WIS, WWA | Man, I'm tired
What I Spent
I currently am in managing, but barely mode. Like, I am getting pretty much everything done that I need to get done, but it's all sort of in the nick of time.
So then when I get to the end of a week where I have blogged every day and turned in my schoolwork and cooked dinner, I feel a little surprised...like, oh, ok, I guess I did it!
Things were a little thrown-together and a little last-minute, but at least they got done.
I spent:
- $23 at Aldi
- $32 at Safeway
- $30 on a Hungry Harvest box
And that's it. An $83 week for meeee! <pats self on back>
What We Ate
Saturday
All three of us were in different places for dinner, and zero of those places were at home.
Sunday
I made quesadillas and I just cut up some fruit for us to eat on the side.
Monday
I made a pan of those Kings Hawaiian baked sandwiches, and we had sauteed broccoli on the side.
Tuesday
This was the day I had two exams and two quizzes, so I really phoned it in at dinner.
The girls used the rest of the filling from Monday to make some quesadillas, and I made a grilled cheese sandwich, which I ate with some of this butternut squash soup from the freezer.
Wednesday
Frozen cheese tortellini and a jar of Aldi tomato sauce, plus Parmesan cheese.
Thursday
My Hungry Harvest box gave me kale this week, so I made a pot of Zuppa Toscana and we had some homemade applesauce on the side. Sonia joined us, which was fun.
You can see I am not really a clean-as-you-go kind of cook. 😉
Friday
I think the girls and I might do an end-of-the-week takeout night after Zoe's work shift is over.
We are also looking forward to the weekend. It has been very busy with work plus running some necessary errands during dinner rush hour on three days. Bonus points for doing our own cooking.
We had meat (beef, meatballs) several times this week, as I had prepared a batch of both last weekend. We ate that with steamed potatoes and baked potatoes, and for veg: chicory, clowcooker red cabbage, carrot/onion stew, ready to eat salad, more carrot/onion stew, and ready to eat cauliflower. Tonight will probably be chicory again as I still have a nice green head still in the crisp drawer. The meatballs, in a goulash style gravy, were very much appreciated so I'll add it to the rotation.
I was able to freeze some leftover portions for coming weeks. We have a few busy months ahead of us at my job, so it will be wise to use one of the coming weekends for batch cooking and prepping. Normally we clean and cut our own vegetables but I'll keep ready to eat veg in mind, I found them quite acceptable in taste.
We had similar weeks. The title for my Friday food post today is "Everyone Fed," but I could just have easily have used your title.
Saturday: Scrambled eggs, bacon, rye crisp crackers, carrots with ranch dip
Sunday: Pork ribs, cornbread, green salad with ranch dressing, peach and dried cherry crisp with whipped cream to finally finish the really bad peaches the excess commodities gave us
Monday: A small bag of bull meat with enchilada spices that I pulled out of the freezer, just fried with half a can of black beans, some salsa, and sour cream. The kids had that with leftover cornbread and salad with vinaigrette. I had a bit in my salad. My husband had the last bowl of beef soup and some cheese.
Tuesday: Leftover pork ribs for the kids and me, baked potatoes, chili for my husband (I had thought we would all have chili, but then I remembered the kids were having Frito pie at school so I didn't want to serve a repeat dinner), carrots, and some peanut butter cookies that I managed to burn but scraped the bottoms to salvage.
Wednesday: I used the chili I had made the day before to make Frito pie, which is nutritionally questionable as a regular meal choice, but okay sometimes and undeniably delicious.
Thursday: Ended the week with a real corker of a day. I had to sub for a teacher, so didn't get home until about 4:30 p.m. My husband was still driving the school bus, the boys needed to eat before leaving for judo at 5:30, and I had to go to our neighbors' at 5 to meet the brand inspector for the cow we're bringing to the processor on Saturday. (NM requires all livestock sold to have a brand, and that brand must be verified by the inspector to make sure the seller has a right to sell the animal.) So! I got off the school bus and made bean and cheese quesadillas for the children, which they ate with raw radishes while I went for the brand inspection. My husband and I both got home twenty minutes later. I made him some scrambled eggs, which he ate with some of the kids' leftover quesadilla pieces before taking the boys to judo (bless him). I ate one piece of leftover quesadilla before collapsing. After I revived a bit, I had some granola with milk.
