Menu Plan Monday May 12th Edition
I'm going to try to make a habit of this, so I really need to grab a graphic from Laura! (note to self). I apologize for the wonky fonts, I cut & pasted and typepad is not making it easy for me to fix formatting...
Random thoughts, not my menu: I had a realization this weekend... I am a better cook than most restaurant cooks where we can afford to eat, lol. Because it was Mother's Day weekend we ate out a bit more than I prefer... we had Starbuck's pastry offerings Sunday morning, and they just weren't as good as I remember. *scratching head* It's been a while since I ate food from there, I wonder what changed. And then for dinner Sunday night we went to a local barbeque restaurant, and honestly I could barely eat the barbeque because it was too spicy for me! It's usually not, so that was unusual. In contrast, Saturday we had a delicious dinner of pork chops on the grill, rice, corn, grilled zuchinni and broccoli. We grilled 3 pork chops and the girls just loved it and ate it all up! I think we need to grill four chops next time!
So, here's my menu for this week... I'm noting lunch ideas for myself here. It will be challenging because we have a busy week, which makes eating at home hard, but I'm going to try. Some of my ideas are portable- it sounds terrible but the girls are OK with cold cheese quesedilla's in particular...
Lunch Ideas: (served with fruit of choice)
TurkeySandwiches
Mac & Cheese
Cheese Quesadilla
Beans & Rice
Scrambled eggs w/ toast
Buttered Noodles
Dinner Menu
Monday- Spaghetti
Tuesday- Baked Chicken Teriyaki with rice and broccoli (new recipe I think I found posted last week?)
Wednesday- Vietnam Fried Rice from More With Less- with leftover chicken or chicken breast from freezer
Thursday- Easy Beef Stroganoff (PCHEF, see below) & green beans
Friday- Pizza from Costco (dad recommends, I still haven’t mastered pizza dough)
Saturday- Grill something yummy
Sunday- Crock pot chicken- still seeking best recipe
Recipe note for Easy Beef Stroganoff: This is a Pampered Chef recipe I got at a demonstration. I use "Make AHead Ground Beef" which I make up with lean ground beef I buy from Costco... I double the following recipe and freeze:
3 lbs 90% lean ground beef
3 medium onions (I only use one large, personal taste)
3 cloves of garlic
Chop onions. Brown everything in a large skillet, make sure you combine it well. Divide into equal portions and freeze.
The sheet I have provides six different recipes- I've tried them all, they are pretty good!
Here's the Easy Beef Stroganoff recipe...
To 1 portion Make-Ahead Beef, add:
8 oz sliced mushrooms
1 can Cream of Mushroom soup (I'm trying the recipe in the More with Less cookbook)
1/4 cup of water
1 tsp ground paprika (I omitted last time b/c I didn't have it)
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper (I actually just use Jane's Crazy Mixed up Salt in any recipe calling for salt & pepper)
Combine all ingredients in skillet and bring to a simmer over medium heat.
Stir 8 oz sour cream into beef mixture.
Cook 1 lb egg noodles- serve stroganoff over noodles. :)
I thought this was really yummy & easy! I'm looking forward to it again. :)
