Meal Planning

Tomorrow is New Year's Eve and I'm planning to go grocery shopping in the morning.  Here is what we currently have that needs to be used:  sweet potatoes, baby red potatoes, apples, dry squash seeds (from the last time I cooked butternut squash), celery, red bell pepper, green bell pepper, and lots of carrots.  Here is what I'm making:

Black Bean Burgers

Because I made a new batch of burgers that are currently in the freezer so they are an easy, healthy dinner.

Creole Red Beans & Rice

I was going to make this today, but it turns out I need a can of tomatoes and green chiles.  This will use up a portion of the bell peppers.  I bought a small bag of small red beans awhile back for making this recipe and it's still lasting awhile.  Dry beans are so absurdly small and cheap compared with canned.

Vegan Garlicky Korean Mac and Cheese

Because it was so good last time and it's easy.

Homemade Pizza

For New Year's Eve since we're having a little party at home (i.e., Simran is actually being allowed to stay up with Sameer and me to eat snacks and watch the ball drop on TV).  I already have one more pizza dough in the freezer.

Idli-Sambar

This will use up the rest of the fresh bell peppers, some of the carrots and celery, and the diced turnips taking up space in the freezer.

 

Vegan Potato Soup

To use up the potatoes and some of the carrots and celery.  I'm thinking I'll make this for dinner tonight and we can have sandwiches or other leftovers with it. 

Whipped Sweet Potatoes

To use up the sweet potatoes.  I'm just going to bake them and puree them with a little water and my immersion blender and we can eat them as a veggie side.  They don't require any other ingredients.

 

Croutons

I made two loaves of pumpernickel bread on Christmas.  The leftovers aren't moldy yet, but surely they aren't good anymore, so I'm going to try making them into croutons for topping soups, salads, and just plain eating.

Applesauce

NYE Snacks:

Roasted squash seeds

Ganache Truffles (because I had ganache leftover from the Christmas cake, so I stirred some peanut butter into it and I'm going to scoop out spoonfuls and roll them in powdered sugar since I made the ganache from rather dark chocolate)

Cheese & Cracker (we have a variety of vegan and dairy cheeses and a variety of crackers)

Olives (I would normally stop by the Whole Foods olive bar before NYE at home, but this year I ordered a variety of olives online)