Meal plan come to liiiiiiiife!

Since I actually planned all our meals*, and really, since I actually carried through with those plans, I thought I’d report how the various meals and recipes turned out.

Just to recap, here’s what the plan was:

Monday’s beef and barley stew was delicious. Highly recommend! Fine holiday fun!

No real recipe to point you in the direction of; I’d just recommend adding cooked barley to your favorite beef stew recipe.

Tuesday’s tostadas turned out SO GOOD. In fact, I don’t think taco night will ever be the same! I was concerned that the method (baking tortillas in upside-down muffin tins) wouldn’t work with corn tortillas, but it totally did.

We served ours with roasted red and green peppers, shreddy lettuce, and cilantro. And pinto beans. And leftover chicken reheated in a little cream cheese and green hot sauce. What! I like food.

Wednesday was going to be chicken thighs, but we decided to swap chicken thighs for spinach salad so as not to have chicken two nights in a row.

This was taken before I put blue cheese on. In fact, I forgot about the blue cheese until Chris reminded me. Grievous error. Let us never forget the blue cheese.

Thursday was, as I said, chicken thighs and Asian slaw. No picture of the chicken, but it looked like a piece of grilled chicken. Very exciting.

I ended up using this recipe from Holly and for the slaw, we just threw a bunch of cabbage, bell peppers, cilantro, and green onions in a bowl and tossed with a rice wine vinegar, sesame seed, orange marmalade, and sesame oil dressing.

Friday night pizza night! My dough rose! Yes!

Used even more leftover chicken to make a BBQ chicken pizza.

So there you have it! Gratuitous food pictures, everyone’s favorite, right?

No menu this week, sadly. Chris I were two days into the menu planning when he remembered he’ll be out of town most of the week. Quesadillas and cereal it is, then!

*Most recipes can be found with that link.