If you are coming over here from Menu Plan Monday this week at Organizing Junkie, welcome and thanks for visiting! If you are interested in living in a fast paced world and still making healthy diet changes, eventually switching over to "real" and whole foods, you might want to also check back for my Simple Steps: Nourishing Food posts.
In addition to below, I will be baking some kind of banana bread ( we have black bananas) and some kind of zucchini bread. Maybe this one for Zucchini Yogurt Muffins or this one for a Zucchini Bread recipe using whole wheat flour -- but it uses so much sugar! Anyone have any suggestions for me using whole wheat flour, no-little sugar (using honey?) that is still moist and tasty?
Monday:Chile Rellenos Burgers -- This is what happens when you have received free leftover burgers from church BBQ a couple weeks in a row. You have to start decorating the burgers to be something totally different. Last night someone who knows we have a "large" family also handed us a bag of leftover and stuck together slices of cheddar cheese, so I'll throw those on top instead of the jack cheese it calls for. Free is a very good price and worth making changes for!
Making Raspberry Ice Cream with the berries we are picking today. I also get to use milk and cream from our very own cow, Violet:)
Tuesday: Zucchini Bake -- We are blessed to have our own chickens who produce farm fresh, bright orange yolked eggs. Put that with the abundance of zucchini our CSA has had the past couple of weeks and you'll understand why I have to come up with a recipe to use it. It will include zucchini, eggs, cheese (free), basil from my garden, sweet onion from CSA, and a cornbread crust. I'll post what I invent next week and let you know if it was good or not.
Wednesday: Baked Steelhead basted with coconut oil, sea salt, lemon, basil and onion, wrapped in foil and cooked on Traeger BBQ. Served with -- you guessed it --- some form of zucchini!
Thursday:Zucchini and Rice Casserole with some meat thrown in. Yes, that's zucchini a couple times this week. We try to eat what is local and in season. So we'll be eating zucchini in many forms right now...over and over again!!!
Friday: Layered Basil Salad Fresh greens, ham, pasta and basil are combined with other ingredients to create this old favorite of mine -- and I have a hankering for it!(See picture at top of post)
Saturday:Leftover RoundUp
Sunday: The Burger Thing at church
7 comments:
Wow - that Layered Basil Salad looks good!!!! I might give it a try! I like a really good salad!!
Hope you have a great week!
Karen
www.homeschoolblogger.com/cookalatte
I love layered salad! Yours looks delicious!
Thanks for stopping by my blog.
Blessings,
Michele
www.frugalgranola.blogspot.com
Every Monday I think how someday, I too want to be a good cook like you!
Zucchini is the perfect powerfood... you can mix it, hide it, feature it, and rarely can you do it too much!
I've been grating and slicing it on top of my salads... (and we are having salads all the time with our gigantic heads of lettuce from the farm) I love it with the cream dressings (ranch / bleu / Caesar)
Looking forward to the review of your casserole.
That zucchini bread recipe looks great. I usually throw in some blueberries, it goes really well with the taste of the bread. I have 2 big zucchini's in my kitchen, they are just crying out, use me, use me! So I am glad I checked out your site today. :)
I am also big on eating local and what is in season. It is so easy to do where I live. :)
Hi Tiffany, Thank you so much for stopping by. I love this salad. I'm so glad you posted this. My sis gave me a beautiful clear salad bowl with a pedistal foot. I have been wanting to put a layered salad into it. I like your post about rice too.
We are in the middle of harvesting and canning, so lots going on. Have a great week. Kathi
It's Monday again, and I'm just now reading this post. (a week behind)
I have a honey cookbook and I also have a cookbook called Sweet and Sugar-Free (I think) that doesn't have any recipes using artificial sweeteners.
I have been successful in substituting honey for sugar in many a baked good. You can also throw in bananas or other fruit purees, or frozen fruit juice concentrate. If you would prefer an actual recipe along those lines, let me know and I'll email one or a handful to you.
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