This past week began like every other week with good intentions, knowing we would go out to celebrate TheHub's birthday. Of course I had forgotten the Greek Food Festival which we always either attend or do take out. Then we had an unplanned and unexpected Saturday occurrence which altered our day, so all aims to use a lot from the freezer went out the window along with most cooking. And all of a sudden the week had passed and time flew out the window.
Monday: Since I had taken the duck breasts out to thaw, I was committed to cooking them Monday. The bonus came serendipitously when I was deciding what side dishes to have.
Duck with orange ginger sauce, cauliflower slices sautéed in duck fat, tomato slices
Tuesday: I had planned to really cook but when I was looking through the fridge I decided to go ahead and have the leftover cheeseburger casserole. TheHub did not want it but I remembered I had frozen some leftovers from a couple of weeks ago
Leftover cheeseburger casserole with salad or leftover frozen ziti with salad.
Wednesday: We try to have a vegetable meal at least once a week. This was that day. (Except that TheHub added something left from one of his lunches)
Squash casserole, okra, corn on the cob or none, leftover chicken or none
Thursday: We have always gone out to eat for our birthdays . Thursday we celebrated TheHub at Jubilee Joe's
Soft shell crab and fixings or grilled grouper salad
Friday: Each year during the fall The Greek Food Festival is held downtown. We go and either eat there or drive through.. This was one of those drive through years. I was bummed out because I did not have room in the freezer to get the pans of frozen pastichio or the koularakias I usually buy.
Greek chicken, rice pilaf, tossed salad.
Saturday: After a late lunch following a funeral, we were not very hungry.
Dip with chips or pork skins, peanut butter and jelly sandwich (or none)
Sunday: Son2 and Dil2 came over to have another birthday celebration dinner for TheHub.
Grilled lamb chops, new potatoes, green beans, tossed salad, rolls (no birthday cake because we are not doing sugar)
Used from the freezer:
2 duck breast
rack of lamb
2 packs green beans
Put in the freezer:
Nothing
Planned for the week:
1.Vegetable beef soup, cornbread
2.Grilled fish, tossed salad, something else
3.Stuffed bell peppers, Brussels sprouts, brown rice
4.Crack chicken, tossed salad, green beans
5.Hamburgers and fixings or Sloppy Joe's and coleslaw
6.Takeout
7.Whatever happens with whatever I thaw. No inspiration here
Maybe this will happen and maybe not. Who knows?
Have a great week staying on plan, going off plan, or with no plan at all!
Oops, forgot to post this morning!
Duck with orange ginger sauce sounds delicious!
ReplyDeleteI thought I had ordered something from the Greek Festival that I did not. That was a bummer.
ReplyDeleteI intentionally did not order the pasta or cookies but ti does not feel like a real trip to the festival coming home without them. I know how to make both of them, but it is just not the same.
DeleteEven your falling off the plan dishes sound impressive to me. And hooray for Greek food.
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DeleteOr not is often my real menu. Last night I made butternut squash ravioli from Trader Joe's in a mushroom sauce. Ravioli was good, sauce was good, but together was not right. Between Vic's trip highlights and hearing Greek festival, I really want a gyro with loads of tatziki sauce.
ReplyDeleteOr not happens here a lot because I cook subject to my moods. . We have a local Greek restaurant that makes great tatziki. Sometimes I run by and order just that. It rounds out some boring meals.
DeleteYum. Now I want to go to souvlaki.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to watch Rocky Horror picture show again.
Usually we get a plate of souvlaki to bring home for the next day. I guess since we were having lamb chops on Sunday that was my reasoning to leave without it. But now I am regretting it!
DeleteIt's always fun to hear something from the Rocky Horror picture show. With COVID, the last two years have felt like a time warp.
ReplyDeleteThat is absolutely the truth!
DeleteBoth of my children saw THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW and they saw the play. This video you posted is the closest I ever came. Thanks for enlightening me. My freezer is filled with frozen meals and not good stuff like yours.
ReplyDeleteI have seen both and really do like it for all of its campiness. I have a friend that we have only referred to as Dammit Janet since the first time I ever saw it. (decades ago)
DeleteHaving lived 5 min. from the sponge docks in Tarpon Springs, I miss me some good Greek fare! Guess I'll be content with leftover pork stew; perhaps a wilted spinach/bacon stir-fry.
ReplyDeleteWe have eaten at restaurants in Tarpon springs and I know exactly what deliciousness you miss!
DeletePlan or no plan, you definitely eat better than we do here. I try to hide as many veg as I can in the meals I make for my son. He's pretty good at picking them out. :p
ReplyDeleteHappy belated birthday to your husband.
TheHub and I are vegetable eaters so there is no one being picky about much of anything here!
DeleteOh my, The Time Warp is one of my favourite songs! Seriously! Did you ever try counting how many times Susan Sarandon fainted in that movie??? A few years ago my sister, her hubs and daughter went to some kind of shindig that was Rocky Horror Show related and they did this dance (all dressed up of course). My sister would have been in her 60s at that time and you know what - I would love to join them next time!
ReplyDeleteWe first saw RHS when the movie came out and toast was flying and water guns were squirting while you covered your head with newspaper. I am glad that the first time we saw it was an immersive, participatory experience..
DeleteGood for your sister and her husband!
I have never cooked duck, and I remember eating it as a child and not liking it at all. Too gamey for me. I am thinking chili and corn bread some time this week.
ReplyDeleteThis was not wild duck. It was farm raised and not gamey at all.
DeleteTheHub wanted chili instead of soup but I had a bag of random veggies from dinners past taking up space in the freezer.
Greek food sounds like a good change from what I've been cooking lately -- tatziki sounds inspired! Trader Joe's grape leaves too. Of course I think only one meal ahead when there are just the 2 of us. So maybe for dinner today or tomorrow.
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I am trying (and not winning) to use food from the freezer. I guess I should start having dinner parties again(thanks Covid) to use more of the items.
DeleteIt sounds like you had several very tasty meals during the week, even if you didn't quite keep to the plan. :) I have beef vegetable soup on the stove as I type this! I was thinking of having toast with it, but, cornbread sounds delicious!
ReplyDeleteEspecially since I cooked very little. Very, very little!
DeleteEnjoy your soup!
I love duck and almost never cook it. Maybe because I never buy it? Funny how that works! I gotta make an effort to purchase it more often. And about your post about the trolls -- SO annoying, aren't they?
ReplyDeleteI have decided that we should have duck at least every other month.
DeleteThe trolls are annoying and so blooming unnecessary!
I'm so bad at planning diners. Greek Food Festival sound tasty :)
ReplyDeleteThe Greek Food Festival is a fun annual event!
Deletei've said it before but i do admire your food planning. mine is so ad hoc!:)
ReplyDeleteAd hoc works just as well as planning. I rarely stick to the plan anyway!
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