~ January 2010 ~ Home Cooking Challange! - Page 8

[ursusarctos]

1. Chicken soup
2. Tuna and macaroni
3. Spinach soup and hardboiled eggs
4. Pasta bolognese
5. Lentil-kidney bean-carrot-curry soup
6. Change of plans, ate leftovers and bread. And chips. Made pea soup before bed.
7. Vegetarian pea soup, wonderful fresh italian lamb sausage, cabbage sauteed in the drippings
8. Stewed lamb and veggies, boiled botatoes, leftover sauteed cabbage
9. Leftover lamb and potatoes in lemon-dill sauce made from the stew broth, cabbage baked in butter
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Originally Posted by lucifugous

Is that too much soup? :-P Despite the supposedly separate food plans, I heard grumbles about that. I think I put together a great plan full of whole foods, low on cost and effort for how many servings it will yield. I don't mind eating soup a lot :P I see a couple of meat pies in our future too, with the roast beef and veggies from the stew or soup and the mashed potatoes &/or easy puff pastry topping... yum.
I have this problem where I want to make EVERYTHING ... all at once!

We eat soup a lot, precisely because it is so easy, cheap and healthy! I think once your family gets used to eating it a lot they won't even notice anymore.
And I have the same problem with wanting to make everything at once!

[Mirta]

Originally Posted by lucifugous

Is that too much soup? :-P Despite the supposedly separate food plans, I heard grumbles about that. I think I put together a great plan full of whole foods, low on cost and effort for how many servings it will yield. I don't mind eating soup a lot :P I see a couple of meat pies in our future too, with the roast beef and veggies from the stew or soup and the mashed potatoes &/or easy puff pastry topping... yum.
I have this problem where I want to make EVERYTHING ... all at once!

Whether or not it is too much soup depends on your family and their preferences... I personally love soup and don't mind having it frequently.. especially if you put it in a bread bowl! my DH on the other hand isn't that big on soups.. especially not on bean soups.. and if he had soups they have to be really thick.. think stew thick.. Cream soups... not his style.. So, I don't make soups often.. but if your family likes them more power to you...

as for wanting to make everything all at once, I TOTALLY understand... My friend posted a recipe on a blog that she was trying the other day on facebook..I've been looking at the blog every since.. I want to make everything on it NOW!! I think I'm going to have to do a Julia/Juliette thing and resolve to cook every recipe she has ever posted this year..
THe blog in question, must come with the following warning: This site WILL cause you to drool, and inspire you to cook all sorts of new recipes.. If you follow it, it WILL be hazardous to your waistline!! Pioneer Woman Cooking

[CameronsMama]

1. Chicken makhani, and broccoli and potato curry
2. Out, my dinner plans fell through and I didn't have a back up plan, so we caved and went out.
3. My mom took us out to dinner (I only count meals out against us if we pay for them!)
4. Cashew chicken and broccoli over rice
5. FFY night to use up a bunch of misc leftovers before they went bad
6. Tamales and tacquitos (homemade, but not by me- they were from a friend of FIL)
7. Pasta alfredo with chicken apple sausage
8. Frozen pizza from TJs- not homemade, but so much better than eating out since I really didn't feel like cooking.
9. Chicken and cracked wheat

[Alyantavid]

1-ate at my mom's *ds2 & I had lunch out
2-out for dh's work party
3-zesty grilled hamsteak, baked potatoes, stir fried veggies, berry cobbler for dessert
4-tomato soup, rolls
5-quesadillas *dh had lunch out
6-dinner at my mom's
7-fried potatoes and onions, eggs *we got takeout, long story
8-pizza
9-meatloaf, mashed potatoes, corn

[Contrariety]

1- Oops! Ordered chinese! i need help!
2- Chicken Parmesan w/ Mixed green salad and balsamic vinaigrette
3- Leftover chicken parm...
4- Chili and cornbread
5- Leftover Chili
6- Greek "pitzah" (pita flatbread with hummus, mozarella, tomato, olive, onion, feta, spinach, and parsley...yum!)
7- Beef stroganoff over whole wheat egg noodles and veggies
8- Leftover stroganoff
9- Scheduled weekend eating out. I'm so happy to eat something I didn't have to cook!

