MealPlans WB 28th December 2009

Ok, this week we have:

Today: Pasta Bake made from hamper ingredients (tomato, bacon and chorizo - actually leftover pasta salad from last night in another form )
Sunday: Cold Roast Ham rolls with salad or hot with some potatoes - mmm, soul food.
Monday: Nibbles - there'll be a party of some description, so might get a French stick and some mini sausages in if I can find some Failing that, it'll be a nice homemade pizza :P
Tuesday: Spaghetti Bolognese, perhaps with the addition of some sun dried tomatoes to the sauce to give it a bit of extra flavour. I might do it in the slow cooker so it cooks for the majority of the day.
Wednesday: This was going to be a Thai Prawn curry, but instead I think I'll do grown up fish fingers and chips. Cod fillet with some tomato puree and gammon sandwiched between, then dipped in garlicky breadcrumbs ... mmm
Thursday: New Years' Eve. So nibbles, naturally
Friday: If we don't have homemade pizza on Monday, we'll have it today. Failing that, it'll probably be a nice pasta dish.
Saturday: Chilli con carne with sauteed potatoes.

Have a good week everyone.

Kitchenbunny xx

Hello - I will post our meals for this week, and will take part each week - I need to be organised and want the freezer emptied!!
Today was the left over gammon and roasties wi brussels
Sunday: Macaroni cheese - with gammon in it!!!
Monday: Sausage Casserole (from freezer) with mashed potatoes, and veg.
Tuesday : At DD1 for tea
Wednesday:Homemade Cottage Pie (from Freezer)
Thursday: Homemade Quiche (with cheese, tomato and guess what ...gammon), Roast potatoes and veg.
Friday : Rib roast and all the trimmings, and since its new year pudding will be a clootie dumpling
Saturday : remainder of yesterdays fayre!!!
Breakfasts will be a selection of porridge, toasts, or cereal this week. Sandwiches boxes will be mix of cold meat, eggs, cheese and salad stuff, with homemeade xmas cake, scones and sponge. There will be a pot of homemeade soup available everyday for lunch or a starter at teatime if anyone would like it.

Well thats us organised til next year then.........

Plan is main meals only. We have heaps of cold meat, cheese and soup ingredients and other stuff for lunches.

Sunday: turkey heated up in gravy, sauted potatoes (boiled potatoes leftover from last night), parsnips roasted in honey & mustard, peas; the second vegeburger wellington for DD
Monday: quiche using caramelised onions, emmenthal and some finely chopped gammon, a meat-free one for DD, sweetcorn & cherry tomatoes
Tuesday: meatballs in tomato sauce and spaghetti, meatball-free sauce for DD
Wednesday: lentil and root vegetable stew, seeing as I have loads of carrots and sweet potatoes
Thursday: trout koubliac and hollandaise sauce, boiled new potatoes, something green to go with them
Friday (friends for dinner): first course: smoked salmon blinis, spiced nuts and veg/tortilla chips dipped into a peanut butter based dip; main course: thai duck & pineapple curry from Jan BBC Good Food with steamed bok choi and jasmine rice; home made lemon tart and raspberry couli

Sat comes into the next food week. The freezer will still contain 3 bags turkey, 2 bags gammon, 2 pork chops, 4 free-range chicken breasts on the bone, 5 mackeral fillets, turkey escalopes and sausages.

Hello everybody - I'm a bit deflated after all the Christmas cooking (and eating), but we had 2 more guests at Christmas dinner than originally planned, so the leftovers situation was pretty good. No bank holiday for us in France tomorrow, it's back to work, so also back to menu planning.

Today was a potato gratin with blue cheese, served with leftover sprouts and parsnips, stir-fried with bits of chorizo;
Monday - batch cooking ragu bolognese in the SC, which may be served with pasta, or as chili, or as cottage pie, not sure yet. Lambs lettuce a a salad;
Tuesday - chick pea, cashew and vegetable curry
Wednesday - steak, HM wedges and chicory salad
Thursday - fish in a tomato sauce with olives and capers ('veracruz style')
Friday - New Year's meal will be lamb at DH's request, not sure which cut yet and how I'll cook it
Saturday - fake nasi goreng
Sunday - kale mash with smoked sausage

For lunches I'm making soup pretty much every day while it is so cold - now still eating chicken soup (made with the carcass and leftovers of the capon), next will be pumpkin soup and after that flageolet soup with anchovy butter.

Have a good week!