Menu Plan Monday: Inauguration Night Gougéres and Prosecco
ENTER TO WIN! Learn to cook healthier meals for your family! Click here to enter to win Real Food for Rookies, a new online class -- retail value $120, plus over $60 worth of discount coupons. Don't miss out! contest ends this SATURDAY Sept 4th at midnight Pacific.
This month I’m still focused on spending as little as possible and cleaning out the fridge and freezer. I did buy a few things at the farmer’s market, like eggs and apples, plus some oysters and mussels which we had last night. I made moules frites with oven-baked potato chips last night (with butter).
The potato chips were delicious. However, they didn’t come out perfect due to the fact that I didn’t have big enough cookie sheets and I had too many shoved on there. This caused the butter to spill onto the floor of the oven which filled the house with smoke. Despite the smoke, my husband went nuts over the potato chips. I’ll post that recipe soon.
This week I am planning a few special things. For Inauguration Night (we’re not doing anything special, just watching the coverage on TV), I’m going to serve Prosecco (Italian Champagne) and homemade gougéres (French cheese puffs). I’m also going to try my hand at Sloppy Joes and sweet potato fries.
Sunday:
B: Avocado cheddar omeletes with homemade sour cream and lacto-fermented salsa
L: Kefir smoothies with raw egg yolk, coconut oil and raw honey
D: Salmon croquettes (fried in Macadamia nut oil) with homemade mayonnaise
Salad with shaved fennel, sprouts & pomegranete seeds
Homemade peanut butter cookies (I froze the dough, so this will be fast)
To do:
Revive my sourdough starter which has been languishing in the fridge for months
Make more mayonnaise
Make more kombucha
Grocery shopping at Trader Joe’s
Make baby formula
Soak corn in lime water (for corn tortillas)
Monday:
B: Pastured eggs scrambled in grass-fed butter, banana fried in coconut oil
L: Leftover salmon croquettes
D: Sloppy Joes on sprouted bread
Oven-baked sweet potato fries
To do:
Pack Kate’s lunch & snack
Make more whey & cream cheese
Make kefir
Feed sourdough starter
Soak oatmeal overnight
Freeze ice cream bowl
Tuesday: Inauguration Celebration
B: Oatmeal with raw cream, grass-fed butter and maple syrup
L: Leftover Sloppy Joes
D: Prosecco
David Lebovitz’s Gougéres (French cheese puffs)
Caper berries and blue cheese stuffed olives
Deviled eggs topped with salmon roe
Bacon-wrapped dates scallops (couldn’t find dates at Trader Joe’s)
Homemade chocolate ice cream
To do:
Pack Kate’s lunch & snack
Make kefir
Feed sourdough starter
Make baby formula
Wedesday:
B: Pastured eggs cooked in butter
L: Leftover deviled eggs and bacon-wrapped dates
D: Sweet & sour pork with red bell peppers
Steamed baby bok choy
Rice cooked in homemade chicken stock
To do:
Pack Kate’s lunch & snack
Make kefir
Soak oatmeal overnight
Start sourdough bread
Thursday: Offal Night
B: Oatmeal with raw cream, grass-fed butter and maple syrup
L: Leftover pork and rice
D: Roasted marrow bones
Homemade chicken liver pate
Homemade sourdough bread
Raw grass-fed butter
Salad
To do:
Pack Kate’s lunch & snack
Make kefir
Let cream sit out (for sour cream)
Friday:
B: Pastured eggs cooked in butter
L: Grilled cheese (made with sourdough bread)
D: Tacos with grass-fed ground beef and homemade corn tortillas
Beans cooked in chicken stock
Rice cooked in chicken stock
Homemade guacamole and sour cream
Lacto-fermented salsa
To do:
Pack Kate’s lunch & snack
Make kefir
Make baby formula
Saturday: Shellfish Night
B: French toast (made with sourdough bread) with butter and maple syrup
L: Egg salad or tunafish sandwiches (with homemade mayonnaise)
D: Linguini with clam sauce
Blood orange, fennel & kalamata olive salad
Sprouted flour chocolate cake
To do:
Farmer’s market: buy clams, eggs and sprouts
Surfas: buy chocolate
For more menu planning ideas, visit Organizing Junkie.
