Menu for 7/12/10-7/18/10
July 12th 2010 Posted at Cooking, Menu planning, Recipes
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Last week’s meals turned out great. My favorite was the pasta salad, but that’s because I rarely get to eat mushrooms. I don’t really have a recipe for this because I played it by ear. Basically what I did was boil a package of Wacky Mac and toss it with some sliced mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, feta cheese, and Ranch dressing. Yes, Ranch. It was perfect.
My other new recipe was for Porcupine Meatballs II and they also turned out great. I served them with mashed potatoes and a side salad. I know this sounds like a meal better suited for the winter, but I’m running out of ideas here. In any case, the meatballs were really easy to make, but I already have some thoughts on how to improve this recipe. The first and most logical way would be to use leaner ground beef. I used 80% lean ground beef and there was quite a bit of grease on top of the sauce towards the end of the cooking time. The other solution would be to cook the meatballs without the sauce at first, drain the grease, then add the sauce and finish cooking. I’m leaning towards this solution since I already have more of the same kind of beef in my freezer.
Monday
Pizza. I was going to make last Friday’s BBQ chicken, but it slipped my mind.
Tuesday
Crockpot BBQ chicken with baked potato and salad
Wednesday
Pasta
Thursday
Best tuna casserole
Friday
Mac and Cheddar with Broccoli
Saturday
Scrambled eggs with salsa, sour cream, and Cheddar cheese
Sunday
Leftovers
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My mother used to make a meatball – tomato soup dish that she served over potatoes (though I’m pretty sure she never used rice in the meatballs!). Probably still does, for all I know! (And yes, she’d always brown the meatballs first, then drain off the meat before adding the soup/sauce.)
I always thought she’d just made that up. Who knew?
Everyone loved it – including our Newfoundland, who discovered that she could, in fact, reach the stovetop – and stole a meatball right out of the hot frying pan!
That’s hilarious. I’m glad she didn’t burn herself.
Yeah, my grandma and mom made a similar kind of tomato sauce meatballs (also no rice) that they served over potatoes. Too bad their recipes are the “add a handful of this and a pinch of that” type so they’re basically useless to me. The little I do know was self-taught using websites such as AllRecipes and RecipeZaar.
Your food photography is the BOMB. Do you want to come over and shoot my next segment on how to make refrigerator pickles?
Thank you, Kelly. My biggest “secret” is using an external flash and not pointing it directly at the food.
I’ll come. I love pickles.