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Easy Pecan Pasta Sauce

April 27, 2017 by Megan

Easy to create, creamy pecan pasta sauce with a bit of a kick from the Sriracha sauce. Great sauce to pour over your favorite pasta. Soak the nuts for two hours and then prep the rest of the sauce in the food processor and it is ready to eat!

I Am A Foodatarian

Meat. Nom. Veggies. Nom Nom. Food. Nom Nom Nom. I will probably never cut meat entirely out of my diet because I love chicken and fish too much and my husband would go in shock if I stopped eating his steaks. However, I also love trying vegetarian or vegan meals.

This pecan pasta sauce is superb. And it can be made vegan using a plant-based milk or use regular milk. Either way, this sauce is FAN-TASTIC!! So flavorful, and with just the right amount of kick from the Sriracha sauce.

I love a good sauce atop my pasta and it seems we eat a bit more pasta these days. I am pretty sure in the past I went years without eating much pasta. No joke I lived off spinach salads and wraps and yogurt back in the day. No more of that. I wouldn’t last beyond 10am on what I used to. I run around after our kids from the moment I hear, “Mommy, I need juice” until they get into bed and say “Goodnight…I’m thirsty.” 😂 I NEED PASTA🍝 in my life. I also need a good sauce to pour on top and that’s why I am so incredibly excited about this easy pecan pasta sauce.

This one’s gonna be a keeper! Because I can eat pasta in the springtime, summer, fall, and winter!

Kids Will Be Kids

We have 3 kids, ages 3, 3, and 5 right now. We do not have twins…our middle child will turn 4 in just a couple of weeks. Close, right?! So close that I love watching them do mostly everything together. They play together, read books together, the boys even want to pee together. 😝

I love watching them interact at these ages.

That said, it is just darn right hard to please them when it comes to feeding them. That may be because I care so much about what kind of things they eat right now. I have stopped buying fruit snacks(for the most part😉), I try to limit their sugar intake (usually a fail), and I continue to offer them all different kinds of fruits and vegetables. Did I think they were going to give this pecan pasta sauce a try? NO WAY. Well, I was totally and completely right. They didn’t but I am going to keep trying and be pleased if they even take a bite of something “new.”

I loooove to cook and am hoping one day sooner rather than later they will come around! In the meantime I am going to enjoy a little extra of my easy pecan pasta sauce. 😉

P.S. Check out the food label and see how packed this sauce is with B vitamins! That my friends is complements of the nutritional yeast. You can find usually find this in the health foods section of your grocery store and here is what you are looking for.

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Easy Pecan Pasta Sauce

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Prep Time 5

Total Time 5

Course Sauce

Ingredients

1/2 cup pecans
1/4 cup cashews
3/4 cup milk of your choice
2 tablespoons nutritional yeast
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 garlic clove
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
1 teaspoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon Sriracha sauce

Instructions

Soak pecans and cashews in a medium bowl covered in water for 2 hours.
Drain nuts and shake off any excess water.
Combine nuts and remaining ingredients in the bowl of a food processor or blender and and process until mixture is smooth and free of clumps.
Serve over pasta.
Optional: Top with Sriracha sauce and/or black pepper

Notes

Store sauce in airtight plastic container in the fridge for 3-4 days.

Recipe adapted from Chef Amber Shea's Pecan Cream Sauce

Simple Savory Pork Tenderloin with Plum Sauce

Herb Chicken, Quinoa, and Veggie Wraps

April 24, 2017 by Megan

Herb chicken, quinoa, and veggies mixed with hummus and basil pesto in a tasty wrap. These wraps are easy to make and have a great flavor with the combination of sautéed orange and green peppers and arugula with chicken seasoned with Herbs de Provence.

SPRING FOOD

Spring. I love this time of year. I love the mild temperatures and the fact that I can leave the house without 5 layers of clothes. I also love spring food! It happens every year without me even realizing it; my grocery lists and weekly menus gradually change as the temperature go up. The weeks of hearty stews and beefy pastas are replaced by salads, grilled meats/fish, and lighter meals all together. Just good ‘ol nutritious eats! Most of the time anyway. 😉

I have been eating wraps since I was about 10 years old. During the summer months my mom would fix turkey wraps with veggies, cheese and a little salsa and they were amazing. Wraps have been a favorite ever since.

You can cook up some really good stuff and make it into a wrap for an easy, make-ahead meal that is delicious and nutritious!!

Wraps are also a good way to pack in some extra veggies for the day. I really like sautéed peppers and they really take these wraps to the next level of deliciousness!! Mmmm Mmm!

LUNCH FOR SUPPER

These herb chicken, quinoa, and veggie wraps are great for lunch but also for supper. During the spring our evening meals suddenly become lighter and start to look a little more like lunches. This is mainly because our kids are only interested in being outside so we have to fix food quick and keep it simple. With this in mind, I also like to create new meals from some of our favorite “oldies”. For instance, finding new ways to fix jumbo pasta shells, putting new sauces on steaks…see where I am going…discovering ways to spice up the wraps I have been eating for years!!

My go-to lunch is a turkey, hummus, and avocado wrap. Tastes great! Then the other day I started experimenting and cooked some chicken seasoned with Herbs de Provence and alone it was fantastic. So, of course I thought why not fix this amazing herby chicken and make it into a wrap?!

And so it happened. Herbs de Provence seasoned chicken with quinoa, peppers, hummus, arugula, basil pesto, and Parmigianno Reggiano cheese. And let me tell you 👉 this wrap is absolutely fantastic! For a wrap, it is totally supper worthy!

You know because for lunch you can chow down on anything, but for dinner it has got to be great!

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