Other than making pizza 2-3 times a month, and both gyros and “house” fried rice every couple of months, which I’ve done for years, I don’t have a lot of repeats.
Certainly there’s no structure to my weeks’ meal plan (no plan at all, that is), and I kind of envy those who do have more structure. But I’m too spur-of-the-moment, and I guess I’m more of a situational cook.
Pork tenderloin was BOGO and I grabbed some, so now I’m going to make pork lo mein, and then in a couple days make a roulade with the remaining pork loin. Or Middle Eastern style yogurt marinated pork chunks. Or Spanish spicy pork chunks.
Are chicken/salmon/whatever on sale? Grab some and figure out something new (or old) to do with whatever it is.
Vegetarian/GF daughter #3 coming home for a bit? Good time for a tofu or paneer butter masala, or a tofu/paneer dum biryani.
Daughter #2 the big meat eater coming home for a few days? Thaw some steaks and a pork loin. She loves steak fajitas, steaks in general, and pulled pork - plus likes to have extra to take back with her.
I did actually plan out a week+ worth of dinners a couple of months ago when a sister was visiting my MIL, and both of them planning to eat dinner with us each night. Afterwards I thought, that worked really well, keep doing it.
Did I? Nope.