Today: It's cold and windy, and I need to keep cooking the big roasts that are taking up freezer space. So pot roast, potatoes, carrots, probably a salad. My daughter has been asking for baked beans and while the oven is on for the pot roast seems like a good time to make some.
@kristin @ going country,
Hi Kristin, I hardly ever have sour cream in my fridge, can you use full fat yoghurt with your Monday menu?
@J NL, Full-fat yogurt makes an okay substitute for sour cream, but only if it's drained first to make it thicker (I just put some in my very fine metal strainer over a bowl, but you can use a thin dishcloth or or cheesecloth or muslin, too). The fat content isn't as high--obviously, since yogurt is made from milk and sour cream is, well, cream--but it works pretty well.
@kristin @ going country, we are also cooking ginormous chunks of beef to make space. We had two packages (insert mildly contorted origin story here) labeled beef tenderloin and I guess I didn't know whether to expect steaks or roasts or what. But it was roasts, and oh my gosh, best beef roast I have ever cooked — though at maybe 10-12 pounds, enough for a veritable army.
@kristin @ going country, when you said your kids had Frito pie at school, I wondered if you were in NM. Other places don't seem to like Frito pie as much as we do. My preK class was served Frito pie on Wednesday. lol
@Sabrina, It is certainly regional. Although I think the Frito pie region also includes west Texas.
@Sabrina, we love it in Texas! And not just west Texas, either!
We normally have plain Greek yogurt in our fridge, so I'll usually use it as a sub for sour cream. Sometimes, I'll add a bit of lemon juice or vinegar to it to "up" the sour quotient.
I have never heard of Frito pie.
@Rose, me either!
@Rose,
I've heard of it, but have never tried it. I think I might just have to!
Sometimes life just comes at you fast. I honestly don't know how I made it through the week most weeks.
WIS: 64.27 and 99.52 on two Aldi trips, for a total of 163.79 this week. Clearly I need to cool it with the quickity trips...
WWA:
Fri: Tokyo bekana salad, pepperoni and mozzarella focaccia.
Sat: vegetarian chili made with all the things my husband actually doesn't think should go in chili but he put in to prove he is a chili descriptivist instead of a chili prescriptivist...we had avocado, queso, sour cream and Aldi brand cheez-its with it.
Sun: spicy mix salad with blueberries and calendula flowers, brown rice and sheet pan dinner of boneless pork ribs, portobello mushrooms and orange/red bell peppers. This was delicious, but then my youngest barfed it all up. Ick.
Mon: sicko dinner: apple sauce and plain pasta with a little butter and shake Parm. Why, yes we did use a bag of the .69 Halloween pasta...
Tue: crunchy corn tacos with leftover rice and beans and leftover chili. Also, avocado, sour cream, salsa and cheddar cheese.
Wed: spicy mix salad with tomatoes and feta, clearance Halloween ghost pizzas, homemade vanilla ice cream that my husband and kids made by beating a ziplock bag full of cream against a tree stump. Like seriously. He took pictures. I think there was also salted ice involved. I don't know the details, but the end product was tasty.
Thu: I wasn't feeling well. Again. So I took a nap and my children miraculously let me, but I did manage to make a salad before dinner: tatsoi with clementine slices, pomegranate seeds and blueberries. And we had hotdogs in buns topped with leftover chili.
Fri: salad and focach, as per yoozh...unless someone else barfs...then more pasta bats, I guess...
Have a great weekend, everyone!
@Becca, quickity is my new fav word
My menu planning was all over the map this week as I find it difficult to stay focused on routine when I have something throwing a wrench into it. This week, again, is severe knee pain...makes it hard to want to do anything in the evenings, let alone cook for one. But I ate:
Monday - (Freezer) Butter Chicken and rice, some veg on the side
Tuesday - Roasted Chicken Thighs, acorn squash, new potatoes
Wednesday - (freezer) something, but it wasn't the soup I had planned
Thursday - more roasted chicken thighs - this time with stuffed mushrooms that were marked 50% off at HEB
Tonight - Patty Melt on Toast with cheese, tomato, purple onion and tots
Saturday - Dinner at my sister's house for her birthday, maybe
Sunday - Dinner with my daughter at her place
I got my Thanksgiving shopping done, too. Happy Weekend, hope you get to rest!
