Meal plans

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Anybody want to share? In no particular order:
Brazilian stew with palm hearts - recipe from Lad Iguanas
Cauliflower cheese and jacket spuds
Nigella's fish finger bhorta
Thai green curry with tofu
Shallot tart with rocket salad
Veggie chilli

We appear to be possibly be throwing a spontaneous bonfire night bash tomorrow! I'm going to do sausages (fussy guests) but any suggestions on what I can do in addition that's easy and marginally interesting? Is mulled wine appropriate (I do a MEAN mulled wine).

@WhatonEarth1 I def want to be a guest at your kitchen table this week!

@SpaceOp mulled wine is ALWAYS a good idea. Apple crumble for desert? I would go comfort food all the way. Maybe a squash soup to start with crusty bread?

[quote KobaniDaughters]@WhatonEarth1 I def want to be a guest at your kitchen table this week!

@SpaceOp mulled wine is ALWAYS a good idea. Apple crumble for desert? I would go comfort food all the way. Maybe a squash soup to start with crusty bread?[/quote]
I like your thinking on the mulled wine. You're right - there's no bad time to offer it and mine is, if I say so myself, delicious.

Ditto on the squash soup as I have multiple fabulous squash soup recipes (I LOVE squash). It's a bit up in the air at the moment but am chatting to the other mum later after kids are in bed so will see.

Good thing about squash soup and apple crumble is they’ll both freeze if the dinner doesn’t happen

Sunday: shiitake mushroom and cabbage stir fry
Monday: red lentil lasagne
Tuesday: kabocha squash soup
Wednesday: African peanut stew
Thursday: tofu steak, chips and green beans
Friday: shepherdless pie
Saturday: out for dinner

Party didn’t happen but am thinking I will incorporate the meal ideas into this week’s meal plan. Have been wanting to try toad in the hole for ages so perhaps that, butternut soup one night definitely. Not sure I can work in apple crumble for the hell of it…. But you never know!

Off to Google toad in hole recipes.

@Kobanidaughters what is your African peanut stew? Sounds interesting.

@SpaceOP totally inauthentic but it’s the Oh She Glows recipe and on regular rotation for us and @lastqueenofscotland

thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/soul-soothing-african-peanut-stew/

Ooft, Sunday meal planning again:

M - sausage casserole
T - lasagne and peas
W - roasted vegetables with halloumi, hummus, and pita breads
T - quiche, chips, beans
F - chicken fajitas
S - out
S - chicken satay curry

Thanks @Kobanidaughters I might give that a try next week. DS has issues with larger chunks of vegetables (unless roasted) but I think I could do that with small chunks and it looks good.

This week, with a tentative order attached

Monday: Fajitas
Tuesday: Meatballs and spaghetti
Wednesday: Baked chicken
Thursday: butternut soup. With some nice bread and goats cheese to have alongside.
Friday: Toad in the hole

I've done right through until a week on Sunday as busy with work and have weeknight guests as well as weekend dinner guests.

from Friday

Steak and Diane sauce, wedges, salad
Crab linguine, honey semifreddo
Roast chicken dinner
Tomato and gnocchi bake
Green mac n cheese
Dinner out
Butter chicken
Lamb shawarma
Cajun mixed bean tacos
Beef brisket

Tomorrow: pub meal out
Saturday: pizza
Sunday: malai tofu curry
Monday: the meatball sub we were going to have yesterday but had pie instead
Tuesday: Dan Dan noodles
Wednesday:veggie paella
Thursday: DP cooks

Saturday - egg fried rice and I’m going to attempt to make spring rolls
Sunday - mixed bean cassoulet with herby dumplings
Then it’s a week of meals I can get on the table in 30mins or less:
Sausage, kale and gnocchi one-pot
Carrot and cashew biryani
Pesto halloumi and veg kebabs with flatbreads
Shakshuka and sweet potato hash browns
Kale and chickpea coconut curry

Today: Halloumi & veg bake, salad, crusty bread
Sun: Salmon en croute, baby potatoes, steamed veg
Mon: Shepardless pie, veg
Tues: Potato cakes with poached eggs & smoked salmon
Wed: Cauliflower pea & paneer curry
Thurs: Spicy quorn & veg burritos, wedges, salsa
Fri: Broc-cauli macaroni cheese

This week we have:

