Oh man, I am with you there. DW and I hate thinking of what to have for dinner and hate the time to prepare & clean up.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
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Oh man, I am with you there. DW and I hate thinking of what to have for dinner and hate the time to prepare & clean up.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
I hate the "thinking of what to have", but - once I've decided on something - I don't mind the prep and clean-up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greg44
Homemade pizza - plain cheese, spinach, and peppers & mushrooms.
We’re having the first of a 2 day heat wave here so I’m planning to cook an eggplant parmesan outside on the grill. Not sure how this will turn out since normally it goes in the air fryer. But it’s eggplant Parmesan. Unless I burn it or undercook it I can’t go too far wrong.
Leftover pot luck. Scottish mince, Chinese take-out from our trip to Jersey, Indian take-out from our trip to Jersey. Leftover tempura from our stop on the way home at a sushi place in Saratoga, NY. A real international buffet. The only leftover from this week no longer available is leftover Philly cheesesteak from Jim's Steaks on South Street, Philadelphia.
Easy pasta in meat sauce. I'm not much of a pasta fan in recent years, but the others will eat it tonight.
Grilled chicken wings and coleslaw.
Yesterday and last Friday we went to a bbq place in town and had great meals both times. But SO had wanted coleslaw as a side (as a diabetic he is trying to avoid carbs) and both times they didn’t have any. So I made it for the first time ever as a surprise for him. And it turned out fantastic. SO had seconds of both the wings and the coleslaw. Coleslaw will definitely be part of the rotation for veggies.
we eat a lot of coleslaw because DH grows cabbage in his garden. But I can’t say that I do anything fancy with it. Usually I just chop the cabbage in the slivers and use a commercial slaw dressing on it. I often slice of carrot to go with it if I’ve got carrots, and sometimes onions.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
Salmon served with cream of broccoli soup.
I always plan our meals for a month and then shop afterwards. I don't want to think about what to eat every day.
If possible, I only shop once a month. That saves money and time.
The plan for July
Fri, Jul 01 Pasta with tomato sauce
Sat, Jul 02 Apple Ofetori
Sun, Jul 03 Grilled and potato salad
Mon, Jul 04 Chicken salad with tangerines and mushrooms, rolls
Tue, Jul 05 Pizza
Wed 06 Jul Lentil pancakes with fried mushrooms and spring onions
Thu, Jul 07 Wild spinach with potatoes and fried egg
Fri, Jul 08 Fricassee with potatoes
Sat, Jul 09 Noodles with smoked trout, salad
Sun, Jul 10 Goulash seasoned with garden herbs; new potatoes and peas with wild garlic
Mon, Jul 11 Fiery hot shrimp in cream cheese sauce, noodles
Tue 12 Jul Lentil pancakes with goat cheese and nettles
Wed, Jul 13 Potato waffles with applesauce
Thu, Jul 14 Zucchini pizza
Fri 15 Jul Pasta with tomato sauce
Sat, Jul 16 Currant casserole with currants and gooseberries
Sun, Jul 17 Bratwurst with summer creamy vegetables and potatoes
Mon, Jul 18 Italian bean stew with Cabanossi
Tue 19 Jul Linseed with rice
Wed, Jul 20 Potato pockets filled with leaf spinach and feta cheese
Thu, Jul 21 Feijoada toasted bread
Fri, Jul 22 Pasta with boiled ham cream sauce, salad
Sat 23 Jul Pancakes with fresh fruit
Sun, Jul 24 Roulades, peas, dumplings
Mon, Jul 25 Paprika soup with meatballs and rolls
Tue, Jul 26 Quark balls with quince sauce
Wed, Jul 27 Hüttenkäsetaler, salad
Thursday, Jul 28 Vegetable rösti with herb quark
Fri, Jul 29 Spaghetti Bolognese
Sat 30 Jul Stuffed peppers with millet
Sun, Jul 31 Szeged goulash, potatoes
Very nice, miteigenenhaenden! I keep saying I need to do that, but haven't yet. Your post is a good reminder - thanks!
I’m definitely not that organized. The best I have done is plan about a week’s worth of meals so that I only have to go to the store once a week. Which is fine for me. I actually enjoy grocery shopping. That and bookstores are about the only shopping I enjoy.
I hate shopping. ;)
Visiting friends and made them the easy chicken & dumplings last night. Big hit!
We have been (and will continue to be) in the mid to upper 90s all week. Grocery shopped today and instead of picking up frozen pizza, I got a couple of bagels, ham, turkey and cheese. Have homegrown lettuce and tomatoes. So, bagel sandwiches for dinner!
