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Monday - Recipes

• Easy Chicken Parmesan
• Peas and Carrots
• Dinner Rolls

Tuesday - Recipes

• Cook-Ahead Pork Loin Chops
• Rice
• Seasoned Green Beans

Wednesday - Recipes

• Tater Tot Casserole
• Sugar Snap Peas
• Cottage Cheese and Pineapple

Thursday - Recipes

• Crockpot Chicken and Vegetables
• Egg Noodles
• Homemade Applesauce

Friday - Recipes

• Hamburgers and Hot Dogs
• Pasta Salad
• Baked Beans
• Watermelon

 

Monday Recipes

Notes for Monday: none

 Easy Chicken Parmesan

• 3lb. chicken parts
• 1 cup bread crumbs
• 1/3 cup Parmesan Cheese
• 1/4 tsp. oregano
• 1/4 tsp. pepper
• Salt to taste
• 1 clove garlic or 1 Tbsp. garlic powder
• 3/4 cup melted butter

Combine bread crumbs, cheese, oregano, pepper, and salt; set aside. Lightly saute garlic in 2 T. butter then stir in remaining butter. Dip chicken in garlic butter then roll each piece in bread crumb mixture. Place chicken in 9x13 pan and sprinkle with remaining bread crumb mixture. Pour on remaining butter. Bake at 350° for 55 minutes.

 

Peas and Carrots

Dinner Rolls

 

Tuesday Recipes

Notes for Tuesday:

1. I recently found this recipe for cooking pork chops ahead and freezing them for quick dinners. We are going to cook enough pork chops for tonight and for one meal next week. Make sure you label the extra chops in your freezer "Cooked Pork Chops for 8/22/07".
   
   
   
   

Cook Ahead Chops

• 8 pork loin chops
• 1 1/2 cups chicken broth

Preheat oven to 350°F. Place pork chops in an ungreased 9x13 baking dish, and cover the chops with the chicken broth. Cover with foil and bake for 40-50 minutes or until meat juices are clear.

Take four chops out and lightly brown in a skillet for tonight's meal. Pour one can undrained pineapple chunks and about 1/8 tsp ground ginger over the chops and simmer about 5-10 minutes and serve.

Let the other four chops cool and then place the cooled chops in heavy foil or in a freezer bag. Label "Cooked Pork Chops for 8/22/07" and freeze until next week.

 

 

  Rice

 Seasoned Green Beans

• 1 lb. fresh green beans, slightly steamed
• 2 T. butter
• 1/2 package Good Seasonings Italian dressing mix

Melt butter in large fry pan. Add green beans. Sprinkle with the 1/2 package of seasoning mix and stir well while sauteing.

 

 

Wednesday Recipes

Notes for Wednesday:

1. This isn't one of the healthiest meals, but it is easy to make and easy to adapt to what you have on hand. Feel free to substitute cooked chicken and cream of chicken soup if that is what you have.
   
   
   

  Tater Tot Casserole

• 32. oz package frozen Tater Tots
• 1/2 lb. browned ground beef, thawed (from freezer)
• 16 oz. container sour cream
• 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
• 1 can cream of mushroom soup (substitutions)
• 1 can cream of celery soup (substitutions)
• 4 oz. can mushrooms, drained
• 1 pkg. sauteed onions, thawed (from freezer)
• 6 oz. can French fried onions

Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 9x13 casserole pan. Place frozen tater tots in bottom of pan. Sprinkle beef over tater tots. In a bowl, mix sour cream,cheese, soups, mushrooms, and sauteed onions. Pour over beef. Top with French fried onions. Bake for 50-60 minutes.

 

 

  Sugar Snap Peas

• 1-2 small packages fresh sugar snap peas
• 1 Tbsp. butter
• 1tsp. sugar

Wash pea pods. Drain and dry on a paper towel. Melt butter in a fry pan and add sugar snap peas. Toss well and sprinkle with sugar. Heat on medium heat until peas are tender but crisp. Serve hot.

Cottage Cheese and Pineapple

 

 

 

Thursday Recipes

Notes for Thursday:

1. If you do not have cooked onion in the freezer, this would be a good time to pick up a bag of onions and chop the whole thing and saute in olive oil until transparent, then freezer in dated freezer bags.
   
   
2. Save the other half of the green bell pepper for Friday's Pasta Salad.
   
   

 Crockpot Chicken and Vegetables

• 2 cups fresh baby carrots
• 4 medium white or red potatoes, cut into quarters
• 1/2 onion, chopped
• 6 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
• 1/2 bell pepper any color, chopped
• 1 can cream of mushroom soup
• 1/4 cup water
• 2 tsp dried oregano
• 1/2 tsp paprika
• Adobo seasoning to taste

Place carrots, potatoes, onion, chicken and pepper in crock in order. Mix soup, water, adobo, and oregano and pour over chicken. Top with paprika. Cover and cook on low for 8 hours.

Egg Noodles

  Homemade Applesauce

• 5 Granny Smith apples
• 1/4 cup water
• 1-2 tsp. vanilla
• 1-2 tsp. sugar

Wash, peel, core, and slice apples. Place all ingredients in a sauce pan and simmer, stirring occasionally until apples are tender. You may need to add more water if it cooks down. You may either serve these hot as slices or mash them up and serve them as hot or cold applesauce.

 

Friday Recipes

Notes for Friday:

1. You may have frozen hamburger patties in your freezer from when we made some back around Memorial Day. If so, thaw and use those. Many of you may have used these up already so you will see one pound ground beef on the grocery list for making these hamburgers. If you can, buy even more hamburger and make extra patties for the freezer.
   
   
2. The Ranch Pasta Salad is compliments of Heidi from TheHomeSchoolMom in the Kitchen. Thanks, Heidi!
   
   
3. Make the pasta salad in the morning to give it plenty of time to chill.
   
   

 Grilled Hamburgers and Hot Dogs

I usually use 1 lb. of ground beef, an egg, and Adobo seasoning (easily found in the spice section of most grocery stores; substitute garlic salt if you can't find it) to make patties. If you can this week, increase this mixture to 5 lbs. of ground beef, 5 eggs, and *lots* of Adobo seasoning. You may add some bread crumbs if you wish. Shape patties for tonight's dinner, then take the extra meat and make hamburger patty shapes and meatball shapes for the freezer. Bake the meatballs then flash freeze the meatballs. Put into dated freezer bags. Freeze the extra hamburger patties with wax paper between each layer in a dated freezer bag.

For tonight, grill the hamburger patties and hot dogs and serve on buns with your favorite condiments.

 

 Pasta Salad

• 1 lb. whole wheat pasta shells
• 2 handfuls baby carrots, chopped
• 1/2 bunch green onions, chopped
• 3 stalks celery, chopped
• 1/2 package frozen baby peas, thawed
• 1/2 cup green pepper chopped (from yesterday)
• 1 cup real mayonnaise, more if it seems dry
• 1 package ranch dressing mix

Mix all ingredients. Chill for 1 hour or more.

  Baked Beans

• 2 cans pork and beans
• 1/2 cup barbecue sauce or more to taste
• 1 tsp. prepared mustard, or more to taste

Combine all ingredients in a saucepan and simmer for 20 minutes.

Watermelon

 

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