Turkey Sausage Primavera & PJ Babies

At J and Bean's well check up I was asking the doctor if Bean could eat too many solids at this age. He replied that right now eating solids is more of a social event, so just smash up some of the vegetables we're eating- like squash.

HA.

Of course I went right along letting him think we don't eat pizza rolls or some version of pasta and cheese most nights, especially since I already had the ipod touch parenting J in the corner.

Although AP has been sleeping through the night for a while, that newborn fog is just now lifting. Quick. Frozen. Crock pot. Carb and cheese heavy. Those are the meals of 2011 so far.  It was fine for a while, but M and I both decided we were feeling the effects of a less than well-rounded diet. M assisted the crew and we made our way through the produce aisle.

I've been looking for recipes that yield leftovers, can be prepped in advance (4-6pm just sucks), and are lighter. We've had chicken cesear salad, (easy) vegetable soup, chicken salad (we eat it with carrot sticks- that's healthy, right?!), and Pasta Primavera with Turkey Sausage. I made a couple minor substitutions for the things I didn't have on hand. I also halved the recipe because, to me, this is not a reheat kinda dish. (And yeah, this is carb-heavy, but it's with vegetables and there's no heavy sauce.)

Pasta Primavera with Italian Turkey Sausage adapted from allrecipes.com

Ingredients

1/2 package angle hair pasta- cooked according to directions

1/2 pound Italian turkey sausage

Olive oil

Minced garlic

1/4 onion, diced

1 zucchini, chopped

1 squash, chopped

1 tomato, seeded and diced

red pepper flakes to taste

1 tea Italian seasoning (approx)

1 tea basil

CHEESE (Italian preferably, but I used Mexican because J likes his quesadillas)

Directions

1. Heat skillet, brown turkey sausage. Set aside.

2. Add olive oil to skillet, saute the onion, garlic, zucchini and squash till tender

3. Add sausage back in. 

4. Add S&P, red pepper flakes, Italian seasoning and tomato

5. Toss noodles with some basil and olive oil, put on plate

6. Top noodles with cheese, put sausage and veggies on top of that

ENJOY!

On another food related note, we are ridding our house of peanut products. SNIFF. I was unwilling to part with my precious PB, but J is proving more and more capable in finding things, so out it all goes. Whatever shall I eat for lunch?

Thanks to, Decorating the Elevator's Mediterranean Tuna Antipasto Salad  and Spoonful's Egg and Olive, I've not gone hungry.  And gosh darn, with all that protein and vegetables I feel better too. (Side note- I made both of these on Sunday so they'd be ready to eat all week. I do realize that's not revolutionary...)

Well. Enough about food. Onto our favorite time of day. DAD IS HOME!!!! The lighting on these pictures is horrendous, but I figured you wouldn't mind looking past it. 

I'm also going to ask you not to covet our closet space.

 

 

We do love that guy.

I also hope to post on the entertainment center soon. The last coat of paint is finally dry, and M hopes to put the doors on tonight. 

Oops- my spell checker didn't find anything, which means it's broken. Sorry.