Made spinach artichoke stew and no-knead bread yesterday.

Pasta with bacon and peppers, and either salad or broccoli today.

Turkey zucchini burgers/meatballs with yogurt sauce, couscous, and salad tomorrow.

Leftovers Wednesday.

Homemade pizza Thursday.

Leftover pizza for kids Friday, parents out to dinner.

Sunday-fish and chips
Monday-chicken biscuits with roasted Brussels sprouts
Tuesday—Mac and cheese with tuna and frozen peas mixed in
Wednesday-tacos (with ground turkey and corn), yellow rice, guacamole, lettuce, tomatoes, etc
Thursday—kielbasa, baked beans, and some tbd veggies
Friday-it’s just me so probably leftovers or whatever I can scrounge up from the freezer

I’m planning to make a quinoa salad tonight for lunches during the week.

Jamaican oxtail stew with rice and beans
Braised lamb shanks with polenta
Hamburgers and fries (frozen)
Waterfall beef salad
Shrimp and grits

I'm going on vacation friday so I'm trying to use up food.
Tofu with peanut sauce
pasta with pesto
taco meat with beans?
What else is in the freezer? Who knows....

This week, my teens requested:
1) takeout sushi tonight
2) https://www.recipetineats.com/bun-cha-vietnamese-meatballs/
As soon as the weather is nice, I'll grill a batch to last two dinners.
3) meatloaf, peas, and baguette (they don't want potatoes for some reason). 2 dinners again.

I'm also making a batch of Scotch broth soup (lamb stock with barley and vegetables) for us to all eat.

Sunday: green minestrone.
Monday: leftover Tuscan roast over noodles, side salad
Tuesday: impossible meat and cauliflower tacos
Wednesday: salmon bites in air fryer and steamed green beans and rice
Thursday: extra eggy fried rice (make double rice the night before)

Just prepped these for tonight.
https://smittenkitchen.com/2023/05/smashed-chicken-meatball-sliders/

This has been a doozy of a weekend, so not as well prepped and planned for the week to come as some others.

I have ingredients for two different Asian inspired dishes:

• have chow mein noodles, ground pork and a bag of red/yellow/orange mini sweet peppers — will turn into a noodley stir fry with probably chicken

• have a package of Thai Chicken Coconut sausage that I’m thing I’ll slice up and cook up with maybe some shrimp, and put it in a green curry simmer sauce with water chestnuts, baby corn, sugar snap peas, etc. over coconut rice.

Lunches will probably be bagged salads or frozen dinners — those are my go-tos when I haven’t had time to plan or prep.

tonight (sun) i have stuffed shells (spinach and ground turkey) ready to bake and will make a caesar salad for the side

mon- sheet pan chicken fajitas - to make it really quick, I prep before work and throw the sliced chicken, pepper and onion into a ziplock bag with evoo and taco seasoning, then when I get home I pull the bag out of the fridge and preheat the oven, change out of work clothes while oven heats, then pop in oven for 30 min. I heat the tortillas in microwave, mash a couple avocados and add a little salt and lime juice, and take out a jar of pico or salsa.

tues- italian wedding soup (I make the meatballs with ground turkey, and add a lot of veggies to to soup - I have this ready to go in freezer) with fresh baguette picked up on way home from work so just need to reheat the soup and warm the baguette

wed- baked salmon (with TJ salmon seasoning) and roasted broccoli on same pan

thurs- fried rice (what goes in it will depend on what leftovers are still around, but at a minimum will include frozen peas and carrots, and scrambled eggs)

by fri we are ordering in or someone else in the house is figuring out the meal

Egg bake thing: eggs and potatoes and cheese all scrambled up with milk and poured into a baking dish and baked. Can add spinach or other vegetables. Ate with toast.

"Fried rice" which for me is white rice in rice cooker then transferred to a skillet mixed with a bag of frozen peas and carrots and a sauce made with soy sauce, sesame oil, ginger, rice vinegar. That's the easy way. With a bit more effort, add fresh broccoli, carrots, onions and garlic etc. serve with cream cheese wontons frozen or homemade.

Chicken sandwiches and baked potatoes. Buy frozen breaded chicken patties.

March 23rd
Lunch - Mashed chickpeas curry, soy nuggets rice biryani, cucumber/tomato/onion raita.
Dinner - Tandoori chicken, paranthas, mixed daal with 5 types of lentils.

March 24th
Lunch - Leftovers from March 23rd lunch and dinner
Dinner - Fried fish taco, home made guac, cashew nut cilantro and green chillies crema

March 25th
Lunch - Leftover fish taco.
Dinner - Fried cauliflower, quinoa pilaf with water chestnut and baby corn, shrimp in coconut curry.

That's all I have decided. I will do my weekly prep but do not plan for more than 2-3 days unless I have house guests.

Soft tacos with beef

Lamb chops with rice or pearl couscous cous

Steak with spaghetti

Chicken cutlets (breaded tenderloins) with macaroni

Brocolli, cheese, pasta, chicken from half baked harvest https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/broccoli-cheddar-chicken-and-noodle-casserole/

Some kind of Mexican night with quesadillas, beans and ground turkey, salad

Salmon from Costco with rice and a veggie

Then not sure; chicken tenders/ burgers

Lunch for me is Mediterranean chicken with veggies from skinny taste

Freezer week here. There's a baked ziti in there, shredded chicken and corn tortillas for enchilada bake, some kind of red sauce (or is it chili? This is what happens when I don't make labels)... Also some burgers/fries that were on sale this week for a "junk food night".

I'm sick, so it's a good week to use the work I already put into it while cleaning out the fridge a bit.

Anonymous wrote:
Sunday night im making this chickpea coconut curry with pumpkin and lime from the NYT (gift link) https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020463-coconut-curry-chickpeas-with-pumpkin-and-lime?unlocked_article_code=1.6E4.ScDP.2VxOyIW6t67X&smid=share-url.
It might not sound that good but it is comfort in a bowl. Serve over rice— so yummy. And it makes great leftovers for lunches or for the freezer (tip: add a fresh squeeze of lime juice after reheating to re-up the zing)
Fish tacos on Monday. Nothing fancy, just some pan grilled cod with shredded green and purple cabbage and lime cilantro crema.
Tuesday I plan to have a big salad.
After that there is travel and no cooking for a bit.

We love that chickpea curry recipe. I’m going to add it to my lineup this week.

Roasted chicken, broccoli and red potatoes
Quick jambalaya
Burgers and tator tots
Pasta and chicken meatballs
Chickpea curry
Jamaican beef patties with rice and salad