vegetarian night!

so we're trying something new this year, we're eating at least one meal a week vegetarian.  for a couple of reasons, (1) i keep reading how hard processing meat is on the environment and i feel guilty (2) in general it's healthier (3) in general it's less expensive and (4) we get to try some new things we hadn't before :)

this week we made falafel - a friend of ours gave us the mix and we've had it forever so we finally decided to try it.  we loved it!  if you've never had it, falafel is ground up chick pea with some yummy spices, then fried into patties (okay, so it doesn't quite fall into the healthy category but who's counting?) :)

here's nate frying them up

 

while he was doing that, i made tzatziki (super yummy cucumber/yogurt sauce) i used a recipe i found here.  i should have seeded the cucumbers and drained them a little longer because mine was a bit thinner than it should be, but it was tasty just the same!  i also chopped up a bunch of veggies (what would vegetarian night be without veggies?!)

and then the falafel was all ready to go

 

and then we wrapped it up in a flatbread! i used these (toufayan whole wheat flatbread), i love them.

i think we're going to try stuffed shells next time :)