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@gina, my friends in Austin talk about HEB all the time and I really feel like I should, someday, go to an HEB.
@gina, I grew up in Houston but now live in another state. I miss HEB!
@gina, I feel your pain with that knee situation. Hopefully you get to feeling better sooner than later. (I drove 700+miles so didn’t help but worth it to love on some little sweeties!)
So sorry to hear your knee is hurting! I've had knee issues since I was 14 (I even had knee surgery back then), so I sympathize. It's hard to get around when your knee is in pain.
@gina,
DS and his family live in Austin. I heard how special HEB is and looked up their origin story. Very cool, wish we had them in our state.
WIS: $18 at Trader Joe's, $6 each at my bakery and grocery outlets, $29.40 at Price Chopper.
WIA: A lot of chicken drumsticks, since the family pack was .99/lb. at Price Chopper this week. Last weekend, I made a small pork and apple stew based loosely on a Martha Stewart recipe (see, folks, I don't make fun of Martha all the time!). And as a vegetable to go with the drumsticks, I used all of the curb-picked Queensland Blue pumpkin that I couldn't fit into a freezer bag after roasting. As noted earlier, it didn't need sweetening or butter.
Sunday: Pork tenderloin with roasted potatoes. Very little prep and little work from me.
Monday: All 4 of us got stuck at work so we used a gift card (still paid $45) for a casual sit down dinner.
Tuesday: Tortilla Soup and rolls
Wednesday: I used half a bag of store bought meatballs and Hamburger Helper Stroganoff, roasted broccoli
Thursday: Italian Sausage Rigatoni, salad and garlic bread
Friday: Not sure. My daughter is the cook.
It was kind of a rough week and I needed fast.
WIS: $125 but approximately 1/2 of that was used to stock up on coffee, herbal teas and cereal which were all on sale this week.
WIA:
Saturday - Roast chicken, rice and Lima beans. My husband cooked and this is one of the meals in his wheel house.
Sunday - We watched our grand baby (4-months) in the afternoon and cooked dinner for everyone including 2 of my son’s friends at his house. He put the wild Turkey in the crock pot in the morning. So we made a Turkey and rice dish, shoe string sweet potatoes, roasted Brussel sprouts and broccoli along with garlic bread with roasted tomatoes and goat cheese. We cleaned up after.
Monday - I cannot remember at all. It must have been completely lackluster.
Tuesday - I went to dinner with a friend. Son was on his own.
Wednesday - I took a couple of chicken carcasses out of the freezer and made a pot of Asian chicken noodle soup - seasoned with garlic, ginger and Tamari. I use rice noodles and spinach.
Thursday - DH was back home so I made a Pot Roast with veggies
Friday - I’m going to make a pot of white chicken chili.
Wishing everyone peace and good health.
@Bee, I'd love to know how the wild turkey came out. I've only ever eaten the domestic variety.
@A. Marie, it was exceptionally good, but it does not taste like the domestic variety. My son slow cooked the turkey in the crock pot with carrots, onions, celery and parsnips with a little water and red wine. After 8 hours, we removed the turkey from the CP and cooked basmati rice in the broth and veggies. We removed the turkey from the bone and served it on the rice. I think the recipe is from the L.L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook. My husband said he thought it tasted like beef bourguignon.
@Bee, interesting! Thanks for the description. I can well imagine that wild turkey might taste more like beef than like domestic turkey.
Omg, SAME. I was working last weekend and it just throws everything off (plus toddler went from ear infection directly into viral croup, so no sleep was had by anyone.) However! We did not get takeout, and I brought my lunch to work every day this week.
Monday: We defrosted some leftover meat sauce and had it with frozen gnocchi.
Tuesday: Husband was home with the sick baby, so he made salmon, roasted potatoes, and roasted zucchini.
