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Monday Menu

 

 

 

 

I was so inspired by what you were all eating last week! It's made me lift my game. 

We eat lots of fresh and whole food, a lot of it raised ourselves, but everyone gets in food ruts, where simple slips into ordinary. 

Reading other people's menus was just the shot in the arm we needed round here, hope it inspired you too.

This week is our packing week. We're packing up and moving a lot of stuff into storage for a year or so and minimal stuff into what we call the Loft, on the farm. The fellas are moving a lot of boxes later this week and we've got removalists booked for the big stuff next Monday.

So this week we need bright and energetic food. It's the end of Summer, plus I happen to be going by a fish market in the next couple of days so those two things will dictate the week's food. We're also processing another batch of broiler chickens this week so we'll have incredibly fresh chicken available (and tasty!) 

Two of our pigs went off to the abattoir this morning. They were respectfully raised and as happy as any pigs I've ever met. They had a luscious paddock, good food and company. Plus an awesome shelter built by Adman which had ocean glimpses (through the trees.) We thanked them and we expect to see them next Monday after they've been transported to our local butcher who'll hang them for a week for us, and then we get some hands on lessons in butchering hogs. For someone who has spent many years being vegetarian, I'm surprisingly excited. Expect pork on next week's menu.

This week:

 

:: Whole chicken roasted with lemon and thyme with green mixed salad + goats cheese on fresh bread

:: Malaysian Fish Curry with rice

:: Oyster and leek chowder with homemade flatbread for dipping

:: Fresh salmon and avocado salad with orange vinaigrette

:: Roman chicken and tomatoes with tagliatelle

:: Homemade Pizza (Saturday night is always Pizza Movie Night here)

:: Friday-night-dessert-night: Blackberry pie with vanilla bean icecream

 

Please tell me - what are you eating this week?

xxx

Monday Menu

 

Hi!

I wonder what you are cooking this week.

Sometimes I look in the fridge and the pantry and I just struggle to figure out what to put on the table every night.

And some weeks I'm super organised and I have a menu plan designed to use up what's in the fridge and I buy only what we're going to need. No mouldy zucchini. 

I always ask friends what they're cooking for dinner. It intrigues me. I have one friend who feeds her children (six and five years old) fresh mussels, curries, fabulous fish layered creations, all sorts of things. It boosts me. Inspires me to try a bit harder.

So I thought I might tell you what we think we're having this week and see if you want to join in. Some weeks around here we're all adventurous and trying new recipes and some weeks (this week) it's a market week, there's lots of hours in the commercial kitchen, and I'm throwing things into a slow cooker and wondering if there's baked beans in the freezer if we need a back up one night.

 

Here's the week:

Monday: Pumpkin soup with flatbread. (Note: didn't get to the flatbread.)

Tuesday: Pasta bake with tomatoes and zucchini

Wednesday: Slow cooked chicken with lentils and barley

Thursday: Zucchini slice with corn cobs and roast sweet potato

Friday: Crumbed chicken with steamed broccoli and mashed potatoes

Saturday: Homemade pizza

Sunday: Ham and herb quiche

 

I'd love to know what's on your table. If you have a blog and feel like blogging it, please use the linky tool below, include the url of your post and then link back here if you could.

Or you could just share in the comments.

Even if it's incomplete, or simple, or completely fabulous (i.e. you're not feeding three children seven and under?), it'll probably inspire all of us. 

(And this is my first go at publishing a linky tool - hope it works!)

Happy dinner times.

xxx