MENU MONDAY - 4/24/17

We tried a new pancake recipe that was fine, but not good enough to make again. There's another new breakfast recipe on tap for this week and I'm hoping it will be a hit.

I keep slacking off on delegating more cooking to the little Ws, so that's something I'm going to be better about this week. I don't plan on spending much time in the kitchen myself. We'll see how it goes!


NEW RECIPES FROM LAST WEEK
* simple roasted pork tenderloin - This was delicious! Simple, yes, but moist and flavorful.

COOKING IN ADVANCE (These are often spontaneous projects, so they'll include things we did at the last minute the previous week and/or plan on doing in the upcoming one.)
* peanut butter in the food processor and a seasoned mix black and pinto beans in the crockpot, just like we do once or twice every week
* dry roasted almonds

BREAKFAST
* oatmeal with a rotation of the following toppings - 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 x4
* doughnuts at church
* egg & veggie scramble
* new recipe / plain Greek yogurt

DINNER
* leftovers (every Sunday so that we can have a day off from cooking, plus one other day this week because only two people will be home for dinner)
* Silas' enchiladas / lemon garlic cucumbers
* lentils & rice
* new recipe / balsamic roasted brussels sprouts
* creamy butternut pasta / frozen peas & corn
* orange cashew chicken & rice / bok choy with garlic & ginger

SNACKS & DESSERTS
* fruits and vegetables
* peanuts and dry roasted almonds
* popcorn with nutritional yeast, regular salt, or 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.)
* banana bread (I have pictures of the other two banana bread recipes - whole wheat and cream cheese - and will finally get a picture up for this one) 

Note: Any chicken breasts, 93/7 ground beef, applewood smoked ham, or pork tenderloins in our menus are from Zaycon Fresh. We've been making bulk purchases from them for a while and have been pleased with their products.

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