The first to arrive were on Wednesday, I think.
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The spanakopita cigars look like a win!
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Cooking for 1 at the Jersey Shore
Saturday: pasta primavera
Sunday: bacon bleu burger from the Margaritaville cookbook, steamed broccoli
Monday: pasta primavera leftovers
Tuesday: Sunday leftovers
Wednesday: Smitten Kitchen Keepers turkey meatloaf from the freezer, jasmine rice, roasted carrots with thyme
Thursday: Wednesday leftovers
Friday: frozen pizza
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Teriyaki salmon (purchased Ginger People teriyaki sauce), rice noodles, asparagus, artichokes, spaghetti squash with apples, purchased beets with pistachios and goat cheese , purchased roasted sweet potatoes and purchased German Chocolate Cake tonight.
Sat: Ribeye, potato salad and leftover vegetables
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Heading to Sacramento at the end of the week for family obligations, on top of extra duties at work. So, a short easy, week of meals is planned here.
For two adults in San Diego/Sacramento:
This week’s breakfasts: TJ’s brioche, toasted with Nutella. Putting the rest of my homemade baked goods in the freezer for when I return from our weekend trip.
S:(tonight) takeout - Pizza: pepperoni and spinach, with additional mushrooms on my side. Will also be lunch tomorrow.
Su: TJ’s Santa Maria tri-tip, Caesar salad, green chile au gratin potatoes
M: Fish sandwiches (battered fish on sourdough), apple slices - seafood
T: TJ’s tarte aux brie et au tomates. Husband picked this out for our vegetarian meal of the week.
W: Tostadas with refried beans, leftover tri-tip, onions, peppers, tomatoes, cheese, salsa
Th: Grabbing something on the way to the airport after work. Whee!
F: TBD in Sacramento with family.
Have a good week!
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Actuals for the first week of May, cooking for 2 in MN. Where it’s finally warm enough to take walks without our parkas, garden chives are plentiful and my husbands daily hunt /dig for dandelions ensures our yard will never be the source of those for greens or wine. We joke that our “lawn” is actually a perfect example of urban plants biodiversity, but dandelions aren’t allowed.
Friday’s planned Cinco de Mayo sheet-pan fajitas got moved to Saturday; my husband’s friend needed an early morning medical-procedure driver & evening close help. Saturday, having prepped a double batch of veggies and both beef & chicken, I found the oven wasn’t heating so pivoted to use the countertop electric oven for the meat and a cast iron skillet for the veggies. Looking forward to lunches with the leftovers. A replacement igniter for the oven should arrive Monday. When we pulled out the manual to get the part number, we found we’d done this quite recently - in December 2020 - and made notes. A good thing since neither of us had any memory of it.
Mon: Turkey chili w sweet potato thickener, French bread. Linda Whit’s recipe from the April What’s for Dinner discussion
Tues: Mahi mahi, green beans, mac & cheese w/ cubed sweet potato
Wed: Turkey Chili over macaroni noodles, tossed salad
Thu: Crusted Cod (Costco), coconut rice (from freezer), peas, fruit salad
Fri: Solo dinners. Me - Schwans frozen beef tamales, salad, He- OUT Burger & fries
Sat: Sheet pan /skillet fajitas with toppings, guac. Dessert later – orange creamcicle ice cream, bakery lemon cookies
Sun (today): Salmon, mashed potatoes, vegetables Normandy
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DDE—Daily Dandelion Elimination is what we do here, but just the flowers. The deer friends take care of the greens after I’ve picked my share for salads and I give the flowers to a friend who makes muffins, breads and wine from them.
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Hi, everyone. It’s finally warming up here - we had to break out the sunscreen for soccer yesterday! We were all up early yesterday for a trip to the airport, without luggage - we completed our Global Entry interviews and my confirmation came through before we even made it back to the car. DS went to the movies with friends so DH and I had an impromptu date night of Thai food, ice cream, and Ted Lasso.
