Meatless Monday: Grilled Veggie Lasagna

Hey there!!  It’s time for another Meatless Monday!

Before I get into the recipe I need to show off my new refrigerator!!  (First, remember the old one??)

And here’s the new one!  (p.s. I know I need to go grocery shopping)

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On with the recipe!!

Grilled Veggie Lasagna

Ingredients:
Veggies for grilling- I used an eggplant, a zucchini, and an onion, and two portabellas.
Jar of your favorite pasta sauce
Whole wheat lasagna noodles cooked according to package directions- I used 10 of them, but it really depends on the size of your pan.
Mozzarella cheese- I like Daiya

Directions:
Slice your veggies up and grill them.  (if you don’t have a grill, you can use a grill pan.  If you don’t have either you can just sauté them, but it won’t be quite as good because it won’t have that smokey flavor)

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Let your veggies cool enough to handle them, then chop them up into pieces.

Layer your lasagna starting with sauce, then noodles, more sauce, veggies, noodles, sauce, veggies, etc…

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When you get to the top layer sprinkle on the cheese.  (make sure you get a really good layer of sauce on the top so that your noodles don’t get all crunchy)

Place in a 350F oven for around 30 minutes or until the cheese is nice and melty.

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Serve it with a nice salad and THIS BREAD!  It is maybe the best bread ever!  And you can thank Laura for the tip on the bread!

I made it in my bread machine and it came out perfect!  I sprinkled a little Tuscan Seasoning on it before it went to the bake cycle in the bread machine.

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Perfection!!!

Have a great one!!

Nada Lada

That is exactly what has been going on over here for the last few days.  Nada.  I’ve been lounging on the couch catching up on some reading.  Exciting, I know!  My food hasn’t really been anymore exciting than that, so that’s why there haven’t been many posts lately.  I’m going to try to get back on track posting regularly though.

Today for breakfast I had some of these oatmeal squares.  They were really good and I wasn’t even hungry until lunch!

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Then there was more lounging and reading until lunch time.

For lunch was a leftover morningstar farms hotdog from last night.  These things are really good, but the best part is I don’t have to worry about which parts of the little piggie got thrown into the hotdog!  Oh yeah, and I also like them because they’re only 50 calories each!

I had this guy with some Corazonas squeeze of lime chips.

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close up…

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Dessert was the last little scoop of this coconut ice cream (yum yum yum!)

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With a handful of strawberries (I hadn’t had any friuts or veggies yet, lol)

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Ate it right out of the carton!!

Then it was more nothingness/playing with the dogs.  Then I decided to get my butt up and do something so I made a quick little trip to Whole Foods and got some goodies.  I only let myself spend $20, so I didn’t come out with a whole lot of stuff, but I got a few Larabars for snacking, a watermelon, some fruit leather, some grass fed lean ground beef, some Wisconsin cheddar, and a few other things that I can’t really remember.

Then I came home and fired up the grill!

We had burgers (I also threw a few chicken breasts on for some stuff later this week).  And grilled eggplant, squash, and zucchini.

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With some of that aged cheddar!

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Altogether now.

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And we busted into the watermelon for dessert.  This may have been the best watermelon I’ve ever had!  It was so juicy and amazing!

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I went back for seconds on the watermelon.  I couldn’t help myself- it was fabulous!!

Well, I guess that I’m about caught up now!  Till tomorrow!