Menu Planning

Some weeks I am really, super, organized with my menu planning. I will sit down the night before my trip to the grocery store, with a cup of tea of course, at my little kitchen nook. I will slowly pull down the books one-by-one and drool over each and every page, while I meticulously pick our the ones I want to try.

Then there are weeks like today. It is 15 minutes before I am supposed to leave work, pick up my munchkin, and head to the store; and I am scrambling to put something together as fast as possible! It is a time when I pull out favorite staples out, and scan my blog for something that was simple, and I loved by have not have a chance to try again...creating new staples :). Of course I still try to find something new and exciting to try, just not a time when I let the creative juices flow.

Thursday: Spaghetti & meat sauce (This is perfect too because half the sauce can go into the freeze in preparation for when baby is here!)
Friday: Tofu in black bean sauce
Saturday: Chorizo & Pea Rissotto
Sunday: Thai style potato & leek soup (Won't Hubby be happy, soup for the second time in a week! Again though good to freeze!))
Monday: Leftovers/freezer stuff :)

Have a good week!

Menu Planning

Helloooooo, anyone out there still????

Guess if I gave you something to read every once and awhile it would be helpful eh? Truth be told there hasn't been much going on still in our house :(. We cooked Christmas dinner once again, and I honestly think that was the only meal that I cooked for all of December. It took so much out of me with the menu planning, and preparations, and then left overs and clean up, I was just drained! The other few months I am blaming on Hubby. If he didn't work such strange hours at times, and was home for supper, there would be more incentive to cook.

BUT, I am turning over a new leaf right now! At least my budget is. If I menu plan I cook, and if I cook we don't eat out, and if we don't eat out my bank account will thank me and I can get that fancy diaper bag I want. Not that I have ulterior motives or anything.

Tuesday: Deli something or other
Wednesday: Tacos
Thursday: Tofu Parma
Friday: Free for all night
Saturday: Soup
Sunday: Orange & Olive Chicken
Monday: Left overs

Wish me luck!

Menu Planning

Yes, this is becoming a bi-weekly event. So is the grocery shopping though. Somehow we are making things stretch out a little long. Okay, I know it is happening and it really ain't very pretty. Hubby works late, eats at some greasy fast food place, wife doesn't feel like cooking for herself so eats cereal for dinner :0 Bad family! We are stopping that I swear, our waist lines as well as wallets can't handle it much longer.

Tuesday: Deli pizza
Wednesday: Salmon cakes & Tomato and corn salad
Thursday: Shangri-La Beef
Friday: Tandoori Chicken & Gobi Masala
Saturday: Working a wedding :)
Sunday: Pyrogies
Monday: Left overs

Have a good week :)

Menu Planning

I was going to weasel out of grocery shopping today, then I remembered it was

A) 15% off Tuesday (First tuesday of the month)
B) Wing Night at a restaurant right near out grocery store.

Can you guess what we are doing tonight :)

Wednesday: Nails night - No cooking
Thursday: Cold noodle salad (it is supposed to be HOT)
Friday: Shaking beef
Saturday: Tandoori Chicken
Sunday: Pirogies

Oh, and the great blueberry event is on again at our local grocery stores. That means this little beauty will soon be gracing our presence again :)

Menu Planning

I have the urge to cook this week! After night after night eating at either of ours parents it is a miracle. I have been spoiled for sure :)

Wednesday: Tuna and artichoke paninis
Thursday: Portobello mushroom burgers
Friday: Salmon and green beans
Saturday: Wedding :)
Sunday: "Kernael Austin" (Black bean and corn salad from ESBM)
Monday: Left overs of course.

Have a good week everyone. We will see you back here soon, I have lots of yummy stuff to to share over the next while.

Menu Planning

Work has been crazy. Hubby has been sick. Grocery shopping has not occurred in over two weeks, and my pantry and freezer is running low. Two out of three of those are good things, the other is in the process of getting better.
With everything that has been going on though I didn't have the time to sit down and flip through the pages of my cookbooks. Something I haven't had the opportunity to do in what feels like forever now! Now I am faced with the fact that it is the middle of the afternoon, I have no menu plan, and consequently no grocery list, for the grocery shopping trip that must happen at 4:30 this afternoon. Solution, I am turning to the the blogosphere for help this week. I have many recipes bookmarked in bloglines, time to start trying some! Oh, just an aside trying to keep things light and easy for Hubby's tummy this week.

Tuesday: Eating on the run, soooo bad
Wednesday: Creamy black lentils
Thursday: Portobello Toast
Friday: Chickpea, ginger and coriander soup
Saturday: Cooking with a dear friend, or more like watching, who is my kitchen inspiration
Sunday: Seared scallops with pureed cauliflower and asparagus

Menu Planning

Well, there is no menu plan for the week *gasp*!!!

With the medical issues we are having in our house right now I would be cooking for one. Something that just isn't worth it. So it will be a week of freezer soups, and salads for me.

Something I could probably use after eating all of that Easter chocolate ;)

Have a good week everyone.

