Friday
Short version: Bull and potato skillet, still-frozen green beans
Long version: A. and Cubby weren't home at dinnertime, so the younger three had a skillet combination of shredded bull meat, sliced microwaved potatoes, the last of the enchilada sauce, and shredded cheese. Pretty tasty, actually.
I had some leftover hamburger, some of the potato, and some very forgettable squash. It was a variety called Atlantic Giant that is really grown more for size than flavor or texture. I mean, it's technically edible, but pretty wet, bland, and stringy. I gave the rest to the chickens.
Saturday
Short version: Barbecue pork, bread, leftover rice, orange slices
Long version: I had promised Jack and Poppy that I would take them for a special adventure, to make up for the fact that they kept being left at home when A. took the older boys camping in the fall. We went to one of our (relatively) nearby towns, where we went to a dinosaur museum and also ate lunch at a local place.
Anyway.
It was fun, but I was very, very tired by the time we got home. So I just opened a couple of cans of the commodities pork, fried it in a pan, added barbecue sauce, and called it good. It was pretty good, actually.
I was even too tired to peel and cut up carrots or something. So instead I cut up some of the oranges I had just gotten at the grocery store. Fruit for dinner? Unheard of. (At least in our house.)
Sunday
Short version: Bunless cheeseburgers (on buns!), green salad, green beans, chocolate soup
Long version: I made the buns because I'm in the midst of Christmas Bread Baking Season, which means that I'm baking bread every other day (because each batch takes two days) to give to various people. And that means plenty of opportunities to steal some dough for pizza or garlic bread or, in this case, buns.
The chocolate soup was supposed to be pots de creme, but it didn't set. So it was almost entirely liquidy. Kind of like really chocolately, slightly thick chocolate milk. No one seemed to mind.
Monday
Short version: Cafeteria chicken tacos, grapes
Long version: This was our first day back in school after three weeks of Thanksgiving break and remote schooling. Whenever we come back from a long break like this, I feel particularly exhausted after work. It's so much harder to get back into a routine than to just continue with one.
Luckily, the school cook had given me a bunch of extra chicken tacos, so I heated those in the oven--with extra salsa and cheese because they were amazingly bland--and served them with grapes.
Yes. Fruit for dinner again. I don't know what's happened to me.
Tuesday
Short version: Pork steaks and sauerkraut, baked potatoes, green salad
Long version: These were cheap pork steaks from the grocery store, but I do love pork and sauerkraut. I need to plant more cabbages to make more sauerkraut this summer.
And A. wants to get a pig. That would certainly ensure the pork supply.
Wednesday
Short version: Leftovers, squash, still-frozen green beans
Long version: We had church after school and didn't get home until about 6 p.m. That's why I made sure to have plenty of leftovers on hand, so all I had to do was heat things up when we got home.
A. had the last of the stir-fry with a bit of extra bull meat and some leftover potatoes. Luckily, he's not fussy about things like needing rice to eat with stir-fry.
Poppy, Jack, and Calvin had tacos with corn tortillas, cheese, and some taco meat I made with ground beef and black beans.
Cubby and I had barbecue pork and potatoes.
This was not the overly large and tasteless squash. This was a much smaller, pumpkin-looking squash that I baked when I was baking bread. Much tastier.
Thursday
Short version: Skillet food, steamed broccoli, salad
Long version: This skillet had the last of the shredded bull meat fried in some tallow, the other half of a can of tomato sauce, cumin, garlic powder, chile powder, rice, and shredded cheese.
I had the salad--shredded cheese, leftover taco meat, some of the broccoli, olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
Okay, your turn! What'd you eat this week?
steaks, garlic mashed potatoes, broccoli, garlic knots, apple crisp
ReplyDeletetake out Chinese
tuna casserole, ginger muffins, roasted carrots, apple crisp
baked spaghetti, ginger muffins, a mix of carrots, cauliflower, broccoli
chicken quesadillas, roasted carrots, applesauce
cottage pie, cranberry sauce, green beans
And for tonight a skillet dish of ground beef, tortillas, cheese & some kind of vegetable
Linda
Friday-noodle soup with leftover meatballs and shredded lettuce
ReplyDeleteSaturday-venison from a friend, sauteed in butter (and it was SO good), baked potatoes, some kind of frozen vegetables I forget, and butterscotch oatmeal bars
Sunday-grilled cheese sandwiches, broccoli
Monday-stuffed peppers
Tuesday-cheese omelet, oven fried potatoes, frozen spinach
Wednesday-chicken stirfry, tossed salad
Thursday-beef and barley soup, cheese biscuits
I love that you are fair to your kids and that Jack and Poppy got their own adventure!
ReplyDeleteWe're all snowed in in Switzerland, it's a beautiful winter wonderland.
Saturday spaghetti with eggplant parmigiana from the freezer
Sunday hotdogs with all-the-veg-in-the-fridge slaw
Monday pork meatballs with fennel in a white wine sauce, and pasta
Tuesday xmas dinner with my colleagues in Bern, I had a salad and spicy italian sausage
Wednesday was fancy: oysters, smoked salmon on toast and roasted squash hummus dip
Thursday baked whole fish on cherry tomatoes, olives and artichokes with rice
Friday skirt steak with potatoes and rutabaga purée with blue cheese