M - chicken satay curry with rice
T - stuffed pasta with sauce and garlic bread
W - chicken Kiev, jacket potato, broccoli
T - cheese and ham omelette, salad
F - veggie burgers, salad, chips
S - pizza
S - the Asda giant pig in blanket, which I am beyond excited about! I think we will treat this as a roast, with potatoes and vegetables

Sunday: sheperdless pie we were supposed to have on Friday
Monday: squash soup and crusty bread
Tuesday: bean chilli and rice
Wednesday: tofu and kidney bean curry
Thursday: Sausage and mushroom gnocchi
Friday: pizza as per

I have 100% lost any desire to cook. Very unlike me. Tomorrow, we were supposed to be having fajitas which I can bring myself to make as easy and quick but I usually do them with fried peppers and onions, spices and a bit of passata and then protein of choice. But now we have someone who can't eat tomatoes joining us. Do I just do them without any kind of "sauciness" and up the sour cream,/guacamole option?

We've having pie and mash today - ready made.
Last night we had lamb, which I roasted, but I served it with steamed green veg and a potato dauphinoise from M&S.

Definitely lost my mojo here!

@SpaceOP definitely just leave off the passata. We always just use spices anyway for fajitas, then bowls of salsa, guac and sour cream etc for people to help themselves to.

Bit late with my menu-

Sunday- tacos from The Spicery's Taco legend with squash guisado for me and chicken tinga for the meat eaters, pickled red onion, guacamole and yucatan salsa.

Monday- pies from the supermarket and green veg fried in butter and garlic

Tuesday- crispy bottom wontons from Jamie Oliver's veg, a few freezer dumplings from the Chinese supermarket and some Nepalese momo sauce for dipping.

Wednesday- tartiflette (made by DH while I drink wine)

Thursday- leftover tartiflette 

Friday- chilli honey halloumi, batata harra (spicy fries potatoes), Syrian style carrot stew and chraime ( green beans instead of fish in spicy pepper tomato sauce), flatbreads. All recipes from the Spicery's mezze legend.

Saturday-
Leftovers from the day before and some fresh flat breads.

@SpaceOp You could mix the spices together with the juice of a lime or two then marinate for a few minutes before cooking or fry ingredients off in oil and spices then stir sour cream in at the end for a bit of sauce.

@spaceop I never put passata in fajitas - I am lazy and buy one of the pre-mixed sachets of spices.

Thanks all. Right, no passata. I didn't even bother with salsa - I hate shop bought salsa and definitely cannot be bothered to make it. So we'll have chicken, peppers and onions, garlic and chilli (I tend to use fresh rather than powder), a few extra spices and then I'll offer sour cream, guacamole and cheese as accompaniments. Done!

Joining in if I may. I love cooking but mostly I have to follow recipes. I meal plan 4 meals a week (I freeze leftovers for work days or eat for lunch) and make sure all our evening meals are less than £1.50 per person because I'm on a low income. Me, DD (15 and veggie), DS (12 and he goes to his dad's on the weekends).

M - Red Chicken Curry from the 50 greatest curries book. Can't remember what DD had.
T - Potato and Cauliflower Curry from same book. (I thought it was lovely but the DC were annoyed at me because it was too spicy for them and they had dodgy stomachs the next morning)
W- had an exam so just heated up tinned veg soup and made mackrel on toast for DS. DD made mashed potatoes, onion, peas and quorn mince.
T - going to make Roast Leek, lemon, shallot and chicken from the roasting tin book.

Not sure about the rest of the week because I'm on the diet ready meals for a week as need to lose a couple of pounds, and DS is going to his dad's so maybe won't do the rest of the plan (chicken and fish meals so no from DD) until next week. We'll see.

Interesting for me seeing other people's menu plans

We need to eat down the freezer a bit, so thinking about that for next week.

M - leftovers of the giant pig in blanket, veg, potatoes
T - pea, pesto, and feta pasta
W - veggie sausages and roasted veg
T - chicken burger, chips, salad
F -sausages, mash and peas
S - chorizo and red pepper risotto
S - macaroni cheese (with pancetta and spring onions), peas, garlic bread

@myfinelady my DP is away for two weeks in December and my plan is soups, salads, chicken and broccoli, and M&S Count on Us. I have been maintaining the same 4lb over my fighting weight since last summer!

Sourdough pizza
Sausages with leek and potato gratin
Tofu katsu stir fry
Paneer curry
Chilli-stuffed butternut
Sun dried tomato pasta bake
Black bean jambalaya