Teriyaki Mushroom Rice Bowls

I love rice bowls for customization though, as the only mushroom fan in the house, this one was purely for me. Roasted broccoli, sweet potatoes, and mushrooms top rice and get a sesame peanut drizzle. Swap the broccoli for edamame or cucumbers or greens!

Teriyaki Mushroom Rice Bowls
Ingredients:

1 cup brown rice
1/2 sweet potato
1 cup broccoli
1 cup mushrooms
1 – 2 teaspoons teriyaki
1 tablespoon peanut butter
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 teaspoon rice vinegar
chili crisp

Directions:
Prepare the rice, the potato, and the broccoli.
Pan fry the mushrooms and add a splash of teriyaki at the end.
Spread the rice into the bottom of the bowl and add the broccoli, the potato, and mushrooms.

Stir together the peanut butter, rice vinegar, and sesame oil. Add chili oil if desired.
Drizzle sauce over the top.
Enjoy!

This has sweet from the potatoes with salty from the teriyaki and crunch from the broccoli and the perfect nutty sauce.

Very Veggie Sandwich

This veggie sandwich is absolutely bursting with flavor.

The carrots, zucchini, and tomato are for nutrition. The pesto, the balsamic reduction, and the cheese are the flavor.

Very Veggie Sandwich
Ingredients: (serves 2)

1 zucchini
4 slices of bread or 2 rolls
1 carrot
1 teaspoon red wine vinegar
1 tomato
1 tablespoon pesto
1/4 cup cottage cheese, blended
2 teaspoons balsamic glaze


Directions:
Slice the zucchini into strips, drizzle with olive oil, and sprinkled with salt and pepper, then roast or grill.
Peel the carrot into ribbons and toss with red wine vinegar and a sprinkle of oregano.
Toast the bread.
Spread pesto on one side and cheese spread onto the other.
Slice the tomato and the zucchini.


Pile on the tomato, zucchini, and carrot ribbons. Drizzle balsamic glaze and assemble the two halves together.


Enjoy!

Cottage cheese is not my vibe BUT, blended it is fine. Swap it for ricotta or hummus or avocado! The carrot ribbons with vinegar is the punch this needs. It is drippy and requires 2 napkins. There’s texture and tons of flavor. I loved that this one has red, orange, and green.

You thought I was going to add arugula, am I right? Go for it, I would next time.

March 2025 Recap

March is the best – my birthday, a rollercoaster of winter weather wrapping up with teases of spring. We’ve been reading a lot and have had so many visits from Toast, the neighborhood cat who loves us.

I started March with a girl scout cookie coffee

We had Chicken Parm Dip which was enough to be a meal on it’s own.

Baked Biscuits & Gravy was fun to shake up bfast for dinner.

Biscuits & Gravy Casserole - Baked

April (and spring) is the time for quick dinners so I hope to get a little creative – and school vacation should be fun.

The Big Kid:
He wrapped up basketball with a successful playoffs and just a short break before lacrosse started. We cannot get over how far he came ice skating this season. We were at the rink, the second rink was open, they could have sticks, and then an impromptu game came together which is his dream. Winter has been fun though he cannot wait for shorts season.

The Littler One:
She had her last gymnastics class and we loved seeing her tricks. Soccer starts soon and she’s ready. Some friends from her class go ice skating and it is fun to see her join them.

Goals for this upcoming year:
Year of replacements/upgrades! I got some new baking pans for my birthday
Restaurant Recreations – ehh
Special ingredient focus – nope, didn’t get to this one either.
More fish – I treated myself to chower and clam fritters at Track 15 in Providence.
What I’m reading – I read None of This is True for bookclub and flew through it. Next up was A Bit Much which breaths life into modern poetry, and Let Us Descend was tough but so well done.

1 Pan Biscuits & Gravy

This is so good – and agreeably not the most beautiful. It is comforting and comes together so quickly for some egg, puffy biscuits, sausage, and brown butter gravy. It would be cuter in small ramekins or muffin cups.

Biscuits & Gravy Casserole - Baked

1 Pan Biscuits & Gravy
Ingredients (serves 4-6):

~8 sausage links
1 tube biscuits
2 eggs
1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup butter
1 cup milk
2/3 cup shredded cheese

Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350-degrees.
Cook the sausage until cooked through.
Remove sausage from the pan and add in the butter cooking over medium heat until the butter begins to brown and smell nutty. Add in the flour and cook for a minute. Reduce heat to low and whisk in the milk. Chop the sausage and add it into the gravy. Cook for about 3 minutes.

Chop the biscuits into 4-6 pieces and drop into a greased 9×9 baking dish.
Whisk the eggs and pour over the biscuit pieces.

Spoon the gravy on top.

Cover and bake for 20 minutes. It will puff and bubble up.
Uncover, top with cheese, and bake for another 10 minutes.

Biscuits & Gravy Casserole - Baked

Serve and enjoy! It’s cheesy, saucy, and very savory.

Our little eaters wouldn’t pick for everything to be together so they tried it and there were some leftover sausages and some separate biscuits.

It stored well and was good leftover too!

Chicken Parmesan Dip

This dip was hot, cheesy, with juicy chicken in a fun format. We ate it as dinner with some caesar salad and bread dippers.

Chicken Parm Dip
Ingredients (serves 4-6)

~1 1/2 cups breaded chicken (or ~4 tenders)
1 1/4 cup tomato sauce
2/3 cup whipped cream cheese
~1 cup shredded mozzarella
1/4 cup parmesan cheese
1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning

Directions:
Cook the chicken according to the package – mine went in the air fryer for 15 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 350-degrees and spray a baking dish with non-stick spray.
Mix 1 cup of the tomato sauce with the cream cheese and stir well. Spread onto the bottom of the baking dish. Chop the chicken and place that on top.

Add remaining plain tomato sauce, then sprinkle with mozzarella.

Bake for 15 minutes. Top with parmesan and Italian Seasoning and broil for another 5 minutes.
Serve with bread to dip/scoop.
Enjoy!

This was a win: 1 kid liked it and ate it as dip – the 2nd ate but didn’t seem like they’d request it. I’ll take it. I loved the pink sauce layer and bites of chicken with the bread.