On the menu for the first week of school we have Southwestern chicken, creamy shrimp & pasta casserole, omelet night, salmon burgers and more! What's on your menu this week....or even just tonight?
Monday
Baked Southwestern Chicken Breasts (using Kraft Southwestern Fresh Take) – I cut the boneless skinless chicken breasts in half so they are like large chicken tenders and then coat each tender with the cheese and breadcrumb mixture. (chicken breast is on sale this week at Lowes Foods through 8/28 for $1.97/lb and was a very good deal last week at HT with the Buy 2 Get 3 Free deal)
Spanish rice
Creamed spinach
Cantaloupe ($1.50 at Food Lion through Tuesday 8/28)
After school today, my youngest and I are going to make homemade banana bread - yum!
Tuesday
Omelet night (with a variety of fillings to choose from like mushrooms, green peppers, spinach, onions, black olives, cheese, Morningstar veggie bacon) – Using Davidson’s Eggs on sale BOGO at Harris Teeter through Tuesday 8/28 using .75/1 printable coupon
Sweet potato fries (bought with Lowes Foods meal deal this week through 8/28)
Apple slices
Wednesday
BBQ chicken in the slow cooker served on Bolillo rolls
Pasta salad with green peppers, onion, tomato, black olives and light mayo (and pasta salad seasoning from McCormick)
Tomato and cucumber salad
Thursday
Shrimp and pasta casserole with Classico light alfredo sauce (on sale at HT this week), corn, mushrooms and broccoli with garlic, pepper and some fresh basil from my daughter’s basil plant
Garlic bread (from the Lowes Foods meal deal through 8/28)
Salad
Friday
Salmon burgers on wheat rolls
Salad




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I'm waiting to hear what midnight pasta is too. I'm thinking it's either A) something really quick like a garlic and oil yum! or B) pasta made with squid ink? I've never been able to bring myself to try the latter.
Faye, your banana bread sounds like a hit! Thanks for the link :)
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The banana bread my daughter and I made this afternoon was AMAZING! Hubby already begged me to make another loaf tomorrow. We plowed through 1/2 a loaf today! I told everyone they had to leave the rest alone so we had some for tomorrow. Below is a link to the recipe. I usually use 1/2 white and 1/2 whole wheat flour, but I was out of ww flour so used all white flour. I also lowered the sugar amount to 3/4 cup. I cooked it in a 5" x 9" loaf pan for 50 minutes.
http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/banana_bread/
smolder - I agree - Nakabi could definitely give cooking lessons! Maybe you could start teaching African cooking at the community college (in your spare time between work and the kids! lol). Seriously, you really have such interesting meals!
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