Food for the Belly: Dinner

I've been pretty bad lately at blog date accuracy. This would be dinners from last week...that I just remembered I had in Drafts and hadn't posted yet! I've got a few more months to get the hang of this because when baby is here, I'm sure it'll be even harder to keep up!

Dinners this week included a pretty awesome chicken, broccoli, quinoa, wild rice casserole, which I found a recipe for and subsequently dumped whatever I felt like into a pan. Actually, this one was relatively close to the recipe. I mixed quinoa and wild rice, which was great for texture, but took forever for the 50 minute wild rice to cook. Broccoli is broccoli, I meant to use up some mushrooms but completely forgot, tossed it all in some mushroom soup and milk, a bit of oregano, being one of the only spices we have on hand, topped with crushed crackers and of course, some cheesy goodness. Great for lunch leftovers too!

Adapted from this recipe, found on Pinterest

Another night we had Greek pitas. A newer invention, but so good! I use pork tenderloin and either bake it in the oven, or slice it into medallions and cook in a pan, which is much faster, with some Renee's Greek dressing. Let's just take a moment to acknowledge that although it's expensive, Renee's dressings are one of our splurges because they are so awesome. Favourites include Balsamic, Greek and Asian Sesame. The parmesan garlic makes for an incredible, lighter Caesar salad, but we don't treat ourselves to that too often. Anyways, to go with the pork, we had pitas (have also used leftover naan bread in the past - how multicultural of us!), chunks of cucumber, tomato and avocado, and of course, tzatziki and pasteurized goat's cheese feta! Hearing that you shouldn't have soft cheeses during pregnancy was actually a little devastating, but we don't usually have a lot of fine, fancy cheeses on hand at home, so it hasn't been too bad. Plus, the whole point is that soft cheeses are typically unpasteurized which could be the problem, so when I found pasteurized feta, Greek night was on! Leftovers make amazing Greek salads too :)

Can't go wrong with tzatziki and goat's feta cheese!