Menu Plan

 

 

Week 1

Friday
B - Baked beans
L - Wontons in broth
D - Chinese Chicken Wings/Tofu (Mums recipe) with fried rice

Saturday
B - Oatmeal with chia seeds
L - leftovers
D - Winter Lentils (Laura Calder - French Food at Home) with fresh cheese and brocollini

Sunday
B - Crepe Suzette
L - -
D - Roast chicken, creamy polenta and roast vegetables

Monday
B - Oatmeal with chia
L - Roast chicken sandwich/roast vegetable sandwich
D - Pumpkin soup with croutons and Lychee Kanteen

Tuesday
B - Baked beans
L - Pumpkin soup
D - Burritos

Wednesday
B - Avocado and tahini on toast
L - Brown rice bowl
D - Semolina gnocchi with a brown butter and almond sauce (Based on Maggie Beer recipe)

Thursday
B - Baked beans on toast
L - Brown rice sushi - tomago, pickled ginger and cucumber
D - leftovers

Week 2

Friday
B - Miso soup and brown rice
L - Sausage/Vegetable sausage sandwich
D - Dahl with naan (Food Safari)
Saturday
B - Baked beans
L - Miso soup
D - Lamb chops and roast vegetables

Sunday
B - Greek Eggs (Jill Dupleix - Lighten Up)
L - Mochi with sesame and ginger
D - Home made pizzas

Monday
B - Oatmeal with chia and blueberries
L - Melt
D - Prawn toast (based on a recipe from Practically Macrobiotic) with edamame and bean salad

Tuesday
B - Banana and nut muffin
L - Curried egg sandwich
D - Leftovers/Frozen meal

Wednesday
B - Avocado and tahini on toast
L - Salad box with cheese
D - Korean Calamari (Nigella Lawson - Nigella Kitchen)

Thursday
B - Peanut butter bread
L - Shopping day - out for lunch
D - Leftovers/Freezer meal

Blogging and a Menu

This is y last day of school holidays and usually I feel like I have not done anything worthwhile but these holidays I have done sooo much. But most importantly I got to see my best friend and Bride-to-be. I have not told many family and friends about my blog in the past but we were talking about food I was telling her all of the great food blogs that I follow and it led to me telling her about Vintage Bel.

Best Friend and Bride-to-Be

And now she is going to begin a blog about food! I am so excited and will share it with you as soon as she has it up and running.

Talking to my Best Friend and noticing that lately more people have been visiting my blog has led me to consider what I can do to make my blog more frequent and structured as it is a bit hit and miss at the moment - especially in regards to the frequency of new posts so I think that I am going to aim to blog twice a week. One week will be posts about vintage things and outfits etc and the alternate week will be food and my menu etc.

I notice that I have more traffic when photos of outfits are involved so I will try to remember to take more pictures of all of my vintage style outfits. I also have a tonne of vintage linen and homewares etc so will catalogue that too.

So this week is a food week because my menu is starting tomorrow.

Here it is:
Week One

Monday
B - Brown Rice and Miso
L - Provided at work. Husband - sandwich
D - Rice paper rolls with Satay Sauce

Tuesday
B - Oatmeal with agave and blueberries
L - Salad Box with a can of tuna
D - Steamed veggies with Miso

Wednesday
B - Peanut butter on toast and apple
L - Leftover veggies and brown rice
D - Chowder with croutons and aioli

Thursday
B - Cheese, Nuts and Fruit
L - Leftover chowder and roll
D - Pasta with Mint Pesto and Cheats Brulee (Donna Hay - Fast, Fresh, Simple p 74, p 118)



Friday
B - Brown Rice and Miso
L - leftover pasts
D - Lamb chops and roast Veggies

Saturday
B - Boiled egg and toast
L - French Onion Soup with Croutons (Food Safari)
D - Thai Fish Cakes and Salad (Donna Hay - Fast, Fresh, Simple p 134)



Sunday
B - Mushrooms on toast with preserved lemon
L - leftovers
D - Goats cheese souffle and salad

Week Two

This week I am hoping to clean out the pantry and use more of the unusual ingredients that my husband does not like, when he is working night shift.


Monday
B - Peanut butter on bread
L - Leftover fishcakes
D - Mochi and vegetables

Tuesday
B - Oatmeal with blueberries and agave
L - Salad box
D - Jap Chae

Wednesday
B - Brown Rice Bowl
L - leftovers
D - Polenta with mushrooms

Thursday
B - Muesli and yogurt
L - leftovers
D - Flatbread pizzas - husband cooking!

