Menu Plan Monday(s) late July- Early August

thanks for helping me make the pizzas!! I love you!!

What we've been eating lately:

Pizza on the grill, but using this dough. Sidenote: If you have a kitchenaid mixer, it's super easy to make dough with it.  We made our favorite pizza of goat cheese, figs & caramelized onions, along with a pizza margherita and a basic pepperoni this past time.  My parents were in town, so it was super fun to be in the kitchen with my Dad :-)

Vegetable Lasagna (lasagna noodles, followed by garlic alfredo sauce (I cheated and used one from a jar :-/ thinned with some milk), ricotta cheese mixed with spinach and parmesan, and then a mix of zucchini, yellow squash, cherry tomatoes, red onion, carrots, spinach, and a layer of mozzarella and parmesan cheese. 

Vegetable Enchiladas: I cheated again and used jarred sauce... and I used zucchini, yellow squash, black beans, corn & tomatoes as the veggies. 

Homemade Salsa (modifications: used canned diced tomatoes (canned tomatoes really do make good salsa when you are waiting for yours to ripen), added a splash of lime juice, didn't use the vinegar, didn't add cumin even though it's my favorite... just like anything else you cook, the key is to taste while you go... just use clean utensils each time/a new chip if you are making it for others!)

"Unbelievable Chicken"... let's just say there once was a time I thought I was helping out with our church's version of VBS and had Grant grill 6 chicken breasts to use for easy meals all week, only to find out it was the next week.  I'll blame it on "mom brain." Anyways, this chicken really was good... I didn't have any coarse mustard, so I just used Dijon and it was still delicious. We ate most of it plain, but I also made a few wraps for lunch.  

Calzones- again, use your stand mixer to make the dough! I used mozzarella with the ricotta instead of chedddar... but any combo of cheese would work... I like foods that involve "dipping," so this is fun with the tomato sauce on the side. I made four calzones out of this dough, and they were still pretty large, so you probably make eight or make 16 "mini" calzones.  I didn't bother to brush it with egg or olive oil and they were still great.