This is the time of year when I am suddenly starving all the time and nothing I cook will satisfy my need to eat. I love to cook, but this is generally the time of year I become obsessed with food that can be purchased already prepared and brought to you. Eating out is awesome. It's really a shame it is so expensive, and often not nearly as relaxing as it should be, because our little ones do not appreciate the beauty of eating a meal that doesn't have to be prepared or cleaned up by yours truly.
I am sick of preparing the same meals. Fancy, easy, it doesn't matter. I just want something new.
Inspired by my friend, Sarah's, post from several weeks ago where she blogged her menu for the week in hopes of hearing what everyone else is eating. I'm that girl who doesn't want to order my food at the restaurant until I know what everyone else ordered first. I'll tell you what we're eating, then you tell me what you're eating, and then I'll decide that what you are eating sounds better than my menu and I will bug you for a recipe. The next menu I plan should be an easy one!
1 Sun-grilled pork tenderloin, sweet potatoes, corn
2 Mon-grilled dill/lime salmon, broccoli, and some kind of easy rice mix
3 Tues-blueberry cornmeal pancakes w/ blueberry syrup, juice, eggs, bacon
4 Wed-black bean soup, cornbread
5 Thurs-4 cheese ravioli with artichoke marinara, broccoli and something else, maybe garlic toast?
6 Fri-black bean burgers fiesta ranch dip and veggie sticks that will probably be substituted with popcorn and leftover Halloween candy because it's friday that's how we roll.)
7 Sat-pizza rolls (pepperoni & green pepper) veggie sticks that we didn't eat the night before
8 Sun-(crock pot) brisket roast, potatoes, onions, carrots, etc and rolls.
substitute meal #1: black beans and eggs, tortillas (don't knock it 'till you've tried it)
substitute meal #2: Meg calls Aaron at work and says something along the lines of, "___ just ___ and then ___ her____ and now she is___ and if you think I am cooking tonight you are crazy because ___, ___, ___, ____ and it's not gonna to happen. Pick up the Gusano's pizza and "big salad" (seriously, BEST house salad evah. I crave it daily.) that I just called in, on your way home from work."
So to keep scenario #2 from happening too often, I try to plan a menu. Even if that menu has 7 meals similar to "frozen pizza" or "campbells tomato soup & grilled cheese". If I plan it, we usually eat it.
What are y'all eating this week? You DO plan on eating, don't you?
Goodbye Butterflies
12 years ago
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I can make up a great meal menu but I rarely ever stick to it. We're having Chicken Hurry, baked sweet potatoes, and stuffing! I might pull out my menu from last week to search for possible dinner ideas! The weather is really strange at the moment. It's hard to cook comfort food when it's so nice outside. You're menu sound delicious!
We eat, but we don't plan it, which is probably why I have so much food in my pantry = options. So, I can tell you what we've eaten in the PAST, but not what we WILL eat this week (well, actually I can tell you that we will eat out ALL of the next week in London and Paris!) -- but I digress.
Yesterday I put two chicken breasts in the crockpot and covered them with a can of mushrooms and a can of mushroom soup. Then served over rice.
Pull the skin off of lean turkey sausage, brown sausage, add red pepper flakes, salt and pepper. Toss with angel hair pasta.
Veggie calzones. Your favorite veggies and some spaghetti sauce in pizza dough, folded up. Brush with egg whites and bake. Yum.
Spicy chicken matzo ball soup tonight, sweet potato black bean stir fry over couscous tomorrow, then tacos, spaghetti bologenese next, and then pork tenderloin with rosemary mashed potatoes. I'm out after that. If we have company this weekend, we're totally using your barbacoa pork recipe. :)
Oh yum. This is working. Why don't I ever think of Calzones? The sausage pasta sounds good, too.
Never had Matzo Ball soup. The name sounds so much like "moth ball soup" that I automatically have a negative connotation with it. joke is on me if it's awesome.
couscous? I've NEVER cooked it! I know, can you believe it? That might be our "new thing" to try this month.
What is spaghetti bolognese?
Friday was Blonde Enchiladas with Brocolli,Saturday we had Creamy PotaTOE soup and Booberry muffins, last night we had Beef Goulash over small shell noodles and sauteed zuchinni, mushrooms and onions with a little seasoning salt on them (YUMS). Tonight we had a BIG FAT Costco Chicken (1/2 of it), with cranberry sauce,a nuked sweet potato and baked potato which we sectioned and shared and a can of corn. Cause that's how we roll with no Daddy in town. Tomorrow? Probably Chicken Quesadillas with our leftover chicken with black beans and steamed brocolli.
I am now mostly cooking with what's in the freezer as we're on the 2 week countdown!
Okay, I'm getting all kinds of ideas I like this! Here's what we're having this week, don't know what days yet or if it will actually happen but this is the plan so far: Thai chicken curry, french dip sandwiches, baked chicken taquitos, BBQ chicken pizza, pizza rolls (yep that's on our menu too), baked salmon with funeral potatoes, corn chowder.
Monday - leftover RIBS from Smokin' Joes + steamed veggies
Tuesday - Pulled Pork Salad
Wednesday - Lentil Soup
Thursday - Mini Meatloaf + veggies
Friday - Blackened Salmon with veggies
Saturday - ?
Sunday - Crockpot something...
I'm usually REALLY bad about planning weekly meals and end up running around the kitchen at about 2:00 pm. The last two weeks have been better.
This was a great post, now I can get some ideas from everyone else!!!
(spaghetti bolognese = spaghetti with meat sauce)
It amazes me that you guys all have your dinner menus planned a week in advance. Over the last week we've eaten pizza margherita with spinach salad - pear, raspberries and glazed pecans. pasta with garlic, red pepper flakes, feta cheese, fresh basil, grape tomatoes and sugar snap peas. carnitas with rice and beans, and a garlic/chile/ginger stir fry with broccoli, snap peas, onions, mushrooms and tomatoes and brown rice. No idea what's for dinner tonight, but a butternut squash risotto is in my near future and I want to make some sort of dish with lentils and sweet potatoes this week but I have yet to discover the recipe. Kepe cookin' people!
Matzo balls are these awesome dumplings and are traditional Jewish fare. It is the kind of soup that one's body begs for when it is cold or you're sick. I buy the mix and cook them in chicken broth with a diced jalapeno in it. Couscous is God's gift to mothers. It is a pasta/rice alternative and takes about five minutes. Just boil water, add the couscous, take off the heat and cover. Fluff with a fork just before you serve it. Bologenese sauce is a hearty, without being heavy, meat sauce. It has a bit of cream cheese in it for a bit of zip (is that a word to describe food?).
I just made couscous for the first time about a week ago. Yummy and fast!
This weeks menu: Baked Potato soup, Calzones, Hawaiian haystacks, Taco Soup and Baked Ziti and then we will have left overs and breakfast to fill in for a day or two when I get home from work late... or am tired. Can you tell the weather is cold... I love making soup and then having leftovers to take for lunch the next day.
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