NEVER MISS A POST! Sign Up for FREE Email Updates:
You can also Subscribe in a Reader
18/01/2009 at 9:40 pm Permalink
Hi’ya!
Thanks for sharing your idea of making a menu for the week. We end up eating out or I do a fast food prep (not soaking grains, etc.,) when I don’t plan and that’s not how I want to feed my family! Since you mentioned kombucha, I was wondering where you purchased your scoby… or do you sell it?
18/01/2009 at 9:50 pm Permalink
Have you never made Sloppy Joes? Please tell me you have, haha! Your bacon wrapped scallops sound SO good. I wish I could find good scallops around here! I swear they are only in the grocery store here a few times a year.
Erica’s last blog post..Our Favorite Card Game
18/01/2009 at 10:19 pm Permalink
Hey Ann Marie,
I really want to meet up with you so I can really pick your brain, but in the meantime, after reading your Menu Plan, I have 2 quick questions: I notice you make Kephir every day, what do you do with it that you need so much? Maybe I’m not doing it right, bug I only use it to soak grain grains it put in a smoothy!
Secondly, it sounds like you are a seasoned kombucha maker. I purchased a scoby ages ago but it’s just been sitting in the fridge. Do you you think it’s still ok to use? And also, do you have a step by step recipe or anything for the process? I would be ever so grateful!
19/01/2009 at 4:06 am Permalink
Hi Ann Marie,
Thanks for posting your menu, it looks great. We LOVE sweet potato fries – hubby can’t get enough. I have a recipe for them and a delicious spicy garlic mayo to go with them. Just look at the recipe index of my site.
Also, I’m just tweaking some css in the coming days before launching my new wordpress.org site so I can join Real Food Media.
Shannon’s last blog post..Southern Style Braised Greens
19/01/2009 at 6:30 am Permalink
Your menus look delicious, especially the one for Tuesday!
I like to make bacon wrapped dates, too. I usually stuff them with soy-sauce marinated water chestnuts and roll them in brown sugar. Bacon wrapped dried apricots rolled in brown sugar are so yummy, too. Of course, you can’t ever go wrong with scallops!!
Have a great week!
Lora’s last blog post..Menu Plan Monday & Recipes Requested (please!)
19/01/2009 at 6:48 am Permalink
Ann Marie,
I hope bananas aren’t TOO high in carbs, because I tried what I’ve seen on your past Menu Plan Mondays: bananas fried in bacon drippings, and I LOVE them! They sounded kind of weird to me, but I’m glad I tried it!
Kelly
Kelly the Kitchen Kop’s last blog post..How to Feed a Healthy Meal to a Big Group
19/01/2009 at 8:40 am Permalink
Buttery baked potato chips sounds good to me too!
May give new meaning to “baked potato”
Bryan – oz4caster’s last blog post..Go Organic
19/01/2009 at 3:47 pm Permalink
Hi, Maria,
I got my original scoby from GEM Cultures. I’m planning on opening a CHEESESLAVE store soon and selling t-shirts and DVDs and the like… and I plan to give away scobys and other cultures to people who buy stuff in the store…
19/01/2009 at 3:50 pm Permalink
Hi, Erica,
I knew that sentence was badly constructed when I wrote it. I should have written it like this:
“I’m also going to try my hand at sweet potato fries (with Sloppy Joes).”
I found wild scallops frozen at Trader Joe’s!
19/01/2009 at 3:52 pm Permalink
Hi, Erin!
I drink kefir most every night before I go to bed. I love it plain — didn’t in the beginning. It takes a while for some to acquire the taste. I also like it for a snack or fast lunch with a raw egg yolk and some honey.
Your scoby is probably fine. I am very bad to my scobies — I let them sit in a large glass jar in the cupboard (with kombucha) for a long, long time. They live on.
19/01/2009 at 3:54 pm Permalink
Kelly – Yes those bananas are good. Try putting a pinch or two of cinnamon. YUM! Even better!
Bryan – I am going to perfect those potato chips!
19/01/2009 at 4:16 pm Permalink
Erin – I forgot to add: I am working on a post with a step-by-step tutorial on how to make kombucha. Not sure when I’ll get it up but hopefully soon!