Sunday, October 25, 2009

Menu Plan


Monday - Brown Rice and Lentil Haystacks/Mexi-ranch Salad

Tuesday - Blender Pancakes/Fruit/Sausage/Orange Julius

Wednesday - Chloe's Virus Killing Soup/Biscuits

Thursday - Leftovers

Friday - Date Night

Saturday - Chili Dogs/Chips/Kettle Corn/Pickles (Fall Festival)

Sunday - Quesadillas/Chips & Guac/Beans & Rice

Monday - Butternut Squash Soup/Homemade Bread/Garden Salad

5 comments:

MagenRanae said...

3 weeks for you too!! :) Feels good, doesn't it?

Laurel said...

Sounds great!
If you have a few extra minutes (haha!), would you consider turning any of those menus items for which you got the recipe online into links?

Shawna said...

Magen, I need to post something else - and quick! This is rapidly becoming my "menu" blog. :)

Laurel, I think the only one I have a link to is the kettle corn! :) Which ones were you wanting, I probably have them in an email.

Marcie said...

I think we could use that soup recipe. Tis the season for colds!

Shawna said...

Chloe's Virus Killing Soup

One chicken
Appx 15-30 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
1 Tbs salt
3-4 Thyme sprigs
Cayenne pepper (to taste. I use about a tsp)
Fresh Rosemary sprigs
Fresh ground pepper

Place chicken and other ingredients n a soup pot (I use my pressure cooker) and cover with water or chicken broth (I really like those boxes of organic chicken broth). Cook on stove top until chicken starts to fall apart. Remove from heat. Strain out chicken and stuff and set aside until cool enough to chop. Reserve broth for next step.

1 large onion (coarsely chopped or sliced)
1 fennel bulb (sliced thin)
1 leek (sliced thin)
4-6 stalks of celery (coarse chopped)
large red pepper (coarse chopped
1/2 lb. carrots (coarse chopped) [edited to say lb. by Jill]
2 tbs olive oil
1/2 C good White Wine
salt and pepper

Place oil in bottom of large pot and heat. Add onion, fennel, celery, pepper and leek and saute until onion just transparent. Add wine and simmer for 3-4 minutes. Cover the vegetables with chicken broth from chicken--add more broth from can or box if you don't have enough broth from chicken and simmer veggies until just tender.

Frozen green beans
Frozen peas
zucchini
flat leaf parsely (chopped)
1-2 cans chopped tomatoes with juice
salt and pepper to taste

Add these above ingredients and simmer until everything is tender. Add chopped chicken, salt and pepper to taste.

No virus can withstand this soup.

You can also add cabbage with the end ingredients if you like (I do!), or any other veggies your family likes. Sometimes I'll throw in whatever is in my veggie bin in addition to the above.

The next day add egg noodles and turn it into chicken noodle soup.