Mini-quiches

It was time-consuming, but the results were GOOD. I combined a Kraft spinach cheese bake recipe with a quiche recipe for the filling, and then used various additives in the different cups. Half were vegetarian with spinach, for my daughter; half had ham or bacon; half of the meat had vegetables added.

The mid-kid actually tried one of the no-vegetable ones, and even ate all of it - but then had a hot dog. Small man stuck with a hot dog.

The Lovely Daughter approved, and that's really what I was going for.

Pancakes

Bacon for the carnivores, faux sausage for the vegetarian.

I was going to have grapes for the illusion of balance, but forgot to wash them and put them on the table. We can have them for dessert :)

Yesterday was a grab-whatever dinner, adjusting to the new karate schedule. I think in the future that on Fridays, I'll have to have diner with the mid-kid before leaving, and then let TMOTH and and Small Man eat when they get home. The Lovely Daughter can pick who to eat with :)

Steak and the trimmings

For some reason, I *really* wanted asparagus today. So when I arrived in the produce department and they had some that looked nice, I bought it, even at $2.99 a pound.

We also had salad, baked potatoes, mushrooms & onions, and crescent rolls. Boys had tube steaks :) and the Lovely Daughter had some marinated tofu with her salad.

Ham

I bought a big chunk o'ham yesterday, and sliced it up today. Two bags of slices and a little bag of chunks went into the freezer. I was making ham stock, but it burned :(

We also had mac-n-cheese, green beans, cucumber, and sliced apples.

Burgers

With strawberries and cantaloupe on the side. Yum.

Garlic Shrimp

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We also had fried potatoes and foccacia bread (yeah, a bit carb-heavy) and apple pie for dessert.

I had hoppin' John and greens at lunchtime :)

I got chicken thighs out of the freezer for tomorrow.

Tuesday: Pizza
Wednesday: Pork tenderloin/ham, broccoli & cheese sauce
Thursday: Steaks/burgers, baked potatoes
Friday: Cheese and crackers
Saturday: Quiches, salad
Sunday: BBQ pork sandwiches

Pepper Steak and Rice

I forget how much I like pepper steak. Our blasted refrigerator has decided AGAIN that it wants to freeze everything, so I had a frozen bell pepper to slice up and use. Too bad that won't work with the frozen cucumber :( Maybe I can make cucumber soup if the weather is bad tomorrow - as long as I have yogurt.

Cheese and crackers

We had KFC last night since I had to drive the Lovely Daughter about half an hour away to a Mystery Dinner. I tried the grilled chicken for a change of pace; it was actually pretty good. LOVE their green beans.

Omelettes

Mushroom and bacon with cheese for us; just cheese for the kids.

I actually got a good cantaloupe today at the grocery.

Fish and shrimp

Salad, flaky layers biscuits. Easy-peasy.

Good, since I couldn't do my pre-work shopping at the Safeway. NO manned checkout lanes. I just left my cart and went to the Giant. Who didn't have blueberries on sale :(

Steak!

TMOTH fired up the grill tonight, so we had steak, with burgers for the boys. French bread and scalloped potatoes for starch, sliced cucumber and baby carrots.

Pork Tenderloin

Sliced into medallions, browned a bit, then added Thai Green Curry Sauce from Trader Joe's. Made yellow rice using the Sazon I have to get in Florida because they don't carry it here! Veg from the freezer on the side.

I've come up with worse dinners on the quick :)

Cheese Ravioli

From the freezer, with jarred sauce and bread from Panera.

Julliano's pizza

Yummmmm. And garlic cheese bread (a.k.a. Julliano's crack). Even more yummmmmmm.

Soup and grilled cheese

I was supposed to have a meeting tonight, starting at 7, 30 minutes away. So I went and met the other committee members and the clubhouse door was locked. Since there wasn't anything critical on the agenda we went home.

Hushpuppies!

We had fish and shrimp REALLY because I wanted hushpuppies. The quick waffle dinner that we were supposed to have on Thursday happened early in the week, so now I still have to come up with something bast and good for then. Likely soup and sandwiches.

Waffles and bacon

The middle kid has scouts tonight, so it had to be a fast dinner, and one that TMOTH could do on his own.

Chicken stir-fry

I used frozen Safeway stir-fry veges with asparagus - which seemed to have all of the vegetables TMOTH really hates! Nevertheless, *I* liked it, and the Lovely Daughter ate the chicken and rice, at least. And the sides- shu mai and spring rolls from the freezer case.

The Karate Kid found this cherry tonight that looked like a duck:


I ate it anyway.


I also made some really yummy cookies today, from a Martha Stewart recipe: Lemon Icebox Cookies. They were easy and GOOD.

Leftover beef stew

I made biscuits to go with this. Yummmmmm....I LOVE biscuits. Must be the southern upbringing.

Of course, this was not as planned :)

The chicken wasn't thawed, so I went to Plan B. We'll have the chicken tomorrow night, as a stir-fry.

Last night was pizza night

So we picked up some Pizza Hut on the way home. NOT my favorite, but the kids like it, especially the middle kid who got stuffed crust pizza (a rare treat for him).

Menu planning for the week:

Tonight: Something chickenish/saucy over rice
Sunday: Pasta (alfredo?) with garlic breadsticks
Monday: Leftover beef stew, salad, french bread
Tuesday: Fish or seafood from the freezer; hush puppies
Wednesday: Soup from a can and grilled cheese sandwiches
Thursday: Waffles (FSQ Board meeting at 7)
Friday: Pigs in blankets