Our church starts at 2 pm & goes til 5, which is fine, but I thought I'd be amazing and get some soup into the crockpot so that as soon as I got home I'd have dinner to throw into bowls. I was feeling super good about myself as I diced tomatoes, onions, and bell pepper, threw in some beans...mmmmm. Then I sat down and read through my favorite "use up the veggies in the fridge" cookbooks, because Saturday was farm co-op day, and I find that if I use a lot of the produce at the first half of the week we do better overall at eating well. If I try to save it for later, and stretch it, I find we reach for less than healthy things and then things go bad. Odd, but true. At least for us. Anyhow, meals planned, dinner in crock-pot...done. I felt pretty triumphant.
Then I came home. The soup wasn't really cooked enough...it'd been simmering, but it needed more time to be perfect (onions not quite translucent yet, peppers still a bit firm in the middle), and I just didn't want to take it out of the crock-pot and boil it. So, in a flash, I moved Tuesday's meal to today, today's to tomorrow, and tomorrow's to Tuesday. Problem fixed, and I didn't have to think for more than 5 seconds. Score!
Anyhow, here's our menu plan.
Monday: Soup (see above). Make bread during the day? Hmmm, perhaps, if it's cold out.
Tuesday: Twisted potato pancakes (using sweet potatoes instead of regular, adding diced turkey & serving with cranberry sauce over the top instead of traditional apple sauce) & a side salad.
Wednesday: Left over soup (t'was a large pot), salad.
Thursday: Roasted potatoes, zucchini, bell pepper & onion.
Friday: Promised the kids we'd try a different meal from a different country each week. They chose the Middle East first, so I'm going to attempt to cook lamb (never done it) and make tabbouleh.
Saturday: Left overs.
Your menu sounds delicious!!
ReplyDeleteThanks! So far, it has been! ;)
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