1. Beef Filet with Garlic and Mustard Butter w/ Warm Dijon Lentils
2. voice/choir – Leftover Night
3. Lemony Sauced Chicken Breasts with Mushroom Risotto w/broccoli
4. Best French Bread Pizza
5. Chicken with Mustard Mascarpone Marsala Sauce w/ pasta
6-7. Out
Sorry this meal plan is late. I did it last week, but never got around to posting it for some reason! All of these recipes were new to me from the internet.
1-6. G&A: Out of Town, L: Fends for himself
7. trivia - out
This is a super exciting meal plan, eh? Art and I will be vacationing in the Poconos for the week and Lance will be holding down the fort at home. Then I’ve got trivia regionals overlapping meal 7. So no cooking for me except breakfasts on vacation!
1. Chicken Sancoche x4 (Make more Caribbean Curry Powder, since we’re almost out.) w/ rice
2. Chili x2 w/ Skillet Cornbread with Corn
3. Red Stroganoff Sauce x2 w/ steaks of some sort w/ rice
4. Mom’s Chicken x3 w/ Amatriciana x3
5. Slow Cooker Chicken Tikka Masala w/ rice
6-7. G&A: Out of Town, L: Fends for himself
This is a different sort of week for cooking since Art and I are going away on vacation at the end of the week and Lance will be left to fend for himself for the following week. These are all repeated recipes that I can make in large quantities so that Lance will have plenty of leftovers to last him through his week alone.
It’s interesting to note that I seem to find chicken dishes to be easier for making in bulk and saving. I wonder why that is? Probably because I’ve had significantly more experience with cooking chicken than any other meat.
1. Easy Asian Beef Noodles
2. Voice/Choir – Leftover Night
3. CI Beef Stroganoff w/ egg noodles
4. Beef Filet with Garlic & Mustard Butter w/ Warm Dijon Lentils
5. Trivia – Chicken Quesadilla Pie w/ salsa
6. G&L out of town, A fends for himself
7. French Bread Pizza
I planned this week with one goal in mind – use all of the leftover eye round roast. You see, last week we had company and I made an eye round roast. But I was worried that the roast from our cow wouldn’t be enough meat for 6 people with a bit for leftovers. So I bought a second roast from our butcher and ended up with a huge amount of leftover roast to use. Meals 1 and 3 make use of this excess.
1. Out after Concert
2. Leftover night
3. Tilapia Coconut Curry (chicken for Art)
4. Grilled Chicken with Balsamic Vinegar w/ Tortellini Mac and Cheese
5. Beef Filet with Garlic & Mustard Butter w/ Warm Dijon Lentils Out
6. Asian Sloppy Joes
7. Company – Eye Round Roast w/ Horseradish Cream Sauce w/ Mini Pommes Anna w/ green veg w/ dessert w/ appetizer
This week was planned much later than it should have been due to the weekend’s concert. I’m also still trying to get everything sorted out from my old computer with posts and bookmarks, so everything seems to take longer than it should due to discombobulation!
Lance requested that we have fish because we haven’t for a while, so I chose the tilapia curry thinking it would be easy enough to double and do half with chicken for Art. Meals 5, 6, and 7 will all be using cow from the freezer.
We’ll be having company over for meal 7 and, as you can see, I have about half of that meal planned. I’ll be figuring out the rest of it as the week goes on!
1. Grilled Skirt Steak w/ Chimichurri w/ Stephanie’s Baked Potatoes
2. Leftover Night
3. Lamb Loin with Balsamic Garlic Glaze w/ Parmesan Risotto
4. Tax Day - Out
5. Trivia – Loaded Potato and Buffalo Chicken Casserole
6. Mahogany Meatballs w/ Roasted Potatoes
7. Top Round Roast Beef w/ Bread w/ tomatoes, red onions w/ horseradish sauce Out
And this is a potato sort of week. Art picked out the lamb loin and top round roast, so we’re being diligent about working through the freezer stores.
