Weekly Menu Planning - July 2025

It’s been on the swampy side here in Central Penna since we got back from Berlin, basically, allowing for only one cookout / backyard Q so far, with people immediately retreating inside for central air. Ugh.

Still only cooking for two adultish folks.

Today’s chicken souvlaki & horiatiki had to be nixed due to — you guessed it, MOAR thunderstorms, but also bc we have TPSTOS(liders) left from Monday’s cookout. My PIC’s gonna make meatballs with some of them, I decided to ‘make’ a cheater meat sawce with the rest of the beef & Carbone’s marinara (never tried it) pimped out with the usual suspects (onion, garlic, oregano, fennel seed, cinnamon). A simple salad with Aldi gem lettuce that’s been withering away with a light vinaigrette.

SAT: our HK buddy invited us & a few other friends over to his abode for a feast of roast duck and crispy pork belly :partying_face:

SUN: usually means Thai, but I might give this recipe from WoL a shot bc I bought more mung bean sprouts :face_with_hand_over_mouth: & I love a good stir-fry.

MON: mayhaps the postponed Thai with another rendition of this fabulous shrimp salad.

TUE: first ladies night since Berlin at a local place for buck-a-shuck oysters :yum:

WED: possibly grabbing a bite down (unless my PIC wants to cook) bc I have another sweltering outdoor gig till 7:30pm, and I ain’t cooking after that. Nope.

THUR: TBD

FRI: TBD

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