Hand surgery tomorrow. Fun times! We’ve got a few Hello Fresh meals coming this week so the family can easily make dinner without my help. 

MONDAY:

• Pork Taquitos (Hello Fresh)

TUESDAY:

• Cavatappi Beef Ragu (Hello Fresh)

WEDNESDAY:

• Sweet Chili Pork & Green Bean Bowls (Hello Fresh)

THURSDAY:

• Leftovers

FRIDAY:

• Local Takeout

SATURDAY:

• Local Takeout

SUNDAY:

• Smoked Meat TBD

Please share your own menu for the week below! Thank you and have a great week!

Nate smoked 10 pounds of pork shoulder this weekend and we are all once again super glad we got him a Traeger grill for Christmas. Going to re-purpose the pork for enchiladas with a red sauce and tacos with pickled onions. 

Quick hand surgery update: procedure ended up not happening last week but is instead scheduled for 1/25. So I’m planning to cook a lot this week, then next week getting Hello Fresh for the kids and Nate to cook. Not at all excited about the assessment by the surgeon last week but grateful for professionals who can fix this useless thumb for me.

MONDAY:

• Leftovers

TUESDAY:

• Enchiladas

WEDNESDAY:

• Taco Night

THURSDAY:

• Chicken Tortilla Soup

FRIDAY:

• Leftovers

SATURDAY:

• Homemade Pizza

SUNDAY:

• Grill Night

Your turn! Please share your meal plans in the comments! Have a safe week. 

I will most likely be having a second procedure on my thumb this week, so back to using some Hello Fresh meals…Nate and the kids will have to start cooking again!

MONDAY:

• Chicken Sausage Rigatoni

TUESDAY:

• Firecracker Meatballs

WEDNESDAY:

• Bulgogi Lime Pork Tenderloin

THURSDAY:

• Leftovers

FRIDAY:

• Rachel Sandwiches

SATURDAY:

• Local Takeout

SUNDAY:

• Grill night…going to have Nate smoke something yummy!

Your turn! Please share your own meal plans below!

This is going to be our first week in over two months where I am not getting a Hello Fresh meal kit delivery. Going to try “roughing it” again. Which mostly means I have to do my own grocery shopping this week…ugh!

MONDAY:

• Spicy Chicken Tacos with Fresh Masa Tortillas

TUESDAY:

• Pasta with homemade bolognese sauce (using up the leftover veal from our Swedish Meatballs!)

WEDNESDAY:

• Chicken Caesar Wraps

THURSDAY:

• Leftovers

FRIDAY:

• Local Takeout

SATURDAY:

• Smoked Flank Steak (we ended up with smoked brisket on New Year’s Eve, so demanding Nate smokes the flank steak that ended up in the freezer this weekend!)
• Crispy Roast Potatoes
• Salad

SUNDAY:

• Smoked Pork Shoulder with coleslaw and picked onions

Your turn! Thank you for sharing your menu in the comments below!

Nate got a Traeger smoker grill for Christmas and that was for real the best idea EVER. He has already smoked a small pork shoulder and it was so good that at 10 pm last night when it was finally done we all just gathered around the meat and ate and ate and ate. Tonight he’s smoking brats. And he has two more smoked meats coming this week. Merry Christmas to all of us!

MONDAY:

• Smoked Pork Shoulder

TUESDAY:

• Pork Luau Bowls (Hello Fresh)

WEDNESDAY:

• Chicken Stir Fry Tacos (Hello Fresh)

THURSDAY: Happy New Year’s Eve!

• Smoked Flank Steak
• Crispy Roast Potatoes
• Salad 

FRIDAY:

• Leftovers

SATURDAY:

• Coconut Curry Chicken (Hello Fresh)

SUNDAY:

• Tex Mex Pork Enchiladas Bowls (Hello Fresh)

Share your own menu in the comments below! Have a safe and happy new year!

Well, birthday week was a blast and a success and completely wiped me out! 😉 Now on to Christmas this week! 

MONDAY:

• Coconut Curry Chicken (Hello Fresh)

TUESDAY:

• Spicy Maple Chicken (Hello Fresh)

WEDNESDAY:

• Honey Sriracha Pork Tenderloin (Hello Fresh)

THURSDAY:

• Chinese Takeout (a Maynard family tradition!)

FRIDAY:

• Swedish Meatballs with boiled red potatoes and lingonberry jam
• Swedish Cardamom Bread, Vetebröd (braided loaves) and Kardemummabullar (buns) 

SATURDAY:

• Leftovers

SUNDAY:

• Leftovers

Your turn! Please share your meal plan for the week in the comments below! And if you celebrate Christmas, I hope it is a healthy, peaceful and delicious day!

