Last weekend, I went a little crazy and decided that it was a good idea to spend all of Sunday cooking. I decided to make 9 dishes that I would refrigerate or freeze and use throughout the week for dinners and lunches:
- From Let Them Eat Vegan! by Dreena Burton
- Warmly Spiced Quinoa Chickpea Stew with Figs
- Walnut Pecan Balls
- From Isa Does It by Isa Chandra Moskowitz
- Spicy Slurpy Spaghetti Sauce (just add spaghetti!)
- Everyday Pad Thai
- Smoky Incan Stew
- Coconut Chana Saag (with brown basmati rice, also prepared & frozen in advance)
- From Chloe’s Kitchen by Chloe Coscarelli
- Tempeh Piccata (just add mashed potatoes!)
- From the Internet
- Raw Slaw
- Mac & Cheese (just add broccoli and Italian vegan sausage!)
Alex and I have been enjoying the fruits of my labor all week! (And continue to do so, in fact. There are plenty of leftovers that will probably carry into the next week.) It’s super satisfying being able to come home after work, choose an entree, and have it ready to eat in under 10 minutes. It’s also been nice not having dinner leftovers for lunch the next day. (As they say, variety is the spice of life!) However, it was slightly annoying spending hours at the supermarket and then many more hours on my feet in the kitchen. It did free up my time in the evenings, though, to make desserts. And, man, I love me some desserts! (My current favorite is the raspberry peach cobbler from Isa Does It. It calls for frozen peaches and raspberries so you can have this wonderfully summery dessert even in the middle of a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad winter.)
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