MENU: 9/11/14 - 9/17/14

I have four new recipes this time around. I love it when each recipe we try is worth making again! I already shared three of them on Facebook, so they'll be repeats for some of you, but I just added another one yesterday while I was getting this post typed up. Recipe links are in green, so click the ones that interest you!

* Dutch oven game hens with gravy - We were given some game hens and I'd never cooked them before, so I did a little online searching for what to do with them. This recipe turned out great and we'll try subbing a whole chicken next time.

* Costa Rican-style tilapia with pineapple, black beans, and rice - I had a partial bag of tilapia fillets in the freezer, along with our regular stash of crockpot beans, so I searched for recipes that used tilapia and black beans. This sounded good and we all liked it.

*  crockpot roast with peppers & tomatillos - Sammy suggested this way to cook some beef we were given, so Tim threw it all together for dinner one day and it was delicious.

* fruit & nut granola bars - I've had this recipe torn from a magazine for a few years and finally got around to trying them. Everyone thought they were good.

I don't have any advanced cooking planned this week and didn't try any DF versions of anything last week, so we'll jump right into the next menu. We'll be delivering a meal to a family where the mom's on bedrest this week, so I've made note of the things we'll be making extras of.

BREAKFASTS
* doughnuts (we have these at church, though we always have some dry roasted almonds, fruit, and/or cottage cheese at home or on the road first)
* oatmeal with brown sugar, cinnamon, milk, peanut butter, maple almond butter, raisins, dried cranberries, fruit, huh-koe-pee milk, and/or energy mix as optional toppings/yogurt, fruit, & spinach smoothies x3
* egg, potato (I often bake an oven rack's worth once a week and pop them in the fridge for breakfasts,other times I dice them right before cooking), & spinach or kale scramble x2

* Rebecca's granola (some will get delivered to another family)

DINNERS

* leftovers

* tacos - seasoned meat, crockpot beans from the freezer, and some other toppings served in a tortilla, bowl, or over a pile of greens (we'll be delivering one set of taco fixings to another family)
* sesame honey chicken (crockpot)/rice/garlic green beans (we ended up skipping these last week)
* roasted broccoli/Cuban black beans and coconut rice
* new recipe
* upside down pizza (we'll use fake milk and leave cheese off one edge)/sauteed & seasoned squash
* brown rice lentil salad over spinach

SNACKS & DESSERTS

* produce 

* nuts - pistachios & dry roasted almonds

* popcorn (kernels from the Winco bulk department & learning to pop them well on the stovetop)

* Klondike bars from a friend & a popsicle for Teebs (didn't do these last week)
* blueberry oat muffins (we'll make a DF version)