MENU MONDAY - 5/29/17

My next and final goal, now that I've gotten back in the swing of delegating a lot of cooking responsibilities and have started to do more advanced cooking again, is to dredge up old recipes we haven't made in a long time. My goal is one per week, but I'm not going to lose sleep if I don't get it done. This week, though, I'm making a bean salad that's similar to what you get at a deli. We haven't had it in years!

We made a spontaneous batch of rosemary white bean dip for lunch one day last week with rosemary from the back yard and dried beans I'd previously cooked in the crockpot and frozen. I don't make a lunch menu, but that's a good recipe worth sharing.

NEW RECIPES FROM LAST WEEK
* no new recipes last week

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.)
* garbanzos in the crockpot for the freezer
* peanut butter
* seasoned mix of black & pinto beans (crockpot, freezer)

BREAKFAST
* sweet green muffins
* egg & veggie scramble
* doughnuts at church
* 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

DINNER
* leftovers (every Sunday so that we can have a day off from cooking)
* death by garlic with sausage / balsamic roasted brussels sprouts
* creamed eggs & toast / smoothies
* mandarin chicken pizza
* Mexican baked eggs with black beans, tomatoes, & chiles / rice
* meatballs & marinara (both from the freezer) over brown rice / best bean salad
* lentils & rice over lettuce

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.)
* lemon brownies

Notes: 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 few years and have been pleased with their products.

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