I thought I would post my menu for the week. Here's the basic plan, although it seems to be changing since I found some good stuff at Cost-Co this morning.
Last night was Chinese Chicken Salad. Tasty, but it needed a side. Usually I would make pot-stickers or egg rolls, but I was out. We were both munchy after dinner.
Tonight: Pork Roast, Roasted Mushroom and Potato Salad, and Green Beans.
Wednesday: Meatloaf, Mashed Potatoes, Green Salad
Thursday: Meatloaf Sandwiches, Mac and Cheese, and Carrot Salad
Friday: out
Saturday:Home made pizza, Salad
Sunday: Turkey Chili, Beer Bread, and Salad.
I may swap the meatloaf for a slow cooker Brisket recipe. I would really like to have some good slow cooker recipes. My mom never used one when I was growing up, so they seem sort of foreign to me.
I also bought some short ribs which I might swap for the chili or they may go on the menu next week. I have some sweet potatoes and some delicata squash to use too. So many tasty things, so little time to cook them!
She did a crockpot recipe a day in 2008. I have tried a few things that she liked and they came out well. I also like to search the Cooking Light site for crockpot recipes. The other really good one for that is all the Reimann Publications (Taste of Home, Light and Tasty, etc). They seem to have at least an entire page devoted to crock pot recipes every issue. You can search their website too. I love mine and use it quite a bit for chili, chicken and broth, roast beef, soups.
This Cooking Light Bacon Mac recipe was on our menu plan and we made it last night. It is EXCELLENT! Much less fat and calories than the home made mac-n-cheese I normally make. There is a small amount of bacon in it, as well as some green onion and those two ingredients pack a lot of flavor in the dish.
Jill
I have no specific goal(s) right now. I am trying to find the spiritual side of myself that I lost somewhere along the way.
Last night we had KD's Sunday BBQ Burgers (even if it was only Tuesday Today is grocery day so we will be having poached salmon and a veggie side. Tomorrow is trivia night so we will be eating out. Not sure about the rest of the week.
I like my sweet potatoes baked with just a little butter. Never cared much for all the extra stuff added to souffle or pie.
The Delacata squash we like to cut into strips and bake(sort of like oven fries).
Hey Jill--That menu sounds great! I love cooking light. I think I need to go through my magazines again. I just bought the new Everyday Food, and I kid you knot, every other page is dog-eared. There are a ton of good looking seasonal recipes in it.
I didn't get to make the mushroom and potato salad tonight since the oven was already in use. So I sauteed the mushrooms and put them over pasta as a side dish. They were yummy. I also added some home made applesauce as a side.
Last night: Had braised beef with root veggies (recipe from Cooking Light), romaine salad with chopped apples and toasted pecans with apple-cider vinaigrette, and rosemary roasted potatoes.
Tonight: Ham steak, green beans, leftover salad from last night.
Wednesday: Crock-pot chili and cornbread
Thursday: Baked chicken parm (also a Cooking Light recipe), caesar salad, polenta
