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Made the long cooked green beans with tomatoes, onion, garlic, olive oil, just now remembered the lemon juice at the end. Yea trying to use up vegetables (still a few zuchs, a chard, and a couple of tomatoes went bad before I could use them - yea had way too many veggies). Green beans probably will be not dinner but lunch tomorrow, they go astoundingly good sprinkled with some goat cheese I have - made for each other.
The eggplant dish was very delicious (fantastic but always on the verge of too sweet, though it has no sugar - it's just the sugar in the tomatoes, eggplants, caramelized onions). And I bought chicken sausages (resisting anything but temptation here) and I'm sad to say I've been eating them raw just as is :0! (they are precooked though).
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Last night I made something like unstuffed cabbage rolls. I chopped up a head of cabbage, shredded some carrots, chopped sweet onions, chopped celery. I cooked rice and fried up some italian sausage. I mixed it all together with some tomato sauce and a can of diced tomatoes, added a little horseradish sauce and a little mustard. Covered it and baked it in the oven for about an hour. We had it with a little sour cream. It was yummy!
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Loving all the menu ideas.
This week: emphasis is on using the fresh garden produce. Sunday was crock-pot pork ribs with a giant pot of garden green beans, garden onions, 'tators and ham bits. Monday was a pork lo mein, using garden snow peas, garden onions and garden green pepper, with marinated garden cukes on the side. Tuesday we refurbished the pot of green beans by adding fried bacon/bacon grease and a few more 'tators, and finished the cukes. And today was a "Mexican Zucchini Casserole Surprise" to use up a giant zucchini along with all kinds of bits and pieces of leftover-stuff I had in the freezer. The surprise was that it turned out excellently delicious! (DH raved. I love it when I accidently make something excellent.) Served with (of course) a sliced garden cuke.
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I made a cream of broccoli soup tonight. I gave some of the leftover homemade chicken stock to the dogs. (as gravy over their kibble.) I drank the rest of it. It's so good for you. Just had the soup with whole grain crackers and sliced raw carrots dipped in homemade Italian dressing. It hit the spot! It's amazing how a recipe can make something like broccoli have such a different, delicious flavor. Something about the combination of ingredients:onions, ww flour, milk, chicken broth, Tillamook cheddar cheese, and worcestershire. I saved the bones in the freezer to use a second time.
I think I'll bake a loaf of fresh bread to have with it tomorrow.
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DH has picked his first big batch of green beans but he will not share with me. >:( OTOH he is bringing in broccoli, lovely and fresh, and he will not each that so I suppose it's all mine!
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We had poached salmon, served cold and home made mayonnaise, with mixed salad and Jersey Royal potatoes. The Jerseys are the best potatoes for boiling in the world, in my opnion! Scrubbed and boiled until just cooked, served with a large knob of butter and a sparse amount of Maldon sea salt and a sprinkling of flat leaf parsley.
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Beef and Barley Soup. Leftover biscuits, toasted.
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Romaine salad with spinach and Spring mix, homemade garlic dressing with sour cream and homemade mayonnaise, beets, baby corn, sweet onion, and heirloom cherry tomatoes.
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I tried a new recipe today - Mexican Casserole, that I found on Pinterest. It was really good. Topped it with shredded lettuce, very spicy homemade salsa, sour cream, and black olives. Nice thing is I have plenty of leftovers for another meal.
And margaritas was a must have with this meal! :)
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I actually stumbled upon a really good cold quinoa salad recipe--with cherry tomatoes, green onion, black beans and a really nice dressing of olive oil, cumin, lime juice, cilantro, and red pepper flakes.
Even my meat-and-potatoes, bean and quinoa-hating DH loved it.
