I posted my basic breakfasts lunches and snacks a few weeks ago and they are pretty standard. You can find them here. I will need to think these through, especially on Tuesday because we have a strangely packed week with two trips to Ann Arbor.
Dinner
Each week I am making a chicken ala Julia Child. I plan to start blogging that this week or next. I serve these with steamed green beans and mashed potatoes with gravy. Turkey Avocado Cobb salad. I will be using chicken thighs instead of the turkey. Turkey with green Mole. Again...chicken thighs. (I don't like turkey. Can you tell?) Palominlla Patty Melts with Yellow Mustard Slaw. I saw Rachael make these are her show and they do look yummy!
Some sort of Slow cooker concoction with bone in chicken thighs.
Last week I ran short on time... and energy. I didn't really plan or shop. I even pulled out some cookies from the freezer because, "we were having company." That caused the scale to become mean and ornery on me. So this week we plan. The MUFAs are in bold. I think the key to this diet is the planning and the eating..not so much the mufas. But the 400 calorie meals every 4 hours make it seem not so much like dieting.
Breakfasts:
Bob's Red Mill Steel cut Oats with cinnamon, maple syrup, nuts and rice milk made in Zojirushi rice maker. (It is ready when I wake up and lovely.)
or
Eggs fried in Olive Oil and toasted rice tortillas
Lunch choices:
Pizza: pesto, arugula, cheddar goat cheese using rice tortillas as crust. Bake for 10 min at 350F and top with fresh tomatoes.
Andrew turns 8 this week and I'm attempting to look for a GREAT GFCFEFSF birthday cake recipe. FIL is also coming over for dinner. And we have various other 'stuffs' going on.
Sunday: Lamb chops on the grill. Cook Chicken for DH sandwiches during the week. Monday: Pork Chops with sauteed eggplant side Tuesday: Roast- crock pot with onions and potatoes Wednesday: French Dip Sandwiches Thursday: Hamburgers (or Mediterranean Burgers) Friday: Pizza night!! Andrew's birthday Saturday: Andrew's party and Costco food!!!!!
Sunday: Burgers and Fries Monday: Chicken Nuggets w/ cornmeal crust Tuesday: Take out Pizza- cousins here Wednesday: Tuna Croquettes from Good Eats. (Substitute GF breadcrumbs.) Thursday: Vegetable Soup from Good Eats Friday: Leftovers
Other things I am making this week: Pumpkin Drop Baked Cookies (will have to find recipe to post) and quick bean salad w/ white beans and 'whatever' happens to be around.' I will post both of those sometime in the next weeks.
I found a few 'raw food' cookbooks at the Library. (Can you call them raw food 'cook' books?) I am just doing a general plan this week and here are some things I am trying that are 'raw' foods:
From RAWvolution Summer Corn Salad- made last night. very good Borcht - made for lunch. ummm..yucky:( and my kitchen looked like there had been a crime committed. Breakfast Bars Creamy Ranch Dressing Mock Tuna
I was able to find these cookbooks through inner-library loan. I don't think I can write any of the recipes here as that would be a copy write infringement but here is a link I found to the ingredients used in some of these recipes. I am also cooking meat for dinner for DH and DS...but keeping it simple. I made some chicken breasts for DH last night and will make some burgers too this week.
Last week I made two delicious recipes from Happy Foody including Raw Strawberry Pie and Raw Caesar Dressing. Both were delicious. I did not use the white miso for the dressing as soy is a no-no for me but I DID use the flax oil which I think gave it a great 'fishy' taste as Caesar dressing should have. I made plenty of smoothies. One day for lunch I was so hungry. Some friends had been over and by the time they left it was well past lunch so I put a bunch of frozen fruit in the blender thinking I was being such a good girl. Well, the bottom wasn't on and when I went to pour it in the glass it was ALL over the place....so lets just say I had Lays chips for lunch that day and leave it at that! My favorite juice combo however is a bunch of kale and parsley, a couple of stalks of celery and some green apple. Very good!
Here we are...at Menu Planning Day again. Last week I tried two recipes off of HappyFoody. The Raw Strawberry Pie is great and the Raw Caesar Dressing is very good. I did not use the miso in the dressing because I have problems with soy. I DID use the flax oil to mix with the pine nuts and I think that gave it a 'fishy' flavor of typical Caesar Dressing. I will be doing both of the recipes again for sure. I may even do the pie this week again if I get to the farm to get some fresh strawberries!
This week: Sunday: Leftover Lasagna Monday: Chicken Nuggets in baked cornmeal crust and vegetable Tuesday: Hamburgers and vegetable Wednesday: Steak on top of salad and veggies that come in my bi-weekly vegetable delivery Thursday- Sunday: heading "up north." I will have to plan for that but it will include lots of prepackaged yums and canned stuff.
I'm re-writing this today since we have had our two GFCF feasts (and I took some more food pictures.) We had Mark's sister and family over Saturday and then today (Christmas) my folks came over. For both we had the same side dishes. It was great...
Roasted Potatoes : simply roast red potatoes and sliced onions with salt, pepper and olive oil in a 425degree F oven.
Green beans: again..simply steam green beans and store in fridge until right before dinner. Quickly saute the beans with sliced, crushed or whole almonds at the last minute in some EVOO.
Tossed Salad with various veggies and some avocado and homemade croutons from Sugar Kisses gluten free brown bread. My dad noshed on the croutons not even knowing they were gluten free. I just cubed the bread, tossed with EVOO and salt and pepper and baked in a 400 degree F oven for about 8 minutes. (Keep an eye on them.)
On Saturday for the main dish : Ta variation of crockpot coconut chicken. I load approximately 4 pounds of boneless skinless chicken thighs in the crockpot, add 2 cans of light coconut milk and 2 cans of chopped tomatoes. I add some salt and pepper and a substantial dash of thyme. When it was done, I put the sauce through a gravy strainer that also took some of the grease away. It isn't really a 'gravy' but it is good on the potatoes.
For Christmas my folks bought some beef tenderloin and we cooked it up. It was wonderful.
Dessert: Namaste brownies with coconut ice cream (home-made- see below) and sides of warmed mistake fudge, chopped almonds and chocolate chips. This was incredible. Everyone liked the coconut ice cream and i was a bit nervous about that. I wish I had taken a picture of the dessert!
For the coconut ice cream: mix 2 cans coconut milk (NOT light), 1 can almond milk, 3/4 cup honey or agave and 'vanilla.' You can use gluten free vanilla however I had only vanilla beans. I scraped half a pod into the honey and then also put the pod in the honey for half the day to let it infuse. I put the mixture in the fridge for a few hours before loading it in the ice cream mixer.
On Christmas day we are having beef tenderloin instead of the chicken.
Can anyone guess what my present was from my SIL...COOKBOOKS!!! I'll put that in another post.
I finally made the breakfast cookies last week. YUM!!!! We only have 2 (maybe 3) that eat these so I made a whole batch of the dry ingredients, added half that to half the wet and stored the remainder of the dry for a later date. I can not stress this enough- try them. There are a LOT of ingredients and some were a bit expensive (rice protein)...but it got me thinking of other places to use those ingredients. Since this was a cupboard meal, you can certainly make substitutions and see how yours come out!!!
As for this week's meals. I do NOT feel inspirational!
Sunday: Tacos Monday: Potatoes w/ chili on top. Chili is in the freezer. I didn't get to this last week. Tuesday: Taco Salad;) Wednesday: Spaghetti or lasagna - depending on effort I want to expend. Would like to use the zucchinis I have in this. Thursday: Salads topped with Chicken and 'stuff.' Friday: Steak and broccoli Saturday: Whatever....
