Creamy Mushrooms and Arugula with Tomatoes

Last week I had some mushrooms, arugula and grape tomatoes in the fridge.  I decided to make a side dish using them and it was so delicious I wanted to share it.

Ingredients:
sliced mushrooms
arugula (or spinach)
fajita seasoning (or seasoning of your choice)
Laughing Cow Light cheese wedge
grape tomatoes

First, sauté some mushrooms in a non-stick pan and season with  Penzey's Fajita seasoning.   Once the mushrooms are cooked, add a few handfuls of arugula (you could easily use fresh spinach instead of arugula which is expensive and not as easy to find).  Once that wilts down, add a wedge of Laughing Cow Light Queso Fresco and Chipotle and mix it together.  Top it off with some halved Zima tomatoes (any grape tomato would be fine but these are so sweet and delicious).

I had this with a Morningstar Farms Grillers Chik'n Burger.  The Creamy Mushroom dish has just 1 Points Plus since all you need to count is the Laughing Cow Light Cheese wedge.  So yummy! (The entire meal is only 3 Points Plus.)

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Nature Study- Mushrooms

(**This is an edited post. It was originally Autumn Treasures part 3 but I wanted to make it mainly about the mushroom study so I renamed it and moved the pictures to Autumn Treasures part 2 and I'm adding more of our mushroom study here.)

Emma in front of our Maple tree.
You can see the leaves are starting to change. 

Emma and I went out alone today on a mushroom hunt in the woods.  I have been reading the Handbook of Nature Study blog. I've had the Handbook of Nature Study for many years but unfortunately it has mostly spent its entire life on the shelf. I hope to remedy that! Anyway, I knew we had a lot of mushrooms in the woods from previous nature walks so we went out and looked at all the different ones we could find, took pictures then later went back and collected a few samples to try to make spore prints.    (This is the original mushroom post that inspired me.)

mushrooms growing in our front yard

more mushrooms in the front yard

a frog (it's on the tire)