Friday
B - Brown Rice Bowl
L - Mac and Cheese
D - Takeaway/Leftovers

Saturday
B - Boiled egg and toast
L - Pumpkin and Red Lentil Soup
D - Gralic and Prawn Pasta (Donna Hay - Fast, Fresh, Simple p 76)

Sunday
B - Tofu Scramble/Scrambled Eggs
L - leftovers
D - Roast Veggie Quiche

Menu Planning - But no photos - again!!!!!

Ok so I still cannot find the battery recharger and may just have to face facts this week and use the Beau's much harder to use older camera.

Last week I went so over budget that I only had half this weeks budget to do a shop - and I really felt it because we signed our mortgage documents this week and I saw how much bah blah blah.  I know everyone is in the same boat.

There does seem to be quite a few vintage people looking into kitchen design etc because they are moving or are doing up their kitchen's.  Our new kitchen has NO storage space or pantry, or dishwasher so I will have to come up with some clever ideas on how to make everything fit once we move. I love the ingenious hidey holes in the kitchen posts over at 50s Gal.

Last week's highlights were Giada's gnocchi (be sure to really mash up the potatoes into the finest mush possible) and the Food Safari Spanakopita which was delicious with the unexpected taste of fresh dill.  I also made a Dahl from the Food Safari book which was amazing and made of things I had in the store cupboard.  I think it even tasted better than the one I have from the Indian restaurant.

This picture is from Food Network and is Giada's Gnocchi with Thyme Butter Sauce

This week I am not really using any cookbooks as I am trying just to use what we have to keep costs down, however some of the recipes I have made before.

12/02/10

B: Soft Polenta

L: Leftover's

D: Pumpkin risotto with lamb chops (boys)

13/02/10

B: Porridge with soy milk and agave 

L: Miso soup and rice

D: Polenta crusted pie with salad

14/02/10

B: Fried polenta with tamari

L: Rice Paper Wraps (vietnamese style)

D: Seafood Paella (as my Valentines present) with mussels, calamari, bugs and prawns

15/02/10

B: Porridge and miso soup

L: Caesar salad

D: Mexcian Monday

16/02/10

B: Soy milk smoothie

L: Leftovers

D: Mum's

17/02/10

B: Fried polenta

L: Empanadas made with leftover mexican and puff pastry

D: Grandma's

18/02/10

B: Tea and Toast

L: Grandma's leftovers (always roast vegetables) in frittatas

D: Prawn toasts and asian style broth

PS.  I promise a vintage related post this week - I have found dome great handbags!

Menu Planning - But no photos

But I have a good excuse - while trying to be all environmentally friendly we purchased rechargeable batteries and now I cannot find the charger anywhere so until then....  sorry.

Last week's highlight was definitely the Welsh Rarebit from my Good Housekeeping book.  It was so easy but very delicious - made ten thousand times easier if you have an easily cleanable double boiler.

Here is a picture of someone else's - it looked the most like mine.  Unfortunately however, I did not make that much.

The books that I'm using this week are Everyday Pasta by Giada De Laurentiis; 

and Food Safari Cookbook which is the result of a TV show that I love.

  

There is a link to Giada's site on the left.  If you click here you will be taken to the SBS website and a lot of the Food Safari recipes are there.  I'm in love with the Crepe Suzette from the French episodes.  We even got a crepe pan for our engagement so I will have to give that one a go.   Actually I will do a link for all of Food Safari under Feast on the left so if you like it you don't have to hunt around for this post in the future.

5/02/10

B: Miso soup and fried polenta with breakfast mushrooms (Grandma's recipe)

L: Spanakopita and Greek Salad (Food Safari p 70 and 73 respectively)

D: Pork chops with apple sauce (the boys) and roast veggies for all

6/02/10

B: Porridge

L: Leftovers

D: Gnocchi with a tomato sauce (Gnocchi is from Everyday Pasta p 109)

7/02/10

B: Rice with gomashio and miso soup

L: Leftovers or go and get sushi

D: Baked fore quarter lamb chops (for the boys) - the same marinade on tofu for me and mash (will be interesting to try tofu and mash together)

8/02/10

B: Fried polenta

L: Roast vegetable and lentil salad

D: Mexican Monday

9/02/10

B: Tea and toast

L: Tomato Jelly with verjuice (based on a Maggie Beer idea - but going to use agar agar for the first time.  Fingers crossed) and avocado

D: Mum's

10/02/10

B: Boiled egg and toast fingers

L: Leftover's

D: Grandma's

11/02/10

B: Porridge

L: Cannelini Bean Soup with toast and a side salad

D: Baked penne with roasted veggies (Everyday Pasta p 89)