But, based on what we have in the house....this is my menu plan for the week.
Monday: as in last night - spiral pasta with cheese sauce and steamed vegies mixed through followed by jelly and cream for dessert - just the kids!
Tuesday: apricot chicken with vegies and rice. I have enough to make a serve to go into the freezer. I'll also make an apple pie later today using more of our apple harvest.
Wednesday: Clare's casserole - a beautiful slow cooked beef casserole. Served with buttery mashed potatoes. This is in the freezer already cooked so I'll put it on to reheat before going to soccer trainingThursday: roast vegetable lasagne & fresh garden salad with lemon curd tart and cream for dessert (home lemons)
Friday: spaghetti bolognaise. Homemade pasta with an already frozen homemade sauce
with vegies
Saturday: something easy - maybe baked beans on thick homemade bread/toast. I might make pumpkin soup for the adults.
Sunday: lamb roast with potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, pumpkin and greens. Yum.
So that's that. Collette - if you're reading this and wondering where your prize is...I finally posted it yesterday. I'm sorry but I wasn't able to fulfil your request for a trashy Aussie gossip rag - I had a copy of Womans Day to put in the parcel, but having it in there hiked the cost of postage from $19, to over $26!!! It was already stretching my budget at $19, so I payed it forward and when an older lady stopped me outside the post office asking for directions, I asked her if she would enjoy having it and she said she'd be delighted, and that being on a pension made magazines too expensive for her to buy. In the end, I felt pretty good about that. Should be at your place in a week or so.
Lisa x
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4 comments:
Your menu plan sounds very scrummy.
I made apricot chicken last week for the first time in forever. My kids aren't huge fans, so I decided to do it very simply. Apricot nectar, onion sauted before adding to the nectar, and some chicken stock powder.
You know what? It turned out way nicer than using a packet of dried french onion soup! I think the kids are now happy to have it, even!
Overseas postage is SO expensive isn't it?! It usually costs me more in postage than the gift is worth!
Looks a nice tasty menu plan.
We are away from home for the week, but have a menu plan as we feed me entire extended family (about 20) at least two meals a day. This morning it was french toast. Dinner tonight was beef kabobs with zucchini, onions and peppers and baked potatoes.
your ideas sound yummy and i'm going to try apricot chicken when we return home.
Tracy, my apricot chicken uses the tin of apricot nectar, plus onion & carrots, but I use plain flour, salt & pepper, and gravox to thicken and flavour. About one and a half tablespoons of each. You add it to the cooked onion and browned chicken before you add the juice. I also added a tin of brown lentils to the mixture. No one noticed! Lisa x
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