Hey everyone!
How was your weekend?
It has been amazingly HOT here lately!! We walked to breakfast yesterday morning (at like 7am) and it was already burning up outside!! Sheesh. I heard on the news (again this week!!) that we are supposed to get a break this week, and I will be so happy when that happens!
The heat is sapping my creativity (lol). I'm getting a lot of cooking ideas from Pinterest lately - it seems so much easier - and more fun! - than going through cookbooks and recipe notes! (: I'm not always making the same exact thing, but I am getting a lot of good ideas there. Some times, I change things up based on what's in my cupboards or some "shortcut" cooking method that would make my cooking time faster.
Monday
Sweet Potato Burritos
Seared Broccoli
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| {Noodles from simplyreem.com} |
Ginger Soba Noodles
Miso Soup
Wednesday
Red Beans (1)
Brown Rice
Sauteed Garlic Spinach
Thursday
Garden Burgers
Greek Salads
Friday (2)
Make Your Own Pizza
Frozen French Fries
Vegetarian Orange "Chicken"
Carrot Sticks
Saturday
Dinner Out
Sunday
Pasta and Homemade Marinara (3)
with Garlic Bread
Green Salads
Notes:
(1) Red Beans Recipe (adapted from Leanne Ely's recipe) New Orleans-Style Beans: In a skillet, add 1 tablespoon of olive oil over medium high heat and saute 1/4 cup each: onion, green bell pepper and celery. Add 1 clove crushed garlic, 1/8 teaspoon thyme. Mix this 1 can of kidney beans beans and serve on top of rice with hot sauce and a little melted butter (or Earth Balance) with greens on the side.
(2) As you can tell, Friday is going to be a clean out my freezer night! I need some space in that thing so I am going to clean out what's there (we will have some things for dinner) and start making some room.
(3) I love this recipe and I really am planning on giving it to you guys one of these days. Basically, I use canned tomato sauce, add it some spices that I like and some shredded carrots (to make it sweet), a spoonful of tomato paste and then let it simmer for about 1/2 an hour (covered) on low. This is my MIL's recipe and I don't actually have it written down, I just know what to put in and how I can adapt it based on what I have. (:
What are you having?
More later! (:
I am alone this week, so I didn't make a menu. I think I will just wing it! I had leftover Penne A La Betsy for dinner (posted on my site) I love it! Your vegetarian orange chicken sounds good. Will you post it? I think my veg head daughter would like it!
ReplyDeleteHi Cynthia!! (:
DeleteI love to try and wing it, but then I usually end up eating out - lol.
I'm coming by to check out your Penny recipe, too.
I wish that I could make that Veggie Orange Chicken myself. It's actually from the freezer section at Trader Joes or the grocery store!! (shhh - don't tell anyone! j/k) It's usually pretty close to the gardenburgers. But, it's so delicious and quick and easy for nights when I need to either make something that I don't want to have to watch or nights that I don't have a plan.
Thanks for stopping by (: