I planted my first tomato plant yesterday, which I am very excited about! The tomatoes will be grape-sized, sweet and yellow…assuming I don’t kill the plant. I can’t wait to eat them!
Yeah, I know, I have repeats on the menu this week. I didn’t do as much cooking last week as I had planned. Although, we only ate out once. I’m not entirely sure WHAT we had for dinner every night…I know we ate food. Anyway, it has just been one of those weeks…I was swamped with work (which I’m grateful for!) and Nate was beyond swamped, at one point working for 24 hours straight. YIKES!
MONDAY:
- Meatball Subs
TUESDAY:
- Grammy’s Orange Chicken
- Brown rice & Salad
WEDNESDAY:
- Waffles or some other easy breakfasty food
THURSDAY:
- Leftovers
FRIDAY:
- Eat out
SATURDAY:
- Chicken Piccata
- Pasta or Garlic Mashed Potatoes
- Salad
SUNDAY:
- Pork chops on the grill
- Wild Rice (yes, from a Rice-a-Roni box!)
- Veggie
Time for you to post your menu for the week! If you haven’t posted before, go ahead and give it a try – all menus are welcome! It doesn’t have to be fancy. This is ME you’re talking to, here.
Thanks everyone! Have a great week!
Hello! My name is Jane Maynard and you've landed yourself on my blog, This Week for Dinner™. Every Sunday I share a weekly menu...and then count on you to share your own! You'll also find other deliciousness that I hope you'll enjoy!
Congrats on your tomato planting, I’m still afraid of frost here in Kansas this week. Hopefully it won’t be too long now though!
And by the way, I just want to say how helpful it is to take 5 minutes to plan out a week’s menu. Grocery shopping is much easier and more purposeful and much less food goes to waste!
This week’s menu:
Monday
- Ham, apple and blue cheese Panini
- Tortilla Chips and roasted tomatillo salsa
Tuesday
- Chicken and Rice Casserole
Wednesday
- Southwestern Turkey Burgers
- oven-bake french fries
Thursday
- Eat Out
Friday
- Chicken Parmesan
Saturday
- Shepherd’s Pie
Sunday
- Extended Family Dinner
M: Chef’s salads, bread
T: Stuffed Pork chops, sauteed green beans
W: Easy Chicken Cordon Bleau casserole, mashed potatoes, steamed spinach
Th:Baked Manicotti, bistro salad
F: Pizza
S: OUT
Su:Easter dinner TBD
I can’t wait til we can plant some vegetables and herbs in our little garden. It’s supposed to snow tomorrow!
Monday: Balsamic glazed portabellas, spinach pesto gnocchi, salad
Tuesday: Pork loin, risotto, green beans
Wednesday: Pasta melanzana (with eggplant and spinach)
Thursday: Turkey sloppy joes, oven fries, carrots
Friday: Leftovers or pizza
Saturday: Fajita nachos
Sunday: Easter dinner TBD
I keep forgetting most of you out there actually experience WEATHER. I need to really appreciate my california living…planting tomato plants when it’s snowing and frosting elsewhere. I’ll think good weather thoughts for you all!
Haven’t quite figured out the days yet, but we will be eating:
Cucumber Garlic Chicken, Jasmine Rice
Flank Steak Fajitas
Homemade Pizza and Salad
Sloppy Joes (from Deceptively Delicious)
Leftovers once or twice
Date night!
Good luck with your tomato! Still have to wait a few more weeks here for planting them. But we’ve gotten asparagus, rhubarb, blueberrie bushes, strawberries, lettuce, and peas planted. Some are just seeds. Hope everything makes it!
Hooray, after a crazy two weeks I am back to menu planning
Monday: Cooking Group
Tuesday: Red Cooked Chicken with Rice and Veggies
Wednesday: Spaghetti and Salad
Thursday: Mandarin Chicken and Fried Rice
Friday: Chicken Curry and Rice Pilaf and Mint Chutney
Saturday: Eat Out!
Sunday: Left Overs
Next Sunday will be Easter dinner with ham steaks, homemade bread, “funeral” potatoes and a fresh veggie (whatever looks good when I’m standing in the produce section).
I haven’t assigned meals to days for the rest of the week, but here’s my list:
steak fajitas, guacamole & chips, southwestern corn
penne with Italian sausage & creamy tomato sauce
curry soup, rolls, twice-baked sweet potatoes
homemade pizza, salad
chicken fingers, cornbread, veggie
poached halibut, saffron rice, veggie
Mon: Chicken Pot Pie
Tues: Tuna & Tomato Pasta
Wed: Salad Night: Organic Salad, Vegan Potato Salad, chicken salad on croissants
Th: Chicken w/ Roasted Sweet Potato Salad
Fri: Pizza or Chinese Take Out
Sat&Sun: Visiting Family for Easter
M: I have to work that afternoon, but I put a frozen chicken pot pie in the fridge for my DH to pop in the oven
T: Fish Tacos with big spring green salad
W: Leftovers
Th: Possible bowls of cereal…it’s breakfast night and I’m uninspired
F: DH in charge
S: Grilled Burgers after the fireman B-Day bash (Happy Birthday to my 6 year old!!!)
S: Easter —- Eating at my Mother in Laws—I’m bringing the world’s cutest kids (all dressed up) and the Angel Food Cake
We got snow yesterday in Utah, so no garden planting yet. I can’t wait though!
M-Homemade veggie soup
T-Bean and veggie burritos
W-Salad of some sort
Th-Seared tuna with veggies
F-Homemade whole wheat/veggie pizza
S-OUT
My first time to post here. I love your site! I get so many great ideas. Here’s my plan for the week:
Mon – Chili leftovers
Tues – Apple puff pancake
Wed – Creamy orzo with grilled chicken
Thurs – Broccoli noodle supreme
Fri – Meatloaf (Deceptively Delicious)
Sat – Crockpot chicken
Sun – Easter meal with family
Oh, I very much like your graphic design site! Well done!
Here’s the menu before I need to get the baby
M- bean vegetable soup
T-stir fry
W-herb chicken, salad & wheat toast
Th – Homemade pasta
F-Potato and corn chowder
2 day watching church on TV so we’ll have two days of potluck, here’s what were making for the party at our house.
S-Hawaiian Haystacks
Su-seven Layer dip
I totally forgot Easter was this Sunday! I’m going to be rethinking my plan for that day…
yea for new posters! happy you shared!
thanks, soybeanlover, for the nice compliment on my other site
Here is my list for the week. This helps me to be more disciplined. Yeah!
M – Leftovers (Spaghetti)
T- Parmesan Tilapia with Mash potatoes & veggie
W- Turkey Chili (Robin Miller recipe) with veggie crudite and cornbread
Th- Leftovers
Fr – SW lasagna (morph recipe from chili recipe) w/Salad and Fr Bread
Sa- Chicken Fajitas with rice/beans
Sun- Easter Brunch out & dinner Ch Corn Chowder soup with sandwiches
Monday- Stir fry
Tuesday- Daughter’s choice for b-day: roast beef, mashed potatoes & gravy with steamed vegetables
Wednesday- Leftovers
Thursday- Salmon, rice pilaf, asparagus
Friday- tacos or tostadas
Saturday- breakfast
Sunday- Easter dinner w/ extended family
Sunday – Tacos
Monday – Leftover tacos/taco salad
Tuesday – Every man for himself because I have rehearsal & my husband has an evening class (I’ll probably end up eating tacos again)
Wednesday – Pesto pasta with chicken & carrots
Thursday – TBD; dinner with friends
Friday – Baked pesto chicken with rice
Saturday – TBD
Ah tomatoes … I just defrosted and we enjoyed the very last batch of marinara sauce made from last summer’s tomatoes this past weekend. YUM. Nothing like a fresh home grown tomato.
We move on April 30 into a new house (all of 1.5 miles from the current house but 1,000 more square feet – much needed with the new baby and all her stuff!!)…so I’m now on a mission to eat everything from our freezer and pantry so it’s less to move & pack. We will do our best!
Monday: pizza (I know, crazy on a Monday right?)
