Showing posts with label recipe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recipe. Show all posts

Monday, April 23, 2012

Melody: Stuffed Spaghetti Squash

My first REAL post!! With pictures and everything. Professionalism at its finest.

My goal for this blog will be to create a new recipe or food idea every week and post it here on Mondays.  I’ll be writing to let you all know all of the pros, cons, and overall experience with it.

This week I’ve been craving Italian. So, I talked Hubby-to-be (HTB) into making pasta sauce with me from scratch, though, we cheated and used half-canned tomatoes and half fresh. HTB was happy to have an easier cooking project for our Friday night. Unfortunately for him the sauce was just the preparations for this post’s project.

We ended up making Stuffed Spaghetti Squash, and it was delicious.

I cut the squash in half-length wise, de-seeded, and boiled them for 20 minutes. I also sautéed some mushrooms, bell peppers, onions, and garlic then I scraped out the squash noodle-ness, combined all ingredients and stuffed them back in the squash and topped all with our marinara sauce.

While I am a vegan, my HTB is the not. Not even close. So, looking at the positive I’m glad I get to share my vegan cooking adventures while still making them more appealing to those who prefer some meat or other animal products in their meals.

So here’s our first Monday Meal for you all. This is HTB’s. Mine is the same just minus the meatballs and butter/mayonnaise on the garlic bread.

Overall, this was fairly easy to make not counting the sauce. If you don’t pre cut your veggies there is plenty of time to dice them up and cook ‘em while the squash is boiling. On a plus note keeping the veggies in the squash shell allows them to stay hot longer. I’ve found that with spaghetti squash you don’t have much time before it gets cold. The meal was super delicious and incredibly healthy.


Sunday, April 22, 2012

Melody: The 1st Blog Post


My challenges to write my first post, and the help of my hubby-to-be.
Me: “I need to blog.”
Fiancé: “Then do it.”
Me: “I need to write something in the blog!”
Fiancé “Then do it”
Me: “Megs already written a bajillion posts!”
Fiancé “Then write something.”
Me: “I REALLY need to write something in the blog!!!”
Fiancé: “You blog too much
Encouragement! Important in every relationship.
There will be a real health/diet related post tomorrow. I just need to get my 1st outta the way. Until then, Check out my awesome recipe I have for vegan blueberry muffins. They’re seriously better than any other (non vegan) muffin I’ve ever made.
Blueberry Love Muffins
Makes approximately 10-12
  • 1 1/2 cup flour
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon 
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • 3/4 cup almond milk
  • 1/4 cup oil
  • 1 1/2 cup blueberries


Combine all dry ingredients. Mix in wet, fold in blueberries. Bake at 400 degrees for 25-30 minutes.