Mediterranean Portobello Sandwich

Last night for dinner I tried a recipe from the web that someone tweeted on Twitter. It looked delicious so I wanted to try it since I had all of the ingredients needed. Here's the recipe: Mediterranean Portobello Sandwich

This sandwich was super good. The flavors are very strong and savory. It was also very different having the portobello on top. My husband was a bit taken aback, because when I presented the dish to him all he saw was a giant portobello mushroom. It didn't look too hopeful that he would enjoy this dish, but guess what? He did.

I served the sandwich with a side of some regular whole wheat pasta with tomato sauce.

Portobello & Spinach Lasagna

I was away this weekend which is why I haven't blogged in a few days. So I have to rewind back to Friday night, when I made Portobello & Spinach Lasagna which was the best vegetarian dish I've made yet! It was SO good.

I got the idea for this recipe from Ellie Kreiger's Portobello Rollups, but I just made it into regular layered lasagna instead. I also made small adjustments to the recipe, like using fresh spinach in the ricotta mixture. This was made similarly to my meat Lasagna, but instead of cooking up ground beef I sauteed Portobello mushrooms and then put them in some tomato sauce. I mixed in fresh Spinach into my Ricotta mixture, and then I layered the sauce, noodles, and ricotta a few times. I topped it all with mozzarella and parmesan cheese and cooked it for about 40 minutes.

The Portobello mushrooms taste similar to meat. If I didn't know it was vegetarian Lasagna, I could have easily been fooled. I think this dish will become a regular staple in this house. YUM!!!