black bean mushroom tortilla casserole

oh, Martha Stewart.  You just made my vegetarian heart smile with this recipe.

Now I'm not one to go scouring Martha Stewart's website for recipes, but Pinterest was created and well, the rest is history...

how can you go wrong with cheese, mushrooms and beans?

answer: you pretty much can

Martha's recipe

crustless quiche

quiche is great because its kinda hard to screw up.  you can just throw whatever you like inside and it's a fancy little meal.  pretty inexpensive as well.

here.

cauliflower pizza crust

we made a pizza!

out of riced cauliflower (chopped and food processed, then nuked for 8 minutes)

I was nervous.  It was much more moist than real dough.

mmmm.

but it turned out beautifully.

and mister said I could make it again... which is a good sign.

recipe here.

creamy caprese pasta + cheesey garlic bread

this pin inspired me.

gathering ingredients.

creamy and tomatoey.

penne not my fave, I may try it with farfalle or a different type of pasta next time.

CHEESE!

garlic bread was easy peasy.

french bread, butter, minced garlic, topped with mozzarella and Italian spices.

meatless.

marvelous.

meatless new year's

I wanted to make a little something something for lunch on New Year's Day.  We don't really care for the greens a lot of southerners cook on New Year's so we went with broccoli.  

chopped and ready to prep.

I also decided to make black eyed pea dip instead of boring old black eyed peas.

recipe here.

oh the broccoli's done!

recipe here.

our meal.

blackeyed pea dip, oven roasted broccoli, and cheddar cheese biscuits.

yum.

pinterest made me make a quesadilla

inspired by this pin.

I am determined to not be a person who just sits around and pins things and doesn't make the things they pin.  So here we are.

next time, I may need to use pre-shredded mozzarella.

it was juicy juicy.

I love cheese... don't judge me.

I love that golden brown.

makes my heart smile.

I wish it was time to eat again.

easy apple snack

We had craft night last Friday night (another blog post to com) and I was scrambling to make a snack.  Here's what I came up with...

apple havarti crescent bites

peeled, "cubed" granny smith apples

one block of havarti cheese

refrigerated crescent roll dough

honey (optional)

cut dough in small triangles (about half the size of the precut triangles)

wrap an apple cube and a small cut of cheese

for a slightly sweeter taste, add a small dot of honey before wrapping

Bake according to directions on crescent packaging

not one leftover!

yum yum to the tum tum!

post-wedding I can make and eat fun stuff again cheesecake...

this is why girls get fat after they get married.

new springform pans and kitchenaid mixer = sugary trouble.

an extra long run today??? I think so.

feta cheese spread.

made it last night... thought it would be a great meatless monday post. Recipe here.

tasty.

oh, Patti Labelle... a singer and a recipe artist!

I haven't made anything this week so I figured I would go back a few weeks to the most fattening day I had had in a while. Patti Labelle has a recipe for a baked mac n cheese. It is soooo good and I don't even really care about mac n cheese that much. I add more cheese than she calls for so my servings are super fatty! So you have to want it on a day that you don't care what you're eating!
Here's my version right before I took it out of the oven...

delish.