Wednesday: My mom was over helping. We had frozen ravioli with homemade tomato sauce, bought coleslaw mix and added the homemade vinaigrette that always hangs out in the fridge, and roasted pumpkin. The roasted pumpkin was really not good. It's slated to be turned into bread this weekend.
Thursday: Chicken nuggets and salad, followed by a second dinner of hot dogs at a relative's house. What a treat!
Tonight: Fish. Not sure what we'll have on the side. Will check the flyer to see what produce is cheap.
Saturday - I treated my parents to takeout since we were at their house all day and they helped with the kids. My dad chose Applebees. I had not been to one in about 20 years but my kids loved the kids menu choices there.
Sunday - I had a board meeting so I ate snacks there, husband fed the kids Mac n cheese with lil smokies sausages (his speciality)
Monday - cheesy chicken, vegetable and rice casserole (made two of these and brought one to a family that just had a baby)
Tuesday - broccoli, chicken sausage and orzo. A triumph of using what I already had, I found two bags of sausage links in the freezer (one chicken, on pork) and I had broccoli from these leftover veggie trays I’d taken home from an event. The opened bag of orzo had also been sitting in the cabinet for a long time.
Wednesday - mini garden turkey loaves from the freezer, leftover macaroni and cheese, steamed carrots and broccoli,
Thursday - Mexican chicken and rice salad
Friday - will be visiting my grandma today so will probably be tired from the drive so planning to make either frozen pizza or pasta with jarred sauce.
I am glad I am not the only very messy cook in the world! I would not fair well in a commercial kitchen I am not near and tidy.
We ate:
Grilled chicken, corn, roasted carrots and cauliflower
Halibut with hollandaise sauce, rice pilaf, salad
Stuffed rice balls. Some with leftover halibut, hollandaise, and gochujang, some with pickled peppers and avocado, and some with oyster mushrooms.
Chicken and cheese quesadillas and leftover rice pilaf
Pulled turkey sandwiches, leftover chili
Chicken and veggie stir fry with rice. We used some our foraged enoki and they were delicious.
Tonight we are having egg and mushroom fried rice with our foraged oysters.
We went from “sweater weather” to -30’s within a week (and scrambled to dig out boots and down coats). We keep the house on the cool side, so I have been cooking in the oven a little more than usual because it seems to warm the house up a touch….WWA:
Saturday - rigatoni pasta with Mennonite sausage and broccolini, fruit salad made from “just about to die in the crisper” fruit
Sunday - roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, sautéed zucchini, butter tarts
Monday - grilled cheese, apple (others had left-overs)
Tuesday - slow cooker chickpea & pasta soup with garlic-almond piccata, no-knead bread
Wednesday - oven baked chicken drumsticks & French fries
Thursday - shepherd’s pie made with leftover braised lamb and mashed potatoes from previous meals (that I had in the freezer)
Friday - planning to make fish tacos and a condensed milk cake (a WWII recipe as an act of remembrance for my grandfather who was a POW)
Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend
Whoa. Negative 30!
@kj, is that -30 Fahrenheit or Celsius???
@A. Marie, - 30 Celsius (felt like -40 with windchill). Colder than our usual for this time of year but would have been on par for mid-December.
It was also a wild week on our side. Work was super intense for everyone, and the boys had high school soccer tryouts, in the rain. Now one is sick. They don't have school today, so at least one can rest. The other begged to go to a day of intense tennis drills.
We had:
-A new to us recipe, of chicken pesto pasta. It was really good, although next time I'll make the pasta separately (it was intended to be a one pot kind of dish), which will allow me to make it keto friendly, and allow our pickier eatier to just eat the pasta. I'd made homemade pesto to go with it, which was delicious. - 2x
-Chicken and rice - 2x. It was really that kind of week, and I was grateful there were enough leftovers to make this happen. Others felt less excited by the volume of leftovers. We served the third version with roasted brussel sprouts.
-We also had Philly cheese steaks one night, and spaghetti & meatballs.
As for tonight, I think I'll do pizza, two ways. For the kids, they can have a pepperoni pizza from the freezer. I'll make my husband a cauliflower crust pizza, as I have a crust that needs to be used up. Unclear what I'll have. As long as it's easy, I don't really care.
