Even though I try to meal plan, I usually find it more helpful to write out what we actually ate in any given week. This past week was a very functional week of dinner – just about the simplest and fastest ways to get dinner on the table and everyone fed. I think it will be like this for a few weeks since 3 out 5 of us will be at a rehearsal or performance every night of the week.
Monday: Barley Vegetable Soup – from the freezer. I’m not even sure when we made this.
Tuesday: Mac and Cheese and green beans and waffles. Waffles are one of those things that are easy for me to prep ahead on nights when I have to work. I put together the dry ingredients and the Husband add the wet when he gets home. I made savory cornmeal waffles from the King Arthur Baking book, and it was really really tasty – like Mexican food in waffle form.
Wednesday: Ribollita Soup. This wasn’t a great recipe. It was too acidic for our tastes – I think too much crushed tomato? I might throw some pasta in the leftovers to make it more like a pasta dish.
Thursday: Hallowe’en. We went to a Friend’s house and they fed us. Veggies, and dip and pizza before trick or treating, and chicken wings and salad after trick or treating.
Friday: We had dinner out with friends that were visiting. The Husband and I shared sandwiches – a fig, prosciutto and brie sandwich and a BLT. We had fried portabellos for an appetizer that was really tasty.
Saturday: the Husband and two littles had pizza and watched Dispicable Me 4 at home. I had dumplings (from the freezer) at work. The 12 year old went to the opera with friends. I think they had pizza and fries. She sent me a picture!
Sunday: I worked late and had Wednesday’s ribollita in a tortilla. It was a little soggy. Not sure what the Husband made for the kids, but the house smelled really nice when I got home. I love walking into a house that smells like home-cooked dinner.
What was your favorite meal last week?
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We’ve been trying to track both what we planned and what actually happened for dinner since school started to better identify the meals / nights that we “give up on” on the regular, haha, to have better backup plans. So far, we’ve identified anything too ambitious on the plan for Wed means we end up with takeout salads or soups and no one wants to cook on Friday nights, haha!
I was at my parents’ house for the week and it was SO delightful to have my mom cook for me again. She made some of my favourite things – a bean salad, a stew with baked potatoes, apple crisp.
Now I’m home and food is my responsibility. Tonight is a pureed broccoli soup with Naan bread (we’ll see how this goes over with the kids), and tomorrow will be baked chicken, potato, and fiddleheads as the veggie.
For about a year we had waffles every Friday night and I miss that tradition. I keep meaning to bring it back and for some reason it keeps getting thwarted (my son has basketball practice right before supper so we don’t have our regular end-of-the-week groove in place). Anyway, thanks for reminding me that I MUST MAKE WAFFLES. They are so delicious 🙂
Barley soup sounds so good. I was planning on doing some for the soup challenge Julie is hosting.
Last week my favorite was probably homemade enchiladas. I didn’t go shopping and had nothing in the fridge or so I thought and then I whipped up some enchiladas. So good.
My favorite meal last week was likely the red lentil soup I made, it’s one of my favorite recipes. What ribollita recipe did you use? I’m thinking I will make some this week, I love Giada’s recipe from Foodnetwork. My husband is low carb, and my daughter is vegetarian, but I think I could serve the panchetta and the toasted bread on the side. The soup won’t have exactly the same flavor, but we’ll survive.
The sandwiches you shared both sound delicious, I love a good BLT(A), and fig and brie is heavenly.
We meal plan every week (have for years) and it works really well for us. We usually plan 5-6 meals and then have 1-2 days where we do leftovers or takeout. We reduced our food waste to almost zero.
I love barley soup (don’t know many people who cook with barley), so thanks for the reminder. I’ll put it on our meal planning list again soon!
Well, now I’m craving waffles. Dinner has been an ongoing struggle for me for a while now. I don’t enjoy cooking anymore, yet somehow we all have to eat! my favorite meal last week… I made a “cozy curry noodle soup” which was good! We also had takeout twice, heh heh.