[caiesmommy]

We cook vegan...I'll write when not vegan

1. Lunch-leftover enchalada casserole w homemade tomatillo sauce(WICKED!)
Dinner-All you can eat veg sushi-G/C from xmas(I don't count it as eating out)
2. Chickpea potato curry w tossed salad and roasted eggplant
3. Homemade pizza w coleslaw and carrot sticks
4. New meal-chop suey w toasted almonds on rice, roasted eggplant, carrot sticks. Ds gobbled it up! Dd tried lentils for the first time and gobbled them up! YAY!
5. I mad a yummy soup based on this curry recipe http://theppk.com/recipes/dbrecipes/...ipeID=143..but changed quite a bit
6. Veggie stir fry with almonds on noodles
7 Homemade pizza AGAIN..ds is on a kick
8. Dh's night to cook-AND HE COOKED! Split pea/10 bean mix soup with tons of veggies. It was really a thick stew. Roasted potatoes, penne noodles(?why? no idea) and salad...he confused me with everything but the soup.
9. Leftover penne noodles w tomato egplant sauce/hemp seeds. With a salad of lettuce/onion/tom./peppers/olives/peas/corn and leftover potatoes

[my2girlz]

1/1 pancakes
1/2 spaghetti and meatballs, garlic bread
1/3 roasted chicken, potatoes, carrots
1/4 grilled cheese and tomato soup
1/5 parm. garlic chicken, pierogies, broccoli/cauliflour mix
1/6 broccoli cheese soup and breadsticks
1/7 Italian Pasta Bake
1/8 screwed up and went out
1/9 leftovers and snacks at sporting event

PLANNED:
1/10 turkey, mashed taters, corn casserole, biscuits
1/11 leftovers
1/12 ??
1/13 frozen pizza or leftovers
1/14-1/15 out of town

[lucifugous]

1- homemade pizza, 1 pepperoni and 1 onion, red pepper, black olive. made a white bean soup
2- homemade biscuits and gravy with pot roast leftovers. made "healthy no-bake cookies"
3- chicken & pasta casserole (I had enough for two last week), yummy salad. whole wheat banana bread with flax & ground oatmeal.
4- FFY. linguine marinara for a late lunch...
5- I made my first whole chicken! in the crock, rubbed it with salt, pep & paprika, and set it up in the slow cooker with lemon, garlic and rosemary... kind of like here, but with paprika. - I saved the white bean soup! - Made medium grain brown rice & added frozen peas toward the end.
6- late snack- homemade pizza with roasted eggplant & goat cheese.. a little bit of leftover dough got made into a solitary cinnamon roll sort of thing, for which I even made icing.
7- I made the brown rice with peas again and used some strategic positioning to hide it in the fridge, since it got scarfed down so quickly last time :P leftover chicken, some zucchini... chips and salsa after the baby went to bed...
8- had a yummy salad for lunch, enchiladas with leftover chicken for dinner!
9- my stew was a no-go since I didn't soak the beans >der< (I thought we had a backup can of pintos but I was mistaken about the type of bean)... so I ended up making Mojadra- lentils and rice (a little salt) topped with seasoned carmelized onions (a little salt, cumin, coriander, pinch of cayenne) and yogurt mixed with dill. Also from Feeding the Whole Family- massive thanks to whoever mentioned that book! As usual, we're missing veggies :/
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11- lunch out with my dad for my brother's birthday

weekend:

my mom is making:
shrimp pasta w/ leeks
pizza casserole
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then:
Three Sisters Stew (from FtWF)
pot roast with parsnips
also planning to make this parsnip soup a couple of you are making!
leftovers with make-ahead mashed potatoes
lentils w/ spinach (thank you LizzyQ!), roasted carrots
lemon & garlic quinoa salad (FtWF)

I have this problem where I want to make EVERYTHING ... all at once! This month I am enjoying trying some new things, nothing extravagant, just hoping to add to my repertoire and become more efficient with experience.

[Justice2]

January
9 - Citrus Broiled Salmon with Broccoli and rice
10 - Zucchini, Mediterranean Style
11 - Shrimp with Tomatoes and Feta Cheese
12 - Lentil Soup
13 - Red Beans and Rice

I did it!! Ok, so it was only one day but my children were begging me all day to go out to eat and I managed to decline and cook. I am proud! Have a great day all!

[Smithie]

DH comes home tonight!

1/1: MIL brought over dinner
1/2: kids had mac n cheese with sitter, dh and I ate a late lunch out for "date night" and had popcorn later in the evening
1/3: SIL brings over steak and scalloped potatoes for dh's going-away party, I make bread and veggies
1/4: Kids ate mac n cheese and grapes. MIL brought me over a twice-baked potato, but I am not hungry because we ate Mickey-D's after the preschool pickup at 3 p.m. Weak. I am weak.
1/5: I ate the leftover steak and baked potato, kids ate chicken tenders and fries.
1/6: I had salad and whole wheat pastini, the kids rejected the pastini and ate tortillas, bananas, cookies and milk. Carb city.
1/7: Kids had Velveeta Shells n Cheese with the sitter. I had carrots and merlot when I got home later. The dog ate my dd1's favorite teddy bear.
1/8: tortilla w/ peanut butter for dd, bologna and cheese sandwich for ds, bologna sandwich for me.
1/9: McDonald's

