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18 Oct 2021 08:26More boring menus.
Tried a sheet pan dinner last night, from WW rather than the Asian pork tenderloin and rice I'd been planning, mainly because I went to the fruit stand and was able to find a small acorn squash. It was ok, though I made my own spice mix since there's was basically cumin and cumin only. Not my thing. Anyhow. I'm always suspicious of sheet pan dinners: I cannot get things ready at the same time and last night was no exception, despite following the recipe: the meat was way overdone long before the onions had browned. I'll get it eventually. I don't find sheet pan dinners the most bestest thing in cooking like a few people I know, but they are convenient. Oh, and this WW one? Had you adding some vinaigrette over the cooked meat and veg at the end, and ew, not. I tried, but because WW, there was too vinegar for the oil, so it was way harsh on top of browned sheet pan food. It might work, but with a better balanced vinaigrette, with much much less vinegar.
Anyhow. This week. Veg added last minute as I find it.
Monday: roasted sweet potatoes, chicken breast.
Tuesday: jerk pork chops, puréed yams (*)
Wednesday: chili with cornbread muffins
Thursday: Ikea meatballs and boiled potatoes (**)
Friday: flank steak with onions.
Saturday: chicken peanut curry over rice. (***)
Sunday: breakfast chicken sausage, hashbrowns, eggs, probably mushrooms (****)
(*) Perry will be home for dinner before his flight to Boston. He's still working to make weight, he's apparently about 3lbs over, which is apparently an ok place to be. Anyhow, I'll make his pork chop without too much salt in the spice mix, and he likes the yams.
(**) Didn't have them last week, but a few weeks ago I made couscous and froze half the sauce base. Ended up with that.
(***) Ended up having one of the chicken curries from Costco rather than making my own because Safeway was out of lemongrass paste.
(****) The regular hash browns. Apparently we had fewer of the patties left than I thought, thank goodness.
Completely aside. When I review my menus weeks later to get inspiration for that week's menus, my * comments sometimes help me more than the actual listing, LOL.
Tried a sheet pan dinner last night, from WW rather than the Asian pork tenderloin and rice I'd been planning, mainly because I went to the fruit stand and was able to find a small acorn squash. It was ok, though I made my own spice mix since there's was basically cumin and cumin only. Not my thing. Anyhow. I'm always suspicious of sheet pan dinners: I cannot get things ready at the same time and last night was no exception, despite following the recipe: the meat was way overdone long before the onions had browned. I'll get it eventually. I don't find sheet pan dinners the most bestest thing in cooking like a few people I know, but they are convenient. Oh, and this WW one? Had you adding some vinaigrette over the cooked meat and veg at the end, and ew, not. I tried, but because WW, there was too vinegar for the oil, so it was way harsh on top of browned sheet pan food. It might work, but with a better balanced vinaigrette, with much much less vinegar.
Anyhow. This week. Veg added last minute as I find it.
Monday: roasted sweet potatoes, chicken breast.
Tuesday: jerk pork chops, puréed yams (*)
Wednesday: chili with cornbread muffins
Thursday: Ikea meatballs and boiled potatoes (**)
Friday: flank steak with onions.
Saturday: chicken peanut curry over rice. (***)
Sunday: breakfast chicken sausage, hashbrowns, eggs, probably mushrooms (****)
(*) Perry will be home for dinner before his flight to Boston. He's still working to make weight, he's apparently about 3lbs over, which is apparently an ok place to be. Anyhow, I'll make his pork chop without too much salt in the spice mix, and he likes the yams.
(**) Didn't have them last week, but a few weeks ago I made couscous and froze half the sauce base. Ended up with that.
(***) Ended up having one of the chicken curries from Costco rather than making my own because Safeway was out of lemongrass paste.
(****) The regular hash browns. Apparently we had fewer of the patties left than I thought, thank goodness.
Completely aside. When I review my menus weeks later to get inspiration for that week's menus, my * comments sometimes help me more than the actual listing, LOL.
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