Menu Planning

Leslie over at Definitely not Martha just wrote a fantastic post on freezing meals. I admit this is something I love to do too, but my problem is I never seem to eat it again! They sit for months and months getting more and more freezer burnt by the day. Yucky!

So last night after reading her post; it inspired me to actually clean out my freezer, and start fresh! I am actually ashamed of all the delicious meals that I threw out last night :( There were a few that I was able to salvage a couple, and we will be eating them over the next couple of weeks. Hey it is good for the grocery budget too ;)

Tuesday: Tofu and Eggplant curry (Freezer)
Wednesday: Pizza for Hubby
Thursday: Raspberry-Chipolte sauce (freezer) with pork chops and salad
Friday: Sauteed scallops with a sweetcorn salsa
Saturday: Tofu parma
Sunday: Fried chicken take II
Monday: Left overs

Menu Planning

This week, well this month, was supposed to be a quite month with little in the way of financial expenditures. That has gone completely out the window this week with three meals out scheduled! That darn social life that gets in the way sometimes ;)

Tuesday: Pea soup and dinner out for Hubby (I think he plans it deliberately when I make soup)
Wednesday: Dinner out for Me
Thursday: Pork quesadilla
Friday: Fried chicken, new recipe for this one as I am not overly impressed with the old one I have
Saturday: Both of us dinner out, double date with my baby sister
Sunday: Linguine with chicken ragu

Have a good week!

Menu Planning

I know you all missed me last week!

It was a really good week too foodwise, but I didn't take any photos of my creations to share with you all. It was just too busy! This week isn't any quieter unfortunatly, but due to the holiday this weekend, friends coming over for dinner in the middle of the week and a nail appointment I really am not doing much in the way of cooking.

We all need a 'break' every once and awhile ;)

Wednesday: Nail = pizza
Thursday: Friends over = pizza
Friday: Shrimp and chickpeas red curry
Saturday: Indian spiced salmon
Sunday: Easter = dinner out
Monday: Leftovers

Menu Planning

Just really quickly, because I need to have some sort of organization in this mass of chaos I am supposed to call my life ;)

Wednesday: Chicken with Acai red wine sauce...if I can find acai berries otherwise we get we will have to see
Thursday: Tacos
Friday: Orange Chipotle shrimp
Saturday: spaghetti con pomodoro e tonno (still trying to use up that canned tuna)
Sunday: Slow cooker beef Stroganoff

Should be a busy week. In case you didn't notice I am now cooking every night as Hubby's work schedule has changed and he will always be home for supper! Of course that means he will also get to inherit one of these nights to cook supper for me, have to spread the love ;)

Menu Planning

Ahhh, Valentine's Day is this week. Love, romance and most importantly chocolate ;) To be perfectly honest though we aren't really Valentine's day celebrating people. I don't like all the fuss, and just use it as an excuse to make dessert in the middle of the week. My Hubby of course doesn't protest that part at all and sits back and enjoys.

Other than the Hallmark holiday though there isn't much excitement in our home this week. Next week will be totally different though, and there will be big changes in our household family dynamic...stay tune for that one! Consequently simple, but delicious meals, that really require minimal time to prepare are on my list every night this week. I am really looking forward to everything though, and it should be fun.

Tuesday: Pizza
Wednesday: Reuben Sandwiches
Thursday: Chipotle marinated steaks (also marinated in cocoa), asparagus, potatoes and chocolate pots for dessert.
Friday: Night off
Saturday: Tofu and veggie green curry stir fry
Sunday: soup
Monday: Left overs

Have a good week everyone@

Menu Planning

I don't have a menu plan this week.

No, not becuase I am being adventourous and flying by the seat of my pants. But, rather becuase it is so cold outside that there is no way I am going grocery shopping. So instead we are eating whatever we can find in the freezer this week. Hopfully by the weekend this cold spell will be over, and I will venture out.

Menu Planning

Well it is going to be an interesting week. My situation at work is kind scary at the moment, requiring longer hours that I normally care to put in. On top of that Hubby is getting the remaining three of hiw wisdom teeth out tonight! I am surewon't have to much of an appetite for the next few days, but I guess we will haveto wait and see for sure.

Yes, those are my excuses for not posting more. I know it is getting to be the same thing week after week. I am sorry!

Wednesday: Italian Turkey Soup (I have quite a substantial amount of turkey in our freezer from the holidays!)
Thursday: Going to the in-laws for supper, my MIL worries to much about her son :)
Friday: I am having a girls night out!
Saturday: Well, Hubby gets to fend for himself again, I have a shopping date with my Mommy :)
Sunday: Slow cooker French dip sandwiches. With these I want to try my hand at some type of homemade bread or rolls, haven't figured out what exactly, but I have time.

Have a good week.

Menu Planning

I know I am am bad blogger! We have just been going a mile a minute at our house since well before the holidays, and we are just starting to settle back into things. To be completely honest I haven't even bought groceries for the house in almost a month, which of course means I haven't really cooked in sometime. Well aside from our Christmas dinner extraordinaire, which was fantastic! I will share the detail with you all as soon as I get the opportunity, which at this rate does feel like never!

