Broccoli spinach rice casserole

I made a quick casserole last night that my husband said was hearty.

Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cup brown rice (measured before steaming)
- 1 bag green giant steam in bag broccoli with premium cheese sauce
- 1 cup frozen spinach
- 3 Morningstar breakfast patties, torn into chunks
- market pantry six-blend Italian cheese

I started with 1 1/4 cup brown rice in the steamer. Prepare broccoli as instructed on bag. Pour broccoli and sauce into rice, add spinach and "sausage." Stir well. Sprinkle cheese on top. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.

Packaged stir fry

Someone had gifted us a bag of Green Giant create-a-meal sweet and sour stir fry. I'm not one for such mixes as stir fry is easy enough to make without everything assembled in one bag.

But tonight, I was ill-prepared for dinner.

Now the directions say to make pork or chicken to put in this... But I didn't. I drizzled some canola oil into the Le Creuset skillet, added the vegetables into the skillet while the rice was in the steamer.

I added some leftover sesame broccoli from the other night and some sesame seeds and I sliced one boca chikn patty for some extra protein.

It was better than I expected.

Cauliflower and exploding pyrex

I started a lovely lunch today, with a base of instant brown rice that I cooked in water where I had placed about a tablespoon of parsley from my garden that I had stowed in the freezer. I made some Green Giant frozen cauliflower in cheese sauce, planning to serve that on a bed of rice, with some slices of Morningstar vegetarian Italian sausage. I started the tea pot for some almond tea as a beverage and while I began to assemble the final meal...

POP!

I had turned on the wrong burner and my large 11 x 7 pyrex dish exploded all over the kitchen. Thank goodness it narrowly missed the food...