Friday
Short version: Fish sandwiches, oven fries, carrot sticks
Long version: A. had asked me to get some fish for sandwiches. I got whole battered fillets. I probably should have gotten some kind of fish patty, but I think the fillets were better. They were kind of like a double-sized fish stick, so each sandwich had two on them.
We had some of the Big Mac sauce left from the cheeseburgers the night before, which worked well as a tartar sauce substitute with the fish.
I had made oven fries the day before, but I made more because Poppy had been sad she couldn't have more.
Saturday
Short version: Creamy sausage and potato soup, pumpkin-pecan muffins
Long version: I had all the juices from the pork roast I had made a few days previously to use, so I decided to make a soup. For the meat in it, I used a package of plain smoked sausage. And then there were also onions, garlic, carrots, celery, green peas, and, of course, a lot of potatoes. I used diced potatoes, but then also thickened it with some of the instant potato flakes I still have. At the end, I added some milk.
Soup in progress.
I made the muffins as a consolation prize for the children who are not thrilled with soup. Also because I had cooked and pureed our last winter squash this day, so I just used some of that before I froze the rest.
Poppy decorated them with the pecans. Someone get that girl a Pinterest page.
Sunday
Short version: Green food! And meatballs.
Long version: It has become our tradition to have pasta with pesto on St. Patrick's Day. This is, of course, not at all an Irish food, but it is green. And delicious.
Since we were having pasta, I took out some of the ground bull meat to make meatballs. These were not green, since they were in a tomato sauce.
The salad was green, though.
Well, except for those red tomatoes again.
I also got all ambitious for dessert and decided to use some green sugar I had and the clover cookie cutter someone gave us when we did 4-H (the symbol of 4-H is a four-leaf clover) to make sugar cookies. I hate rolling out cookies and cutting them, but I did it.
The clover shape is not so obvious, but they were green. Tasty, too.
Monday
Short version: Small meatloaf, baked spaghetti, baked potatoes, frozen green peas
Long version: While I was clearing up after dinner on Sunday, I put together a casserole of baked spaghetti by simply chopping up the leftover spaghetti, mixing it with the rest of the tomato sauce from the meatballs, and adding the grated asadero cheese I keep in the freezer.
I didn't use all of the meatball mixture to make meatballs. The last of it I saved to make a small meatloaf, which I baked along with the spaghetti casserole when I got home from work.
I threw some potatoes in the oven, too--after pre-cooking them in the microwave for a bit--thinking I could use them for a meal later in the week.
And then half the family ended up eating potatoes, as well, and I was left with one lonely baked potato. So much for that.
Tuesday
Short version: Sheep tenderloin chunks, mashed potatoes, cucumber
Long version: I pulled out a bag of sheep tenderloin to thaw. For this meal, I just trimmed it, chunked it up, marinated it in olive oil, vinegar, garlic powder, and salt, and then fried it. Then I made a sauce for it with garlic, some cooked diced onion from the refrigerator, apple cider vinegar, and cold butter.
The rest of the tenderloin I used to make . . .
Wednesday
Short version: Sheep curry, rice
Long version: I made this in the tandem with dinner on Tuesday, so I could just heat it up when I got home from First Communion class. Besides the sheep meat, in included onion, garlic, carrots, potatoes, green peas, yellow split peas.
I also made a pot of rice on Tuesday, so when I got home at 5:30 p.m., all I had to do was heat up the curry --still in the skillet--and add some cream to that, and microwave the rice.
Yellow sludge: It's what's for dinner.
I do think next year I might make just a few pints of chutney, because I really like it with curry. Chutney is one of those things that can get out of hand and result in dozens of jars that never get used, but I think if I make maybe a half recipe of my favorite
green tomato chutney, that would be about the right amount for a year.
Thursday
Short version: Pigs in a blanket at home, fast food on the road
Long version: I was at a track meet all afternoon.
The track team got burgers and fries after the meet, which my trackster elected to eat in the car so we could get home earlier.
The pigs in a blanket at home came from the school cafeteria. Someone else has been hired to help the school cook this year, so I haven't been working in the cafeteria and bringing home leftovers. The helper had taken the week off, however, so I went in to the kitchen during one of my breaks to help the cook with the lunch dishes. She had a lot of pigs in blankets left, and gave me a whole bag to take home.
She makes the dough that goes around the hot dogs from scratch, and they're actually surprisingly good. Everyone at home was happy with them, anyway.
Okay, your turn! What'd you eat this week?
WOW, I really need to move in with you or mbmom 11.
ReplyDeleteMaybe try soup as a topping for home made noodles or rice or even toast. For those who don't like soup in soup form.
I have hardly cooked anything since husband died last May.
That doesn't mean I haven't eaten just hasn't been home cooked.Beth
Is it the incessant grilled cheese that's the attraction? 😉
DeleteG.P.: I'm sorry to hear that, Beth. I hope you find your place in the kitchen again soon, if for no other reason than you deserve to eat good homecooked food, too.
ReplyDeleteFriday-cabbage potato soup that was in the freezer, biscuits, peanut butter cookies
ReplyDeleteSaturday-hamburger stew in the crockpot. I like this recipe because it's one of the very few crockpot recipes that really is a whole meal.
Sunday-family birthday. Cream of tomato soup (not eaten by all because, well, we all know about kids and soup), grilled cheese sandwiches, chocolate cake
Monday-leftover hamburger stew
Tuesday-leftover grilled chicken from last week that I picked off the bone and stir fried with frozen peppers and onions, baked potatoes, broccoli
Wednesday-leftover tomato soup and biscuits
Thursday-lasagna, peas. I don't think I've ever made lasagna. A friend gave me a big pan for a birthday present. Great gift.
Kit: I've never made lasagna either. But that's my plan for the latest batch of ricotta I had to make with some milk that was going off. Except I keep forgetting to get lasagna noodles. Because I never make lasagna. :-)
ReplyDeleteI wonder can you make lasagna noodles from scratch...don't know why not. I haven't but I would never say never.
ReplyDeleteI do love a good grilled cheese!Mbmom11. I also like that everyone eats what sounds good to them and you are always baking something .
ReplyDeleteKristin cooks like I did, use what is left over for the next meal re imagined.
I am sure down the line I will Kristin.
I want to say , I have found I like my cottage cheese warmed up a bit. ;)