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| Rice, Salmon, Green Peas, Peach Chutney (Thursday Dinner) |
I'm late with my meal plan reviews and options, this week. But, better late than never! This was my September Week 2 meal plan option:
Brunches: Eggs, sausages, and fried potatoes✔; French toast✔, Raisin buns with bananas✔, Tortillas with scrambled eggs and lunu miris, Fried rice✔, Tuna salad sandwiches✔, Congee✔
Sunday Afternoon Potluck (daughter & friends): Pasta salad (daughter), whatever daughter's friends might bring! Meat pies and potato balls (with a meat filling) from a popular Cuban cafe, croissants, homemade mooncakes, some with lotus seed paste and some with red bean paste
Dinners: Rice with sauteed salmon and cucumber salad✔; Rice with chicken curry✔, sauteed cabbage, beetroot curry, and eggplant curry; Pork chops with mashed potatoes and vegetables; Leftovers, Rice with Chinese sausages
Snacks/Desserts: Fruit, ice cream, chocolate cake, smoothies, raisin buns
Here's how that turned out:
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| Monday Brunch |
Monday: Labor Day (put air to the car tires, picked up traps to catch the kittens to be neutered, shopped at the Asian grocery store, ordered regular groceries)
Brunch: Eggs, sausages, fried potatoes
Dinner: Rice, Chinese sausages, corn on the cob, cucumber salad
Brunch: Eggs, sausages, fried potatoes
Dinner: Rice, Chinese sausages, corn on the cob, cucumber salad
Snacks/Dessert: Raisin buns, rambutan, congee, watermelon, chocolate cake (me), taro cake (daughter)
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| Congee (Chinese Rice Porridge with Beans and Seeds) |
Tuesday: (Grocery delivery)
Brunch: Raisin buns and bananas (me); Congee (daughter)
Dinner: Rice, Salmon sauteed with onions and canned Italian style tomatoes, cucumber salad
Dinner: Rice, Salmon sauteed with onions and canned Italian style tomatoes, cucumber salad
Snacks/Dessert: Rambutan, watermelon, raisin buns (yes, I snacked on them at tea time, too, in addition to having them for brunch!)
Wednesday: (Post office to mail a package)
Brunch: Fried rice
Dinner: Leftover rice, salmon, and cucumber salad
Dinner: Leftover rice, salmon, and cucumber salad
Snacks/Dessert: Raisin buns, banana, rambutan, watermelon, ice cream,
Thursday: (Dr's appointment)
Brunch: Tuna salad sandwiches
Dinner: Leftover rice and salmon with green peas and peach chutney
Dinner: Leftover rice and salmon with green peas and peach chutney
Snacks/Dessert: Raisin buns, bananas, rambutan, ice cream, congee
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| Vegetable Rice & Chinese Sausages (Friday Dinner) |
Friday: (9/11 - 25th Anniversary)
Brunch: French toast
Dinner: Vegetable rice (rice cooked with green peas and grated carrots) and Chinese sausages
Brunch: French toast
Dinner: Vegetable rice (rice cooked with green peas and grated carrots) and Chinese sausages
Snacks/Dessert: Raisin buns, banana, crackers with peanut butter
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| Pasta Dinner |
Saturday:
Brunch: Bagel with butter and pineapple jam (me); not sure what daughter had
Dinner: Pasta with pesto sauce, roasted red bell peppers, and canned chicken breast (daughter made the dinner)
Brunch: Bagel with butter and pineapple jam (me); not sure what daughter had
Dinner: Pasta with pesto sauce, roasted red bell peppers, and canned chicken breast (daughter made the dinner)
Snacks/Dessert: Tuna salad on crackers, wafer cookies, tangerines
Sunday: (Daughter & Friends Afternoon Tea/Potluck)
Brunch: Tuna salad on toast (me)
Afternoon Tea: Pasta salad, meat pies and potato balls (with meat filling), croissants, homemade mooncakes, some with lotus seed paste and some with red bean paste (each with a salted preserved duck egg yolk in the middle representing the full moon)
Dinner: Leftovers from afternoon tea
Brunch: Tuna salad on toast (me)
Afternoon Tea: Pasta salad, meat pies and potato balls (with meat filling), croissants, homemade mooncakes, some with lotus seed paste and some with red bean paste (each with a salted preserved duck egg yolk in the middle representing the full moon)
Dinner: Leftovers from afternoon tea
Snacks/Dessert: Leftovers from afternoon tea!
Well, I didn't cook all the dishes I had listed as dinner options; for one thing, with temperatures of 105F on a couple of days during the week, I didn't feel like cooking much, but, we didn't go hungry!
This week is much cooler and I am planning to do some cooking, eventually, once we finish up the leftovers! Here are this week's meal plan options (9/14 - 9/20)
Brunches: Leftovers from Sunday's Afternoon Tea (Monday and Tuesday); pancakes or waffles; Eggs, bacon, and toast or fried potatoes; leftovers
Dinners: Leftover Pasta (on Monday); Breakfast for Dinner (Eggs, Bacon, Toast - Tuesday); Pork chops made over with rice and vegetables; Chicken Kottu Roti made with tortillas instead of roti; Rice and curries (chicken, beets, cabbage thel dala, etc.); leftovers
Snacks/Desserts: Bananas, peanut butter and crackers, mooncakes, tangerines, watermelon, cantaloupe, muffins or bread pudding
As always, I am grateful for the blessing of having plenty of food to eat, variety, and choice and for friends who bless us with gifts of food.
How about you? Did you make a meal plan for the second week in September? If so, did you follow the plan? Did/are you making a meal plan for this week in September?
Today I had to look up mooncakes, and rambutan. I love reading your menu plans and what you actually ate because there are always things that sound so exotic to me.
ReplyDeleteGlad you found something new to look up, Anne. I posted about buying the rambutan in an earlier post (Labor Day Monday). They are a fruit I grew up eating as a child (we had a tree in our front yard). The mooncakes were made by my daughter's friend.
DeleteThere are always things on the menu that I don't know and even more I've never tasted. :)
DeleteThere's always some new food to try, isn't there? :)
DeleteYou are so organized, I'm impressed.
ReplyDeleteAmalia
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Thank you, Amalia. I strive to be organized, but, often feel quite disorganized! :)
DeleteDear Bless, I totally agree with Amalia! You are indeed organized, dear friend! I love to clean and organize and there are days that I don't feel organized, so I totally understand!
ReplyDeleteLovely photos, and your meals look and sound delicious!
Thank you, Linda. I do enjoy cleaning but I have to be in the mood to clean and I do like things to be organized, but, often, my perfectionist tendencies get in the way of being organized. :)
DeleteLovely food photos as usual. That Congee looks very interesting and something I would probably enjoy.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Bushlady. Congee is not hard to make; the Sri Lankan version often includes various kinds of leaves and coconut milk and is called "kola kanda". I don't much like kola kanda, but, I like the congee.
DeleteLovely food photos!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Sharon. :)
DeleteBless, this honestly looks and sounds as though you had a rather delicious week
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ratnamurti. We did enjoy some delicious meals over the week. :)
DeleteLots of good food as usual. I am finding it hard to pick what I'd like to eat out of your offerings because I picked a breakfast meal last time (or maybe I'm thinking of the spicy potato omelette from earlier today) but I'm leaning towards another breakfast meal shown in picture 2.
ReplyDeleteYes,
I'll have that please.