Menus

Monday: Tuna melts
Tuesday: Chef's salad
Wednesday: Chicken cacciatore
Thursday: Caldo verde
Friday: Pizza, green beans
Saturday: Fried potatoes/peppers, eggs
Sunday: Pancakes, applesauce, bacon

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Monday: Boxed mac n' cheese and canned corn (I'm so proud)
Tuesday: Fish sticks, rice, cooked carrots
Wednesday: Red beans and sausage
Thursday: Carrot soup
Friday: Quiche, cooked greens
Saturday: Shrimp curry or sweet and sour shrimp
Sunday: Pancakes, applesauce, eggs

Monday Menus

Monday: Sesame noodles (noodles with carrots, cucumbers, and homemade Thai peanut sauce)
Tuesday: Valentine's Day! Planning some fried meat-filled potato croquettes and a cheesecake-baked-in-a-cake
Wednesday: Pupusas, salad
Thursday: Baked beans, rice, beets
Friday: Pizza, carrot and celery sticks
Saturday: Niçoise salad
Sunday: Pancakes and applesauce, the usual

Monday Menus

Monday: Leftover homemade potstickers from our Chinese New Year dinner yesterday

I used a new recipe and the dough was disappointingly gooey.

But the end result was one of our most delicious yet.

Tuesday: Dhal makhani. I'll be using up the last urad beans I brought with us from before our move, I'll have to look for a new local source.
Wednesday: Corn chowder
Thursday: Pasta with pesto, peas
Friday: Salmon burgers, butternut squash
Saturday: Chef's salad
Sunday: Pancakes with strawberry sauce, applesauce, bacon

Weekly Menus

Monday: Scalloped potatoes, salad
Tuesday: Quiche, baked sweet potatoes
Wednesday: Tuna rice casserole, carrots
Thursday: Cuban black beans
Friday: Pizza, spinach
Saturday: Extended family gathering, I hear we're having Hawaiian haystacks
Sunday: Sourdough pancakes, applesauce, scrambled eggs

Monday Menus

I did half of our Yorkshire pudding in muffin tins, just like this.
They looked the same except for the perfectly cute napkin.

Monday: Yorkshire pudding, sausage gravy, carrots
Tuesday: Niçoise salad
Wednesday: Pasta with pesto, canned corn
Thursday: Shepherd's pie
Friday: Mulligatawny stew
Saturday: Blackeyed peas, collards
Sunday: Pancakes, including some of the batter cooked as ebelskivers since a certain recent Christmas gift to my husband

Monday: Pork tacos (with leftovers of Sunday's special anniversary pork), corn
Tuesday: Sesame noodles
Wednesday: Niçoise salad
Thursday: Carrot soup
Friday: Baked beans, rice, beets
Saturday: Polenta pizza, green beans
Sunday: Pancakes, etc.

Monday Menus

Monday: Chef's salad
Tuesday: Curried potatoes, green beans
Wednesday: Tuna-noodle casserole, carrots
Thursday: Chili, cornbread
Friday: Stir-fry with cashews and bamboo shoots
Saturday: Out to dinner with the kids for our 'family birthday'
(Generous friends unknowingly both gave us gift cards to the Olive Garden, so we'll be combining those and enjoying a special occasion with everyone!)
Sunday: For our actual anniversary, island pork roast and a fruity green salad

Monday Menus (Am I Back? We'll See)

Monday: Pasta with pesto, carrots
Tuesday: Breaded fish fillets, green beans
Wednesday: Pizza
Thursday: Asian chicken salad
Friday: Christmas party fare, we're bringing mashed potatoes and veggies/dip
Saturday: Cuban black beans
Sunday: Pancakes, applesauce, bacon

Menus, Belated

Our first CSA pickup was last Thursday, and we're never going to manage to eat all these greens! It was a huge amount, and more coming tomorrow...but, we're valiantly trying, and it's a good kind of challenge. Local organic kale, lettuce, and spinach is not a bad thing to have in overabundance, even if it requires some creativity. (Though truthfully, the green onion overabundance has me rather stumped.)


Monday: Refried potatoes, Skyphos butter lettuce (*pictured below) salad bar, oyster mushrooms
Tuesday: Bean/kale/potato soup with sausages, cornbread
Wednesday: Tuna-noodle-spinach casserole
Thursday: Stir-fry with baby bok choy, pea pods, and garlic scapes
Friday: Pizza, kale chips
Saturday: Pupusas, salad
Sunday: The Usual

Monday Menus

Today: Polenta with cheese and tomato sauce, peas
Tuesday: Cuban black beans
Wednesday: Curried potatoes, corn
Thursday: Asian chicken salad
Friday: Pizza, some kind of fresh farm veggies for a side -- our first CSA pickup is Thursday!!
(CSA stands for community-supported agriculture, or in other words a weekly share of the season's goodies from a local farm.)
Saturday: Lovely pre-packaged, seasoned wild salmon (thanks, Costco!), rice, and cooked carrots
Sunday: Sourdough pancakes and waffles, applesauce, syrup, and bacon

Monday Menus

Today: I have a gigantic bag of tortilla chips, an avocado with no particular purpose, some experimental homemade salsa verde, a jar of regular store salsa, and some leftover Mexican crema from Cinco de Mayo. Oh, and there are tomatoes and lettuce in the house, and probably I can find a can of refried beans in the cupboard. Sounds like dinner-ish stuff to me, right? Sure.

