1. grilled burgers w/ buns, lettuce, red onion, tomato
2. Loaded Egg Salad w/ lettuce, bread
3. Beef Chili with Bacon and Black Beans w/ Hushpuppies
4. Slow Cooker Basil Parmesan Chicken Pasta
5-7. L&G: Out, A: Fends for himself
Beef Broth
Sausage and Lentil Soup
This is a fairly short meal plan because I’ll be heading out of town for the weekend on Thursday. Thankfully this is my second to last event, so these weekends where I vanish will cease to be such common occurrences!
I had a few goals for meal planning this week. Goal 1 was to plan things that would generate leftovers for Art while Lance and I are gone for the weekend. Goal 2 was to try out a recipe for baked hard boiled eggs that I found online the other day. Meals 1, 3, and 4 will all meet goal 1 and meal 2 will nicely use the eggs from goal 2!
In other news, I had Art pick out a big piece of meat to use in meal planning this week and he reported that we didn’t really have anything huge left aside from two briskets and a pork belly. I went to check this out for myself and, wow, the freezer is fairly empty these days! I ended up picking out a leg of lamb which is the biggest thing in there otherwise. [And then I realized that I didn’t have time on Sunday for all of the lamb prep, so I’m postponing that and have changed meal 1 to the much easier meal of burgers.]
We’ll be getting another half cow and whole lamb from Zekiah in December, so that will help to restock our dwindling stores. We probably still have a good 50 pounds of ground beef, though, so I really need to do a push on that in the upcoming weeks. (Thankfully I’ll be able to give 10 pounds to my parents next weekend.)
While in the freezer I noticed that I had about 15 beef bones that I got in my last cow order and never got around to doing anything with. I decided to change that and try my hand at making beef broth this week as well. Of course this just means more things for the freezer… but I use broth with some frequency so I’m not super worried.
Then I got to thinking about what I should do with all the delicious pork juices being generated in my slow cooker right now from the pork roast I’m crocking for carnitas and decided that I should make Sausage and Lentil Soup during the week to supplement Art’s weekend food and to have around in the freezer for lunches on the upcoming cold and rainy days.
Lots of fun cooking and experimentation this week!