Tuesday: lasagna from freezer, green salad
Wednesday: Bistro Chicken, rice, steamed spinach
Thursday: more lasagna
Friday: family in for the weekend – sloppy joes & oven baked fries, also maybe sweet potato fries (not very “Good Friday”-esque but it works for a crowd)
Saturday: roast beef in crock pot, buttery noodles, veggie
Sunday: traditional ham dinner for Easter (ham, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, baked beans, applesauce … warm biscuits)
Monday: mac & cheese (from freezer) & steamed broccoli
Tuesday: spinach salads with soup or sandwiches
Wednesday: BBQ chicken sandwiches & broccoli salad
Thursday: pasta with sausage & spinach
Friday: sweet & sour chicken over rice
Recipes are linked on my blog.
Sunday – grilled burgers, hot dogs, peppers & pineapple, fixins, green salad, fries and sweet potatoes fries too, brownies (Costco) and ice cream.
Monday – Spaghetti, salad, bread,
Tuesday – Moussaka, artichokes
Wednesday – Chef’s Salad
Thursday – leftovers or Allen will fix
Friday – Company – we are thinking of a mixed grill with salmon, scallops and shrimp, a sweet potato salad recipe from Bon appetit that I want to try,lemon pudding cake and a fresh green something.
Sat. leftovers
Easter – Bunny Buns + I kinda want ham, but my daughter doesn’t like ham. We might do turkey.
M – Homemade chicken & noodle soup
Tu – Twice-baked potatoes or just regular potatoes
W – Greek Florentine Fettuccine, salad w/Greek dressing
Th – Yakisoba, fruit smoothies
F – Meatloaf, salad, jello
S -Easter nests with jelly beans Spaghetti & meatballs (maybe..)
Su – Ham, funeral potatoes, deviled eggs, jello with raspberries in it & cool whip, Green beans or salad, cake for dessert.
but now that chicken tortilla soup might crop up instead of one of these!! It looks SOOOO GOOOOD
ooh! i love this blog! sooo much food! i love food!
Today: sushi, sushi, sushi!!! i had LOADS of sushi over from a sushi workshop I gave yesterday!
Tuesday: baked camembert with cranberries, baked potatoes, salad
Wednesday: stuffed peppers with arrabbiata sauce
Thursday: homemade pizza with mozarella and pesto
Friday: curry rice with scampi and pineapple
Sat&Sun: off for a weekend trip…so hotel&resto food.
Mon — Fajitas and Spanish rice
Tues — Chicken crescents, baked apples, French-cut green beans
Wed — Chili and cornbread, both from the freezer
Thurs — Salmon chowder
Fri — Out to Fazzoli’s for some pasta
Sat — Beefy tortilla skillet
Sun — Domino’s pizza school night
Comment on above — the way I do it, it’s “Last Week for Dinner.” I’m really not giving my poor fam pizza for Easter!
Home grown tomatoes, YUMMY! Here is my menu:
S-hamburges
M-chicken teryaki
T-hot dogs
W-chicken fajitas
Th-caesar salads
F-leftovers
S-out with my brother-in-law
okie dokey, sort of back on track-post hawaii and operation ‘let’s have the whole family get sick for the week’. aye.
m: turkey tacos
t: salad nicoise
w: turkey cutlets dijonaise w/side rice dish
th: lettuce wraps w/rice
f: lemon pepper shrimp scampi w/asparagus
s: out to dinner
su: easter leftovers?
can’t wait for your future posts to see what you do with those tomatoes, homemade sauce, caprese salad? yum
M- Von’s Rotisserie Chicken
Homemade Garlic Mashed Potatoes and Peas
T- Chicken Tacos
W- Grilled fish (whatever looks most fresh that day) and Greek Salad
T- Grilled pork and greek salad
F- Sushi Date night!
S- homemade pizza or eat out if we get short on time with all the family activities going on this weekend
S- Easter feast at my parent’s house,
Ham with Grandma’s raisin sauce and various side dishes. I’m looking for a new potato side dish, any suggestions?
the potatoes we had last year were AWESOME, Ali. Maybe not the healthiest, but whatever. It’s a holiday.
http://thisweekfordinner.com/2008/04/16/featured-recipe-creamy-holiday-potatoes/
yum, thanks!
You are so brave to cook Jewish food this week. I always get scared to try new recipes.
I miss you!!