Tuesday: Chef's salad
Wednesday: Tuna noodle casserole, carrots
Thursday: Potato salad, maybe some cooked spinach or some such on the side
Friday: Pork chop-rice bake, corn
Saturday: Baked beans, beets, bread or biscuits
Sunday: The Usual

Monday Menus

Monday: Probiotic ramen galore
Tuesday: Mulligatawny stew
Wednesday: Cauliflower gratin, baked sweet potatoes
Thursday: Dhal makhani
Friday: Pizza, chips and dip, lemonade
Saturday: Niçoise salad
Sunday: The Usual pancakes

A little note, I got fancier than usual with my pizza last week. I used a loaf's worth of my ooh-la-la artisanal bread dough for the crust, after reading about a related type of technique, and it turned out deliciously. If I started with an artisanal recipe meant for pizza, the result might even end up being mind-blowing. But it was one of those pleasant experiments that turned out pretty well the first time through. We all definitely noticed an increase in tastiness.

Until next week!

Monday Menus

Today: Pasta parma rosa, green beans
Tuesday: Mung bean and coconut curry, rice
Wednesday: Roasted potatoes, salad, peas
Thursday: Chicken chilaquiles, refried beans
Friday: Pizza, carrot and celery sticks
Saturday: A big ol' 16th birthday boy is having honey-walnut shrimp, black forest cake, and peanut butter ice cream
Sunday: Mother's Day, so I'm guessing some kind of breakfast in bed and goodies in general

Menus

I missed last week's menus...I worked over 13 hours at my part-time farm job, plus travel time, so it cut into luxury pursuits like blogging!

But here's for this week.

Monday: Scones, vegetables au gratin
Tuesday: Stir-fry
Wednesday: Fish sticks, pasta with pesto
Thursday: Carrot soup
Friday: I'll try cooking that dopiaza I mentioned a couple weeks ago, along with a salad
Saturday: Baked beans, rice, beets
Sunday: Pancakes and waffles, applesauce, eggs
(Though, our electric griddle is out of commission since we lent it out and it came back with the wrong cord. We haven't yet been able to track down where the correct cord might have ended up, so we're using a frying pan in the meantime. Less elegant and efficient.)

Monday Menus

Chicken dopiaza

Mango lassi

We had a really delicious lunch on Saturday with a friend who showed me how to cook some of her excellent native Indian dishes. A basic urud dhal, a crumbled paneer dish, and chicken dopiaza, all with rice and roti, and mango lassi as dessert. It sounds all fancy-exotic, and it was in its way, but it was also earthy and flavorful and right up my alley. I had never cooked with paneer before, and probably would never have dared use such copious amounts of fresh ginger if I hadn't watched her do it and tasted the result; but there weren't really any ingredients there that I had never worked with otherwise. (Well, there was a specialty pepper or two, but they were sorta optional...)

So, I'm excited to try myself sometime soon. Even having spent two hours in the kitchen helping her, those first bites were really magical -- I couldn't believe those ingredients became that amazing food. As a side note, I'm proud of my kids too, they all dug in and loved the food, and it was really a fun time with the two families eating together. We were all very full when we went home.

So, tonight we get to enjoy some awesome leftovers she sent home with us.

Today: Leftovers
Tuesday: Sesame noodles
Wednesday: Baked potato bar
Thursday: My husband's fortieth! He requested 'something delicious with vegetables, especially eggplant', and blitz torte. So I'll go with ratatouille and poached eggs, and possibly a kale salad mix from the store.
Friday: Ramen for the kids, while S. and I are going out for another guy's surprise 40th birthday party. Pretty sure he won't read this blog and ruin the surprise. :)
Saturday: Baked sweet potatoes, fish sticks
Sunday: The Usual, but with bacon instead of scrambled eggs

We also tried these really cool little Indian candies, local to our friends' childhood home, that are apparently not in US stores anywhere.

Monday Menus

Today: Chef's salad
Tuesday: Cuban black beans
Wednesday: Corn chowder
Thursday: Lasagna
Friday: Sesame noodles
Saturday: Salmon burgers, roasted carrots, salad
Sunday: The Usual

Monday Menus

Today: Asian chicken salad
Tuesday: Mushroom pizza
Wednesday: Tostadas with refried beans and salsa verde
Thursday: Niçoise salad
Friday: Minestrone
Saturday: Eggs Kristin (eggs and curry sauce over toast), mixed veggies
Sunday: Easter dinner combined with some friends, TBD

Monday Menus

Today: Pies! Still TBD, but most likely a pecan and an apple, and maybe a salad to round out our food groups a little.
Tuesday: Curried potatoes, artichokes, roasted carrots
Wednesday: Chilaquiles and frijoles
Thursday: Pasta with pesto, salad
Friday: Pizza, mixed veggies
Saturday: Niçoise salad
Sunday: The Usual

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Trying to get back into the groove after a week away for a family funeral. Both the groove of cooking (hallelujah, I had a nice break) and the groove of eating a little more healthily. In my extended in-law family, we don't have TMI moments, we have TMF. As in, even in death, my mother-in-law still provided Too Much Food. And when I stepped on the scale back at home yesterday, whooey! There are a few rather hilarious food stories from this past trip, but I'll save them for a family blog post.

This week --
Monday: Rice, garlicky green beans
Tuesday: Pasta with pesto, garden salad
Wednesday: Pan-fried fish, cornbread, cooked cabbage
Thursday: Carrot soup
Friday: Pizza
Saturday: Burgers and such at a church dinner
Sunday: The Usual pancakes