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Guest Post: Ashlee’s Favorite Summertime Vegetarian Recipes!

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Hey there!

I’m Ashlee from over at His-n-Hers Healthy-n-Happy (it’s a mouthful, right?), and I’m filling in for Hannah today while she’s out enjoying herself during her Blogcation. I’ve got some big shoes to fill, as I always love seeing the creative & delicious meals Hannah comes up with!

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So how about a little bit about the girl behind my blog!

I’m a 26 year old Texan, wife (as of 1 year + 2 weeks ago!), wino, wannabe cook, doggie momma, workout enthusiast, blogger, vegetarian, accounting grad turned HR lover, and am constantly getting myself into predicaments (way too clumsy & ditzy!). My hubby and I are high school sweethearts but are pretty much polar opposites, starting with our diets. After being strictly vegan for 3 years, I’ve recently loosened up and will eat eggs and then dairy occasionally. The hubby on the other hand is a meat and taters kind of guy, but will humor me and at least try to love the weird concoctions I force him to try every night. It’s taken a while, but I’m finally learning how to keep us both healthy & happy under one roof without driving myself crazy in the process.

When I initially spoke with Hannah about guest posting, I decided I was going to come up with an uber healthy, fancy new recipe using new to me trendy ingredients that would please the masses. But who was I kidding, I’m none of those things!

Enter the Pizza Quesadilla. Quesadilla on the inside, pizza on top. Cheesy, crunchy, and delicious! There was only one problem. This “recipe” isn’t really a recipe at all!

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Stuff two whole wheat tortillas with your favorite pizza ingredients and cook it up like a quesadilla in a skillet. Top it with more of your favorite pizza ingredients and bake it until finished. See? no recipe needed!

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Instead of writing up a ridiculously easy recipe for yet another quesadilla, I decided to share my 3 favorite summer meals as of today. Keep in my that I’m very indecisive and my idea of my favorite anything changes about every 30 seconds.

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Healthier Tofu Pad Thai. I can’t. get. enough. I think I’ve eaten this at least 15 times since I first created it about a month ago. Spicy, slightly sweet, and totally customizable. You can’t beat that! Also for a fun change, you can sub quinoa for the brown rice pasta and it turns it into a whole new recipe…the Tofu Quinoa Bowl!

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Roasted Summer Veggie Pizza. Have you ever been to an Italian restaurant where you get a choice of three sauces..red, white or a mix? The Cellar is an Italian restaurant Blacksburg, VA. This is like that mix, but in a totally healthy, amped up protein kind of way. Topped off with roasted yellow tomatoes, grilled corn and feta cheese. The combination of flavors is out of this world. Oh and did I mention how easy and quick it is? Even my meat-eating husband loved it. Gasp!

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Creamy Spinach, Artichoke & Goat Cheese Pasta. This lemony, creamy pasta was a random dinner that came together because I was low on groceries and wanted to use up what I had. It was my luckiest, most tasty accident ever.

As you can see I’m a big carb lover.  I try to balance it out with my other meals, but just to be on the safe side I throw some tough cardio workouts in there too.  Like this super sweaty one that is my current fav!

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For more veggie and meat eater friendly recipes, workouts, and shenanigans, stop on over and say hi!

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Thanks so much Ashlee for guest posting!!  Ashlee always comes up with great vegetarian/vegan recipes and I absolutely love visiting her blog ever day!  I already have plans to make Ashlee’s Roasted Summer Veggie Pizza.  It pretty much looks amazing, right? 🙂

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  • jumpeatrun August 12, 2013, 7:36 am

    Great recipes! I love pad thai, but have never attempted to make it myself 🙂

    • Ashlee@HisnHers August 12, 2013, 2:28 pm

      You should definitely make some pad thai! It’s so easy!

  • Jan @ Sprouts n Squats August 12, 2013, 7:36 am

    All those recipes look so delicious 🙂

    Especially the Pad Thai one!

    • hisnhershealthynhappy August 12, 2013, 2:28 pm

      It IS Jan! I got a little obsessed after the first time I made it and ate it like every day for a couple of weeks 😉 It’s good with quinoa subbed in for the noodles too!

  • swissfitchick August 12, 2013, 8:09 am

    Yumm, I will definitely try that Summer Veggie Pizza, looks so good!

    • hisnhershealthynhappy August 12, 2013, 2:29 pm

      The sauce was SO good! Can’t beat sneaking in some Greek yogurt, right?

  • Marisa @ Uproot from Oregon August 12, 2013, 8:38 am

    I cannot believe a pizza and a quesadilla were just combined. My mind is blown and I know what I’m making for dinner tonight!

  • meredith August 12, 2013, 8:40 am

    My son would love a pizza quesadilla – I used to order this actually at Friday’s back in the day. I need to make it for him asap!

    • hisnhershealthynhappy August 12, 2013, 2:29 pm

      Friday’s had it?! Oh man I wish I would’ve known. I bet that was SO good!

  • Ashlee@HisnHers August 12, 2013, 9:15 am

    Thanks for letting me guest post!

  • 1quest2thenextadmin August 12, 2013, 9:31 am

    The Pad Thai looks and sounds good. nice post!

    • hisnhershealthynhappy August 12, 2013, 2:30 pm

      It is SO good! I dont think you can go wrong with Pad Thai. Or mess it up for that matter! 😉

  • dixya| food, pleasure, and health August 12, 2013, 9:42 am

    so nice to meet another Texas blogger..and looking forward to read your posts now.

  • Dana @ Conscious Kitchen Blog August 12, 2013, 9:53 am

    I’d love to try the summer roasted veggie pizza – looks delicious! I love enjoying homemade pizzas with a nice glass of wine. 🙂

  • Julia @ Basket of Juls August 12, 2013, 10:03 am

    That pizza/quesadilla idea is brilliant! Can’t wait to try. 🙂

  • chasingchels August 12, 2013, 10:17 am

    Ok pizza quesadilla is the best idea ever and that goat cheese lemony pasta sounds heavenly! This post has been bookmarked for future use…in the very near future 😉 thanks for sharing these awesome ideas!!

  • Jamie H. August 12, 2013, 10:56 am

    These recipes look great!! Combining Pizza + Quesadilla is genius and I will love the tofu pad thai. Yum!

    • hisnhershealthynhappy August 12, 2013, 2:31 pm

      Hope you love them as much as me! Ok maybe not AS much because I ate Pad Thai wayyyyy too many times in a 2 week period. But I hope you like them 😉

  • makingthymeforhealth August 13, 2013, 2:00 pm

    Yay for Ashlee! 🙂
    That pizza looks amazing! Carbs are so worth the workout.