wanted Fish and my roomie wanted chicken. I had to improvise the peanut sauce because I was missing ingredients. BUT all delicious anyway!

Mojo Chicken Quinoa Lettuce Wraps

*We still had lettuce & tzatziki sauce from the pitas so we made some chicken & quinoa for wraps!

Spicy Tuna Spaghetti Squash

Chicken Satay Tacos w/Peanut Sauce

I improved on the peanut sauce and had all the ingredients!

Pineapple Upside Down Cake

(*Best i’ve ever made, going to share the recipe next week!)

Cooking Adventures!

March 6, 2018

Back again with some more meals! You can see what I was cooking in January here.

I must have forgotten to do February so here we are some fun recipes we have been cooking!

I found a Banana Caramel pancake mix at World Market so Saturday Morning pancakes w/bacon were in order

Non-Dairy Chicken Pot Pie!

To make this an easy meal we used Ripple milk in place of the cream/milk, flaky biscuits as a top, frozen mixed veggies and shredded rotisserie chicken!

Chorizo & Potato Tacos w/Spanish Rice

Turns out Thenewguy has never had the most simple of tacos before. This is one of my i’m lazy and don’t want to cook foods. (Potatoes were diced from a bag, tortillas were some flour street tacos)

Chicken Brats!

We had some grilled onions and rice to get rid of from the Steak dinner so we used them with brats!

Steak Pitas w/Homemade Lactose Free Tzatziki and pasta salad

We had to get rid of the leftover steak before it went bad so I decided on steak pitas. I found a recipe for homemade dairy free tzatziki and realized I was supposed to have soaked the cashews overnight and didn’t. Fail. So I bought some lactose free yogurt. It was a bit runny but still tasted great. I made the cashew one later just to try and it was just as good!

The first cheeseless pizzas

He doesn’t like my vegan cheese and I will die if I have regular dairy so cheeseless pizza it is! Left side: BBQ sauce, Pepperoni, Pineapple & Jalapenos Right Side: Marinara, Onions, Tomato & Grilled Chicken!

All of these photos are C/O AJS because even though we have the same phone my photos are potato quality! Feel free to ask me for any of the recipes (I always adapt whatever I find online but I can send it over)

Food Food Food…

January 31, 2018

So much food…

Since we are cooking at home I feel like Thenewguy does is post pictures of food and all I do is spend all my time cooking, thinking about what to cook or buying food to cook. It took a couple weeks of getting back into a groove for me to start figuring out how to cut back on food shopping expenses. When I wasn’t being careful I was spending $20-30 on ingredients for a meal which is ridiculous and way more work than just eating out!

Anyway…here are some of the meals we have been eating…

Spaghetti & Meatballs