Friday
Short version: Elk and gravy, mashed potatoes, frozen peas
Long version: I found two bags of elk stir-fry meat at the bottom of the freezer, which just means it was carefully trimmed and cut very thinly. Instead of making stir-fry with it, though, I fried it and made a gravy for it with a diced shallot, milk, and cornstarch.
Gravy requires mashed potatoes, so I made some of those.
Saturday
Short version: Lamb chops and rice, burritos, cucumber slices
Long version: I made this meal very quickly in between getting home from the county fair rodeo and going to the county fair dance. I had to wait until all the ironing was done at the table before we could eat, but that gave me time to fry the last few lamb chops from some I had thawed a few days earlier. A. had those with the rice.
The children had the burritos, which were just leftover bull taco meat with cheese in flour tortillas.
Sunday
Short version: Elk stir-fry, rice, chocolate pudding
Long version: I had maybe a pound of the elk meat that I hadn't cooked on Friday. It wouldn't have been enough on its own, but in a stir-fry, it was enough. I used the one bag of stir-fry vegetables that had been in the freezer a very long time, which were mostly cut green beans. To that I added carrots I had pre-cooked in the microwave, plus the soy sauce, vinegar, garlic and onion powders (too lazy to actually cook an onion), ginger powder, and peanut butter.
I made the same recipe for chocolate pudding I always use, but the cornstarch got away from me a little bit, and I also used some cream that was about to go off. Both of those things made the pudding much thicker. Not bad--especially with heavy cream poured over the top--but definitely a different texture.
Monday
Short version: Burritos and leftover pudding at home, chicken drumsticks on the road
Long version: I was with one child in town at dinnertime, so A. fed everyone at home with the leftover taco meat and pudding. Since I started my long drive home right around dinnertime, I picked up a container of rotisserie chicken drumsticks at the grocery store and shared those with the kid in the car with me.
Tuesday
Short version: Pork, smashed potatoes, green beans, cookie bars
Long version: It's really been too hot to cook something like a pork butt that needs the oven on for a long time, but I really don't have a lot of meat on hand at the moment that's fast-cooking. So I made the pork.
I started it at 6 a.m..
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Fri- left chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, broccoli, banana bread. I wasn't hungry and just ate some popcorn later with movie night.
Sat- hamburgers, chips, apples, hash browns.
Sun- ditto.
Mon- chicken only thing affordable again, so more grilled chicken! Rice, ramen, pineapple, apples.
Tues- I had taken kids out to celebrate the end of summer to a movie in the theater ( first time in 10 years I think for me!) And I did get them popcorn - expensive but you get a free refill! So at dinner no one was very hungry. I made grilled cheese and left it at that.
Wed- leftover chicken put onto a stew with carrots and little potatoes, broccoli, rice, bread. Kid who doesn't like the chicken in gravy had a chicken patty.
Thurs- first day of school! For most the kids at home. Cheese braid for breakfast, ice cream after school at big sister's job, and pasta, sausage, garlic bread, broccoli for dinner. Hopefully it made reentry into the academic year a bit easier.
That's sounds like a lot of depressing training for one day. Ice cream adefinite necessity! At the college I teach at, our training is mostly about sexual harassment and discrimination. Mostly I learn that I can be a jerk to everyone and get away with it. Not the intended message I think
. Enjoy the weekend!
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