WIS: $58 @ Publix this week. Thanks goodness because the week before was tremendous.
WWA: Appreciate your honesty on those weeks where we are all screeching into the finish line and get to Friday not knowing how we lived through it. You have lots of good company in that boat my friend 🙂
Saturday: my husband was off from work so we ran lots of errands including a trip to Hobby Lobby for some Christmas Decor which was so fun & Lowe's for the makings of a Nerf gun storage wall. We grilled steaks out on the firepit and had Smore's for dessert.
Sunday: Leftover steak, veggies and chicken & rice
Monday: Leftovers again, see Sunday
Tuesday: We had takeout...there were just too many things going on and I am not going to beat myself up over it one bit.
Wednesday: Homemade spaghetti
Thursday: Leftovers
Friday: I am planning to make turkey meatballs with a spicy cranberry dipping sauce, baked sweet potatoes, & some broccoli
Happy weekend all!
WIS: $0. This was another week to skip grocery shopping for us, although we cut it fine on several items. I think my husband did spend a little under $9 on cream cheese and tonic water.
WWA: I have not have much appetite for supper and had Wasa rye crisps with Laughing Cow cheese, some dried fruit, and a cup of Twining's black current tea (an impulse purchase that turned out to be pretty good) for supper. For DH, I made a pot of chili. Yesterday I used up three apples rescued from the office fridge to make apple bran muffins -- so good!
Got back from a trip Sunday night. With foresight I had stocked up some TV dinners for Monday night--the kids love those for a treat, and I knew I'd be wiped after unpacking, doing laundry, and recovering from a long drive. So Monday was TV dinners.
Tuesday was tacos, made by one of the kids, and I contributed Argellian Coleslaw made from this cookbook I found at the library: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Star-Trek-Cookbook/Chelsea-Monroe-Cassel/9781982186289 Really tasty, and we plan to make it again. Yes, we are big Star Trek fans here.
Wednesday was grilled sandwiches and soup. Everyone made their sandwiches and brought them to be grilled, and then chose a canned soup to heat up, or they tried Bolian Tomato Soup from the same cookbook referenced above (again, very delicious and I plan to make it again!)
Thursday was chicken and rice casserole, which we seem to have every week. I managed to use up some elderly green onions that got ignored on taco night, and chicken breast was on sale so I used all white meat instead of chicken thighs and I liked it better.
Tonight is hamburger stew, perfect for a rainy day.
We also had a busy week.
Sunday: we grilled up some chicken sausages I found in the freezer and had carrot sticks and chips on the side.
Monday: Double batch of American Chop Suey which also served as a number of lunches, served with salad.
Tuesday: Baked bbq chicken with rice pilaf and steamed broccoli
Wednesday: Cheese Polenta with roasted veggies
Thursday: was going be pork chops but the chops were spoiled when I opened the package. Had to quickly pivot and remembered we had a container of chili in the freezer. Thawed that and made corn muffins. Will get a refund for the spoiled meat. What a bummer.
Friday: I think French bread pizzas but I need to check with my husband because he might have a work event.
Not a great week here either, nutrition-wise, but we made it and everyone was fed.
Today - Not even sure. I have a cooking class so if I have time between work and when the class starts, maybe I'll make some vegetarian spicy gumbo for the fam.
Thursday - Busy day. Kids wanted mac n' cheese from the blue box, apple slices, and air fryer brussel sprouts with pomegranate molasses.
Wednesday - Zucchini bake and pasta for the zucchini hater.
Tuesday - In n Out for the kids, leftovers for me.
Monday - Taquitos, strawberries, and cream
Sunday - Take out pizza with blackberries on the side
Saturday - Lettuce wraps and ramen. The recipe for the lettuce wraps said they were like PF Changs' lettuce wraps. They were pretty good but they decidedly did not taste like they were from PF Changs.
@CrunchyCake, if we had a million dollars, we wouldn't have to eat Kraft Dinner ... but we would. 🙂
@Karen., I love that song!
Sunday: grilled burgers. Oven fries. Coleslaw.
