1. Beef Wellington w/ salad
2. Slow Cooker Orange Chicken w/ rice w/ veggies
3. Chicken Dijon w/ rice w/ Parmesan-Roasted Broccoli
4. Pan-Glazed Chicken with Basil w/ Risotto with Peas and Prosciutto
5. Leftovers
6. Chicken Tetrazzini w/ salad
7. Grilled Fajitas w/ Mexican rice (This will probably be made with flank steak.)
Um, yeah. As you can tell I haven’t gotten very far with my meal planning for the week. Why? Because I had to grocery shop on Saturday for Saturday’s dinner (meal 6 in last week’s menu) and I opted to get food for Monday of this week (meal 2) so I’m not shopping for the rest of the week’s food until Tuesday. This means I get to procrastinate meal planning and, of course, that’s what I’m doing.
I’m sure the rest of the week will include something with fish and perhaps something with the crème fraiche my grocery store just started stocking. It’s a pretty standard week - one night of leftovers due to the craziness of Thursdays and Art gone for most of the week due to business travel. There will probably be another attempt at sourdough bread and more Chickpeas with Sausage and Sundried Tomatoes.
For what it’s worth, I do have meal 1 of next week planned already, since it will be another Game Day. I’ll be making Spinach and Artichoke Dip, Slow Cooker BBQ, Potato Salad, and Spinach Bacon Salad. All things I’ve already posted here and all things that include bacon. That wasn’t planned, it just happened, I swear. Game Day was canceled :(
In other food news, I’ve started looking into buying cow in bulk. I’ve found a farm in the area that sells 1⁄4 cows and I think, maybe, that I could fit 1⁄4 cow into my freezer. Maybe. I’ve contacted the farm to get a cubic footage estimate and then I’ll go from there. This is very exciting to me, I’d love to get locally and humanely raised cow!
I’ll edit this post later in the week with the rest of the meal plan. Maybe tomorrow. When I’m done procrastinating.
Edit: Meal planning ended up taking no time at all. Why? Because I decided that, in these few weeks left before market season begins, I should revisit some of the earliest (recipes I’ve shared here. Not only because we enjoyed them and it would be nice to feast on their deliciousness again, but also to take new, better pictures with my mad skillz. (Okay, so I don’t have mad skillz, but I do have a much nicer photography setup than I started out with!) Sadly this means I won’t be posting many new (recipes during the week, but I will be posting many new photographs!