Menu Plans 10/11 – 10/18

Thoughts on Last Week’s Menu:

I generally don’t list side dishes on my menus, but you should know that lately they’ve been almost all salads.  The salad mix from our CSA has been awesome; full of the spicy lettuces I love.  We’ve been adding peppers, tomatoes, baby turnips, carrots and supermarket baby spinach to the salads, then topping them with olive oil/balsamic vinegar and salt.

I ended up making the cauliflower steaks on Friday.  You can tell you’ve come a long way in your eating habits when you can put “cauliflower steak” on the menu and no one bats an eye.  The meal was fine, but I wasn’t that impressed.  Would I make it again?  Sure.  Was it steak-like?  Not at all.  It was just seasoned cauliflower cooked in a new way.

The end of this week was a little busy, so I feel like this menu is really unfinished.  Still, it gives you a look at the sorts of things I’m planning to make this week.  Clearly I’ve really transitioned into comfort food; the most pasta and soup the better.  This weekend was really busy, but next week looks more free (at least for now) so maybe I’ll take on some fun cooking projects.

Saturday – dinner with friends!
Sunday – frozen mushroom ravioli and salad
Monday –  we’ll be doing some hiking on Monday, so we’ll see what I feel like doing
Tuesday –  revisiting tortellini soup with kale
Wednesday –  trying out this recipe for Curried Vegetable and Chickpea Stew
Thursday –  leftover Curried Vegetable and Chickpea Stew

Lunches:Wraps with ham and/or cheese

There were still tomatoes AGAIN this week!  I’m gonna keep taking them for as long as they’re available.cauliflower
salad mix
tomatoes
carrots
potatoes
broccoli
peppers
carrots
kale
turnips