1. tacos, Mexican rice from a box
2. Smoked Salmon Risotto Due to poor time management, we had Chipotle.
3. sautéed steak w/ Mustard Cream Pan Sauce w/ Nutty Barley Bake
4. Garlic Ginger Chicken w/ rice w/ veg
5. Slow Cooker Dijon Chicken with Artichoke Sauce w/ egg noodles After realizing we have way too much food in the fridge, this has been changed to leftovers. 
6. spaghetti w/ Meatballs w/ Crispy Garlic Bread
7. Chicken Breasts with Balsamic Vinegar and Garlic w/ rice w/ green salad

This week I planned my meals using my files, delicious, and the 2009 Cook’s Country Annual.  The week is fairly straightforward.  I’ve got two nights of choir which necessitate less time-consuming meals.  Those meals are 2 and 5.  The steak in meal 3 is dependent upon what I happen to have in the freezer.

I'm also going to be doing some experimentation with bread baking without the bread machine, so watch out for those recipes. 

Have a delicious week!

1. Out
2. Mom’s Chicken w/ Cheesy Broccoli and Rice
3. Salmon with Lemon, Capers, and Rosemary w/ Farfalle with Broccoli
4. sautéed chicken w/ Pasta with Tomato and Almond Pesto
5. Slow Cooker Beef Stroganoff
6. burgers w/ Bacon-Cheddar Potato Skins
7. Out

I was extremely distracted while trying to plan meals for this week.  First, I was tired.  Second, there was C-SPAN to watch.  So this week’s menu is rather “boring” – it’s lacking my usual slew of new recipes to try. 

Since Art is gone during the week, I’m trying out another fish dish.  I’ve also got a slow cooker meal planned for the night I have choir, which will help free up some time on an otherwise busy evening.  In hopes of nice weather, I’ve got burgers planned for Friday.  I’d love to fire up the grill after a cold winter!

And, of course, meal 2 is a holdover from last week when I was unable to cook. 

I used the 2009 Cook’s Country Annual, the 2009 Cook’s Illustrated Annual, and delicious to help with my planning.

1. Herbed Roast Beef w/ Bacon and Egg Risotto
2. Tuna Stir-Fry with Cilantro and Lime w/ rice
3. Crispy Honey Chicken w/ rice w/ veggies of some sort
4. Spicy Spaghetti Pie
5. Mom’s Chicken w/ Cheesy Broccoli and Rice Casserole Changed to pizza due to non-functional wrists.
6. Out of Town
7. Out of Town
Pepparkakor (Made to share with friends over the weekend.)
Chicken Piccata with added artichoke hearts Not made due to non-functional wrists.

In recent weeks I’ve been planning my meals with two cookbooks on hand but, this week, I opted to make a dent in the recipes I’ve been bookmarking online.  I recently switched over to using delicious for bookmarking recipes and it’s fantastic.  It makes everything so simple; I’m really not sure why I didn’t do this years ago!  Along with delicious, I found recipes in the 2009 Cook’s Country Annual. 

Art will be gone for meals 2 through 5 this week, which will be standard for many weeks to come.  I’ll be gone for meals 6 and 7, but I’ll probably be cooking on Thursday to help stock the fridge with food for Art to eat – he just hadn’t picked what he wanted me to make at the time of posting.  Edit He has chosen Chicken Piccata!

Last week was a pretty rice-heavy week and this week looks like it will be as well.  I never intend for things to be this way, but it seems like it happens.  I’ll get all my meals together and then realize 5 out of 7 have pasta or some such.  This week it’s rice. 

Have a tasty week!

1. (Game Day) Orange Chicken w/ rice, Chocolate Wontons w/ Ginger Ice Cream
2. Fish Baked in Foil with Leeks and Carrots w/ Lemon Potatoes
3. Slow Cooker Coconut Beef w/ rice
4. Out
5. Leftovers (I ended up going out with friends to celebrate my birthday!  Much fun was had by all.)
6. Teriyaki Flank Steak with Green Onions w/ rice
7. Batter-Fried Chicken w/ Mediterranean Chopped Salad

I think I’m going to try to break the habit of declaring weeks “normal” since it seems like normality varies with the phase of the moon.  Normal or not, this week is a pretty straightforward one.  Art will be gone for meals 2, 3, 4, and 5 due to business travel.  Meals 3 and 5 are designed to be easy to accommodate choir practices. 

The fish used in meal 2 is dependent upon what my store has in stock. 

Meal 4 is the rare dinner out, since it’s the day I file taxes and eating out afterward is something of a tradition.  We have plans to try out a new Japanese place in town. 

We’ve also got a Game Day this week and a few of our gamers are bringing egg rolls and I’m doing other Chinese food to go along with that.

I used the 2009 Cook’s Country Annual and the 2009 Cook’s Illustrated Annual for the new recipes of the week.