GlitteryOtters
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Here's my roundup of how last week went (updates in bold):
Monday 4/11: taco salad with a blood orange & blackberry banana ice cream dessert. I got too excited about the banana ice cream & ate that for breakfast instead (because being an adult is fun!), otherwise I ate this exactly as planned, my husband ate a whole (!) vegan frozen pizza by himself instead of the salad.
Tuesday 4/12: Zapiekanka again, I'm trying to perfect my adaptation of this recipe: http://www.sensualappealblog.com/traditional-zapiekanka/ & my 4 bean salad. I still had a lot of the dill & chive bean spread, so I ate that on homemade bread & postponed making the bean salad, otherwise we ate this meal as planned.
Wednesday 4/13: Savory Chickpea Pancakes (chickpea flour, tomatoes or red bell peppers, frozen peas, onions & some spices and all) & Saag Baag (Indian tofu & spinach dish, super delicious). Ate large portions of the Saag Baag with bread and dill & chive bean spread & made the Chickpea Pancakes on Saturday for lunch instead.
Thursday 4/14: Crispy Smashed Potatoes with Avocado Garlic Aioli ( http://ohsheglows.com/2014/10/15/crispy-smashed-potatoes-with-avocado-garlic-aioli/ ) & the rest of 4 bean salad. Made the 4 Bean Salad on this day, so this was our first night eating it, otherwise exactly as planned.
Friday 4/15: Apple Potato Rösti with blackberry banana ice cream for dessert. Postponed the Rösti indefinitely (might make it for lunch this week?), ate 4 Bean Salad leftovers & toast with jam instead.
Saturday 4/16: quinoa & black beans with cashew queso ( http://www.allysonkramer.com/2013/0...w-queso-sauce-from-robin-robertsons-new-book/ ). Postponed this until Saturday as we were feeling lazy & I didn't want to cook. My husband ate cereal & toast (I think?) & I ate a vegan TV dinner from Saffron Road instead. Usually I cannot afford them, but it was on sale, I had a store coupon and Ibotta had a rebate, so I bought myself a treat just for nights like this. I ate some of the 4 Bean Salad later in the evening, too.
Sunday 4/17 & Monday 4/18: pasta & marinara sauce & the only coleslaw recipe I like (key ingredients that make it yummy: celery seed, apple cider vinegar & agave nectar or honey). Made the Quinoa dish originally scheduled For Saturday on Sunday, will eat leftovers tonight for dinner & will skip pasta & sauce this time around. Ate homemade pear sauce for dessert on Sunday.
Now that we are 11(!) days away from our Disneyland trip & have some fresh ingredients we need to use up before we go, I slightly revamped my meal schedule for the rest of our pre-trip dinners so I can make sure we use up all the uneaten produce. Last week I made a cardamom mango coffee cake to help use up some of the extra mangoes I bought, this week (probably tomorrow?) I will use up the last of my mangoes and blackberries to make a mango blackberry coffee cake. Breakfasts will be cereal, coffee cake, red bell pepper tofu scramble, cumin & cabbage tofu scramble and banana smoothies. Here are the dinners:
Monday 4/18: leftover quinoa & black beans with cashew queso & homemade rolls.
Tuesday 4/19 & Wednesday 4/20: Peanutty Pumpkin Stew & homemade rolls
Thursday 4/21: homemade creamy stovetop Mac & cheese and fresh tomatoes.
Friday 4/22: homemade bierock turnovers & homemade Mac & cheese turnovers (or hot pockets, whatever you want to call them. Making a huge batch & freezing half of the bierock ones & a couple of the Mac & cheese ones to test out for future make ahead meals. Friday looks to be somewhat busy, so I think I will make up the bierock filling in advance--probably tomorrow--and freeze it until Friday)
Saturday 4/23: homemade pizzas; bierock pizza & Carmelized onion & apple pizza with cashew ricotta sauce
Sunday 4/24: vegan Poutine & tofu "chicken" and tomatoes.
Monday 4/25: breakfast for dinner; pancakes & fruit & tofu scramble, possibly muffin or coffee cake as well.
Tuesday 4/26 & Wednesday 4/27: homemade kidney bean burgers with homemade smoky thousand island dressing on homemade buns & a pasta and bean salad
Thursday 4/28: I'm going to the freezer for this one, thawing out the last of my vegan Welsh rarebit sauce & making that to use up whatever bread or rolls we have left over.
Friday 4/29 onwards: we'll be road tripping in Anaheim (DISNEYLAND!!!!), Venice/LA, Big Sur, Sacramento, Portland, Seattle, Spokeane, Fargo, Minneapolis & Chicago.