[Alyantavid]

1-ate at my mom's *ds2 & I had lunch out
2-out for dh's work party
3-zesty grilled hamsteak, baked potatoes, stir fried veggies, berry cobbler for dessert
4-tomato soup, rolls
5-quesadillas *dh had lunch out
6-dinner at my mom's
7-fried potatoes and onions, eggs *we got takeout, long story
8-pizza
9-meatloaf, mashed potatoes, corn
10-potato and ham soup for dh and I, leftover tomato soup and quesadillas for the kids, french bread

[caiesmommy]

We cook vegan...I'll write when not vegan

1. Lunch-leftover enchalada casserole w homemade tomatillo sauce(WICKED!)
Dinner-All you can eat veg sushi-G/C from xmas(I don't count it as eating out)
2. Chickpea potato curry w tossed salad and roasted eggplant
3. Homemade pizza w coleslaw and carrot sticks
4. New meal-chop suey w toasted almonds on rice, roasted eggplant, carrot sticks. Ds gobbled it up! Dd tried lentils for the first time and gobbled them up! YAY!
5. I mad a yummy soup based on this curry recipe http://theppk.com/recipes/dbrecipes/...ipeID=143..but changed quite a bit
6. Veggie stir fry with almonds on noodles
7 Homemade pizza AGAIN..ds is on a kick
8. Dh's night to cook-AND HE COOKED! Split pea/10 bean mix soup with tons of veggies. It was really a thick stew. Roasted potatoes, penne noodles(?why? no idea) and salad...he confused me with everything but the soup.
9. Leftover penne noodles w tomato egplant sauce/hemp seeds. With a salad of lettuce/onion/tom./peppers/olives/peas/corn and leftover potatoes
10.Take out veggie burgers

[ursusarctos]

1. Chicken soup
2. Tuna and macaroni
3. Spinach soup and hardboiled eggs
4. Pasta bolognese
5. Lentil-kidney bean-carrot-curry soup
6. Change of plans, ate leftovers and bread. And chips. Made pea soup before bed.
7. Vegetarian pea soup, wonderful fresh italian lamb sausage, cabbage sauteed in the drippings
8. Stewed lamb and veggies, boiled botatoes, leftover sauteed cabbage
9. Leftover lamb and potatoes in lemon-dill sauce made from the stew broth, cabbage baked in butter
10. Dal and brown rice
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[lucifugous]

[QUOTE=lucifugous;14910192]1- homemade pizza, 1 pepperoni and 1 onion, red pepper, black olive. made a white bean soup
2- homemade biscuits and gravy with pot roast leftovers. made "healthy no-bake cookies"
3- chicken & pasta casserole (I had enough for two last week), yummy salad. whole wheat banana bread with flax & ground oatmeal.
4- FFY. linguine marinara for a late lunch...
5- I made my first whole chicken! in the crock, rubbed it with salt, pep & paprika, and set it up in the slow cooker with lemon, garlic and rosemary... kind of like here, but with paprika. - I saved the white bean soup! - Made medium grain brown rice & added frozen peas toward the end.
6- late snack- homemade pizza with roasted eggplant & goat cheese.. a little bit of leftover dough got made into a solitary cinnamon roll sort of thing, for which I even made icing.
7- I made the brown rice with peas again and used some strategic positioning to hide it in the fridge, since it got scarfed down so quickly last time :P leftover chicken, some zucchini... chips and salsa after the baby went to bed...
8- had a yummy salad for lunch, enchiladas with leftover chicken for dinner!
9- Mojadra- lentils and rice (a little salt) topped with seasoned carmelized onions (a little salt, cumin, coriander, pinch of cayenne) and yogurt mixed with dill.
10- pasta with shrimp, leeks, broccoli, and a little red pepper & olive oil. making a cake tonight so it will be ready to frost in the morning... might make some cookies too O: )
11- lunch out with my dad for my brother's birthday.

eventually...:
Three Sisters Stew (from FtWF)
pot roast with parsnips
also planning to make this parsnip soup a couple of you are making!
leftovers with make-ahead mashed potatoes
lentils w/ spinach (thank you LizzyQ!), roasted carrots
lemon & garlic quinoa salad (FtWF)

OK I am glad I'm not the only one wanting to make everything, as well as hearing complaints about too much soup! Bread bowls are a fabulous idea, my home made bread could probably "sell" anything that would fit inside it

[Mirta]

