It’s Labor Day weekend! What are your plans? I didn’t even realize it was this week until I started seeing Labor Day recipes on other people’s blogs. I guess this is what happens when you’re unemployed. Days of the week completely lose their significance! It’s a little bit disorienting.
Here’s what I ate this week:
Garlic Soy Green Beans // It’s easy! It’s delicious! What more can you ask for? Trim about a pound of green beans and toss them with a half tablespoon of vegetable or peanut oil, a small sliced red pepper, and two sliced garlic cloves. Roast for 15 minutes at 400 degrees, stirring every 5 minutes. Toss with a tablespoon of soy sauce and sprinkle with sesame seeds before serving.
Baked Portobello Mushroom Fries // We loved these! I served them with marinara sauce for dipping. I will eat anything with breading on it.
Tofu with Peanut-Ginger Sauce // I will also eat anything with peanut sauce on it. I fried the tofu in a tablespoon of oil and we dipped it in the sauce. If you’re looking for a go-to peanut sauce recipe, bookmark this one–it’s good!
Broccoli Rabe with Sun-Dried Tomatoes // Okay, I think I just don’t like broccoli rabe. This particular batch was even more bitter than usual. It tasted like bleach to me. Not that I know what bleach tastes like. (Oh wait, I do. It tastes like broccoli rabe.)
Whole-Wheat Rotini with Fresh Herbs, Walnuts & Sun-Dried Tomatoes // I’ve been having olives and crackers for lunch all week and then I realized how pathetic that was. I’m a food blogger! I should do better than that! So I decided to throw together this pasta with an assortment of herbs from the garden, a wee bit of olive oil, walnuts, sun-dried tomatoes, and a tablespoon of Parmesan cheese. I thought it would just be passable, but it was actually really tasty–I will be making it again!
Sir Kensington’s Gourmet Scooping Ketchup // Yeah, you may have noticed that I love ketchup. I love it so much. And Sir Kensington’s ketchup is definitely ketchup worth my undying devotion. It tastes better than other brands (that shall remain nameless!) because it’s made with whole tomatoes, less sugar, and less sodium. It comes in Classic and Spicy flavors and we’ve been enjoying both with fries and burgers. Also? The guy on the label has a fancy mustache and monocle. A monocle. That’s how you know something is classy!
Do you want to try Sir Kensington’s Gourmet Scooping Ketchup too? You can enter to win a cute picnic basket with 2 jars of ketchup (one Classic and one Spicy) and spoons for scooping on my Facebook page this week! (Disclosure: I received samples from Sir Kensington’s, but I wasn’t obligated to post about them here.)
I’m taking Monday off from posting for the holiday. Don’t forget to eat lots of corn this weekend! And watermelon!
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Bleach and broccoli rabe share a bloodline, huh?
Gonna HAVE to try that ketchup!
Apparently they do! I’m still having flashbacks to that taste–ick.
I need to warm up to peanut sauce. That stuff looks good. Look at that fancy pants ketchup!
Enjoy your holiday weekend!
You don’t like peanut sauce?! Oh, you are missing out! I could eat it with a spoon. (Which I probably shouldn’t do. But I could!)
I haven’t found a peanut sauce that I absolutely love yet, so I’ll have to give this one a try next!
I think it’s the addition of the ginger juice (instead of just grated ginger) that makes this one so good. I almost threw in a clove of garlic because that’s usually how I make mine, but I restrained myself and I’m glad I did!
Those green beans sound delicious. I can’t wait to try them. Yum!
They’re so good–roasting green beans is the best!
I keep forgetting that it’s Labor Day weekend too! Love that cute little guy on the ketchup jar – you totally need to recycle the jar into a candle or something, just to keep him around!
I know, right? It’s totally that classy monocle. Why don’t people wear those anymore?!
Everything looks fantastic this week! Those fries and the green beans especially. Will look for the ketchup, would love to try the spicy one
Have a great weekend!
Thank you! I love a nice spicy ketchup with fries and this is definitely a good one.
What a lovely spread, as usual!! Delicious-looking!
Love the mushrooms and the Whole-Wheat Rotini with Fresh Herbs, Walnuts & Sun-Dried Tomatoes. My daughter makes rotini and uses sun-dried tomato salad dressing, chopped up black olives, onions, and cherry tomatoes…yum.
Next time I’m going to try adding olives! Olives are one of my favorite ingredients–they make everything even better.
I just love seeing your recaps, they make my mouth water.
Portobello Mushroom fries, omg my husband would love these!
Garlic green beans sound really tasty, but what I love the most is those baked encrusted mushrooms….simply amazing!
They were so good! Like deep-fried mushrooms, without the guilt.
I have been a loyal fan of Heinz ever since I could squeeze it out of the packets directly onto my tongue at age 2. BUT I might try this new catchup. Maybe.
I freaking love ketchup, but straight from the packets? No, I don’t think I’d go that far.
These look great and I love the peanut ginger sauce!
Your pasta recipe sounds so light and filling! This is such a change from the sauce drenched versions that make you feel so full and guilty after eating.
Yup, it was perfect for lunch! I just put a teaspoon of olive oil in there and that was enough.
Those beans look amazing, I love roasted veggies but I don’t think I have ever roasted green beans.
You should definitely try roasting green beans! It doesn’t take much longer than steaming them either.
Your pictures having me wanting some veggies!
The green beans look delicious!
I’m going to check this ketchup out. We enjoy ketchup too, especially the little lady. Those green beans also look lovely.
It’s so good–very tomato-y, which I like!
Those green beans look so awesome! I am going to have to try roasting them although I might use a bit of coconut oil…. also that ketchup looks good. I am a ketchup fanatic – it goes on practically anything that is not a dessert
I’m totally obsessed with ketchup too! I’m constantly thinking to myself, “Can I eat this with ketchup?” The answer is usually yes.
Most times YES! My husband hates it when I eat it on my mash potatoes – and Lays has even made Ketchup flavored chips — so I know I am not the only ketchup lover on earth
Those green beans look amazing!