Bring on the veggies

If you are like me and have trouble finding a way to add more vegetables to your day, I found a solution that has been working well for me and my family.

Meatless Mondays.

That's right. Every Monday, I serve only vegetarian meals. At first I thought there was no way I could manage an entire day with nothing but veggies, but believe me, it's not that hard.

For the past 2 months, we have been meatless on Monday.

My menu for this past Monday included vegetable calzones for lunch and a butternut squash risotto. Yum

For the calzones, I suggest purchasing pre-made pizza dough. I use the 5-grain pizza dough already prepared in the Publiz deli. Here are the other ingredient

1 zucchini sliced thin

5 mushrooms

2 cloves of garlic, chopped

Tbsp of Mrs. Dash table blend spice mixture

2 tbsp onion chopped

any other veggies you may like - chopped

mozarella cheese

jarred pizza sauce

Heat olive oil in a pan and saute the veggies. Near the end, add the table blend spice.

Half the dough and roll out each half. To one side, add enough mixture to cover end to end. Drizzle a little pizza sauce and add cheese. Fold other end over and pinch the edges together.

350 degree over for about 30 minutes. In the last 5 minutes, beat an egg and brush over the calzone and bake another 5 minutes until golden. Enjoy.

I also use the above for pizzas; except I do not saute the veggies first.

Once a week I will add additional veggie recipes for those that are struggling with ideas.

What is the benefit? Maybe none at all. But it does show me that I do not have to have meat to enjoy a meal.