Home cooking Challenge:
1/1 Chicken, rice, broccoli & rolls
1/2 spaghetti & garlic bread
1/3 migraine & was asleep during dinner..DH bought fast food for family
1/4 Chicken w/ Rosemary herb spice mix, sweet potato & mixed veg
1/5 Lunch planned eat out; Brinner (DH wasn't home) cereal & toast for me/ leftover french toast for DS
1/6 Mexican Lasagna Yummy--perhaps even better the next day!! But even cut in half, this makes a HUGE dish!
1/7 Chicken Spaghetti
1/8 Leftover Mexican Lasagna
1/9 Chicken & dumplings
1/10 DH & DS Planned Dinner out (friends paid! ) I had Leftovers)

[isosmom]

1. everyone was some place else except ds2 and I, so we just snacked, nothing of note
2. roasted butternut squash with sesame oil and soy sauce over brown rice (spent $14 at the farmer's market on apples, broccoli, kale, and mandarins)
3. bean and cheese pupusas, pinto beans, green salad with walnuts, spinach, romaine, carrots, and broccoli
4. cheese tortollini for the kids and spaghetti for me, both with tomato sauce and steamed broccoli
5. potato tacos with sauteed onions, pintos, avocado, and cheese on flour tortillas. we'll also have some sort of green vegetable in there somewhere (spent $11 at the produce market on onions, avocado, apples, limes, and muesli)
6. chicken nuggets and sausages for the kids and dh, roasted fingerlings, roasted broccoli and cauliflower, rolls, brown rice, roasted butternut squash
7. potato and tomato soup, crackers, pupusas
8. veggie stir fry, ginger tofu, rice
9. I was so tired after dd's bday party we ordered pizza out
10. macaroni and cheese, carrots, sandwiches

[Jenn_M]

Family of 4. DH and I both WOH. Girls and I eat Breakfast, snack, lunch at work/school/daycare.

1) baked turkey, pasta salad, green veggie
2) Applebees (will use $50 GC from Christmas)
3) turkey pot pie, salad
4) eggs and toast
5) cereal
6) spaghetti (sauce in crockpot), salad
7) fettuccine Alfredo with chicken
8) leftovers
9) leftovers again and probably PB&J for the girls
10) cheeseburgers and steak fries
11) Marlboro Man Sandwich, green salad
12) (planned) sesame noodles, grilled chicken breast
13) (planned) Indian Spiced Lentils with Chicken
14) (planned) leftovers

[Alyantavid]

1-ate at my mom's *ds2 & I had lunch out
2-out for dh's work party
3-zesty grilled hamsteak, baked potatoes, stir fried veggies, berry cobbler for dessert
4-tomato soup, rolls
5-quesadillas *dh had lunch out
6-dinner at my mom's
7-fried potatoes and onions, eggs *we got takeout, long story
8-pizza
9-meatloaf, mashed potatoes, corn
10-potato and ham soup for dh and I, leftover tomato soup and quesadillas for the kids, french bread
11-fried potatoes and eggs we didn't have last week

[_ktg_]

I only post dinners, and I'll noted if a meal is veggie only.

January

1 - Shrimp cocktail, leaf lettuce salad, N.Y. steaks, mashed potatoes & wilted spinach (Happy New Year!)
2 - Roasted Chicken, root veggies (squash, rutabaga, & green apple) with simple risotto
3 - Pot Roast with veggies (carrots, brussel sprouts, potato, green bean) & mashed potatoes
4 - Leftovers
5 - Speghetti w/ meatballs & spinach salad
6 - Leftover Jambalaya with extra shrimp from NY dinner.
7 - Beef Stew with rice
8 - Chicken Tikka Masala & sliced mango
9 - Dinner out - StoneFire Pizza for a birthday
10 - BBQ night/Football Sunday (Ribs, BBQ Chicken, Wings, Dips, Chips)
11- Leftovers

[Ianthe]

Everything cooked at home is vegan & Lunch is usually FFY and/or leftovers

1. Creole Black Eyed Peas
2. Bombay Potatoes/Chickpeas and basmati rice
3. FFY
4. Pasta Della California
5. Sauteed Seitan with Mushrooms & Spinach over Quinoa & rutabagas on the side
6. Lemony spinach Potatoes & chickpeas with basmati rice
7. Lentils with Spinach and basmati rice
8. Lunch Out (Paid with Xmas gift card) Pasta Della California
9. Italian beans and rice
10. Lunch Out We were out and didn't bring snacks / Dinner: curried rice & chickpeas
11. (School night) FFY


12. (T) Black Bean and Sweet Potato Enchilada Pie
13. (W) Chili and chips
14. (Th) Garam Masala Parnsip Soup
15. (F) Homemade pizza with uncheese sauce
16. (S) Teriyaki Tofu/Veggies over brown rice
17. (Su) Wild Risotto & Roasted Potatoes


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(Keeping track so I remember some yummy recipes!)