It’s a big birthday week around here! Two birthdays, so the birthday girls get to pick dinner. Plus we’re still leveraging Hello Fresh heavily. 😉

MONDAY:

• Firecracker Meatballs with Rice and Green Beans 

TUESDAY:

• Spicy Maple Chicken

WEDNESDAY:

• Cheesecake Factory Takeout (birthday dinner #1!)

THURSDAY:

• Thai Takeout (birthday dinner #2)

FRIDAY:

• Leftovers

SATURDAY:

• Ancho BBQ Sloppy Joe’s

SUNDAY:

• Honey Sriracha Pork Tenderloin

Please share your own menu plan in the comments below! Have a great week and Happy Hanukkah to those of your celebrating!

Hello again! I hope you all had a wonderful and delicious Thanksgiving! Apologies for missing the menu last week, I just plain forgot to plan because we had a major backup of meal kits thanks to our Thanksgiving food. I am still relying on meal kits for the next few weeks, but around Christmastime I am going to get back into cooking my own recipes again! The Hello Fresh meal kits have been so wonderful during this time where my cooking abilities were limited.

MONDAY:

• Pecan-Crusted Trout (a friend gave me a Green Chef box to try…Green Chef was good, but I like Hello Fresh better, for what it’s worth!)

TUESDAY:

• Tex Mex Beef & Poblano Enchiladas (Hello Fresh)

WEDNESDAY:

• Firecracker Meatballs (Hello Fresh)

THURSDAY:

• Hot Honey Chicken (Hello Fresh)

FRIDAY:

• NYC Street Cart Steak Bowls (Hello Fresh)

SATURDAY:

• Local Takeout (San Diego is back on lockdown…gotta make sure to keep on supporting local restaurants!)

SUNDAY:

• Roasted Butterfly Chicken

Your turn! Share your weekly menu in the comments below. Have a great week, everyone!

THANKSGIVING IS THIS WEEK HOW IS THIS SO?!?!? Miraculously I graduated from the hard splint from my hand surgery, so while my thumb doesn’t work yet and I still have to be careful, I will be able to help cook Thanksgiving dinner! The girls and Nate are ready to help with the cooking this year. While I’m sad we won’t be with extended family (COVID!), I think it will be a special year, all of us cooking together in the kitchen. I did make a few store-bought modifications to our menu to simplify cooking, but for the most part we are still cooking up our usual feast!

MONDAY:

• Beef Bulgogi Meatballs (HelloFresh)

TUESDAY:

• Pork Tostadas Supremo (HelloFresh)

WEDNESDAY:

• Pineapple Pork Meatballs (HelloFresh)

THURSDAY | Thanksgiving 2020!

• Turkey (for real this is the BEST technique for cooking turkey, be sure to click through and check it out!)
• Classic Mashed Potatoes
• Classic Stuffing (full disclosure we are using Trader Joe’s stuffing mixes – cornbread and gluten-free – because of my darn hand)
• Gravy
• Crescent Rolls 
• Cranberry Slush (my great-grandmother’s recipe that we have EVERY YEAR NO MATTER WHAT)
• Cranberry Sauce
• Sweet Potato Souffle
• Butternut Squash
• Charcuterie Board
• Dessert: Pumpkin Pie, Crumble Apple Pie, Chocolate Mousse (we actually bought the pumpkin pie and apple pie this year because I just can’t do pie crust with my hand, but we will for sure make the chocolate mousse from scratch!)

FRIDAY:

• Leftovers

SATURDAY:

• Leftovers

SUNDAY:

• Leftovers

Please share your weekly menu in the comments, including your Thanksgiving menu plans! Have a happy and delicious Thanksgiving and please stay safe!!!

Wow. SEVEN HUNDRED weekly menus! Thank you to everyone who posts and for keeping me on the ball week after week. I am so grateful for our community!

Given my hand surgery situation, this week I’m going to start planning Thanksgiving to try to figure out how to do our food traditions but without the amount of cooking I normally do. Any suggestions are appreciated!

MONDAY:

• Sweet Chili Pork Bowls (Hello Fresh)

TUESDAY:

• Chicken Tikka Masala (Costco)

WEDNESDAY:

• Bulgogi Pork Tenderloin (Hello Fresh)

THURSDAY:

• Rosemary Demi-Glace Pork Chops (Hello Fresh)

FRIDAY:

• Leftovers

SATURDAY:

• Takeout Night

SUNDAY:

• Chicken Sausage and Tomato Risotto (Hello Fresh)

Your turn! Share your menus in the comments below! And Happy 700th Menu Week to all!