Menu Plan Monday – 12/14 to 12/20

The following is our dinner menu for the week beginning 12/14.

L/O = indicates leftover from previous meal.

Sunday (first date hubby and I have been on since the spring!):

Chinese food at Wei Li’s (thank you Clara for the recommendation!) after seeing A Christmas Carol at the Public Theatre in Lewiston with our gift certificate from the Block House Preschool’s auction last March.

Monday:

Smoked salmon and cream cheese frittata
Biscuits
Salad

Tuesday:

Meatloaf
Carrots
Mashed potatoes
Salad

Wednesday:

Beer and onion braised *beef* carbonnade
Rice
Steamed spinach

Thursday:

Pasta  and meatballs
Peas
Salad

Friday:

L/O’s/Clean out the fridge night

Saturday:

BBQ Chicken pizza

And for coffee hour at church on Sunday: Smoked Salmon Horseradish Mousse

Total spent on groceries (food only):
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Weekly Notes:

I kind of went AWOL for the past couple of weeks, but I’m back on track once again.  For anyone who cares, we basically had turkey or ham in one form or another last week (we had our annual post-Thanksgiving party a week ago Saturday, and had leftovers up the wazoo).

We got an enormous egg a couple of days ago (my first reaction upon seeing it was:  “Ow!”).  Turns out it had THREE yolks.  I’ve heard of double yolks, but had never seen one before, so a triple-yolk egg was pretty exciting.  And it made a tasty omelette, too.

Our power went out several times due to last Thursday/Friday’s ice storm.  The longest outage was maybe 1 or 1 1/2 hours total, with several brief interruptions (just long enough to make me have to reset all the clocks in the house YET AGAIN!). We have a generator but didn’t need to use it.  I’m glad that the freezer is FULL, because if we did lose power for a long period of time, it wouldn’t take a lot of energy to keep it freezer full of frozen stuff frozen.

Coming up next week…Hannukah!