Time to cook again!

Well Davis and I are settling nicely into parenthood and now we have time to make exciting food again. We set a grocery budget for ourselves of $100 a week and for the past two weeks have stayed under it and our meals have somehow managed to improve. It's amazing what a little planning can do for dinner time. Recently I've become obsessed with the food blog VeganYumYum. This is awesome but also depressing because the blog is no longer updated. However, there is an iPod/iPhone touch app with all of the recipes on it available for free on iTunes and it's amazing. Today I made Flaky Pizza Purses and they turned out remarkably well considering it was my first go with phyllo pastry and it's pretty finicky stuff. (Also considering I don't own a pastry brush for some reason and that made things extra interesting!) I was also thrilled at this prime opportunity to showcase our new basil plant. Here are the results!

The tomato sauce made with just grape tomatoes, olive oil and a couple dried herbs was scrumptious. Simplicity is underrated. The sauce would also be lovely on some whole wheat pasta. I added some veggie pepperoni and mushrooms to a few of the pockets and made the others according to the recipe. They were good both ways. My mind is now turning over some other options for fillings. Artichoke hearts, roasted garlic and caramelized onions anyone? Mmm...

Anyway, that was lunch at our house. What did you have?