Best wishes to you. Damn I feel old!!
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For breakfast-type snacks with that early morning ice time, these sausage/cheddar breakfast muffins have been enjoyed here. https://kitchenfunwithmy3sons.com/sausage-breakfast-muffins/
I don’t keep boxed pancake mix on hand so used the equivalent:1 C biscuit mix to a home-made equivalent : 7/8 C flour (1 C minus 2 T), 1 1/4 tsp. baking powder, 3/8 t. salt, 1 T plus 1/2 t. butter.
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I’m bad at following through on the planned preparation. I did follow through on the choice of which animal protein this week.
Chouriço & bacon instead of roast pork shoulder.
Salmon on Friday- Veracruz instead of Maple Ginger.
We do ribeye most Saturdays, so that’s what’s for dinner tonight.
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For two adults in San Diego:
This week’s breakfasts: Chocolate chip scones
S (tonight): takeout - chicken kebab, rice, hummus, veggies, pita
Su: Soup with spinach tortellini, in a mixture of leftover tomato soup and vegetable stock, with veggies - vegetarian
M: Pasta with chicken and garlicky spinach in a light cream sauce
T: Chicken with TJs sweet potato gnocchi and green beans or peas
W: Fish tacos - seafood
Th: Chicken pot pies, using up peas au gratin from freezer as the base.
F: Perhaps something inspired by this: https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/a20064275/crack-noodles-recipe/ with added chicken and veggies
Have a good week!
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Actuals for Jan 9 week, cooking for 2 in MN. Where cleaning/sorting ambitions continued in my quest to regain space in the freezer and eventually the pantry, too. This week reconfirmed that even with lunches of leftovers planned I should only count on cooking 4 main dish recipes weekly. And clear-out ambition took hold elsewhere in the house. I have at last slimmed down the excessive “save in case our taxes get audited” bags of detailed receipts from all but the past 2 years.
Mon: Reheat – Liver & mushrooms over rice, broccoli
Tues: Egg Bake from freezer
Wed noon: Chicken Lasagna roll ups, fresh spinach salad. Old favorite I haven’t made in a while. Glad I kept notes since you need double the butter and flour (2 T each) to actually get a thickened white-sauce with 1 C of milk. I also use jarred basil pesto, and cottage cheese in place of ricotta. http://www.thebrewerandthebaker.com/archives/6965
Wed dinner: New batch of Egg Bake, recipe from my niece who modified it substantially from this starting point http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/2015/09/18/easy-make-ahead-breakfast-casserole/. “Our way”: all of a medium onion, about 1 C. diced bell peppers, frozen spinach thawed & squeezed dry, tsp garlic salt in the egg mixture, more milk (so 1.5 C total), 2X cheese (so 2 C total). Put cooked sausage in pan first, top with bread and remaining ingredients.
Squares from one 8x8 pan re-stocked the freezer. Some of the other 8x8 pan served as dinner and the rest was refrigerated for meals later in the week.
Thurs: BAKED mid-morning: Crescent roll meatball sub cupcakes. Sampled, then kept some out for a Fri/Sat meal, rest frozen for future. https://www.plainchicken.com/meatball-sub-cupcakes/
Thurs dinner: Reheat- Egg bake, tater tots, fresh pear, fresh orange slices
Fri: - Reheat – Chicken lasagna rollups, bag salad Lemony Caesar. Red grapes
Sat: Reheat – Crescent roll meatball subs, Sunflower Crisp bag salad. Dessert: Oatmeal cookie ice cream sandwich.
Sun: (today)- Salmon, sweet potato, mangos, carrot/apple salad OR cold peas with h.b. egg salad
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Hopefully I will cook closer to the plan this week!
Sunday: whole roasted chicken, green beans, white beans (soaking now, they will be served for 3 days), cheese ravioli with jarred tomato sauce, figuring out what to make with treviso radicchio
Monday: probably Country Captain or Coronation Chicken with the leftover chicken
Tue: pork shoulder with fennel and rosemary, maybe a soft polenta.
Wed: tuna niçoise or tuna niçoise Spaghetti
Thu: lamb, preparationTBD
Fri: cod or haddock, preparation TBD
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Sounds good. Saving!
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Forgot the recipe link:
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I decided to look at a few other Turkish chicken recipes and I think I will try this soon https://ozlemsturkishtable.com/2021/12/turkish-style-roast-chicken-with-rice-and-currants-stuffing-ic-pilavli-firin-tavuk/
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Just a sum up.
