MealPlans WB 13th July 2009

PetuliaGristle

Hi all, I haven't posted for a while, still mealplanning though. Here's mine for next week, no specific days we'll be picking from the list below:

Frozen quiche and salad
HM ragu, spaghetti and garlic bread
Meatballs and mash
Southern fried chicken
Battered fish/fish fingers and chips
Sausages in baguettes and salad
HM paella
Lamb curry

Have a good week everyone!

xx_Jo_xx

Hi All,

I forgot my little one had a birthday party on Sunday at tea time, so I had some food round my friends!! (shes so good to me!)

• Tonight: Out!!
• Saturday: Spagetti Carabonara and Garlic Bread
• Sunday: Leftovers from friend!
• Monday: Tuna and Sweetcorn Pasta
• Tuesday: Chicken Mushroom Vegetable Curry with noodles
• Wednesday: Chicken, Yorkshires, brocolli, sweetcorn
• Thursday: .....

Thats as far as Ive got.....:D

Lemon_Verbena

Okay here goes for the first time my meal plan, I've looked at what we have in and I'm trying to use things up. I've meal planned to the end of the month and begun the plan for next month. DH approves and even helped to make some suggestions for the month, thats half the battle won

Breakfast - Fruit & Cereal, Cinnamon & Sultana Toast or Scrambled Egg on Toast

Weekday Lunches - Sandwiches either ham, egg, chicken or tuna or Pasta salad using chicken, salmon or tuna.
Weekend Lunches - Sat HM Pizza & Salad. Sun Tuna Baked Potatoes & Salad.

Monday – Meat & Potato Pie, HM Oven Chips, Mushy Peas & Gravy
Tuesday – Chilli & Tomato Pasta, Garlic Bread & Salad
Wednesday – Herb Crusted Salmon, New Potatoes, Green Beans & Dill Sauce
Thursday – Honey & Orange Roasted Gammon, Potatoes, Veg & Gravy
Friday – Gammon & Mushroom Quiche, Potato Salad & Green Salad
Saturday – Sweet Chilli Pork Balls & Noodles
Sunday – Orange & Herb Chicken Breasts, New Potatoes & Steamed Veg

Treats For Week & Lunchbox Extra's

Lemon & White Chocolate Muffins
Lavender Biscuits
Cherry & Almond Muffins
Lemon Verbena Cake
Frozen Fruit Smoothie Lollies

ifonlyitwaseasier

Lemon_Verbena wrote: »

Treats For Week & Lunchbox Extra's

Lemon & White Chocolate Muffins
Lavender Biscuits
Cherry & Almond Muffins
Lemon Verbena Cake

ok please can we have the recipes for these? :D:D:D:D

they sound scrummy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bargainbird

me too receipe for lemon and white muffins :D:D:D

(Sorry not a usual poster here but love looking and drooling over everyones mealplans ):o

want2bmortgage3

these meal plans are a cool idea. i just have a quick question about salad. i'm guessing you dont buy pre made salads which can cost £1-£2 for a bag. so how do you make the salad part of your meal?

i would like to eat more salad, and know a few things i like such as potato salad, beetroot, grated carrot, sweetcorn, cherry tomatoes, red onion, but i dont have the confidence to put one together myself. any ideas?

Trinny

Hello - sorry im late

Sunday - Roast chicken, Home grown spuds, broad beans, turnips, and yorkshires
Monday - rubber chicken risotto - using up whoops mushrooms and 20p whoops asparagus
tuesday - Whoops margaritta pizza - topped with rubber chicken and rest of whoops mushrooms
Wednesday - rubber chicken curry - made with cheapy jar from B&M - 40p because it was almost out of date - ( organic too )
thursday - out to friends house - taking HM elderflower champagne
friday - HM chilli with boiled rice and can refried beans - found in back of cupboard - bbe 2008 (eeeek!)

Have a good week

Trin

Boodle

want2bmortgage3 wrote: »

these meal plans are a cool idea. i just have a quick question about salad. i'm guessing you dont buy pre made salads which can cost £1-£2 for a bag. so how do you make the salad part of your meal?

i would like to eat more salad, and know a few things i like such as potato salad, beetroot, grated carrot, sweetcorn, cherry tomatoes, red onion, but i dont have the confidence to put one together myself. any ideas?

I buy a bag of baby spinach for £1 in Asda. This lasts a week, suually being used as side salads either on its own or with onion, grated carrots, sultanas, roasted red peppers (from a jar), sunflower/pumpkin seeds, or other things as I please If you like those things you mentioned, just pile them on the plate :cool:

Lemon_Verbena

Sorry ifonlyitwaseasier and bargainbird only just seen the recipe requests so here they are. My DH came home looking like a sheepish child yesterday asking me to make batches of the muffins and the lemon verbena cake for him to take to work. When someone gets promotion or changes jobs at his place they buy cream cakes to celebrate, (he just got a job in a new dept when he was going to be declared surplus and laid off) :eek: with 40 people in his old department and 30 in the new one he's going to that would cost a blinking fortune! So he wants to take homemade cakes instead. I'm chuffed he thinks my muffins are good enough to take, but terrified incase they go wrong, or others don't like them. But will have to just suck it up and today have to bake a dozen of 6 different flavoured muffins for tomorrow eeek!

