Menu Planning - Better Late than Never!

Menu for the week:

Sunday night - Break the fast - we had a pasta dinner

Monday night - Embellished Shabbat Leftovers

Tuesday night - Baked Potatoes, Vegetable "Quiche" (recipe soon - it's wheat free and pareve), tomatoes and cucumbers

Wednesday - Rice, Stir Fried Veggies, Spicy Lentils.

Thursday - Omelettes, Hash Browns, Gevinah Levana, cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes

Lunches have been and will continue to be totally random - leftovers, sandwiches, cottage cheese, etc.

Do you do menu planning? Do you think it helps with your budget?

What I'm making for Shabbat

I say the same thing every week - how did the week slip by so quickly?!

We've been super busy around here and we are sooo looking forward to a quiet, restful Shabbat. (And then maybe, maybe, a free museum on Monday?)

But we'll probably be a little nutty and do a Friday tiyul first.

So the plan is to do some cooking (not a lot) tonight, and then most of the work between 4 pm Friday and candlelighting time.

Focusing on getting everything into the oven and hardly using the stovetop, it is just too hot for an open flame in my kitchen these days (no, we have not begun using the A/C yet, you'll hear about it when we do. Not using the A/C should hopefully help keep our electric bills under control...)

Fresh Whole Wheat and Oat Bran Challot
Vegetarian Pate (instead of soup) - haven't written up this recipe, if I have time, I will.
Black Bean Cholent because my family doesn't think there's a problem eating cholent in the summer
Chicken in honey-mustard marinade (I never blog my chicken recipes because I only make them immediately prior to shabbat!)
Oven-baked rice
Roasted Kishuim
Potato Kugel
Purple Cabbage Salad
Make-your-own-salad with whatever other vegetables we have

Baking: Brownies, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Banana Cake

Seudah Shlishit will be sandwiches, spreads, salads, and corn bread cake

Shabbat!

Wow, these weeks just keep flying by!

I have no idea how it is already Thursday night. Or how I will muster up the energy to cook.

But, setting that aside, here's the plan:

Challot from the freezer
Split pea soup (I have a bag of split peas to use up!) (at night)
Black Bean Cholent at lunch
Spicy Roast Chicken 
Potato Kugel
Roasted Peppers, Summer Squash and Garlic
Salad - lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, basil
Apple Kugel or Apple Crisp
Chocolate Chip Cookies

Seudah Shlishit: Challah and spreads, grapefruit, banana muffins

And that's the plan. Now, I might just go to sleep, I'm so tired.

Menu

Our supper menu for the week, using what's here in the house.

Sunday:
Tomato Soup, Lentils and Rice with vegetables, oranges

Monday:
Whatever is left from Shabbat

Tuesday:
Split Pea Soup, Homemade bagels with homemade cream cheese, olives, carrot sticks, and sliced peppers

Wednesday:
Split Pea Soup, Pizza (I made a batch of individual size crusts and they are already in the freezer!), carrot sticks, sliced cucumbers

Thursday:
Garlic bread, Pasta with tomato sauce and cheese, salad