2 posts tagged “meal plan”
I hit the grocery store the other day, and bought a whole cart full of produce and other healthy ingredients. I actually made a menu before I made my grocery list!! I started out by making some tomato soup for Simon's lunch this morning, and then I actually had soup for breakfast because it is so good!
You try this tomato soup, and you'll never want the stuff in the red and white can ever again!
You'll find the recipe here on my food blog!
Today is a school holiday for Steve and Simon. I like having them home to keep me company, but I'm really glad that Simon is home because he woke up not feeling well. He had a cough this morning, and has been listless all day. We've been watching "The Presidents" on The History Channel, and Simon is sound asleep on the sofa. Actually, Linus is asleep on his doggy sofa, and the cats are sound asleep on our bed. I've been a lazy bum all day, but I haven't actually gotten in any shuteye.
We went to Costco last night, and I picked up a cookbook and a book on organic gardening. I flipped through the gardening book, but it's mostly a reference of organic solutions for gardening problems I'm not currently experiencing. It's actually a compilation of Rodale's All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening and The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control. I think it'll come in handy later, but for now I'm all engrossed in my new cookbook.
The cookbook I got was How to Cook Everything: Vegetarian by Mark Bittman. They also had his older (omnivorous) How to Cook Everything, so I had decide which one I wanted. Since my ultimate goal is to eat less meat, I decided to get the veggie version. I haven't looked at the non-veggie version, but I'm not at all disappointed with the one I got.
I spent a good portion of my lazy day coming up with a menu and grocery list to get us through to next Tuesday.
So far I've got the following:
- chicken and dumplings (I still have the stuff from the other day.)
- stir fried leek dumpling with miso carrot sauce with ginger and salad greens
- stir fried tofu with fried rice
- white bean and mushroom ragu with polenta
- homemade pizza
- either salmon or scallops with risotto and sauteed spinach & mushrooms
- edamame stew with couscous
- Chicago Diner burgers with sweet potato fries and salad
- seitan "chops" with sides of some sort
We'll see if that's what we wind up having.
