Meal planning, Feb. 17 - 23, 2020
This week's menu wasn't too difficult to come up with because of a birthday, a history evening, and new magazines arriving.
Monday
Roasted broccoli with wheat berries, blue cheese, and cranberries
This is from the new Midwest Living magazine which arrived this week. It looks fantastic in the photo, and wheat berries are something I have in abundance. (150 pounds of abundance!) Plus it doesn't look too labor intensive, and by the time dinner rolls around on Mondays, I have little energy to do much of anything.
Bread
From the store. See the previous paragraph.
Tuesday
Chicken sandwiches
This is the dinner we were going to have last week when I thought J. was going to be late, but he was not. (We ended up having tamales from out big tamale making day which were leftover and I had frozen.) He is late this week, so back it goes on the schedule.
Cooked carrots
With butter and dill
Wednesday
Chicken and poblano soup
This is new. It's been in my binder for quite a while, I just have never tried it. Actually, it will still probably count as having never tried it since I will hardly be following the recipe at all and doing it in the crock pot instead.
Cornbread
From scratch
Thursday
Ancient Egypt Dinner
We will be learning about food in Ancient Egypt this week, so we will be having food that could have been eaten at that time. Since we no longer have our history co-op feast, we will be doing this ourselves. I took most of the recipes from the book, The Pharaoh's Kitchen. It is interesting, but the instructions are a little sketchy. I'll be doing some interpreting. And frying the okra and just eating it does not seem to be very Egyptian as they seem to then add it to other things or just stew it outright. I happen to be morally against stewed okra, but love it fried, so that is what we will be doing.
Egyptian bread
Baked catfish
Lentils
Fried okra
Dates (for dessert)
Friday
Ravioli
J. and I will be at an adoption parents event, so the masses will be fending for themselves. Frozen pasta with jarred sauce
Garlic bread
Saturday
Celebrating Y.'s 13th birthday
Pot sticker stir-fry
Rice
Cucumber salad
Pecan pie with vanilla ice cream
Because I am out of canned or frozen peaches, so this was a second choice.
Sunday
Tumeric coconut curry with pork
This is from the new Bon Appetit magazine which arrived the other day.
Rice
Eggrolls
Monday
Roasted broccoli with wheat berries, blue cheese, and cranberries
This is from the new Midwest Living magazine which arrived this week. It looks fantastic in the photo, and wheat berries are something I have in abundance. (150 pounds of abundance!) Plus it doesn't look too labor intensive, and by the time dinner rolls around on Mondays, I have little energy to do much of anything.
Bread
From the store. See the previous paragraph.
Tuesday
Chicken sandwiches
This is the dinner we were going to have last week when I thought J. was going to be late, but he was not. (We ended up having tamales from out big tamale making day which were leftover and I had frozen.) He is late this week, so back it goes on the schedule.
Cooked carrots
With butter and dill
Wednesday
Chicken and poblano soup
This is new. It's been in my binder for quite a while, I just have never tried it. Actually, it will still probably count as having never tried it since I will hardly be following the recipe at all and doing it in the crock pot instead.
Cornbread
From scratch
Thursday
Ancient Egypt Dinner
We will be learning about food in Ancient Egypt this week, so we will be having food that could have been eaten at that time. Since we no longer have our history co-op feast, we will be doing this ourselves. I took most of the recipes from the book, The Pharaoh's Kitchen. It is interesting, but the instructions are a little sketchy. I'll be doing some interpreting. And frying the okra and just eating it does not seem to be very Egyptian as they seem to then add it to other things or just stew it outright. I happen to be morally against stewed okra, but love it fried, so that is what we will be doing.
Egyptian bread
Baked catfish
Lentils
Fried okra
Dates (for dessert)
Friday
Ravioli
J. and I will be at an adoption parents event, so the masses will be fending for themselves. Frozen pasta with jarred sauce
Garlic bread
Saturday
Celebrating Y.'s 13th birthday
Pot sticker stir-fry
Rice
Cucumber salad
Pecan pie with vanilla ice cream
Because I am out of canned or frozen peaches, so this was a second choice.
Sunday
Tumeric coconut curry with pork
This is from the new Bon Appetit magazine which arrived the other day.
Rice
Eggrolls
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