Weekly Menu - July 27th 2014

This weather is starting to really become draining!  I know, I know, I shouldn't complain because soon enough it will be dark, dreary and cold but you feel like you need a double dose of energy on days like we've been having this week!

With that in mind my menu for the week ahead requires minimal time in the kitchen but provides lots of great flavours.  A few tastes of Mexico this week, we really miss good Mexican food from our time living in the States and find it's often easier to make our own than try to find it here.  Tortillas are cheap and provide a good frame for so may great flavours, most of the cooking is quick so you're not standing over hot pans for hours on end, and a simple salad with a few slices of super healthy avocado make a great side for most Mexican food.

Happy Cooking and Eating this week!

Weekly Menu - July 20th 2014

Every week, on Saturdays, I plan our menu for the week ahead.  In fact, I plan out a bit further than that but I use this time each week to create the shopping list and make any changes based on our activities for the coming week.  My husband doesn't eat Beef or Lamb so we use an awful lot of Chicken, Pork and Fish - with the occasional veggie meal thrown in for good measure!  We use Turkey Mince to replace Beef Mince in most of the standard mince dishes and it doesn't affect the outcome at all.  I hope that our menus give you a few new ideas for the What's For Dinner dilemma!  As the week progresses I will post recipes and photos for our favourites so you'll have no excuse not to give them a try!

This week we have a couple of celebration meals - unusual for us to have two so close together, and during the week, but that's how the calendar has worked against us this year!  There will be plenty of prep in advance to make those evenings run smoothly so we can enjoy our family, friends and the food.

Happy Cooking and Eating this week!