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Weekly Menu. May 20 – 26, 2024

I am a little late getting our menu posted this week. I am doing better than last week though when I never figured out what we were preparing for dinner until the day of.

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Stir-fried vegetables and egg over rice. 5/19/24

Sunday is Breakfast For Dinner day. I had some broccoli left over from Friday’s dinner so I combined that with some sliced carrot, onion, shredded cabbage, and scrambled egg. I seasoned the whole thing with tamari plus ground ginger and … Continue reading

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Buffalo chicken wings and salad. 5/20/24

I cannot take much credit for tonight’s dinner. The chicken wings were from a frozen bag and the salad was from Taylor Farms pre-prepared line of salads. We had a late appointment to see how my pneumonia was doing (much … Continue reading

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Grilled leg of lamb, potatoes, and broccoli. 5/18/24

Several weeks ago we bought a boneless leg of lamb. It was too much for the three of us to eat so John made up a packet of bits and pieces and also a piece that was one large muscle … Continue reading

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Penne arrabbiata 5/17/24

This is a recipe that I found on Serious Eats and adapted to our tastes. Here’s the original website https://www.seriouseats.com/penne-pasta-arrabbiata-sauce-recipe. We changed it up a bit because we like our spiciness coming from various sources—the red pepper flakes for overall … Continue reading

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Spicy Roasted Cauliflower and Onions, Hummus Sauce, and Salsa with Roasted Tilapia and Potato and Squash Mash. 5/16/24

The real star of this dinner was the roasted cauliflower and onions with the hummus sauce and salsa. Not only were the sauce and salsa good on the vegetables but they were also really good on the fish! I had … Continue reading

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Chickpeas, ditalini, and greens. 5/15/24

You can make this weeknight dinner vegan, vegetarian, or not depending on whether you garnish it with dairy cheese or use chicken stock instead of vegetable stock. Our dinner used what we had on hand, Parmesan cheese and chicken stock. … Continue reading

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Grilled hamburger and salad. 5/14/24

Although here in California we can pretty much grill stuff all year long there is something about sitting outside while it’s warm and still light out watching John flip burgers that screams summer. John is an expert at medium rare … Continue reading

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Classic chicken dinner. 5/13/34

We have tended to make a chicken dinner on Mondays for years now. In fact our son often makes chicken dinner on Mondays for his family, a holdover from his youth. Monday’s chicken dinner was rotisserie chicken breast reheated in … Continue reading

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Swedish tea ring. 5/12/24

For Mother’s Day our daughter baked me a Swedish tea ring. It is a yeast coffee cake filled with almond paste, almonds, and raisins. It is reminiscent of a coffee cake we used to buy from the bread man when … Continue reading

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