Menu for the Week:
Breakfast: Oatmeal w/ Banana Slices
Lunch: Brown Basamati Rice with Button Mushrooms & Spring Vidalia Onions
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| Fresh produce-yum! |
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| Brown rice cooking in vegetable broth. Add mushrooms & onion when rice is almost done cooking. |
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| MJ getting ready to dive in. |
Dinner: Broccoli Millet Croquettes with White Bean Aioli
I gave my friend a run-down of some of the great vegan cookbooks I have read in the past few months and absolutely one of my favorites is Veganomicon, which pegs itself as "The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook." Well, I might not go that far but some of my favorite staple recipes come from that book.
Anywhoo---after mentioning to her my love for that cookbook I decided to revisit it for a recipe for millet. With broccoli arriving at the farmer's market this week this recipe was perfect although it was kinda time consuming, which is why I chose two other pretty simple recipes.
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| Millet flour w/ thyme, pepper & garlic |
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| Millet cooking with vegetable broth & chopped broccoli added |
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| After cooling form golf sized balls |
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| Flatten & cook with olive oil on both sides until browned |
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| All done! |
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| Navy Bean Aioli |
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| Lunchtime~(Paired with Navy Bean Aioli) |
Failed Snack...but not really: So, I bought some dry chickpeas with the intention of making crisy chickpeas. Well they turned out great...BUT not for a baby with no teeth. Womp, womp--but mama has something to snack on or add to salads.
Ingredients:
Chickpeas (I used dry, but canned are faster)
Garlic
Chili Powder
Olive Oil
Water
Using dry chickpeas they have to be cooked first following directions on package.
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| Chickpeas roasting in the oven w/ olive oil, chili powder & garlic until dark brown and crispy |
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| Yum! |
Notes: In my exploration of gluten-free grains to introduce to MJ I came across millet. I personally had never eaten (I don't think) or cooked millet so this week was an experience for me. I wasn't able to find millet flour, but bought whole millet and ground it to make flour and it worked fine. I actually think that the consistency of the millet when cooked was similar to cornmeal, but when eating it didn't taste super grainy like cornmeal.
Also, I had originally intended to make wild rice for MJ's lunch, but wasn't able to find any that didn't contain a whole mess of other things [soy, dairy, crazy unpronounceable things]....no thanks. I'll try Harris Teeter next time. Very important to check the ingredients even of food that shouldn't really have any weird additives
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