Menu: Thanksgiving Feast

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Gearing up for Thanksgiving so the recipes at the beginning of the week are really simple and then on Friday I’m going to make a full four course meal for the two of us to celebrate our first Thanksgiving abroad.

Saturday mashed potatoes and green beans
out @ Milan’s

Sunday eggs and toast
leftovers

Monday vegetable stir fry, kinpira, fruit
chickpea and vegetable red curry

Tuesday fajita burrito, salad, fruit
baked fish, couscous

Wednesday tortellini, caprese salad, bread
homemade pizza

Thursday chickpea and vegetable red curry
fajita burrito, salad, fruit

Friday eating out for lunch
Thanksgiving Meal:
Appetizer:
Potato Pancakes
Two Sauces (Pea Puree and Apple Chutney)

Soup:
Corn Chowder with Goat Cheese
French Bread Rolls

Main Course:
Oven Roasted Duck Legs in Brown Butter Sauce
Butternut Squash Puree
Pan Roasted Carrots and Brussels Sprouts with Breadcrumbs

Dessert:
Mini White Chocolate Cheesecake with Cranberry-Citrus Brandy Sauce

Things to Make

veg stir fry
chickpea and veg curry
fajita vegetables

Thanksgiving Recipes:
Potato Pancakes
Apple Chutney
Pea Puree
Corn Chowder
French Bread
Duck Legs with Squash Puree
Roasted Brussel Sprouts
White Chocolate Cheesecake

Shopping List

egg noodles
mixed frozen veg
chickpeas
zucchini
carrots
pepper
basil
tomatoes
apples
grapes
muesli
cat food
toilet paper
mozzarella
tomato sauce
pizza cheese
eggs
milk
salad
fish
couscous
rice
tortellini
bread
potatoes
frozen peas
canned corn
garlic
mustard
vinegar
flour

Thanksgiving Shop:
brussel sprouts (300g)
butternut squash (250g)
cranberries (200g)
onions (6)
fresh herbs (sage, rosemary)
raisins (50g)
white chocolate (50g)
graham crackers (100g)
goat cheese (150g)
heavy cream (100ml)
cream cheese (80g)
mascarpone (200g)
parmesan (50g)
duck legs (2)

Bento: A Big Downer

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Last week has a huge downer and I feel like you can actually see that in my food. Even though I managed to make a whopping all five lunches I feel like they’re less cute and less interesting than they had any right to be. Also, so many apple. So many.

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Menu: Use Up the Freezer

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So my freezer is full of ice because of a variety of reason and I’m trying to use up all the stuff in it so that I can flush the whole thing out and basically hit a total reset of the ice level in my freezer. This actually helped me make a menu (restriction really does help with creativity I guess).

Saturday leftovers
eating out @ Georgia Tavern

Sunday pancakes and eggs
vegetable pizza

Monday black bean chili, cornbread, salad
chicken and dumplings

Tuesday aloo puffs, baked green beans, fruit
pasta with vegetable sauce

Wednesday turkey burgers, french fries, salad
salmon, couscous, roasted veg

Thursday chicken and dumplings, fruit, baked green beans
black bean chili, bread

Friday out with coworkers
turkey burgers, french fries, salad

Things to Make

chicken and dumplings
vegetable pizza
aloo puffs
black bean chili
turkey burgers
french fries

Shopping List

black beans x 2
apples
grapes
zucchini
carrots
onions
potatoes
peppers
salad
pasta
flour
bread
burger buns
milk
pizza cheese (200g)
cream
cat food x 2
frozen green beans x 2
frozen corn
frozen green peas
chicken breast
ground turkey

Meta: Vegan

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I added a new category for “vegan” recipes.

I pretty much never intend to make vegan food but in the course of making vegetarian food I do make plenty of vegan food as well. This tag will include recipes that are vegan (naturally!) or ones that would easily be vegan by replacing the cooking fat (usually butter) with oil or honey with sugar in places where it won’t too significantly change the recipe at all. Most of these don’t EXPLICITLY say to replace these products so but I will attempt to suggest it in future posts I plan to tag as vegan.

