My first week back with the co-op

The first half of the week I had some trouble waking up so it was cereal and fruit for breakfast.  But it was a healthy organic cereal by Nature's Path with some almond milk.
Dinner on Monday was  pan cooked cabbage with olive oil and salt and pepper with some vegan apple-sage sausage from Field Roast, a salad with goat cheese crumbles and tomatoes from the neighbor and plums.

Tuesday I used the leftover cabbage, some cooked cauliflower and yukon gold potatoes to make a bubble and squeak with some more of the vegan sausage from the night before and another salad.
By Wednesday I was at least up to making toast for breakfast, so it was peanut butter and toast and some fruit.

Then Wednesday night was steamed kale and rice with stewed plums and gleaned peaches with honey and a bit of cinnamon done in the crock pot.  After when I was about halfway through dinner, my husband pointed out that the stewed fruit would be really good on ice cream.  So I saved the rest of my fruit and had it over ice cream for dessert.

Then that gets us to this morning - Thursday.  I actually made breakfast for the family.  We had a frittata with spinach, onion and tomato, topped with salsa, toast and jam (I had fig butter on mine) and some grapes and orange juice.

Some of the meals I forgot to post about

I didn't get everything posted we at this week.  Here are a couple that I managed to photograph anyway.
This the potato soup.
I cooked this in the crock pot.  It was mushrooms, onion, celery, a couple handfuls of cashews and potatoes and a carton of Trader Joe's Hearty Vegetable Broth and enough water to cover with salt and pepper.  When the potatoes were tender I put it though the vitamix until creamy.  I topped it with the Apple Sage Vegan sausage by Field Roast and some fresh chopped parsley.  It was very yummy and my favorite meal this week.


And then the last of the chard - again.  The husband sauteed some onion and garlic and then added the last bit of chard to it.  Cooked up some polenta and layered it polenta -card-polenta in a caserole dish and baked for 10 min. at 350 degrees.  This was actually very good and our favorite way to eat the chard all week.  But really, we had chard half the week and we were rather tired of it.

We also had the "I have no idea what else to do, let's have spaghetti" dinner this week.  The girl child made garlic bread with the bread from the co-op, olive oil, minced garlic and nutritional yeast.  And I made a fruit salad by cutting up the last orange, the last few strawberries and a banana and squeezing the juice of half a lemon over it all.

Yes, spaghetti is my fall back dinner.  That and what I call my random veggie soup.  Random veggie soup is for the end of the week and I have too many veggies left over, which doesn't happen if I am actually cooking.  Spaghetti is that food I cook when fresh veggies are starting to get a bit sparse or I am feeling rather clueless.  It will also crop up the night before pizza if I get a specific request of that from the girl child.

Chard, Potato and Adult Fruit Serving

Not my best pic.  But I can't retake it, cause I already ate it.
Baked potato with salsa, sauteed chard and a strawberry margarita (the husband and daughter had strawberry-banana-almond milk smoothies)

The chard was the most time consuming part of dinner.  We had 4 beets with greens still attached (the chard).  I cut off the greens and put the beets back for a later meal.
I separated the the leaves from the stalks.  Chopped the stalks, added a stalk of celery and a half onion chopped.  While the husband sauteed this with some minced garlic I started cutting the leaves up.  To cut the leaves I stacked them, rolled them and sliced.  It took several rounds of this.  And then we added the leaves to the stalks and cooked until they were nicely wilted.  The potatoes were baking during this process.

It is so sad that I do not own a real margarita glass and am drinking a very nice margarita from a plastic cup.  But so many of my glasses have broken that I am refusing to buy any more until we actually move, with the assumption that more will break in the moving process.  I am also not letting the family use my Nortaki Colorwave dishes until we move for the same reason.  They already broke my platter and all my mugs and Nortaki no longer makes the pretty grey since they now have the darker graphite pattern.