What a Cooking Day

Today has been a day full of cooking, one of my favorite things to do! :) To begin after lunch I made Chocolate Chip Quinoa Trail Mix Balls as a camping snack since I'm going with a couple families from church this weekend. They are delicious and healthy all at the same time! Now they are in the freezer awaiting the trip beginning Friday and going till Monday. Oh, and I used the left overs from this recipe and made a muesli mixture to go with yogurt or whatever the family wants.

Then a little later I moved on to dinner. My friend Heather put up a quinoa recipe that looked really yum so I decided to give it a try. I made Quinoa Lasagna, which everyone liked (except that Ed liked most everything but the quinoa on the bottom, he has this thing with textures.... :P). There was also a side dish of roasted asparagus and a salad!

Quinoa Lasagna and Salad

Asparagus roasting

It's a pretty vegetarian meal now that I think about it and none of us are vegetarian, but we had some veggies that needed to get used. It was all very yum and everyone left the table full! I would say that it was a successful cooking night, much healthier than the Fried Chicken and Mac and Cheese of the previous time I cooked. :)