1. eggs to order w/ Waffle Iron Hashbrowns w/ sausage
2. Leftover Night (voice/choir)
3. Biscuit Taco Cups
4. Smoked Brisket w/ Onion Roasted Potatoes The brisket finished at 5am, so we ate out and had brisket for lunch the next day on sandwiches. Oops.
5. Oslo-Style Kebabs w/ Kebab Sauces
6. Simple Roast Beef Tenderloin w/ Savory Mushroom Puffs Out
7. Cumin-Pepper Flank Steak with Horseradish Chimichurri w/ Garlic Monkey Bread
When I started planning this week’s meals, I thought “I should have a vegetarian day.” Instead, I seem to have gone the exact opposite route with cow almost every night. Oops. There’s a good reason for this, I’ve sent out next 1⁄2 cow order to our farmer so we need to do a push to clear out the old cow before the new cow comes to join us! Meals 3, 4, 6, and 7 will all use cow from the freezer. Meals 1 and 5 will use pig and lamb from the freezer! It’s unusual to have a meal plan with no chicken or fish, but it certainly makes for an easier and cheaper trip to the grocery store.
Meals 1 and 3 are holdovers from last week since I still haven’t quite gotten into the routine of cooking dinner every night. I’m working on it. I also, finally, started working on my backlog of unposted (recipes! I still have a ton of posts to make, but it’s nice to be making a dent in my backlog instead of just ignoring it.
In other news, I got my copy of Modernist Cuisine at Home on Friday! This is the home cook version of the original Modernist Cuisine tome. It has 150 new (recipes which are geared toward the equipment an experienced home cook will probably have at his disposal. I’ve skimmed through the book and there are certainly a number of (recipes that I feel I’ll be able to tackle. Some require a sous vide or a foamer, two tools I definitely don’t have, but maybe I’ll pick them up some day in the future. In the meantime, I want to figure out a way to work (recipes from Modernist Cuisine at Home into my cooking life. If I was home on Mondays to cook, I’d do “Modernist Mondays,” but I’m not. Instead, I might do a “Monthly Modernist” feature. I’m still pondering.