Monday: cannot remember
Tuesday : air fryer chicken sandwiches. Salad. Steamed green beans.
Wed: air fryer baked potatoes with canned soup
Thurs: spinach ravioli with peas and cottage cheese
Friday: our version of take out frozen pizza and bag salad. Bag salad prices very much Increasing. Still cheaper than takeout.
112 at Kroger pick up. 34 at Aldi. Aldi was a maple syrup, honey, almond milk and cheese stock up only.
Yep, almost EVERYTHING is cheaper than takeout!
Kristen I commend you for still finding the energy to cobble together meals including a Zuppa Toscana (!) despite your hectic schedule. You did indeed do it! I'm sure we all have those moments when we are running on fumes but still get everything done.
This week's what we ate sprinkled with leftover Halloween candy:
Left over pizza
Grilled flank steak with some kind of veggie and starch. (I don't remember but I know I mostly just ate the meat!)
Baked lemon pepper chicken and roasted potatoes.
Spaghetti with meat sauce.
McDonalds. (Sigh, I had an evening Zoom meeting.)
Refried beans and leftover steak burritos.
Pizza of course.
Thank you for the encouragement!
I love photos of your cat! The I am totally judging you faces are the best- makes me laugh every time you post them! Hope the weekend is calm and relaxing for you and your girls.
@Kim,
Haha! Yes! She's like "This human is mine. Back. Off."
What a lovely, functional spread - Kristen! A week or so back, I commented that we had a kitchen fire and I was too scared to cook. This week we did better:
Monday - chicken curry (w cinnamon, cardamom, black pepper - onion/tomato/curry leaves base), cucumber salad, and rice. Used the stove with extreme caution and stayed in the kitchen the entire time (1 hour).
Tuesday - ate chicken curry leftovers with roti. arugula salad.
Wednesday - got take out from a halal cart to share (chicken kebab and rice). ate with lots of raw veg that was languishing in the crisper.
Thursday - stir fry noodles and lumpia
Friday - we may go to this greek place in our neighborhood or I am considering making prawn moilee to eat with neer dosa and/or appam
The way I got over my cooking fear was 1. we made chai - which doesn't have any oil - so zero chance of grease fire. 2. I did take a reader Becca's suggestion and added encouraging notes near the stove. Thank you!!
@Samosa,
Sending love! So glad you conquered the fear!
I'm glad for you and also selfishly glad because I love reading your menus!
Sunday-cereal and blueberries ( earlier brunch was very filling)
Monday-baked chicken with side salad
Tuesday-hearty salad with chicken on top
Wednesday-chicken/rice casserole with roasted broccoli and roasted green beans
Thursday-carry out for daughter and me ( husband was with son at a concert)
Friday-tonight will be leftover chicken/rice casserole and roasted green beans
WWS: 12 pounds worth of butter from Aldi.... plus some other shops +/- $50 (or $14 without the butter, but includes my awesome haul for $.01)
Sat: out for dinner for a mystery shop
Sun: leftovers
Mon: Thai lemongrass grilled pork chops, rice, grilled zucchini
Tues: 2 soups: 1 loosely based on Budget Bytes broccoli cheddar, but I also added zucchini & kale; tomato chicken, barley, beans & veg.
Wed: I wasn't feeling well so partner ordered Chinese soup dumplings
Thurs: roasted salmon with lemon-herb compound butter, roasted potatoes, zucchini & broccoli
Fri: partner out and we leave tomorrow for a week, so a bit of a "clean out the fridge" leftover extravaganza for me.
I forgot: $20 at fishmonger
Oven slow cooked pork shoulder baby potatoes & green beans
Burgers &oven fries sliced to.atoes
Homwmade Chicken tenders,roasted potatoes&salad
Baked chicken breastbaked potatoes &roasted brocvoli
Grilled cheese &fruit
I started out gang busters and then slipped.
Fri: short ribs with carrots and potatoes
Sat: Homemade pizza--my daughters and two of the grandchildren were here.
Sun: Grilled ham and cheese sandwiches and applesauce
Mon: Chicken with the leftover vegetables
Tues: English muffins with leftover deli ham and cheese. (After work I did not feel like cooking)
Wed: Pasta and garlic toast (I was going out to a library class)
Thurs: I had a late lunch at my daughter's and wasn't hungry.
