Menu Plan "Monday" - Week of June 28, 2020


My butternut squash plant with SO many blossoms!

How is it becoming July already this week?  Wow!  I feel like time has it's own pace these days  - "Is it really only Tuesday?" "Oh, wait it's already Friday!"  Seriously, All of a sudden, July is arriving!  I thought it was still March....  okay, maybe not March, but April....or something.

It is Independence Day this weekend in the U.S. - "July 4th!", as it is sometimes called.   We will have a quiet weekend at home.  Neighbors have started setting off some (illegal) fireworks already and we have been treated to several impromptu shows.  A nearby park had a show last Friday and we enjoyed that from our back yard as well.   The warm weather has arrived just in time and the squash are setting blossoms, the tomatoes, beans and cucumbers are setting fruit.  We harvested lettuce and blueberries this past week.  I am thinking we may have cucumbers by the end of this week.  We will see!

Here is what we are eating this week:

Sunday, June 28:
     Brunch: Pancakes and Scrambled Eggs
     Snack:  Popcorn
     Dinner: Sausage Hash with Potatoes, Carrots and Brussels Sprouts 

Monday, June 29, My Parent's 63rd Wedding Anniversary:
     Breakfast: Bagels with Cream Cheese
     Lunch: Salad with chicken, cubed apples and Craisins.
     Snack: Yogurt
     Dinner: Roasted Veggie Couscous, Tortilla Chips

Tuesday, June 30:
      Breakfast: Blueberry-Banana Smoothies
      Lunch: Leftover Couscous
      Snack: No Bake Energy Bites
      Dinner: Roasted Chicken with Broccoli and Cauliflower

Wednesday, July 1:
      Breakfast: Overnight Maple Walnut Oatmeal
      Lunch: Leftover Couscous
      Snack: Yogurt
      Dinner: Hamburger Gravy, Potatoes, Salad with Cucumber and Tomatoes

Thursday, July 2:
       Breakfast: Overnight Maple Walnut Oatmeal
       Lunch: Leftover Hamburger Gravy and Potatoes
       Snack: No Bake Energy Bites
       Dinner: Zucchini-Potato Pancakes with Roasted Carrots, Onions and Cabbage

Friday, July 3:
       Breakfast: Bagels with Cream Cheese
       Lunch: Leftover Zucchini-Potato Pancakes
       Snack: No Bake Energy Bites
       Dinner: Homemade Pizza

Saturday, July 4, Independence Day:
       Brunch: Buttermilk Coffee Cake, Red-White-and-Blue Fruit Salad
       Dinner: Grill Out with Hamburgers on Buns with Lettuce, Tomato and Pickles, Corn on the Cob, Pasta Salad 
        Snack/Dessert: Homemade Ice Cream, Sugar Cookies

What will you be eating this week?

Popular posts from this blog

Frugal Friday - The End of 2016

Image
Another spectacular sunrise - we were so very spoiled by these this year!  I enjoyed every one of them! Nothing like completely forgetting I had a blog for month, right?  I didn't forget about everyone - I promise.   December ended up being ridiculously busy and very spare moment was spent with family and friends and on grading, as the term ended not that long ago.    My parents were visiting for 3 weeks (they returned home to sunny and slightly warmer Texas yesterday) and the children had their Sunday school program, their school Christmas program, and a school fun-day to end the term and John had 3 funerals and two graveside burials.  Then there's always the rush of Christmas and all the services that comes with being a Pastor's family.  I am very, very ready for a quiet start to the new year! I have some New Year's posts already planned and partially written, so look for those next week.  In the meantime, here are som...
Read more

Menu Plan Monday - Week of January 17, 2021

Image
Peas from my garden last summer.  We are cold and snowy with a lot of ice right now!  Not my favorite weather.  So, to cheer myself up I am starting to plan my garden for next summer!  I am hoping that I will be able to grow at least enough tomatoes and cutting flowers for both my parents (who are moving 1 1/2 blocks away from us in about 2 months - hurray!) and our house as well.   I am so grateful that we have 1/5 acre lot for our home that we can grow vegetables flowers and (currently) a single tree.  It makes me so happy and provides some very fresh produce for our family.  I love the physical act of gardening, both flowers and vegetables, and I love the taste of vegetables fresh from the garden.  A win-win in my book for sure! The name of the game this week is to eat up as much of the fresh stuff as we can so it's easy to move the refrigerator downstairs for our remodel.  They start knocking out walls and cutting holes in the outsid...
Read more

Menu Plan Monday and a Little Shopping

Image
Our CSA boxes have looked pretty much like this the last two weeks - though in varying amounts and this last week we got green onions too.  Here we have in the front row: Broccoli, raspberries, green & purple beans, and peas.  Back Row: Lettuce, cucumbers, cauliflower, a mutant cross between a zucchini and a patty pan squash, green and purple kohlrabi and a clove of garlic.  We'll see what we get this week!  I blanched and froze the peas since we have a ton of those and we can't seem to eat through them fast enough.  I have a whole head of cabbage leftover from a few weeks ago in the crisper drawer too.  Two weeks ago we got 5lbs of cherries - they're all gone now (I was hoping to freeze some) having been eaten by my parents and my children!  I can't eat cherries so I was okay with that! I went to the store this weekend with a gift card and spend $22 on milk, peaches, apples, carrots (those aren't ready yet in the garden) and some fr...
Read more