Menu Planning Recap - Week of 4/26

Here is our recap for last week's meals!

Monday

Apple Cottage Cheese Pancakes (from the Moosewood Cookbook)

Sprout and I did have Apple Pancakes, but when JGD ran to the grocery store for us, he accidentally picked up sour cream.  I used some ricotta that we had in the fridge.  They came out okay, but I like them much better with the cottage cheese.  Sprout loved them and ate at least 4.  However, she won't eat them from the freezer.  Oh well.

Tuesday

• Citrus Tilapia ***
• Salad
• Sweet Potato Fries
• Kale (from the buying club)

We didn't make it to the store to get the tilapia for this dinner, so we opted to have the stir fry instead.  I used this recipe.  It came out really well (and I'm not the biggest stir fry fan).  The one thing I will say is be sure to mix the cornstarch mixture with the veggies really well because I got one bit that was covered in corn starch.  The fried rice recipe.

Wednesday

• Stir Fry (made with Veggies from the buying club, snow peas, broccoli, carrots)
• Veggie Fried Rice
• Salad?

Well, since we had the stir fry last night, tonight was up for grabs.  After several failed ideas, we ended up with spaghetti with vegetarian meatballs.

Thursday

• Melissa D'Arabian's North African Meatballs *** (made with ground meat and Smart Ground or Morningstar crumbles)
• Couscous
• Salad
• Carrots?

Thank Melissa D'Arabian!  These meatballs were really good.  We will definitely add this recipe to the list to be used in the future.  I was a little unsure of the olives (as I'm not the biggest fan), but I used and olive spread we had in the cabinet, and it melted away.  The only problem was that I had a tough time with the Smart Ground and JGD said the meat was a little dry (I didn't measure the breadcrumbs).  So for next time, I will try Gimmelean for me, and use less breadcrumbs for the meat mixture.

Friday

• Garlic Chicken
• Garlic "Chicken" using Gardein
• Challah
• Tzimmes (mom's recipe 1 lg sweet potato, 2 small potatoes, 1 small onion, 2 carrots)
• Salad

Friday was a busy day around here, so I didn't get around to making a challah, and I forgot to leave a piece of chicken in the fridge after our shopping expedition earlier this week... so we cheated.  We out to Buca di Beppo.  I don't feel quite as guilty about this as I had a $10 off coupon.

Weekend

• Mushroom Barley Soup?

I had pulled chicken out sometime on Friday, but it wasn't ready for dinner that night, so I used it for dinner on Saturday instead.  I made Braised Balsamic Chicken, served with angel hair.  This was a new addition to my list of chicken recipes.  It came out good,  both with real chicken and with Gardein.  We will add this to the list.  I also made artichokes that we had picked up at the Farmer's Market that morning.

Extra Ideas

• Sloppy Joes
• Ziti Broccoli
• Tuna Casserole
• Spinach Ravioli

Lunch Ideas

• grilled cheese
• quesadillas
• grilled peanut butter and jelly (apples)
• Muffin Tin Monday
• pasta salad
• leftovers
• turkey ("Tofurky) sandwiches

Overall, we did pretty well this week.  We did have a couple lunches out as we were running around doing errands, but we did try to keep it on the cheap.