After almost a month with very little snow in the mountain pass by us, it snowed the week before our annual family weekend snow trip! And then the sun came out for our excursions on Saturday. Wow, we were blessed.
On to a normal week of menus, though, and this week I'm making a concerted effort to try some recipes I've pulled out of magazines recently. When I outlined the steps I take to menu planning I wrote that most of the time I use our family's tried-and-true recipes or look at past menus for inspiration. That's because it's the easiest and makes for a pretty quick menu planning session.
But I do like to try new recipes and will keep them with my menus to remind me to include them in a menu. I hadn't done this in awhile, so this week I'm actually going to try four new recipes because they looked fairly easy and I had the ingredients on hand already.
We'll find out if any will make the permanent rotation or if they will end up in the recycling bin. Or if I'm crazy for trying all these new things and I'll end up just making a fall-back recipe (usually spaghetti or tacos).
I'm including the links to the ones I could find. Family Circle won't let me to the tart recipe without signing up for a newsletter, so I'll post it later if it's a keeper. :-) Maybe you'd like to try some of these with me this week? If so, let me know how it went for you!
Monday- Onion, Bacon, and Spinach Tart (with less onions for the kids), slaw made with Dijon Vinaigrette, sourdough bread
Tuesday- Chicken Teriyaki, brown rice (make extra for Friday), vegetable stir fry
Wednesday- Mexican Layered Three Bean Casserole, green salad with spicy vinaigrette, chips and home canned salsa
Thursday- Baked chicken, Roasted Vegetable Pie (substituting potatoes for the squash), green salad
Friday- Chicken Rice Burritos made with leftover rice from Tuesday and chicken from Thursday, vegetable platter
Saturday- Turkey burgers on home made buns, oven fries, carrots
Sunday- Spaghetti using frozen Roasted Tomato/Vegetable Sauce
-Jami
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