Meal plan : week commencing 21st January

JIL

Sat: seafood pasta and garlic bread.
Sun : chicken, stuffing, yorkshire pudding, carrot, red cabbage, cauliflower cheese, spring greens, roast potatoes, parsnips and gravy.
Mon: leftover chicken, with bacon and salad, new potatoes, mushroom quiche.
Tues : steak pie, chicken pie, quorn pie, brussels, mushy peas.
Wed : chilli and brown rice
Thurs : morrocan lamb, couscous, hallomi, falafel, green salad and houmous.
Fri : Cod loins baked in breadcrumbs. Garden peas, maybe actifry chips.

NewShadow

Maiden_Mum wrote: »

Sunday - Beef brisket in slow cooker, mash or roast potatoes, swede, carrots and broccoli. My first problem is will there be any leftovers from the beef? Its a fairly small piece but I have no idea! How can I tell now, lol?
Monday - Sausages, mash and beans

Hi MM.

What I tend to do is either set aside the extra meals worth while serving (as if I was feeding extra people IYSWIM) to make sure there are leftovers OR have an easy replacement meal the next day - like with your sausage and mash.

I'd have 'sausage or beef and mash with beans' on my planner - and if there's enough beef put the 'extra' sausages in the freezer.

I know beef, mash and beans might sound like an odd meal compared to sausages, but I'd probably shred the beef with some gravy and maybe frozen/tinned veg, then top with the mash and grill - serve it as a beef pie with beans on the side.

Same meal, different presentation

katkin

I missed posting in this thread last week, but stuck to my menu plan which was mostly based around a huge roast chicken.


Not in any order:

Beef pithivier, bubble & squeak cakes and veg

Basa fillets, oven wedges and salad

Pasta bolognaise and salad

LO chicken with peppers curried, veg rice

LO roast pork in gravy, apple sauce, cabbage, carrots n mash

HM pizza and salad

Salmon with roast veggies

Packed lunches will include HM carrot & coriander soup, salads, hard boiled eggs, leftovers, sandwiches for hubby. Bits of fruit, cheese or crudit!s for snacks.

Im tempted to make blueberry muffins for hubby and try mini quiches with filo pastry for his lunch box instead of the usual sandwiches.

Have a good week everyone.

katkin

Hubby has just asked why we are not having haggis, neeps n' tatties for Burns night :eek:

How could I forget, I love haggis too. Well that's the pizza side lined for a Burns supper. Likely I'll look for reduced items the day after or so haha :rotfl:

hotcookie101

Here's mine,
we had a takeaway last night, 1st one for a month-was delicious, but that's it now for the next month

M 23 Beef stew, baked spuds & veggies
T24 pesto salmon, roasted veggies & spuds
w 25 persian adassi lentil stew with marinated roasted cauliflower (sirocco)
Th 26 chianti baked meatballs, pasta
Fr 27 Moussaka & salad
Sa 28 Beef & stilton pie, mash & veggies (we might have friends down, in which case will prob go out for a thai or noodles if they stay for dinner)
Su 29 pork chops & mustard & capers, saute pots, kale

ariarnia

Tough one this week - it's all been a bit up in the air and I'm not sure who's going to be where.

We've had a dose of chickenpox go around the group and I've had it when a sprog but OH hasn't so we're keeping a hawk eye out for the first sign of spots on either of the LOs. Mixed feelings about wanting them to get sick while they're young and having to take a week off work

Breakfasts - I've just made a lovely breakfast hash using a couple of sausages sliced thin and pan fried with onion, peppers, grated potato and mushrooms - once it was all cooked I dumped three eggs on top and scrambled it up. Should do OH and me Monday/Tuesday and there are 4 sausages left if I want to make it again later in the week.

Lunches are likely a bit pick and mix - I've got carrots, tomatoes, bread, cooked chicken, soft cheese and there's leftover pate. Add to that strawberries, grapes and oranges - I think we'll just grab and go in the morning.

Dinners: here's where I'm doing a little better.

I've got some beef meatballs from the freezer - so tomorrow is half of them as a meatball pie (diced meatballs with fried onion, grated carrot, a tin of kidney beans and a tin of baked beans topped with sweet potato mash)

Tuesday will be meatballs and pasta - maybe with a mascarpone style sauce if the soft cheese still needs using.

Wednesday is soup and sarnies night - maybe bacon butties or cheese and onion toasties. Followed by leftover fruit made into some kind of pudding.

Thursday I want to make a chicken/chickpea curry - should be able to use up the leftover veg and make some roti (can't make rice for toffee).

Friday I want to try a recipe for chicken burgers. Probably with wedges, and the OH will likely convince me to go out and buy some onion rings to have with it. Will need to pick up some corn to make fritters and not sure if I've got rolls in the freezer or if I need to buy any.

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medsdemon

Islandmaid wrote: »

Hi all,

Wed-Wed plan here

W - HM Spaghetti Carbonara
T - HM Meatballs in tom Sauce with Foccacia
F - Date Night
S - Steak and salad, HM Baileys cheesecake
S - Roast Chicken
M - Dhal and HM flatbreads
T - Chicken, bacon and thyme pie
W - Haggis, Tatties and Neeps (Burns Night)

Work lunches - sarnies for DH and chicken soup for me, breakfasts porridge for DH and coffee for me (cannot bare food too early, at work at 6-7)

Medsdemon - we loved Caldo Verde in Portugal (with Vino Verdi;)) - do you have a recipe?

I do. I think it might originally have been a Delia Smith one but not 100%.

Caldo Verde

650g potatoes chopped into cubes
1 onion sliced thinly
200g chorizo ( I cube it small)
Chilli flakes
1 winter cabbage chopped ( or kale or whatever cabbage you have fancy)
Tin of white beans ( I use whatever I have this time chickpeas although not wholly authentic)
Veg stock, water from bean can to make up about 1300ml ( add more if you like it with more fluid)
Garlic 2 cloves chopped finely
1 large green chilli chopped ( sometimes leave out if I don't have one in)
I add smoked paprika too but it wasn't in the original recipe and fry with the garlic when it goes in

What I do : fry the onion in olive oil with chilli flakes gently till soft ( about 10 mins) then add the chorizo, garlic, chilli, paprika and fry for a further 5mins gently till the oils come out the sausage. Then add the potato stir for a minute till they're coated in the flavoured oil and add the stock/water. Cook until the potatoes are getting soft then add cabbage and cook a further few mins before finally adding the beans and warming them through. season and serve.

It's one of our favourite dinners and I just adapt the recipe to suit.
Hope that sounds okay. Serves about 5 portions ( good sized).

medsdemon

katkin wrote: »

Hubby has just asked why we are not having haggis, neeps n' tatties for Burns night :eek:

How could I forget, I love haggis too. Well that's the pizza side lined for a Burns supper. Likely I'll look for reduced items the day after or so haha :rotfl:

I forgot too

katkin

medsdemon wrote: »

I forgot too

How awful are we forgetting the loveliness of haggis on its national night! I reckon any day after the 25th there will be bargain haggis to be had. Let's sit it out and go for the deals

Islandmaid

katkin wrote: »

How awful are we forgetting the loveliness of haggis on its national night! I reckon any day after the 25th there will be bargain haggis to be had. Let's sit it out and go for the deals

I thought the unsold ones were released back into the wild

Medsdemon - thank you for the recipe, I have added it to my 'to do' list