We’re filing our taxes this week and we always eat out afterward to celebrate. Otherwise it’s a fairly straightforward week!
Edit: I accidentally switched the sides for meals 3 and 6. Everything was still tasty even if the pairings were a bit odd!
1. Top Round Roast Beef w/ Bread w/ tomato, onion, horseradish sauce
2. Leftover Night
3. Grilled Flat Iron Steaks w/ Creamy Garlic Shells
4. Chicken in Creamy Lemon, Artichoke, and Mushroom w/ broccoli w/ rice
5. Trivia - Chicken with Mushrooms in Light Balsamic Cream Sauce
6. Dress Rehearsal - Oven Baked Risotto with Caprese Chicken
7. Choir Concert – Out
Sunday Breakfast – New York-Style Crumb Cake w/ Scrambled Eggs with Parsley and Goat Cheese
This week doesn’t leave me much time for cooking, but I’ve got a nice little meal plan worked up. Meal 1 is a holdover from last week but the rest of the picks are new for the week. My parents will be coming into town for my choir concert, so I’ll get to make breakfast for company on Sunday morning. It’s always nice to have a chance to cook breakfast, something I rarely do!
My theme for this week is apparently chicken. It’s my go to meat when I don’t want to take forever planning.
1. Meatballs in Mushroom Sauce w/ rice
2. Leftover Night
3. Top Round Roast Beef w/ Bread w/ sandwich fixings
4. spaghetti w/ Meatballs w/ garlic bread
5. “Impossible” Ham and Cheese Pie
6. Best Chicken Parmesan w/ Foolproof Carbonara
7. Art’s Birthday Dinner – Chili w/ Hushpuppies w/ Troika Cake
Caramelized Onions in Slow Cooker
I’m happy to report that I finally got around to cooking the Meatballs in Mushroom Sauce recipe – it had only been on my meal plan for three weeks!
I wasn’t super keen on meal planning this week so I didn’t actually finish until Monday night. The plan involves the last of the old cow from the freezer (meal 3), a bunch of ground beef (meals 1, 4,and 7) and then some other odds and ends of (recipes from various internet sources.
1. Slow Cooker Teriyaki Chicken w/ rice w/ broccoli
2. trivia - Chicken Noodle Casserole
3. Beef and Bean Burritos
4. voice/choir – Leftover Night
5. Greek Burritos
6. grilled skirt steak w/ Chimichurri w/ Stephanie’s Baked Potatoes Out
7. Slow Cooker Barbacoa w/ Cilantro Lime Rice w/ sautéed corn w/soft tacos w/ mild salsa fresco
I’ve given up on the caramelized onions for now. Maybe if they’re not in the meal plan I’ll have a better chance of making them. Or something?
This week involves lots of taco things. This wasn’t my intention, but it’s just the way things turned out. Art picked out rump roast (meal 7) and skirt steak (meal 6) from the freezer to help with my planning. Hopefully he’ll enjoy the barbacoa since he thinks he doesn’t like braised meats!
Some of these recipes were chosen because I need to add pictures to their posts, so hopefully I’ll remember to take those! During this period of blog updating I have been a bit lax with the pictures since my blog is no longer in the forefront of my brain as much. I’m sure I’ll regret this laziness when I get back to being able to post regularly!
1. Parsley Peppercorn Beef Patties w/ Mascarpone Chive Mashed Potatoes
2. Leftover Night
3. Parmesan and Brown Butter Chicken Linguine
4. grilled sirloin steaks w/ Fancy Mac and Cheese
5. Breakfast Pasta Bake
6. Slow Cooker Teriyaki Chicken w/ rice w/ broccoli Out
7. Herb-Roasted Lamb Loin with Goat Cheese and Zinfandel Sauce w/ Gnocchi Casserole
Caramelized Onions in Slow Cooker
Still haven’t made onions. Sigh. All of this week’s meals are from my google bookmarks. Art picked a few cuts of meat from the freezer for me to plan with – sirloin steaks and a lamb loin. Hopefully we’ll have some good eats this week!