With the schedules we keep in my house it is usually easier to plan our menus by the week. Between the after-school programs, me teaching 2 afternoons a week and my husband in class 2 nights a week, it's nice to know exactly what the plan is as soon as we walk in the door. I will frequently pull 2-3 days worth of meat out of the freezer at a time too, so I have no excuse but to cook it!
This week, though, I have planned 12 days worth of dinners. It will likely stretch into almost 3 weeks though, because we have things like leftover pulled pork, chili, and spaghetti sauce in the freezer. But, here is what I am planning for the next couple of weeks:
From Cooking Light magazine:
Green curry chicken
Spiced pork tenderloin with sauteed apples
Sloppy joe meatloaf (I'm using a sloppy joe recipe from CL and turning it into a meatloaf!)
Mexican chili-cheese burgers
Spicy chicken sandwiches with cilantro-lime mayo
Sesame noodles with chicken
Malaysian chicken pizza
Chili-beef soft tacos
Buttermilk-brined pork chops
From Epicurious
Grilled Marinated sirloin strip steaks
Chicken with sun-dried tomato cream sauce
And a recipe from a cookbook I looked through at work, then made a copy of this page:
Hawaiian turkey burgers
Finally, a recipe from Cook's Country
Oven-fried chicken
It's gotten really cold this week and a few of these recipes call for the grill, so it looks like we'll be putting our grill pan to work this week. Our cut-off for grilling is about -20, but it takes a lot of propane to keep a grill warm at even 10 above, so I'll be grilling indoors. I'm sure we'll throw in some leftovers as well as a night or two where we just make grilled cheese or throw some pizza bites in the oven. But hopefully we can stick to this as much as possible!
Sunday, November 28, 2010
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