Ham and cheese rollups, garlic salami, green onions.
I haven't been eating much protein lately and I feel it.
We're having a week in the nineties here as well, so DH fried a big platter of chicken cutlets, we made a large pasta salad, and I made a green salad. We've been grazing from those 3 things all week.
Tonight will be homemade pizza with sourdough crust.
Bulgogi with rice and mixed veggies.
Tonight is spaghetti with spicy chicken sausage meatballs. Tomorrow is going to be quiche. Not normally part of our repertoire but due to a miscommunication between SO and I we have two dozen eggs waiting to be eaten…. It’s supposed to be cool enough tomorrow that I can run the oven for that long.
I am continuing to live without a stove and it hasn't really been a problem. The electric frying pan covers some of those tasks. The rice cooker cooked one batch of pasta just fine. I made crockpot lasagne which turned out VERY good so I will be using that method in the future.
I have a stove, but rarely use it, preferring small appliances with auto-shutoff--my Instant Pot foremost among them. I like not having to micromanage my food.
In the summer we rarely use the oven because it makes the house too hot but we still use the stove regularly. I’ve found that our grill, with the lid down, does a decent job of acting like an oven as long as I monitor the thermometer on it. I wouldn’t try to cook something that needs accurate temperature (like a loaf of bread) but for things like pizza it actually works really well.
Was very warm for us valley dwellers today, 100+. DW wanted to go out - or shall I say, she wanted me to go pickup her a burger/fries from a local burger restaurant. I didn't realize it was going to be a solo outing and decided to make easy dinner instead. Grilled cheese (pepper jack), sliced tomato, thin sliced dill pickles + red grapes on the side. I had the same except I just toasted mine on skillet, then added mustard and lots of lettuce - easy and very delightful and saved us probably near $ 20.00.
We had BLTs, but the bacon and tomato were from local farms, so that elevated our sandwiches to something truly amazing.
Grilled cheese sandwiches, too.
DH grilled out.. which he hates. Marinated pork tenderloins, fresh polish sausages and mild Italian sausages that are already cooled, packaged and in the freezer for future easy meals. Had the pork, cabbage salad with tangerine vinegrette, chips and fresh fruit today.
Garlic naan pizza with tomatoes and Basil. Our next door neighbor grows tomatoes and generously has given us three batches already. they are fantastic so I need/want to use up some of them.
Unaccountably, hot August Tea with plum and bergamot. I just don't feel like foraging.
Well goodness. I had planned to cook the pizza on the grill. Five minutes into heating the pizza stone I looked out the kitchen window and there was a lot of smoke. Apparently we procrastinated too long on cleaning the grill. There was a fire going on inside it. So I shut it off (and left the lid closed) and now it’s fine but at peak fire the thermometer was up to 500 degrees…I guess we need to clean the grill before we use it again. And I’ll be making my naan pizza in the oven!Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
I diced red potatoes, a little oil, rosemary, garlic and onion...microwave 5 min. rest 10 min. microwave 5 min. Done and tasty.
I didn't feel like cooking but ended up putting a little more effort into the meal than anticipated - but turned out to be a very rare treat: got Grands flaky biscuits, split each one in half and put swiss cheese, ham and spinach in some then mozzerella, turkey pepperoni and spinach in others. Turned out very nicely for - again - a rare treat.
Grill is all cleaned up. Tonight will be grilled buffalo sauce chicken wings and a nice tomato salad with more of the delicious tomatoes from our neighbor.
going out for Mexican food tonight - I'm sure my order will include a Mojito.
Not a margarita?Quote:
Originally Posted by beckyliz
Homemade mac n cheese with additions to make it a one-pot meal.
Eggplant and zucchini with pasta and low fat feta. From the NYT cookbook. I actually subscribed to their cooking feature for some new uses for garden veggies. I'll probably discontinue after a month or two.
I'm such a fan of minestrone these days. It's such an easy way to use summer vegetables. I made a batch last night and gave some to my daughter and some to my neighbor. 30 minutes from heating up the oil to eating.
Our county fair started this past week, so spent the day at the fair yesterday and had fair food for dinner. Headed there again today with the kids, so will probably be the same. Fun time!
We are so bummed that this week is our county fair, and we both are busy with big things and can’t attend. But next year!Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
I even have the oremium list, a book of 150 pages, sitting right here by my place mat. We are studying the categories to see what we will enter next year.