I always use the same base mix which I found on the internet a few years ago (can't recall from where) and just play around with the flavourings.

White Chocolate & Lemon Muffins (makes 12)

Dry Mix

300g Self Raising Flour
2 Tsps Baking Powder
Pinch Salt
200g Castor Sugar
Finely grated peel of 2 lemons

Liquid Mix

100g Butter/marg melted
Juice of 2 lemons (add a few drops of lemon essence if you lemons aren't very juicy)
Milk to make the juice from the lemons up to 250ml
2 medium eggs lightly beaten
2 drops vanilla essence

Plus

Bar White Chocolate broken into small pieces of bag of white choc drops (have used milky bar buttons when couldn't get chocolate drops and they worked okay!)

Melt the butter in a pan, you just want it to melt not get very hot, once melted allow to cool, then add the milk, lemon juice and vanilla/lemon extracts. Put all the dry ingredients in a bowl. Add the liquid mix to the dry mix and stir together, don't over beat it or the muffins won't rise. Finally stir in the chocolate piecesCook for 20 - 30 minutes on gas mark 5 depending on your cooker, you may need longer or shorter cooking time, so keep an eye on them.

For the Cherry & Almond Muffins I used the same basic dry and liquid mix above but used an extra 1/2 tsp baking powder, only 250g S/R Flour and 50g Ground Almonds, I used a few drops of almond essence instead of vanilla essence and added a 100g punnet of fresh cherries (stoned and quartered) to the mix at the final add chocolate stage.

Ohhhh cherries & chocolate, now I have an idea to try making 'Black Forest Muffins' using cocoa powder and chocolate chips as well as cherries and a bit of the Kirsch we were given for Xmas. Ohhhh wouldn't have thought of that if I wasn't typing this, I'll experiment this afternoon and see what they come out like, have some cherries in the freezer and everything else in, I can feel my waistline expanding :rotfl:

Like I said above the muffin mix I use is the same all the time, I just change what I put in to flavour them, change the 50g of almonds for cocoa powder and cherries for chocolate chips and make double chocolate muffins. I also finely chop rosemary and make rosemary & orange muffins, sound sweird but they taste lovely. You can exchange the lemons for oranges and the white choc or milk or plain choc and you get choc n orange muffins which are rather yummy. Also used half a box of mint matchmakers broken up, cocoa powder (50g) and a couple of drops of peppermint essence to make mint choc muffins, not everyone liked them but the majority did especially me YUM!

My Lemon Verbena Cake is a basic loaf cake and to be honest I don't weigh this out I tend to bake like my Mum taught me, which is by eye, I add equal amounts of butter or marg (depending what I have in) to caster sugar and beat together until smooth, pale & creamy, add 2 - 3 eggs and mix in, then sift twice as much S/R flour in as sugar used, add the zest of 2 lemons and about 1 tablespoon of finely chopped lemon verbena and a couple of scented lemon geranium leaves and enough milk to make it into a soft dropping consitency. Then bung it into a loaf tin and cook until its done, sorry not very rocket science of precise but it always makes a yummy moist cake that all my friends and family love. Sometimes add a thin lemon juice & icing sugar icing on the top to turn it into a sort of lemon drizzle cake. I always pop a couple of whole lemon geranium leaves on the bottom of the loaf tin as it helps to flavour the cake.

Lavender Biscuits (Makes 18-24 depending on size)

100g Butter
50g Caster Sugar
175g Self Raising Flour
1 Tsp Finely Grated Lemon Zest
2 Tbsp Fresh Lavender Flowers, you can use dried but then use 1 Tbsp

Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add the flour, lemon zest & lavender flowers and knead well until the mixture forms a dough. Gently roll out on a lightly floured board. Scatter the flowers over the rolled dough and lightly press in with the rolling pin. Cut into small rounds with a biscuit cutter. Place biscuits on a greased baking sheet and bake in a hot oven 450F/230C, gas mark 7 for 10-12 minutes until golden brown and firm to the touch. Remove at once and cool on a wire tray.

If you're buying dried lavender, make sure its culinary grade, don't use the stuff they sell for making pot pourri etc. Best types to use are the floral scented lavenders and not the ones that have a piney or medicinal scent. I always use hidcote lavender to make cakes with and I get it out of the garden then dry for the winter Having said that the last lot I made using some white lavender thats in the garden and they tasted yummy.

Sorry to waffle, I think that's all the recipes requested, if you try them let me know what you think. Right better go and do some actually baking now rather than typing about it lol!

LV x

elf06

Hi just asking here incase anyone can help (got a bit of changing of my meal plan to do due to being housebound for the forseeable) but how do you add quotes in your posts
Sorry if its really obvious but I tried once before and it didnt work........

Oh and if the cherry and choc muffins work please let me know they sound like they should be fab. Love the combi - I do choc and bl cherry puds in my slow cooker :drool: