The MM Sandwich, PW Style

 

The MM Sandwich, PW Style 

I make a sausage/bell pepper/onion hoagie sandwich a lot, and this reminded me of it....but better! I really liked it but next time I'll cut the steak into bite sized pieces instead of strips. I also slightly overcooked the steak but I wanted to make sure there was no pink since I wasn't sure if cubed steak was more related to ground beef or...steak. Ever since our food poisoning incident from medium Red Robin burgers, we make sure ground beef has zero pink.

 Everyone loved this! Besides halving the recipe, the only thing I did differently was we added "cowboy butter" seasoning to the meat. Served with frozen waffle fries. I made half the amount because for 2lbs of cubed steak it was $20, which was insane. But halving the recipe was perfect, it made enough for dinner plus at least 1 night of leftovers, maybe even 2.

Click here for the MM Sandwich, PW Style recipe from Pioneer Woman

Chicken Tikka Masala with Indian Spiced Masala Zucchini

 

Chicken Tikka Masala with Indian Spiced Masala Zucchini

Don't mind the chip in the plate.....it gives it character. 

I made the Chicken Tikka Masala almost exactly as written. The only difference is that I didn't measure how much chicken thighs I used, I just grabbed a few....and I used jarlic instead of cloves and refrigerated squeeze ginger instead of chopping fresh. Oh and I had to use red onion because I was shockingly out of white/yellow.  It's delicious of course because yum!

The Indian Spiced Masala Zucchini I made because we still have so many tomatoes & zucchini from the garden, so I headed to Pinterest to look up "Indian spiced zucchini". I found this recipe that I had all the ingredients for! Well almost, instead of the cumin seeds I just used dried cumin. I also didn't measure the veggies lol. I used 2 tomatoes, half a red onion because I was out of white, and probably 3 cups of zucchini. It was really good too!

I love these flavors and want to make them more often, but Craig's not the hugest fan.....he likes it but not that often. Some homemade naan would of been good to sop up extra sauce..... if I had the energy! I'm due any day and I'm so excited/nervous :) 

Click here for the Easy Chicken Tikka Masala recipe by Damn Delicious

Click here for the Indian Spiced Masala recipe by Tarladalal

Ground Turkey Pita Pockets

 

Ground Turkey Pita Pockets

I had the best intentions for making this as the recipe said to lol. I had planned on just buying a tzatziki sauce because I'm due any day now and even cooking takes it out from me. I bought a pound of ground turkey, and I also had a 1/2 pound of ground beef leftover from making beef stroganoff, so I added that to the ground turkey. Which meant I added more spices too. I normally am not a fan of feta but it really does work with these flavors.

The first issue I had with this dinner is that I could not get the pita's into pockets, probably because I just bought the Walmart brand and they are too thin. So I thought oh well we'll have pita tacos, that's fine. The second issue is when I went to make the pita pockets.....I realized I forgot to order the tzatziki sauce! I was so bummed because I love tzatziki sauce. So instead I spread the pitas with a layer of hummus and a thin layer of garden veggie cream cheese. I also put some ranch on my sons pita pocket. Overall they still were delicious and really fresh tasting, and I'd like to make it again but actual pocket style with tzatziki sauce. Oh yeah and the cucumbers & tomatoes were from Craig's garden!

Click here for the Greek Pita Recipe from Jar of Lemons

Beef Stroganoff & Air Fried Ranch Zucchini

 

Beef Stroganoff & Air Fried Ranch Zucchini

I've made this recipe a million times. It's easy, good and cheap so that's great lol. The zucchini was from the garden that I tossed in EVOO, garlic/pepper/ranch seasoning and air fried at 400 for like 6 minutes. 

Click here for the Beef Stroganoff recipe from BudgetBytes

Tortellini Salad

 

Tortellini Salad

This is another "it's too hot to cook" meal. Super easy and I wanted to use up a few ingredients from the garden. I was inspired by this tortellini salad recipe by Love & Lemons and I just randomly added stuff that I had already. I also used bottle dressing because I really wanted a super quick meal lol

Ingredients:

- 20oz bag of tortellini

- 2 tomatoes from the garden, diced

- 2 zucchinis from the garden, diced

- 1/2 red onion, diced

- 1 5oz container shaved parm

- 1 14oz can of white beans

- 1 14oz can artichoke hearts, diced

- 1 bell pepper, diced

- 1/2 cup maybe of pepperoncini, diced 

- a few handfuls of an arugula/spinach blend

- 1/2 bottle of Kens Zesty Italian dressing. I don't like it too wet so I added garlic, Italian seasoning, salt, pepper, red pepper flakes and a smidge of cayenne to taste and mixed it into the salad

I just cooked the tortellini, chopped all the veggies and just combined everything. Super fresh and tasty, it would be amazing with some fresh herbs. The zucchini I diced and air fried with a little EVOO/salt/pepper/garlic at 400 for about 6 minutes. 

Veggie Sandwich with Garlic Butter Fries

 

Veggie Sandwich with Garlic Butter Fries

The guys were here finishing up the flooring today and I wasn't sure how late they'd be here. So I got some Dave's Killer Bread that I toasted and I spread some garden veggie cream cheese, & topped with: arugula, pepperoncini, tomatoes & cucumber from the garden, avocados and red onion. We had some bacon too that would have been yummy.

I also air fried some of these garlic fries from Kinders, they are super good

Creamy Salsa Chicken Skillet

Creamy Salsa Chicken Skillet

I'm 9 months pregnant and we've been having all of our flooring replaced so I've hardly cooked lately. But there was no construction today and we had all the ingredients for this so I thought it was the perfect time. It's super easy, the most work is dicing the chicken. I've made this once before exactly as written, but this time I made a few changes to use up ingredients I already have. Instead of beans and corn I added a zucchini from the garden, and I used 2 cups of homemade salsa my husband smoked and made. I didn't have any queso fresco but I did have some shredded Monterey Jack cheese. The rice is also just the microwaveable cilantro lime rice pouch. The green onion is leftover from another recipe, if we didn't have any it still would have been tasty without it. The homemade salsa has so much flavor!

Click here for the Creamy Salsa Chicken Skillet recipe from BudgetBytes