Anyway, Hubby and I will be hitting the grocery store tonight, along with the crowds for 15% off day. Of course that means I need a list, and that means I need a menu, and that means I have to actually do some planning. I need to ease myself back into this cooking thing, so here we go:

Tuesday: East Indian take out, yummy...you can't shop on an empty stomach after all :)
Wednesday: Grilled cheese, probably some recreation of this
Thursday: Soup and Bread
Friday: Pizza
Saturday: Ginger-Chili Shrimp
Sunday: Sake Steak
Monday: Leftover

The ultimate menu planning

I have been busy trying to pull together the menu for our big Christmas dinner. Not that I am using that as an excuse for not posting. The reason for that would be sheer laziness lack of time at the moment!

With this whole Christmas dinner thing I am trying to be prepared, I am trying to be organized, and it is getting to be slightly over whelming! Of course that is completely due to my indecisiveness. You see, yesterday I decided that for dessert we were going to have chestnut cheesecake. Today I have decided that we will instead be having a cranberry-chocolate tart. Tomorrow, it is quite possible that it is something completely different.

The more I search, the more find, the more I want to try. I know I need to pick something and stick with it, but it is really easier said than done. Anyway without further adieu, here is how things stand so far:

Appetizer:

• Salmon cheese ball

Main:

• Salad??? (Haven't thought about this one at all yet)
  
• Brussels sprouts and pancetta dish
• Cream cheese mashed potatoes
  
• Side dish #2??? (Can't for the life of my find anything for this one!)
  
• Cranberry sauce
  
• Stuffing (Hubby's department)
• Turkey (Hubby again)

Dessert:

• Cranberry-chocolate tart
  
• Assortment of holiday baking

It is a work in progress. I still have time, right?

Menu Planning

So I am just going to pretend that last week didn't happen. That I didn't leave you all out in the cold with my menu planning. It isn't that I didn't plan things, it is just that for some reason I couldn't find the time to share it with you. And, I am was that one that swore I wouldn't let NaBloPoMo get in the way, oops!

Well if it makes you feel anybetter it wasn't the most exciting week anyway. So don't worry you didn't miss much at all. Plus I will try to make it up this week, with lots of exciting recipes!

Tuesday: Pizza
Wednesday: Filo Salmon
Thursday: Chana Masala
Friday: Left Overs
Saturday: Mac & Cheese Caserole
Sunday: Red Risotto and Steak

Menu Planning

So I have nyself slightly busy over here. I am going to try and not let it affect things in this neck of the woods. Okay, seriously who am I kidding, it can't get much worse over here can it? I know I am a bad food blogger.

I am trying and you will just have to wait and be patient with me. I do promise there is more come soon. Like wonderful Christmas cookies (which of course are already gone), and a really tasty and super easy baked chicken dish. I promise it will all be worth the wait...at least I hope so ;)


Wednesday: Kickn' chicken
Thursday: Pizza
Friday: Leftovers
Saturday: Salmon and salad
Sunday: Shrimp scampi
Monday: Lilly's Birthday, so no cooking!

Menu Planning

Well last week things didn't go exactly as planned. I understand that normaly things don't go as planned, but last week was particularily a bad one. Not much cooking involved unfortunately, and the little I was able to accomplish I have not yet been able to share. I am trying, but this post-move chaos is still just dragging me down.

Then this week we have been busy celebrating my birthday (still) with family. Last night was dinner at my parents, and tomorrow is dinner at the in laws. Really I can't complain. Delicious food that I didn't have to make, cake of course, time with my families, and less groceries to buy so less money to spend :)

Wednesday: Slow cooked stew with dumplings
Thursday: In laws house
Friday: Leftovers
Saturday: I will be out with Lilly at her friend's birthday party, so no cooking again
Sunday: Curry night (this would be the same curry night we were to have last week)
Monday: Pizza

Menu Planning

I am back, and more that ready too cook! The last two weeks have been nothing but eating out, and quite frankly if I don't set foot into a restaurant for the next six months it will still be too soon!

I am dying at this point to use my new kitchen, for something beside making cream of wheat cereal. I want to slide open one my pot drawers and reach for my pan of choice, without sitting on the floor and removing the entire content of the cabinet. Or, walk over to my pantry and be able to easily spot my ingredients, because everything in no longer crammed into shelves just so it stays put. And yes, it is time that my new kitchen appliances be put to the test!

It is just unfortunate that I still don't have a table in which to serve my creations at...hopefully by next weekend we will have that problem rectified.

Tuesday: Mexican salmon and salad
Wednesday: Asian tuna cakes (I appear to have a multitude of canned tuna...way more that I though...suggestions are more than welcome for recipes) and noodles
Thursday: Chicken curry
Friday: Night off
Saturday: Shrimp Etoufee
Sunday: Pizza