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Monday Recipes

Notes for Monday: none

Menus 4 Moms recipe Michele's Signature Salmon

Place salmon skin side down in shallow roasting pan. Top with Soy sauce, garlic, almonds, onion and tomatoes Cover fish with a foil tent. Bake at 350° F for 30 - 40 minutes.

Alternate ingredients: Substitute Spanish or Vidalia onions for Red onions, or top with parsley or Italian seasonings. Substitute any citrus fruit for tomatoes: oranges, pineapple, lemons or limes (even mango or papaya).

Menus 4 Moms recipe Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Peel potatoes and quarter. Boil in enough water to cover potatoes until potatoes are tender. Drain. Mix all ingredients except milk and mash with a potato masher or large fork. Add enough milk to make potatoes creamy. If you like very creamy mashed potatoes you can use a mixer to get a good whipped consistency. If you like lumpy potatoes, I recommend using a fork or potato masher to maintain a more solid consistency. If you want a healthier version, omit sour cream and cheese, mix with skim milk and add butter buds for flavor.

 

English Peas with Butter

 

Tuesday Recipes

Notes for Tuesday:

  1. Today's recipe can be doubled or if your children are not into chicken with sauce, just bake or pan-fry a couple of extra pieces of chicken for them. I have put 2 lbs. of chicken on the grocery list so you will have enough for everyone.

  2. I have a link to substitutions for wine in cooking. If you would like to use real wine but don't drink it, I suggest buying the small individual bottles that are available in 4 packs. You can keep them for cooking and they won't go bad like a large bottle will once it is opened.

  3. Make a large salad tonight and save half for Friday night. Add croutons, bacon bits, sunflower seeds, and any other "crunchies" just before serving each night.

Menus 4 Moms recipe Chicken in Mustard Cream Sauce

Mustard Cream Sauce

Flatten chicken by placing between 2 pieces of plastic wrap and pounding with a rolling pin or the side of a meat mallet. Sprinkle chicken with pepper and spread 1 Tbsp. dijon on one side of the chicken pieces. Pan-fry in olive oil, turning often, for about 10 minutes, or until cooked through. Remove from pan and keep warm.

Combine sauce ingredients in pan and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Cook until thickened and spoon over chicken before serving.


 
Menus 4 Moms recipe  Quick Stovetop Vegetables

Combine all ingredients except cheese and heat in a saucepan until bubbly. Serve topped with shredded cheese


 
Salad
 
 
Dinner Rolls


 

Wednesday Recipes

Notes for Wednesday: none

Menus 4 Moms recipe Chipped Beef Gravy over Buttermilk Biscuits

Open the jar of dried beef with a bottle opener. Soak the beef in a bowl of water to lessen the saltiness. Drain. Tear or cut the beef into bite-sized pieces and set aside. In a large skillet (enough to hold 5-6 cups), melt butter. Stir in flour over medium heat and continue to cook, stirring constantly, for 1 minute. Slowly add milk, a little at a time, stirring constantly. A whisk works best for keeping lumps out of the gravy. When all milk is added, add beef bouillon and hot sauce. Simmer over med. low heat, stirring frequently, until adequately thick to pour over biscuits. Add meat and heat through. Serve over buttermilk biscuits.

 

Menus 4 Moms recipe Buttermilk Biscuits

Combine flour and butter, cutting with a fork. Stir in buttermilk. Add more flour if too wet, more buttermilk if too dry. When dough is rolling consistency, knead a few times and turn out onto a floured surface. Roll out and cut with a biscuit cutter or upside down glass. Bake half of the biscuits on cookie sheet at 475°F until brown. Place the other half of the biscuits on a cookie sheet or other flat pan and put in the freezer until frozen. Before going to bed or early the next morning, bag the biscuits in a dated freezer bag for later use. If cooking thawed biscuits, follow normal cooking instructions. To cook frozen biscuits, extend cooking time. Serve hot biscuits with butter and jelly.


 
Scrambled Eggs
 
Sliced Oranges
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Thursday Recipes

Notes for Thursday:

  1. This is an authentic Japanese fried rice recipe and is delicious. Mary Ann took cooking lessons when she lived in Japan and this is one of the recipes she learned. Calrose rice is not the same as white rice. Look for it with the white rice in your grocery store.

  2. You may not have heard of tamari. It is a premium soy sauce that has the wonderful rich flavor of soy sauce but does not taste as salty. It can be quite expensive at health food stores, but the Food Lion in my area carries it for $.99/bottle. It is definitely worth trying; it is all we use except for marinades that require large quantities of soy sauce.

  3. Cook your rice at least an hour before you plan to start your fried rice. It works better if it is still slightly warm when you fry it.

Menus 4 Moms recipe Fried Rice

Cook calrose rice according to directions. Heat some oil in wok or deep fry pan (I use about a tablespoon) and scramble one egg in it. Remove egg and add some more oil (I add about 3 tbsp) to the pan, heating. Add chopped onion, some thawed peas & carrots (and corn if you like), and anything else you like in your rice. We sometimes add leftover chicken or canned baby shrimp. When the onions are tender, add the rice and add soy sauce to taste and stir with a big flat wooden spoon or large cooking chopsticks, if you have them (mine are about 18" long). Add the cooked egg near the end of cooking time and stir well. When the rice is heated through and a bit crispy, it is ready to serve.

Menus 4 Moms recipe Egg Drop Soup
 

Heat chicken broth, salt and pepper to boiling in saucepan. Stir green onions into eggs. Pour egg mixture slowly into boiling broth, stirring constantly with fork to form shreds of egg.

 

 

Fortune Cookies
 
 

Friday Recipes

Notes for Friday:

  1. Margherita Pizza was first created for Queen Margherita of Italy in 1889 by Raffaele Esposito and is made so that it reflects the colors of the Italian flag.

  2. I recommend periodically making a double (or triple) pizza dough recipe in your bread machine or large mixer and freezing the extra dough for an easy lunch or dinner another day. The Urban Homemaker has a double pizza dough recipe that is very good. It has variations for garlic, herbed, or seeded dough.

  3. If you are using a bread machine to make dough, time it so that it is ready just before you want to cook the pizza. If you are using a frozen pizza dough, be sure to allow enough time for it to thaw. I like to thaw it for several hours in the refrigerator.

 

Menus 4 Moms recipe Margherita Pizza

Thinly slice 2-3 small tomatoes and layer them on a baked pizza crust that has been spread with pizza/spaghetti sauce and sprinkled with both cheeses. Drizzle with 1/4 cup pesto (or sprinkle with fresh chopped basil leaves) and sprinkle with 1/2 tsp. crushed red pepper. Bake at 450 degrees for 12 minutes.

 
Leftover Salad
 

Cottage Cheese w/Pineapple

 

* Indicates that of the options listed, this item is the one on the grocery list.

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