What"s For Dinner? 30-Minute Menus For 2010 - 1st Edition
Happy New Year to one and all! I hope you had a great start to the new year.
This is the 1st edition of the weekly 30-minute menus for 2010.
These weekly menus are published on a weekly basis; I like to develop the weekly menus on Thursday or Friday, grocery shop on Saturday, and start the week's menus on Sunday.
To help with the budget after the holiday season, I have included a bake once - eat 4 times menu plan.
Don't worry about your family getting tired of 'ham again!' because each menu is quite different from the others so your family will not even notice you are saving money and time by serving ham several times this week.
Ham is so versatile; you can switch the menus to fit your family's favorite dishes such as Ham & Beans, Ham & Cheddar Panini, Chef Salad, and the list goes on.
Our New Year family celebration will be Sunday when I will serve a fully-cooked spiral sliced ham.
I'll also serve Hoppin' John (canned black-eyed peas with diced onion over instant rice) to keep with our New Year's tradition.
We will start with an appetizer course of brie round and mild cheddar wedge; pate; endive, asparagus spears, bell peppers, and melon; artichoke pesto and pomegranate cranberry chutney; whole wheat mini toasts and water crackers; Kalamata gourmet olives.
You will find that I use several cooking methods, mix and match, to get dinner on the table quickly! (The ingredients in parenthesis show some of my quick-prep steps.
) You can always substitute your favorite made-from-scratch recipes when you have more time.
I hope you have a great week! Sunday: Spiral Sliced Ham (fully cooked ham; save some ham for Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday) Quattro Fromage (boxed pasta, shredded cheeses) Peas with Mushrooms (frozen veggie mix; buy extra mushrooms for Tuesday and Thursday) Lemon Pound Cake with Fresh Strawberries (purchased pound cake; save some pound cake for Tuesday) Monday: Chicken Pot Pie (biscuit mix, cream of mushroom soup, sour cream, frozen vegetable mix) Sliced Tomatoes with Blue Cheese (crumbled blue cheese, bottled vinaigrette) Blueberry Stacks (refrigerated crescent rolls, jarred blueberry jam) Tuesday: Ham and Cheddar Strata (ham from Sunday; purchased sourdough bread, bagged cheese) Broccoli / Bell Pepper / Mushroom Stir Fry (extra mushrooms from Sunday) Toasted Pound Cake with Ice Cream and Chocolate Sauce (pound cake from Sunday; purchased ice cream, and chocolate sauce) Wednesday: Quick Baked Ziti (vegetarian; jarred pasta sauce, boxed pasta, bagged shredded cheese) Panned Spinach (bagged baby spinach; buy extra spinach for Friday) Individual Cherry Pies (purchased pastry shells, canned cherry pie filling) Thursday: Pork Fried Rice (ham from Sunday; instant brown rice, extra mushrooms from Sunday) Asian Veggie Wraps (flour tortillas, broccoli slaw mix) Fruit Pizza Cookies (purchased sugar cookies, canned fruit, apricot jam) Friday: Baked Fish Italianio (bottled sun-dried tomato salad dressing, extra bagged baby spinach from Wednesday) Parmesan Topped Fettuccine (boxed pasta) Fresh Fruit Baguette (purchased bread) Sugar Cookie Kisses (refrigerated cookie dough, purchased chocolate candy kisses) Saturday: Kentucky Hot Brown Sandwiches (ham from Sunday; turkey lunch meat, shredded cheddar cheese) 3-Bean Salad (jarred 3-bean salad) Derby Pie Tarts (purchased tart shells, chocolate morsels, chopped pecans, canned whipped cream) I sincerely hope you have fun with your meal planning and preparation, Elizabeth Randall and Family
This is the 1st edition of the weekly 30-minute menus for 2010.
These weekly menus are published on a weekly basis; I like to develop the weekly menus on Thursday or Friday, grocery shop on Saturday, and start the week's menus on Sunday.
To help with the budget after the holiday season, I have included a bake once - eat 4 times menu plan.
Don't worry about your family getting tired of 'ham again!' because each menu is quite different from the others so your family will not even notice you are saving money and time by serving ham several times this week.
Ham is so versatile; you can switch the menus to fit your family's favorite dishes such as Ham & Beans, Ham & Cheddar Panini, Chef Salad, and the list goes on.
Our New Year family celebration will be Sunday when I will serve a fully-cooked spiral sliced ham.
I'll also serve Hoppin' John (canned black-eyed peas with diced onion over instant rice) to keep with our New Year's tradition.
We will start with an appetizer course of brie round and mild cheddar wedge; pate; endive, asparagus spears, bell peppers, and melon; artichoke pesto and pomegranate cranberry chutney; whole wheat mini toasts and water crackers; Kalamata gourmet olives.
You will find that I use several cooking methods, mix and match, to get dinner on the table quickly! (The ingredients in parenthesis show some of my quick-prep steps.
) You can always substitute your favorite made-from-scratch recipes when you have more time.
I hope you have a great week! Sunday: Spiral Sliced Ham (fully cooked ham; save some ham for Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday) Quattro Fromage (boxed pasta, shredded cheeses) Peas with Mushrooms (frozen veggie mix; buy extra mushrooms for Tuesday and Thursday) Lemon Pound Cake with Fresh Strawberries (purchased pound cake; save some pound cake for Tuesday) Monday: Chicken Pot Pie (biscuit mix, cream of mushroom soup, sour cream, frozen vegetable mix) Sliced Tomatoes with Blue Cheese (crumbled blue cheese, bottled vinaigrette) Blueberry Stacks (refrigerated crescent rolls, jarred blueberry jam) Tuesday: Ham and Cheddar Strata (ham from Sunday; purchased sourdough bread, bagged cheese) Broccoli / Bell Pepper / Mushroom Stir Fry (extra mushrooms from Sunday) Toasted Pound Cake with Ice Cream and Chocolate Sauce (pound cake from Sunday; purchased ice cream, and chocolate sauce) Wednesday: Quick Baked Ziti (vegetarian; jarred pasta sauce, boxed pasta, bagged shredded cheese) Panned Spinach (bagged baby spinach; buy extra spinach for Friday) Individual Cherry Pies (purchased pastry shells, canned cherry pie filling) Thursday: Pork Fried Rice (ham from Sunday; instant brown rice, extra mushrooms from Sunday) Asian Veggie Wraps (flour tortillas, broccoli slaw mix) Fruit Pizza Cookies (purchased sugar cookies, canned fruit, apricot jam) Friday: Baked Fish Italianio (bottled sun-dried tomato salad dressing, extra bagged baby spinach from Wednesday) Parmesan Topped Fettuccine (boxed pasta) Fresh Fruit Baguette (purchased bread) Sugar Cookie Kisses (refrigerated cookie dough, purchased chocolate candy kisses) Saturday: Kentucky Hot Brown Sandwiches (ham from Sunday; turkey lunch meat, shredded cheddar cheese) 3-Bean Salad (jarred 3-bean salad) Derby Pie Tarts (purchased tart shells, chocolate morsels, chopped pecans, canned whipped cream) I sincerely hope you have fun with your meal planning and preparation, Elizabeth Randall and Family
