Overview … My weekly menu plan for this Wednesday called for: Protein: Pork Chops Starchy Side: Squash Vegetable: Cucumber The pork dishes in this menu plan have all turned out nicely, so the temptation to repeat one was great. The little voice inside me though was giving me a guilt trip reminding me that I had […]
Overview … My weekly menu plan for this Sunday called for: Protein: Crab meat Starchy Side: Rice Vegetable: Spinach When I visited my fishmonger Jimmy last week I turned up my nose at some VERY expensive frozen lobster meat, which I later regretted quite sincerely after trying frozen canned lobster from my local grocer instead. This […]
Overview … My weekly menu plan for this Sunday called for: Protein: None! Starchy Side: Lasagna Vegetable: Things that go in lasagna Many years ago we had a serious lasagna craving, and we satisfied it a little too well. We ate so much lasagna that we kind of turned ourselves off of it for a little while. Now […]
Overview … My weekly menu plan for this Monday called for: Protein: Scallops Starchy Side: Sweet Potatoes Vegetable: Lettuce Some people might accuse me of being single-mindedly fixated on preparing scallops the same way every time I make them, and those people would be right. I can make no apologies however because the end result […]
Overview … Aaah Saturday, one of the most perfect days ever conceived. And so my weekly menu plan for this Saturday called for the following: Protein: Trout Starchy Side: Rice Vegetable: Fiddleheads Having spent the bulk of my dormant culinary life BBQing and fast-frying almost exclusively, the magic of trout had nearly always eluded me. It wasn’t until […]