~Meg
(Edited to add photos)
Monday 4/11: taco salad with a blood orange & blackberry banana ice cream dessert. I got too excited about the banana ice cream & ate that for breakfast instead (because being an adult is fun!), otherwise I ate this exactly as planned, my husband ate a whole (!) vegan frozen pizza by himself instead of the salad.
Tuesday 4/12: Zapiekanka again, I'm trying to perfect my adaptation of this recipe: http://www.sensualappealblog.com/traditional-zapiekanka/ & my 4 bean salad. I still had a lot of the dill & chive bean spread, so I ate that on homemade bread & postponed making the bean salad, otherwise we ate this meal as planned.
Wednesday 4/13: Savory Chickpea Pancakes (chickpea flour, tomatoes or red bell peppers, frozen peas, onions & some spices and all) & Saag Baag (Indian tofu & spinach dish, super delicious). Ate large portions of the Saag Baag with bread and dill & chive bean spread & made the Chickpea Pancakes on Saturday for lunch instead.
Thursday 4/14: Crispy Smashed Potatoes with Avocado Garlic Aioli ( http://ohsheglows.com/2014/10/15/crispy-smashed-potatoes-with-avocado-garlic-aioli/ ) & the rest of 4 bean salad. Made the 4 Bean Salad on this day, so this was our first night eating it, otherwise exactly as planned.
Friday 4/15: Apple Potato Rösti with blackberry banana ice cream for dessert. Postponed the Rösti indefinitely (might make it for lunch this week?), ate 4 Bean Salad leftovers & toast with jam instead.
Saturday 4/16: quinoa & black beans with cashew queso ( http://www.allysonkramer.com/2013/0...w-queso-sauce-from-robin-robertsons-new-book/ ). Postponed this until Saturday as we were feeling lazy & I didn't want to cook. My husband ate cereal & toast (I think?) & I ate a vegan TV dinner from Saffron Road instead. Usually I cannot afford them, but it was on sale, I had a store coupon and Ibotta had a rebate, so I bought myself a treat just for nights like this. I ate some of the 4 Bean Salad later in the evening, too.
Sunday 4/17 & Monday 4/18: pasta & marinara sauce & the only coleslaw recipe I like (key ingredients that make it yummy: celery seed, apple cider vinegar & agave nectar or honey). Made the Quinoa dish originally scheduled For Saturday on Sunday, will eat leftovers tonight for dinner & will skip pasta & sauce this time around. Ate homemade pear sauce for dessert on Sunday.
Now that we are 11(!) days away from our Disneyland trip & have some fresh ingredients we need to use up before we go, I slightly revamped my meal schedule for the rest of our pre-trip dinners so I can make sure we use up all the uneaten produce. Last week I made a cardamom mango coffee cake to help use up some of the extra mangoes I bought, this week (probably tomorrow?) I will use up the last of my mangoes and blackberries to make a mango blackberry coffee cake. Breakfasts will be cereal, coffee cake, red bell pepper tofu scramble, cumin & cabbage tofu scramble and banana smoothies. Here are the dinners:
Monday 4/18: leftover quinoa & black beans with cashew queso & homemade rolls.
Tuesday 4/19 & Wednesday 4/20: Peanutty Pumpkin Stew & homemade rolls
Thursday 4/21: homemade creamy stovetop Mac & cheese and fresh tomatoes.
Friday 4/22: homemade bierock turnovers & homemade Mac & cheese turnovers (or hot pockets, whatever you want to call them. Making a huge batch & freezing half of the bierock ones & a couple of the Mac & cheese ones to test out for future make ahead meals. Friday looks to be somewhat busy, so I think I will make up the bierock filling in advance--probably tomorrow--and freeze it until Friday)
Saturday 4/23: homemade pizzas; bierock pizza & Carmelized onion & apple pizza with cashew ricotta sauce
Sunday 4/24: vegan Poutine & tofu "chicken" and tomatoes.
Monday 4/25: breakfast for dinner; pancakes & fruit & tofu scramble, possibly muffin or coffee cake as well.
Tuesday 4/26 & Wednesday 4/27: homemade kidney bean burgers with homemade smoky thousand island dressing on homemade buns & a pasta and bean salad
Thursday 4/28: I'm going to the freezer for this one, thawing out the last of my vegan Welsh rarebit sauce & making that to use up whatever bread or rolls we have left over.
Friday 4/29 onwards: we'll be road tripping in Anaheim (DISNEYLAND!!!!), Venice/LA, Big Sur, Sacramento, Portland, Seattle, Spokeane, Fargo, Minneapolis & Chicago.
~Meg
(Edited to add photos)
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I want to eat at home as much as possible between now and then!
Going out for dinner. Not sure where (should think about that!)
