MENU: 9/3/15 - 9/9/15

Oh, we tried so many new recipes last week! Plus Devon and Naomi made an unplanned batch of zuke cookies and I made cucumber sunomono, chocolate chip peanut butter bars, and apple & cranberry green salad for a potluck with extended family. We'll start things off with links to the new things we tried, then jump into the things we'll be eating over the next week.

NEW RECIPES
* Holden veggies - A rainbow of seasoned veggies that can be served over rice, on haystacks, or eaten plain.
* peach & chicken green salad - I used some Zaycon chicken from our freezer stash, peaches from a local orchard, and a few other things we had on hand for this salad. I thought it was tasty!
* eggplant parmesan - I hate eggplant. Always have. And then a friend's kid snuck some in one of my garden harvest bags, another friend suggested trying this recipe ... and I liked it enough to have seconds! Miraculous.
* coconut peach cobbler - We used more of the peaches I mentioned earlier to make this delicious dessert.

ADVANCED COOKING (These aren't always planned, so they'll often be things I did the previous week.)
* I stemmed a ton of kale, sent it through the food processor, and popped it in the freezer.
* I'll be grating and freezing a bunch of zukes.
* We'll make peanut butter and crockpot beans, just like we do once or twice every week.

BREAKFASTS
* egg & veggie scramble
* nutty fruity granola
* doughnuts at church
* oatmeal with brown sugar, cinnamon, milk, homemade peanut butter, maple almond butter, raisins, dried cranberries, fresh or frozen fruit, huh-koe-pee milk, and/or energy mix as optional toppings x4

DINNERS
* spicy pesto chicken/corn on the cob/roasted broccoli
* rice, kale, & eggs
* lentils & rice
* new recipe/rice/garlic green beans
* beef eldorado/apple & cranberry green salad
* tacos - seasoned meat from the freezer, crockpot beans, and some other toppings served in a tortilla or bowl, as a salad over a pile of greens, or with mound of rice
* leftovers

SNACKS & DESSERTS
* new recipe
* produce
* popcorn with seasoned salt (kernels from the WinCo bulk department that get popped in my Lodge Dutch oven, but you can see my thoughts on both the wonderful Dutch oven and the fantastic West Bend Stir Crazy in this post. )

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