My first #MealPlanningMonday
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I just found out about this Meal Planning Monday business
from a great blog I stumbled upon last week. The blog is called Roast chicken and a Countrywalk. Sounds lovely, doesn’t it! She’s a girl after my own heart. In addition
to roast chicken and country walks, she loves dips, particularly Lebanese dips
and eats them for dinner whenever her other half who dismisses them as “not
proper meals” is away. That is me! And my husband. I can have a bowl of Baba
Ghanoush with some token veg to dip into it for dinner. Sometimes I just eat my
homemade hummus on its own spooning the whole bowl of chickpea-gorgeousness into my mouth without even a single crudite.
The idea of meal planning Monday’s is from another blog
though called At home with Mrs M, where you can submit your menu plan and then
I don’t really know what happens. Sharing and all sorts of social media stuff
maybe. I thought I definitely want to try this. I love planning menus for
when I have people visiting, but that doesn’t happen often enough. Sometimes I just create menus for imaginary dinner parties or pretend I am taking part in Come Dine with Me. Sad?
I also have
already several pages of plans for the chance that my parents might come and stay with
us for Christmas this year. So instead of imaginary or far out in future visits why not start
planning our daily meals. Why did I never think of this! In a really boring
meeting – usually an IT related one (have you heard of Salesforce.com - yeah, I wish I hadn't either) I
often scribble down menu ideas. Or I used to in my previous job, which was not
as interesting as the current job where I definitely don’t scribble down menu ideas
during working hours at all.
Greek Pastitsio from about a week ago |
So here we go. This is a reasonably normal week, I am out on Tuesday night, so I'll make sure husband has something easy to heat up for dinner. His two boys are coming for the weekend as they do every other weekend, so I'll do a big dinner on Saturday. I think the weather's supposed to be lovely, so it'll be BBQ time! On Sunday I am leaving on a work trip, so I'll prepare something that husband can easily heat up for him and kids and that maybe also will feed him in the beginning of the week when I'm away.
Our dinner plan for the week
Monday Turkey breast, vegetable and chickpea stew
Tuesday I am out, Monday's leftovers for husband
Wednesday Potato gnocchi with Finnish flame smoked salmon, leek, dill and white wine sauceThursday Smoked moose and shiitake pasta bake
Friday Whole baked or grilled sea bass or sea bream, roast vegetables, asparagus
Saturday Smoking bag side of salmon, yoghurt marinated lamb cutlets, roast new potatoes
Sunday Mexican tortilla lasagne
Finnish flamesmoked salmon |
Good plan though!
5 comments
Sounds delicious! As for menu planning dinner parties - that's not sad at all (or at least, if it is then I am sad along with you).
ReplyDelete:D hello to another #mealplanningmonday newbie! I usually meal plan, but have only just joined the linky! Also that Greek Pastitsio you had, I'm having that this week, and looking at your recipe it's better than the one I found, so I'm trying yours :) (minus mushrooms as the other half has a right strop if he finds mushrooms in anything!)
ReplyDeleteLove the variety on your meal plan, sounds like a good week #mealplanningmonday
ReplyDeleteI left a comment the other day, but I don't think it worked (phones for you) :) I've linked up to your Greek pastitsio as it sounds so much nicer than the recipe I'd originally linked too! Your whole menu sounds delicious, and I will definitely be trying your gnocchi with salmon ;)
ReplyDeleteThankyou for your comment too ;)
Yum Yum...Its looks so delicious.
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