Friday, March 9, 2018

This Weeks Menu




Things We're Eating this Week!

We recently started and ended the meal service Home Chef.  We did it for a few weeks, and I did really like it, but I felt the value wasn't there when I looked at the meals we were eating and what I really thought they would cost if I bought the ingredients myself.  And here's the thing, I like cooking!  I am happy to try new recipes I find on Pinterest and I am not lacking time for grocery shopping, which is where I feel the meal service companies can really benefit folks.  Also, I was still having to go to the grocery store weekly because we don't only eat dinner three times a week and we need breakfast and lunch items too.  Overall I did like the variety of meals I was eating, but I couldn't justify $60 a week for three dinners, plus a decent amount in groceries.   

Home Chef

With that being said, I am back at my first week of cooking based on my own planned meals so I thought I would share a couple of our favorite recipes and a new recipe we tried this week!

Monday - we had a favorite in our house Baked Pesto Chicken.  I found the recipe on guinesskitchen.com and we really like how fresh this meal is!  Not to mention we also recently got the Costco size and brand of Basil Pesto and now I find myself pinteresting (that's a word right?) "recipes with pesto" because I can't get enough of it!   Back to the recipe, I've embedded the link above but essentially you coat chicken in pesto, bake it, add fresh tomato slices and mozzarella (I prefer fresh) and bake it for a few more minutes and it's done.  It's really very simple and like I said really delicious.  Along with the chicken we had a side salad and used our favorite dressing Garlic Expressions.  If you haven't tried this dressing yet, stop everything you're doing and go to the store immediately.  It's in the vegetable/fruit section of my grocery, it's low calorie and incredibly flavorful.  I haven't tried it this way, but it can also be used in pasta salads or as a marinade!

Basil Pesto Chicken

Tuesday - we tried something new, Greek Feta Turkey Burgers sans bun!  I love feta, seriously I love it so this was a no brainer for me.  I did modify it slightly for Chris because he is not a feta fan.  He tells me this story of his younger days, he worked at Little Caesars where the feta came in a huge bin (I picture a Home Depot orange bucket with lid) and when he opened it, it smelled like the worst dirty feet and so ever since he won't dare give feta a chance.  So for him, I used shredded colby jack cheese as a substitute (I also added Zataran's blackened flavoring to his because I know he likes it).  I was anxious to try them because they did seem to be a little loose while I was cooking them, I think because I only chilled them for a half hour or so instead of the recommended an hour, but nevertheless they were really good and FRESH.  I feel like that's the theme of the week for us, fresh, healthy food!

These Greek burgers are made using ground beef mixed with spinach, feta, and sun-dried tomatoes, plus drizzled with a delicious tzatziki sauce.
Greek Burgers

Thursday - yes I skipped Wednesday, we are naughty and ate out.  In my defense there's this restaurant by us that does $1 bottles of domestic beer and sometimes we give into those hump day temptations and have a couple cheap beers and dinner.  Okay confession over, onto Thursday.  We really like stir fry in our house and this is a great way to switch up your typical stir fry with chicken.  The recipe is by Yellow Bliss Road and it's called Teriyaki turkey rice bowl.  It's carrots, broccoli and ground turkey simmered in a homemade teriyaki sauce, its relatively quick to whip up and it has a lot of great flavor.

Teriyaki Turkey Rice Bowl | Easy Ground Turkey Recipe
Teriyaki Turkey Rice Bowl


Tonight we will probably have tacos, I do have to pick up some guac mix and Coronas for my hubs but I don't have anything exciting to add about tacos because I really don't fancy them up, wraps, ground turkey, onion, lettuce, cheese, salsa, the usual.  

I know it can be hard to get out of the weekly grind and everyday recipes, but I really encourage you to try to throw at least one new recipe in a week, you might just find your next new staple dinner!  

Have a great weekend everyone!  

Love, Britt


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