I have actually been meal planning and cooking, and even cooking some things that aren't on this site yet, but Simran's demand on my time lately has made posting daily something I just don't do. I'm in the process of getting her to sleep in her swing beside me for a nap as I make my grocery list. Here is what I'm planning on making this week:
Chilaquiles Casserole
I've made this many times and already posted it on here. I'm making it because I have leftover corn tortillas, a zucchini, and frozen corn I want to use up. I also have some pre-shredded Mexican cheese blend that needs to be used and will save me from having to shred cheese.
Stuffed Peppers
Our neighbor has been bringing us lots of bell peppers (in varying stages of green and red) and roma tomatoes from his garden. I'm using most of the bell peppers we currently have to make stuffed peppers, which taste good with any color peppers. I also have some leftover tomato sauce and shredded Mexican cheese blend to use up that will go nicely in this dish.
Pasta Salad
My mother used to make this simple pasta salad recipe that I've amended slightly to include vegetarian chik'n strips instead of turkey, whole wheat rotini instead of tri-color, and one of my favorite salad dressings.
Pesto Pizza with Fontina and Roma Tomatoes
I'm going to use some of the roma tomatoes from our neighbor's garden in this pizza. I also have a ready-made pizza dough in the refrigerator that I need to use that works well with this recipe. I'll brown some extra vegetarian chik'n strips when I make the pasta salad so I can chop up the leftovers and use them on this pizza too.
Spicy Vegetable Curry
I'm making this dish this week because I have carrots, a potato, and frozen peas I want to use up. I can also use leftover rice from this dish in my stuffed peppers if I make them on a later day. I like being able to use leftovers in other dishes rather than make things like rice over and over again.
This is only five meals for seven days. However we have eggs and things to make breakfast food, I'm getting marinara sauce so we could have spaghetti in a pinch, and we always keep a frozen pizza on hand for days when we just run out of time to make dinner before I need to put Simran to bed. I'm currently in the process of using up pretty much everything in my freezer because something syrupy -- frozen blueberries, it looks like -- got loose and leaked all over everything, and it will be easier to wipe the freezer down in its entirety when there are there no longer syrup-soaked packages in it. Which means there are some other frozen meal possibilities in there that would be good to use up too, mostly vegetarian burgers and sausages. I had no idea how many bags of frozen peas I had hiding in there. There are three.
