Happy New Year!
I have seen off the last of my visitors yesterday, so had a couple of weeks of richer meals but finished with a pasta/salmon/prawns/peas in a tomato and chilli sauce concoction.
Dd wanted sushi on her last night so I made a chicken vadagam for myself (and the freezer) with proper pilau rice and puppodums.
I used the leftover rice (I'd cooked enough in case dd wanted some after all - she took some sauce but not the rice) to make a nasi goreng last night - using up all the leftover bits of cooked chicken, veggies, open tin of corn etc. with a couple of frozen prawns and a tin of tuna added in.
Tonight, I have defrosted a couple of lamb chops and some lamb gravy, which I will have with the half cauliflower DH left behind, topped with garlicky breadcrumbs (from the various ends of bread they don't eat).
I have another 8 nights here before I need to go back home for almost a week (meetings for a few days in my HQ, and most of the weekend tacked on).
So I plan to try and empty out what's in the fridge and use up things in the freezer for those 8 days. My vague plan is (and not necessarily in day order yet - easy meals on Mondays and Thursdays, more complicated things at the weekend):
Bacon and mushroom pasta with an egg and cream sauce (almost a carbonara).
Pepperoni and fennel salami pizza.
Chicken and mushrooms with a creamy sauce - either in vol au vent cases or over pasta or rice.
Baked butternut squash - possibly with another lamb chop or chicken joint, or just on its own. Any leftover will be made into soup for a lunch.
Roasted veggies (from freezer) with pasta (possibly with some bacon lardons).
And I have a few packs each of beef chilli, veggie chill, chicken vadagam, chicken korma; as well as a pasta bake, and a portion of lasagna that I can have from the freezer as easy midweek meals. And a fish covered in tomato and mozarella pre-made thing to try out.