weekly menu

Today I thought I'd get all crazy and post the menu first, and then the recipes, and THEN the produce list.  Wild, huh?  I like to keep you guessing.  ;o)

Stuffed mochi - I'm baking plain mochi in the oven until it puffs, and then stuffing them with the veganized copycat version of PF Chang's lettuce wrap filling.  I'll use Yves meatless crumbles instead of chicken.

Stir fry - this will be whatever my husband cobbles together on his night to cook!

Soup - I'm undecided about what kind it will be except that I know it will have zucchini.  I picked up some Field Roast vegan smoked apple sage sausage, so I will probably make this Martha Stewart recipe and add zucchini  

Roasted root vegetable salad with maple balsamic dressing  - I'll be using beets (which I hate - the things I do for my husband!), carrots, potatoes and onions, serving it over our leafy greens and topping with toasted walnuts and pomegranate arils.

Hazelnut-quinoa stuffed acorn squash - I'll be adding spinach (I have frozen spinach in abundance) and topping with a mixture of ground pine nuts, nutritional yeast and salt instead of parmesan cheese.

I'm also hoping to make a key lime pie with a bunch of the key limes we have left from last week.  There's one in Vegetarian Times that looks really yummy.  

Here's our gargantuan produce list.  There is lots extra today because I ordered two Asian veggie packs and 5 pumpkins (and five loaves of bread).  We'll be hollowing out the pumpkins for jack-o-lanterns and freezing the guts for future recipes.  

napa cabbage – stir fry

bok choy – stir fry

water chestnuts stuffed mochi

green onions – stuffed mochi

onion – stir fry, root veg salad

garlic

ginger – root veg salad

snow peas – stuffed mocha side

celery – school lunches

green leaf lettuce – root veg salad

multicolored carrots – root veg salad

beets – root veg salad

gold bell peppers – stir fry

roma tomatoes on the vine - pizza

acorn squash (both baskets)

pumpkins

potatoes – root veg salad

radishes – give to friend

zucchini - soup

grapes – school lunches

gala apples – school lunches

pluots – school lunches

bananas – school lunches, snacks

pomegranates – root veg salad

red pears – root veg salad side, school lunches

avocados (not ripe)

pineapple (not ripe)

lemons – stuffed mochi

mushrooms – stuffed mochi

blackberries – stuffed mochi side

raspberries – stuffed mochi side

strawberries – stuffed mocha side

sugar snap peas – school lunches

watermelon - soup side, school lunches

bosch pears – school lunches, snacks

apple pears – school lunches, snacks

plums – school lunches

key limes - key lime pie

grapefruit - snacks

oranges  - snacks