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

Menu Planning and a Celebration

This week coming the Beau an I will have settlement on our first home.  I am so excited to have our own place and be able to have privacy and be free to do whatever we like.  At the moment we live in a noisy building in a popular spot.  For example, even though it's 11 am on a Tuesday I can hear building works, cars, people walking past, lifeguards on a megaphone and a garbage truck.  So it's good bye to to all that - though I will miss the view and the spectacular weather changes we get to see coming in from out at sea.

Here are some pictures that we have taken from our time here:

This is the view from the kitchen

This is Dee Why Beach at sunset.

An amazing storm front moving out to sea

This is the crowd we get on a public holiday

This is Beau with the other end of the beach in view - Long Reef

A beautiful rainbow after a quick sun shower.

I am back to menu planning this week so here we go:

18/3/10

B: Brown rice, gomashio and miso soup

L: Lunch out - shopping day - probably sushi

D: Greek salad (from Nigella's Forever Summer p 62), Pumpkin and Red Lentil Soup (Vegetarian Cooking)

19/3/10

B: Porridge with pear 

L: Falafel (from a box mix) with salad on whole-wheat pita bread.

D: Pappardelle with zucchini, sultanas and pine nuts (Nigella's Forever Summer p 32)

20/3/10

B: Toast with peanut butter

L: Leftover soup and bread

D: Grilled eggplant with feta, mint and chilli (Nigella Summer p 7), Cacik (Nigella's Forever Summer p 57) and lamp chops (for the boys)

21/3/10

B: Brown rice, gomashio and miso soup

L: Leftover eggplant and Cacik on pita

D: Prawn Curry (Nigella's Forever Summer p 73) - chickpeas for me and brown rice

22/3/10 - Settlement Day

B: Fruit salad with yoghurt

L: Leftover curry and rice

D: Celebration dinner

Bloody Mary and Oyster shooters Rouille

Avocado and verjuice jellies (Maggie's Kitchen p 83)

Homemade gnocchi with pumpkin, ricotta and spinach

Grilled octopus with (Maggie's Kitchen p 84)

Baked yoghurt tart with figs and hazelnuts (Cooking deserts p 125)

24/3/10

B: Summer Bircher

L: something leftover or a meal from the freezer

D: Mum's

25/3/10

B: Miso soup and fruit

L: Caponata (Nigella's Forever Summer p 152) and Zucchini Fritters (Nigella's Forever Summer p 156)

D: Grandma's

The books this week are some I have used before (click titles for more information):

Nigella's Forever Summer

Maggie's Kitchen by Maggie Beer

Vegetarian Cooking - A Commonsense Guide

Cooking Deserts