More Creative Dinners

It's been a while since my last food post, so I thought I would share with you some of the things we've been cooking.

Broccoli, spinach and potato soup


Spinach and green pea rice with chicken


Used the last of my apple picking apples to make Cinnamon Apple Chips


Nothing like homemade pesto! Yummy!!

Walnut & date wild rice and mashed sweet potatoes
(this one started out good, but half way through we were not feeling it anymore. The sweet potatoes were supposed to be a soup, but I decided to not add more water and keep them mashed. The potatoes went nicely mixed with the wild rice, but that rice is just so hard to work with.)

Pretty much every week we try to soak some kind of dry bean that we will use throughout the week. This week we decided to use garbanzo beans (chickpeas), which is definitely different from the usual black or pinto beans. So, to start I made homemade hummus, but it wasn't quite as good as the store bought ones. And then we have tried incorporating the garbanzos into our weekly meals:

Walnut & Raisin Waldorf Salad and a chickpea quinoa with almonds and raisins

Spiced chicken with garbanzo beans along with a yogurt sauce
and some sweet potatoes & peas

Spinach and garbanzo beans with thyme butternut squash
(We ate out for lunch at an Italian place across the street, which was really yummy and then we went out for a few hours running errands. When we got home Brian was craving a huge mound of spinach, so this is what I did with his mound haha)