Weekend Recap and Menu Plan

We enjoyed our long weekend at home this weekend recovering from our trip. It was also our six year anniversary, and to celebrate, we went to see the Avengers. It was awesome! We also played some SWTOR, because we're dorks. It's awesome that we can do that stuff together. We actually spend a lot of time together. When we started dating, we spent a lot of time together (as most new couples do), but somehow we never got tired of that. I kind of assumed we would eventually, but we never did. I like it  =)

Menu Plan for the week
Tuesday: Hot dogs, refried beans, salad
Wednesday: Turkey burgers, cucumber and tomato salad
Thursday: Turkey burgers
Friday: Pork tenderloin, black beans and corn
Saturday: Out
Sunday: Leftover pork
Monday: Fish, mushrooms

Menu Plan

Wednesday - Pork reubens (I need to make these again since V missed out last time!)
Thursday - Leftover pork reubens
Friday - Reservation at La Gondola, yay Groupon!
Saturday - Baked coconut tilapia
Sunday - Turkey enchilada casserole
Monday - Leftover tilapia
Tuesday - Leftover casserole

Last Week's Menu

Wednesday - Pork Ruben, salad
Thursday - Pork carnitas, black bean, corn, and rice salad
Friday - in MI, visiting my family
Saturday - MI
Sunday - Thai delivery
Monday - Easter leftovers
Tuesday - Turkey burgers, roasted potatoes, and green beans

Menu Plan

This week is a little different because V is out of town, and one of my good friends A is coming to visit this weekend! What a crazy week!

Monday - Pizza with butternut squash, onions, spinach, chicken, and goat cheese
Tuesday - Leftover pizza
Wednesday - Leftover pizza (hey, it takes one person a long time to eat a pizza!)
Thursday - Balsamic braised pork and butternut squash. Probably not that exact recipe, but something similar
Friday - Pizza at Gino's East, best Chicago style pizza!
Saturday - not sure yet, we're going to play the day by ear depending on the weather
Sunday - Salmon

Menu Plan

Tuesday - Lemon garlic olive chicken*, peppers and potatoes
Wednesday - Leftover chicken
Thursday - Shrimp with Pinapple Habanero sauce from Costco, tomato and avocado salad
Friday - Leftover shrimp
Saturday - out, we have a Groupon to use at Fontana Grill!
Sunday - Butternut squash and pork lasagna, salad
Monday - Leftover lasagna

*I don't really have a recipe for this, just an idea about what I want it to taste like. We'll see how it turns out!

Menu Plan

Monday - Salmon with pineapple sauce and brown rice
Tuesday - Leftover chili from last week
Wednesday - Leftover chili (man, I can eat me some chili!)
Thursday - out for a friend's birthday
Friday - Beer Braised Pork Loin
Saturday - probably out for date night
Sunday - fry things day. We're going to make doughnuts for breakfast, and Alton Brown's Chips and Fish for dinner
Monday - Leftover pork loin

Menu Plan

Tuesday - Red beans and rice
Wednesday - Leftover red beans and rice
Thursday - Apple Maple Pork Tenderloin (V's idea, so I'll be making up a recipe for this as I go!)
Friday - Leftover pork
Saturday - Dinner at our friends' house, we're taking a Pavlova
Sunday - Turkey chili
Monday - Turkey chili

I made a Pavlova for this same group of friends for the first time on New Year's Eve, and they loved it! As most people do  ;-)  When I was making my grocery list for this week, V asked me what we're taking to our friends' on Saturday. I hold him he needed to find out (they're more his friends than mine), and he jokingly said they'd probably ask for more Pavlova. Turns out, he was right! Everybody loves Pavlova, it seems like every time I take it somewhere it just disappears. It's nice to have a dish that people love so much they request it all the time, but at the same time it kinda sucks to make the same thing over and over. Oh well!

Menu Plan

So, the menu plan is a little late this week, but that's because grocery shopping got put off until tonight. Here's the plan!

Tuesday - Pizza
Wednesday - Pizza leftovers
Thursday - Pasta with leftover sauce from last Friday
Friday - Pasta
Saturday - Out
Sunday - Turkey burgers (bumped from last week to try the pasta!)
Monday - Turkey burgers

Weekend Recap and Menu Plan

It's Monday! We survived the weekend, Superbowl and all (Go Giants!). We didn't end up doing much this weekend because V hurt his knee a few days ago and is still recovering. Friday night we played SWTOR (yeah, I warned you that we're dorks!). Saturday we tried to go to Hot Doug's for lunch, but it was closed as they were on vacation. Then, we tried to go to Kuma's Corner, but the wait was about 2 hours. Sorry, but I'm not waiting for 2 hours for a burger! Even if it is the best burger ever. It's just not worth it, especially since you pretty much have to wait outside, V's knee was hurting, and we hadn't eaten yet that day. We actually thought we had a pretty good shot at getting in, it was about 2:30 in the afternoon when we got there. Oh well! We ended up at City Provisions, where V got their sandwich special (turkey ruben) and I got siracha egg salad with one of their soups of the day, chicken and sausage gumbo. The food was really good, so I think it's just as well that we ended up there.

Sunday we lazed around the house, doing usual Sunday things, like laundry. We watched the Superbowl, which ended exactly the way we wanted it to! A very close friend of ours, LM, is a Giants fan, so we were pulling for them to win, and they did! Yay! I love the Superbowl, but it does make me a little sad that there's no more football on until the college season starts up again in the fall.

Here's the meal lineup for this week:
Monday: New England Fish Chowder from Cook's Illustrated
Tuesday: Pork Lo Mein from Food.com
Wednesday: Pork Lo Mein leftovers
Thursday: Turkey Burgers from Annie's Eats
Friday: Turkey Burger leftovers
Saturday: Date night! Or takeout/delivery, depending on what we're in the mood for, and the weather
Sunday: German Goulash from Food.com
Monday: German Goulash leftovers