Sun: spaghetti and meatballs - trying the recipe in Smitten Kitchen Keepers - and salad
Mon: turkey cutlets and a cherry tomato cobbler from Bittman’s How to Cook Everything Fast (HTCEF)
Tues: sheet pan chicken fajitas (The Dinner Plan) - the Siete grain-free almond flour tortillas I impulse-bought at Costco are really good replacements for flour tortillas!
Weds: “Brazilian black beans” aka Fast Feijoada from HTCEF, and “Brazilian cheese bread” aka pao de queijo from the Bob’s Red Mill website - the buns are cooked in a muffin tin so should be big enough for burgers…
Thurs: burgers, chips, assorted crudités
Fri: the usual 
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Great news about the tortillas! And LLD has Global Entry and loves it.
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Cooking for two in a dismally damp Cheshire.
Thursday - mushroom and kimchi fried rice (reassigned from this week due to lack of kimchi).
Friday - lamb chops (farmers market), cannellini beans
Saturday - classic spring feats. Asparagus to start. Roast beef sirloin, roast spuds, veg, gravy, Yorkshire salad. Rhubarb fool
Sunday - Eastern Meditteranean mezze, much of it ready made from the supermarket. Plus Imam Bayeldi (recipe from Yasmin Khan’s “Ripe Figs”)
Monday - leftover roast beef, salad, spuds of some sort
Tuesday - lemon sole fillets, Jersey Royal spuds, veg.
Wednesday - out. Upmarket tasting menu place in the city - we’re taking Nephew #1 as a treat. It’s the restaurant where Mr Rolls first met Mr Royce, in 1904.
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That’s a fancy week even before the Mr. Rolls met Mr. Royce part.
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Two adults in Western Massachusetts
Actuals from last week were
Thursday a friend gave me a quart of Panera mac and cheese. Panera a local chain and very well liked but we weren’t fans of the mac and cheese, very soupy and mildly cheesy. I added brocolli crowns and italian sausage for a save.
Friday middle school tacos for cinco de mayo
Saturday sausage stuffed zucchini and corn toasties. Bagged salad.
Sunday Mama Cosi Rising crust four cheese frozen pizza from Aldi garnished with sauteed veg and the rest of the Italian sausage. Bagged salad.
Monday barbeque chicken breast, brown rice and more salad but not bagged!
Tuesday pork meatballs with grits and swisschard.
Wednesday fried fish, cod, and potato for me, tbd DH
Thursday leftovers
Friday is cheeseburger and caesar salad night
With all the hoopla I would have liked to have had Coronation Chicken and a Pimms Cup for lunch and a Mint Julep and a Hot Brown for dinner Saturday.
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With all the hoopla I would have liked to have had Coronation Chicken and a Pimms Cup for lunch and a Mint Julep and a Hot Brown for dinner Saturday.
Ginny, I hope you can get at least a Pimms Cup and a Mint julep a few days late! If we lived closer to each other, I’d get the ingredients and bring them to you!
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I was considering getting it when I was traveling internationally a lot about 6 years ago, but then my job changed and I traveled less, and then Covid… The big impetus for doing it now is a trip to London later this year, but more urgently, DS will “age out” of sliding through TSA PreCheck on our memberships when he turns 13 in July, so he needs his own!
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Is that Aldi’s pizza with add-ons a good compromise for you & husband (you mentioned last month you were looking for a decent frozen pizza)?
I liked it better than he did but I have to say yes as we don’t have TJ or another inexpensive vender.
Lots of pricey artisan pizza in the area but usually too designer for DH.
I get my fix by the slice from the pricey butcher.
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We’ve been through the aging out thing. But I feel like sometimes they still let her come through with us. Not always, so better to be careful.
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Thank you for this link. I immediately made a batch and a half, sending some to school for my kid’s teachers, after you posted. They are easy and good.
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If you haven’t already done so, don’t neglect applying for Mobile Passport (free and Logan accepts it). If the Global Entry line is too long (it never has been in our experience) you can hop over to the Mobile Passport line.
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Thanks, I will check this out! First international trip in a looooong time so I’ve forgotten all the useful stuff. 
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