Here is this week’s menu. If there’s something you’d specifically like the recipe for, let me know.
Sunday – b – oats and milk; d – chicken, kasha, fresh snow peas, julienned jicama
Monday – b – polenta/oat fritters; l – apple and banana slices with peanut butter; d – chicken burgers, roasted root veg
Tuesday – b – baked oatmeal; l – cauliflower latkes, cottage cheese; d – yellow squash pie
Wednesday – b – zucchini muffins; l – princesses (baked meat sandwiches); d – honey baked lentils, corn cakes, roasted cauliflower
Thursday – b – warm rice with milk; d – CORN (clean out refrigerator night)
Some days we do more cooking than others – I definitely don’t spend the same amount of time in the kitchen every day. Today has been a good day for food prepping and we’ve gotten a lot done in the last hour or two. The baked oatmeal is ready for tomorrow’s breakfast (was supposed to be for this morning, but dd started the fritters before she knew I had prepared the oatmeal and the pan was waiting in the oven to be baked), the chicken burgers are ready for tonight (it’s almost 4 pm right now), the root veggies are all peeled for tonight, and the squash pie filling for tomorrow night is prepared. I’ll make up the crust for the pie tomorrow and then there’s nothing to do but throw it all in together and bake it. The zucchini for the muffins is shredded (once the food processor was out for the squash, I figured we’d do everything at once) and I’ll probably make the muffins today so that the shredded veggies aren’t sitting for another day and a half. I’ll start the lentils soaking today for Thursday’s dinner – I don’t think they’ll sprout well ll in this cold weather, but it won’t hurt.
We’re also making brown rice crackers for the first time – they’re in the oven now. I’ll share the recipe with you if they turn out well. I have about 17 pounds of ground chicken simmering right now that I’m planning to can in the next hour or so. And I’d like to get some strawberry jam made today, too, but it will depend on how crowded the kitchen is. 🙂
Avivah