While in a technical way you could make my Broccoli-Cheddar Soup with vegan milk substitutes and vegan cheese, the consistency of the recipe would likely be pretty heavily changed and you’d have a way better time finding recipes already geared around those ingredients.

Most recipes of course can be adapted to be vegan, some by simply removing meat or replacing it with a meat substitute or by using vegan substitutes for butter, milk, and eggs but you might notice I don’t really eat meat substitutes and I’m not a fan of things like seitan and tofu in place of meat so I’m going to just trust you’ll make your best judgements about recipes and I’ll keep trying to helpfully tag recipes.

Happy cooking!

Bento: Comfort Foods

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This week the theme was basically just nice hearty comfort food to herald in the cold weather. There’s plenty more delicious comfort foods in our future, chicken and dumplings comes to mind but that’ll have to wait for another week.

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Breakfast Roll Up, Roasted Sweet Potato, Side Salad, Apple

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Homemade Spaghettios with meatballs, salad, bread, apple

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Baked Chicken, Green Beans and Tomatoes, Spiced Rice, Chocolate and an Orange

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Spinach Mac and Cheese, Sliced Orange, Coleslaw

Menu: Blustering Snow

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It’s very cold and snowy now so it’s time for delicious winter food even though it’s not yet technically winter.

Saturday scrambled eggs with toast
out @ Milan’s

Sunday grilled turkey and avocado wraps
onion and goat cheese tart, tomato soup

Monday onion and goat cheese tart, tomato soup
lentil falfel with yogurt sauce, couscous

Tuesday baked rosemary chicken with apples, rice, salad
vegetable lasagna

Wednesday lentil falfel with yogurt sauce, couscous
squash, white bean, and spinach saute, cornbread

Thursday vegetable lasagna, salad, fruit
baked rosemary chicken with apples

Friday squash, white bean, and spinach saute, cornbread, fruit
lentil falfel with yogurt sauce, couscous

Things to Make

baked rosemary chicken with apples
squash, white beans, and spinach saute
lasagna
cornbread
tomato soup
onion and goat cheese tart
lentil falfels

Shopping List

apples
grapes
kiwis
squash
tomatoes
mushrooms
zucchinis
avocado
cheese
canned tomatoes (2)
white beans
onions
lentils
bread
milk
butter
ricotta
mozzarella
puff pastry
goat cheese
cat food
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Bento: Simple is Best

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Just a few simple ones from the week. Sometimes you gotta just keep things easy and moving I suppose.

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Pasta with vegetable sauce, side salad, rye bread, apple

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Menu: Skipped One

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Despite the fact that menu take literally 10 minutes to post somehow last week I forgot to post one. I’m just going to let that go gently and wave goodbye to it because it was a fairly boring week anyway with only one new recipe. Because of that I decided to make this week a little more exciting though.

Saturday leftovers from the past week
out @ ??

Sunday pancakes and eggs
baked chicken tenders with green beans and tomatoes

Monday Eggy Breakfast Wrap, candided sweet potatoes, fruit
vegetable yakisoba

Tuesday homemade spaghetti-o’s with mini meatballs, white bread, spinach salad
homemade pizza

Wednesday creamy mac and cheese with spinach, apple, coleslaw
baked chicken tenders with green beans and tomatoes, salad, apple

Thursday out with coworkers
creamy mac and cheese with spinach

Friday vegetable yakisoba, plums, miso soup
homemade spaghettios, bread

Things to Make

Homemade Spaghetti-Os
Baked Chicken Tenders Tray
candided sweet potato
lavash egg wrap
mac and cheese
vegetable yakisoba

Shopping List

chicken breast
green beans
cherry tomatoes
spinach
sweet potatoes
oranges
plums
apples
turkey (ground)
white bread
pasta sauce
lavash
canned tomato puree x 2
cream
elbows
cheddar cheese
milk
yakisoba noodles
frozen veg
muesli
butter
coleslaw mix

Recipe: Stir Fry Noodles

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You could easily add whatever you want to this but to make it as straight forward as possible all I did was add a bag of frozen “stir fry” vegetables, making this meal take all of 10 minutes to come together without bringing out any chopping board. It does take 2 pans (one to boil and one to fry in) but you could probably do it in one large sauce pot if you were really lazy.

Stir Fry Noodles