Saturday, November 23, 2019

12/2 menu plan

Monday:
meal prep monday
chicken pot pie + roasted green beans (olive oil + trader joe's onion salt at 400 until caramelized)
grapefruit slices
  • chicken pot pie or like this (pulled from from freezer - my original recipe notes below)
    • edited to add: I used these recipes as guidelines, and did the following:
    • 3 potatoes, diced small + 4 TB butter, saute for 5-7 minutes until smells yummy 
    • add in 1/4 c flour until all potatoes are coated
    • add in 3 cups broth + 1/4 c milk/cream/half and half (I used a combo of cream and half and half I needed to use up - let bubble and thicken
    • add in 1 rotisserie chicken and 2 bags of frozen mixed vegetables
    • add more broth/cream/milk/liquid until desired soupiness
    • salt and pepper to taste
    • puff pastry + egg wash on top
    • freeze or bake
    • (refer to recipes for temperatures - I just winged it)
    • made enough for 1 small pyrex for dinner and 3 freezer meals

    Tuesday-Friday: I'm in Maui with my mom for a mother daughter trip to celebrate YAY (my mom started a tradition of taking each daughter on a solo mother/daughter trip wherever they wanted to go to celebrate their first pregnancy and I said LET'S GO BACK TO MAUI!)
    Leave the following meals/ingredients for Brett (separate lunch portions, too):
    • creamy garlic alfredo pasta from freezer
      • (double sauce) 
      • (edited to add: I added in some riced cauliflower when sauteeing garlic, sauteed until plentyyyy soft, and it was perfect. I also used veggie pasta!)
      • I froze in silicone muffin pans, and reheated slowlyyyyy on the lowest heat possible with a bit of milk. Do not try and break up the "pucks" of pasta! It breaks the pasta. Just let it heat and gently come apart. :) And I'd add more milk as needed to get the sauce to the consistency I like. 
    • tamales from the freezer
    • BLT/club sandwich stuff
    • hot dog stuff lol
    • fixings for tacos
      • best ground beef tacos  (pulled from freezer) (use ground beef + add in riced caulflower when sauteeing onion + puree spinach into tomato sauce)
      • lettuce, tomatoes, pico, guac, crema, cheese
    Saturday:
    snack dinner saturday

    Sunday:
    quick, slow cooker, or instant pot
    out with brett's family

    fyi:
    with love,