Week went awry as we are still dealing with the refrigeration issues.
But taco night was a success!
For takeout we went to the lovely Tacubaya in Berkeley - I’ll hopefully get those pictures together this week.
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Week 3 of 52
Two overachiever cooks in the SF Bay Area cooking for ourselves.
There are still issues with so many farms. We went to the Berkeley market yesterday to set our selves up for success week and were thrilled to see Riverdog and Kaki farms. But it was still a lean market for veg purveyors.
Very broad plans this week until we figure out the refrigerator and deal with drying out from the rain.
Sunday - Cheese plate or omelet
Monday - Delayed holiday dinner with family
Tuesday - Freezer meal TBD
Wednesday - Leftovers
Thursday - Pantry meal TBD
Friday - Takeout
Saturday - Sheet pan TBD
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Between the holidays and the rain, the farmers” markets have been really lean. When I last went to the Tuesday Berkeley market, it was still around half its normal size and there were many missing vendors and an absence of vegetables you expecg to see year ‘’round (e.g. broccoli).
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Using this marinade on drumsticks and thighs tonight, which I will roast. Omitted the smoked paprika, and used a half tsp sweet Hungarian paprika and a tsp of Aleppo pepper.
Ended up making salmon cakes with Friday’s leftovers last night.
I might add cardamom and rice to make it more like this
I cup of rice : 4 to 6 chicken thighs works better at our house when I make chicken & rice mains, for 4 servings. I rarely cook more than 1 cup of rice, orzo or small pastas at a time these days.
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Thanks for some new recipe ideas that are take and bake as things are getting back near normal for pot luck brunch meetings!
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Actuals
I really stuck with the plan except Thursday I made a fried haddock, nuked potato and broccoli dinner for me and DH had leftovers with his broccoli.
Saturday I made a large ham salad and except for hambone and scraps bagged in the freezer the ham is all gone!
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Feeding two adults and a tween in Boston…
Sun: pork ramen from the freezer for DS and me; DH had chicken fettuccine from a Rana kit he didn’t make last week. (The guys did not follow the menu plan they made for while I was away.)
Mon: beef goulash (http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/beef_goulash_with_dumplings/) but over egg noodles, carrots/parsnips on the side.
Tues: cracker crumb haddock (https://more.ctv.ca/food/recipes/mustardy-cracker-crumb-fish.html ) with mashed potatoes for the guys and sweet potato gnocchi for me. Something green to go with.
Weds: pork and black bean chili (again, without the included dumplings! Where was my brain this week?) and cornbread
Thurs: marinated chicken breasts, baked sweet potatoes, green beans
Fri: probably leftovers of the goulash and chili.
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Any good? I see those at my store.
This was from Costco - they had several different varieties. He said it was okay but not worth getting again. The sauce seemed gloopy but that might be my anti-Alfredo sauce bias talking.
Greetings, people.
Continuing the purge of freezer, fridge and pantry. I had a short grocery list this week: dairy of various sorts, citrus, and greens. Without apology, I’m also going hit the bakery tomorrow for a loaf of sourdough - I’ve been Jonesin’ for a tuna melt. We have several cans of tuna on hand, but we’ll have two less by the end of the week. In all, I am very pleased with the progress we’re making on whittling down stores of all types.
Cooking for two adults in the PNW:
FRI: Ina Garten’s crispy chicken breasts. Caesar salad.
SAT: Tuna melt. Green salad with fruit-and-nut toppers. Will make extra tuna salad for lunches.
SUN: Beef on the grill. Caesar salad.
MON: Kielbasa, beans and rice.
TUE: Pan pizza. Spring green salad.
WED: Turkish chicken kebabs on the grill. Rice pilaf. Baby peas.
THUR: Pasta with roasted tomatoes. Caesar salad.
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Hi everyone, This is off topic, but since I know most of you, and a lot of you know the types of things I cook, and probably cook fairly similarly, I’m coming to you with my problem. My food processor broke for the second time, and I can’t find the replacement part that would make it work. I’ve had this thing for something like 24 years, and it does the job. It’s a fairly basic cuisanart, which doesn’t seem to be available any longer. I really need to replace it, but find myself scared of buying the wrong thing (silly). Anyone have one that they love? I don’t want anything really big and hard to move - mine lives under the island, so I need to be able to lug it to the counter when needed. Don’t need anything huge since we’re only 3, and fairly soon to be only 2. Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks everyone!
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