Meatless Week

A few weeks ago I felt we ate a lot of meat within seven days, so I decided to have an (almost) meatless week after that.

We started out with a broccoli macaroni cheese - this one contains pancetta, so it's not completely meatfree. 

You will notice that this was a very pasta heavy week - we simply love to eat pasta. Next was leftover spaghetti with spinach, bok choy and kale that I seasoned with cumin and ancho chili peppers.

On Rain's blog I found the recipe for cauliflower casserole. I love cauliflower and wanted to try this - it was very cheesy and simply delicious! However, next time I will probably change out the cheddar for gruyere; I have never been a particular fan of cheddar.

The creamy mushroom and leek pasta was a new dish for me, I had found the recipe in NYT Cooking. It was okay, but I will certainly change some things when I make it again.

It was time for one of our favorite dishes - crip gnocchi with brussels sprouts and brown butter. This is to die for and so much better than those boiled-to-death brussels sprouts of my childhood.

Farfalle with creamy mushroom sauce - I make this without any recipe, you don't really need one for this. In the morning I bought creminis from the mushroom guy at the farmers market; he has the best mushrooms in the area. I still had heavy cream, added some spices - done. Easy peasy.

Sunday is the day in the week when I don't cook. That's when the freezer offers the menu. This time it was Japanese style fried rice from Trader Joe's - I only sauteed the shrimp for that and added them at the end.

I'm linking up again to Kathy's Food Wednesdays.