When I first started teaching myself to cook I was in my late teens. I live in the good old USA and I couldn’t buy wine for cooking. So I used cooking wine. Never stopped using cooking wine.
But my mom got me a new cookbook for Christmas this year and the author talks about cooking with wine quite a bit. I’m really somewhat clueless about wines and things still, however, since I don’t really drink them or cook with them. So I found a wine list in a different cookbook and got together a few recipes for this week that use wines. We’ll see how that goes.
If you have any good resources on learning about wines for cooking please share!
Onto the menu plan:
Monday – B Eggs and oatmeal w/ cream and butter… I’m getting bored with the normal egg scramble so I need to think of something different to do for breakfast eggs.
L Minestrone
S Liver w/ Onions, Roman egg soup, Caesar salad, sweet potatoes, steamed spinach, baked squash, kimchi
To-do start kraut, soak rice, start stock, cook lima beans in crockpot overnight, soak liver in lemon juice @ lunch, start squash and sweet potatoes early enough to have them done by supper!
Tuesday – B Eggs and oatmeal w/ cream and butter
L “Mom’s Vegetable Soup”
S Lentil Loaf, simple soup, baked squash, kimchi, Balsamic carrot salad, hot corn w/ butter
To-do cook white beans in crockpot overnight, cook rice at lunch, go to co-op (and find out bulk bean costs)
Wednesday – B Eggs and oatmeal w/ cream and butter
L White Bean and Chicken Chili
S Sesame Sherry Chicken, Coconut chicken soup, Caesar salad, avocado slices, rice, steamed spinach, kraut
To-do Marinate chicken in the AM, soak rice, thaw beef
Thursday – B Eggs and oatmeal w/ cream and butter
L Beef Stew
S Glazed meatballs and soft-boiled eggs, fried rice, carrot soup, kimchi, avocado slices, steamed cabbage, enzyme salad
To-do cook kidney beans in crockpot overnight, start cabbage steaming early enough for it to be done by supper
Friday – B Eggs and oatmeal w/ cream and butter
L Beans and Rice, Jamaican Style
S Tuscan-style Chicken Tetrazzini (w/ rice), mushroom soup, enzyme salad, steamed broccoli, steamed squash, kraut
To-do soak rice, thaw liver, start squash early, make next week’s menu plan/grocery list
Saturday – B Eggs and oatmeal w/ cream and butter
L Pate, sweet potato, kimchi, salad, coconut chicken soup
S Easy and Delicious Chicken (tripled for freezer) – made in crockpot, Roman egg soup, Caesar salad, avocado slices, steamed spinach, rice
To-do grocery shop, plan what should be soaked, cook black beans in crockpot
Sunday – B Eggs and oatmeal w/ cream and butter
L Black Bean Soup
S Roast chicken with potatoes, enzyme salad, squash, broccoli, kraut, simple soup
To-do soak: lima beans, kidney beans, lentils; thaw liver, soak oats, make enzyme salad, sprout sunflower seeds, make whey, roast peanuts overnight
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