Today: Up for grabs.
I did spend a lot of money at the grocery stores in the past couple of weeks; but I had not been for 3 weeks. And I was stocking up on things--baking and Thanksgiving supplies.
Because there is no big feast here, I bought a 3-4 lb boneless breast, which I will do a copycat Trader Joe turkey en croute. They were not selling it this year. I don't know if it was the cost or supplies. Then my plan is to pack it up and go to the beach with "tv style" dinners. I pray this year it won't rain so I can go for a walk along the beach after dinner.
We "phone it in" once in a while too, especially on busy or super stressful days. I call it YOYO day which means your on your own!
You rock, woman! All that and doing the blog every day too!
Sat/Sun/Mon: baked spinach and cheese ravioli. New recipe, a keeper.
Tuesday: baked salmon, salad, oranges
Wednesday: salmon chowder from leftover salmon and mushrooms that needed using.
Thursday: husband expressed regret that salmon chowder was gone. So I made a bacon/tuna/potato chowder that he loved.
Friday: husband took on a court gig that paid us extremely well but he worked 15 hour days or more for 10 days in a row. He finished last night. This morning he was relaxing with hot chocolate (it was zero degrees when we got up) and the Today Show and they apparently had a recipe for a cheese and pepperoni stuffed artisan bread. He asked me to make it for supper, so I looked the show's cooking segment up on line. The bread is now baking and we happened to have pepperoni in the freezer and a brick of fresh mozz in the fridge. He seldom asks for a new recipe, let alone one with pepperoni since he knows I don't like it, but after his week I'll make him anything but beans. (Plus I won't put pepperoni on my portion. More for him.) Food is one of his love languages so I am very happy to be given specific requests instead of guessing what he feels like eating.
I feel your husband...always regret when soup is gone! Ha.
We had matzo ball soup Sunday, Greek lentil soup with Mediterranean salad Monday, butternut squash risotto with lite Ceasar salad Tuesday, potato-leek soup with roasted Brussels sprouts Wednesday, frozen tamales with black beans from a can Thursday, and tonight we're having baked tilapia with broccolini and barley. I seriously don't even know how we managed to eat so healthy this week. But it's FINALLY cold and rainy here so I'm excited to eat lots of soup!
Well, that was fun reading. Got some ideas for dinners next week.
Sunday I made Chinese cabbage salad and teriyaki pork over fried rice (half rice, half cauli rice, lots of bits of veg thrown in that needed to be used up.)
Monday: King Ranch Chicken Soup with leftover cabbage salad
Tuesday: Pasta with pesto, asparagus, onions, mushrooms, and cherry tomatoes. Threw in a spoonful of sour cream to make it creamy. Green salad.
Wednesday: Leftover soup for me, Quesadilla for my husband. Leftover cabbage salad and fruit.
Thursday: Silver salmon fillet baked with butter, lemon, and garlic. On top of the leftover pasta. Green salad.
Friday: Mini skillet meatloaves, roasted potatoes, green salad.
Saturday: Dinner with family and I’m providing a taco/taco salad bar. My SIL is making a blueberry dessert.
Sunday: lentil/mushroom/vegetable stew maybe with cornbread if i get inspired! And green salad.
Next week is going to be crazy at work with long days so I am anticipating that leftover stew and leftover taco oddments turned into quesadillas will get us through a couple of days. And there may be takeout one night.
Wow that Zuppa Toscana looks so good you must send me your recipe I would love to have some, looks very healthy!!
I mostly follow this recipe: https://www.thechunkychef.com/slow-cooker-zuppa-toscana/ And I don't do the slow-cooker version, so I can't comment on how good that is!
Most of my dinners were fry-ups: mushrooms, potatoes, and bacon bits, topped with fried eggs.
BUT I did finally manage to make shrimp and grits! (Baked cheese grits from ATK, of course...)
And this morning I made a triple batch of buttermilk biscuits because I could only find a giant jug of buttermilk when I had needed a small one... Some neighbors, friends, and future-me are all benefiting from the rare energy this morning.