This week’s meal plan – garden a go go!
Our first Swillington Farm meat box arrived last Thursday night – all the (fresh) meat we’re eating this week (and hopefully for the next three weeks!) will come from that. Most of it went in the freezer so we’ll have it across the month and like a veg box, we don’t have any choice in what’s in there, so it should encourage us to some try different things. We had some of the bacon & some of the sausages for breakfast over the weekend and I also jointed the chicken – we froze the breasts (which each weighed over 250g/half a lb!) and had the rest on Saturday/Sunday. Tuesday’s soup comes from stock from the carcass – it was supposed to be for eating today but it’s far too hot for that today!
As for the title for this one – the garden is finally providing! We’ve been having spots of salad for a few weeks (much later than last year for some reason) but various things are finally starting to shine. I think there is something from our garden – either veg or eggs – in every meal, hurrah :)
Sunday breakfast – eggs & sausage
Sunday lunch – leftover chicken & potatoes, with homegrown garlicky broad beans & salad
Sunday dinner – dining out – curry
Monday lunch – marrow flower fritters with salad
Monday dinner – rump steak with purple sprouting broccoli, homegrown potatoes, broad beans & salad
Tuesday lunch – chicken & sweetcorn soup
Tuesday dinner – pasta with chorizo, pepper & homegrown courgette
Wednesday lunch – leftover chicken & sweetcorn soup
Wednesday dinner – chicken jalfrezi with lemon rice
Thursday lunch – bread & meat with broad bean salad
Thursday dinner – leftover chicken jalfrezi with lemon rice
Friday lunch – curried egg mayo with bread
Friday dinner – homemade pizza, with salad
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Allotment, end of round 1 (ding ding)
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Yay, allotment!
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Taking stock – June 2014
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Stitching etc tips from the Knitting & Stitching Show
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My winter to-do list 2013
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Plummy solid square crochet blanket
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Attack of the Crochet Claw
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My low-spend '11: buy less than 12 items of clothing in 2011
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Cold smoking cheese - taste testing the first batch
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Using up the glut: Marrow cake recipe
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How I line dry clothes in winter: my top five tips
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Spicy marrow chutney recipe
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Washing in winter: ideas for reducing laundry?
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Foraging for wild food: do you forage near roads?
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Your favourite fiction books with simple living characters/themes?
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How I spent my Tuesday afternoon
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We *heart* books too (warning: picture heavy post!)
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Portion control
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Baking things that'll last
tuesday lunchtime you have 3 visitors….
what’s a good way to quickly feed several visitors? and also please your black furry people?
just wondering if you had any ideas.
Yes, I’ve just learnt that fact. Thanks for screwing up my meal plan, Brightbox techheads ;)
It means I’ll also have to actually tidy my desk as I have been promising for months now and maybe move a pile of John’s underwear off the little desk. (It’s clean but I still think it’ll be best to move it, yes?)
Quick feed for many= eggs on toast or any variation on the egg+bread theme!
We have that for breakfast a lot – it’s so good! Last week I poached-in-the-microwave a freshly laid egg for breakfast – by the sounds of the early “I’ve laid!” squawks, it went from being laid to being eaten within no more than 15 minutes – hurrah for eggs!
My quick feed lots of folk is a bistro salad. Good greens, snappy vinagrette, crutons and bacon if you got it. Little bit of cheese tossed in. Then you serve it with a sunny-side egg on top.
Sounds yum – one of my favourite lunches is a similar salad with chorizo instead of bacon, and with a lightly poached egg on it – the yolk becomes almost salad dressing and I guess the principle is the same here.
And if you have cold boiled potatoes in the fridge, cube them and saute and add instead of croutons…
It might have to be egg and salad for lunch now; I’ve made myself feel hungry!
We had marrow flower fritters for lunch yesterday as planned – and I used the opportunity to take some new photos for my recipe of it — oh my, it was yummy: http://www.thereallygoodlife.com/130/johns-grandmas-marrow-flower-fritters/