Meal Planning, Aug. 3 - 9, 2020

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Monday, Aug. 3

Zucchini enchiladas
     The zucchini in the garden are finally starting to produce vegetables. I had three zucchini, and this is one of my favorite ways to use them. I make a homemade enchilada sauce for them.
Refried beans
     Homemade

Tuesday, Aug. 4

Pasta with roasted summer vegetables
     This is a great mid-summer dish. It's nice I have a bunch of cherry tomatoes that we can use.
Garlic bread

Wednesday, Aug. 5

Calzones
     Homemade. I'm sure G. will be happy to make the dough for me.
Salad

Thursday, Aug. 6

Ginger pork with with sweet peppers
     This will use up the ground pork I have in the freezer
Jasmine rice
Eggrolls

Friday, Aug. 7

Grilled ancho-rubbed pork chops
     I have a bunch of frozen pork chops from the last side of pork we bought. Why this is on the menu is kind of funny. As I was making the menu for this week, P. decided that we should randomly select a cookbook from my collection then randomly select a page, and then make that recipe. B. got in on the fun and figured out how to randomize it. This is one of the recipes they came upon. Since I have pork chops and it sounded good, it made it on the list. I'll also note that this is only recipe chosen by their selection method... and they chose a lot.
Mexican rice
Salad

Saturday, Aug. 8

Marry Me Chicken
     This is a Delish recipe that we tried a while back and liked... despite the corny name. It uses sun-dried tomatoes, which I bought in bulk from my friendly wholesaler, so I already had the most expensive ingredient. Well, and the chicken, too. Thighs bought on sale in the freezer.
French bread
Salad

Sunday, Aug. 9

Vegetarian lentil soup with croutons
     I have pounds of lentils, and this soup is easy and good.
Cucumber salad
   And everyone know I have more than enough cucumbers.

Comments

Evie said…
Have you shared your recipe for the enchilada sauce before?
8/03/2020 8:46 PM
thecurryseven said…
Evie,

I'm pretty sure I haven't. Next time I come across it, I'll share it.

e
8/04/2020 8:52 PM
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