Meals in May
 

Today was pizza from the freezer and salad with lettuce from my little garden. It is so satisfying and amazing to eat food that grew from seeds I planted!

Share the meals you’re making in May. :)

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Dh made pork green chili in the instant pot. :yum

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Last night I made sloppy joe stuffed peppers. Also good!

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MIL fed us today for late Easter…since we had 18” of snow that week. :giggle

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It's too early to plant here. Snow expected tomorrow. Ha!

What an awesome thing your garden is!

I had salad and a smoothie, and I fed my Dad chicken noodle soup that I made for him the other day.

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Today: who knows :shrug Every week, every day people need to eat around here. Its nonsense. :shifty :giggle

Anyway, it was an especially busy weekend so I didn't meal plan. Again.

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We had lentil taco salads last night

Not sure about today since there's plenty leftover but I had planned a sausage, potato, cabbage dish.

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Last night was pancakes and sausage.

Tonight is up in the air. I’m trying to pantry shop until Thursday, payday.


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Twoplustwo I agree. I mean I fed them yesterday!!!

We had fried rice with leftover pork DH smoked yesterday.

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Salmon burgers for the kids. Mod for dh and I.

I am so over cooking on Mondays. I’m feeling down so Mod it is. Easy comfort food.


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Tonight I made pho. I thought it was really excellent but everyone was tired and grumpy at dinner so I don't think anyone appreciated it.

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I love pho. I’ve never tried to make it though. :think

I need a plan for tonight. Co-op was cancelled due to covid so class is online. Sigh. But, I’ll be home and able to make dinner. Maybe tacos.


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It is much easier than you think. It is mainly about building a good broth.

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Now mine isn't ever as good as what I have at out but it is still good and even passable ( I have had similar at restraints)

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Last night, I ended up doing migas and Kodiak cakes because we were out of sausage.

I'll probably do a sheet pan chicken thing tonight. I need to thaw out a pork roast for pulled pork later this week

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I love pho! We buy a side of beef every year and I save the oxtail and the small tenderloin for pho. So yummy!

We're having schnitzel tonight. I think. I have a pork loin. Littlest asked for pork chops, too. Either one is possible. Steamed broccoli on the side.

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My mom asked to bring over pizza at the last minute. Yes, please!

Got supplies for Chicken Tortilla Soup. Will do that for lunch time tomorrow!

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We had tacos tonight.

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Dh texted and asked if I wanted to do taco Tuesday. Yep! :giggle I had Taco John's waiting for me when I got home from work. :heart

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Ziti and meatballs tonight.


(And joining the discussion of pho, I have to brag that that is one of my best dishes. Quite proud of that one.)

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Chicken Caesar salad wraps tonight


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Oh that sounds good.

We had salmon on rice with green beans.

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I don't get pho. :shifty

I had it at a restaurant once because everyone raves about it. But it was just a difficult to eat broth soup. It tasted fine but I just don't get the rave.

To each their own :D



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Beef and Broccoli stir fry tonight.

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Now I need a recipe for pho. Anybody willing to share?



Monday we had lemon ricotta pasta. Tuesday was gf biscuits and sausage gravy with strawberries on the side. Wednesday was General Tso's chicken over rice with broccoli on the side. Tonight I'm planning some kind of baked fish, baked potatoes with whipped feta, and green beans. Tomorrow night will be blue cheese burgers and oven fries.

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Last night we had cupcakes :shifty
Tonight is burritos

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Whipped feta sounds yummy. How do you make it?

Last night was Costco pizza and chicken bakes. Tonight is up for discussion. :think

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I'm going to make a new recipe for Parmesan chicken. Haven't decided on sides yet but probably rice or quinoa and either spinach or green beans

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It is sooo yummy. Here's the recipe.

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The chicken I made was really good!

2 lbs chicken tenders, salted and peppered
1 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup freshly grated parmesan
1 tbsp Italian seasoning
1 tsp garlic powder

I just mixed it all together in a baking dish and baked at 425 for about 20 minutes. It was so good. Went very well with quinoa and spinach

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Thanks! That looks really yummy!

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Decided on garlic lime chicken tonight. Sides of roasted broccoli and tater tots.

I bet the whipped feta would be good with this. I don’t have any cream cheese. Next time for sure.


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Look at that we slid right into Mothers Day weekend. . . dinners arent my problem until Monday night again. :shifty :giggle

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I have no idea what to make today. I'm going to a friend's house for wine and cheese late afternoon. It'll be time for dinner when I get home so maybe just microwave nachos or something [emoji38]

We're having fajitas for mother's day.

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This morning I stopped by the grocery store and they had a lot of good meat on clearance. So today I made pulled pork to have tomorrow ( it will be better after cooling and reheated) and then I made chicken fried stake for dinner.

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We had a gathering of friends for dd17’s birthday this afternoon. Dh grilled burgers for our family and one other that stayed a little later.

Not sure what tomorrow’s dinner will be, but dh has said he will cook. :tu

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dh and kids cooked lunch today after church. Grilled burgers. Air fryer french fries. Garlic butter green beans. :heart

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Do you have a recipe you like for pulled pork?

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Yes!

It was originally for a slow cooker for all day with some more liquid but I do it in my pressure cooker for an hour or so.

3-3.5 lb bone in pork well marbled

Score the meat with a knife, stab down in to the thick portions

Mix together ( I end up.usinf these as rough proportions and not really measuring thing much):
2T Oil ( I use olive)
1T Salt
4 cloves of Garlic minced
2t Cumin
1t Oregano

Rub the spice mixture all over the meat, try to fill in the holes you created earlyer.

Put in to pot along with

Juice of one lime
Juice of one orange
0.25c water

I haven't used a slow cooker in more than a decade I think you would need to add some more liquid.

In a pressure cooker if you are only doing 3lb and hour is great. If you get up close to 10lb of solid pork butt/ shoulder it needs two hours.

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Oh thank you! This sounds perfect! I was stressing about getting it in the Crock-Pot today but I'll just do the instant pot. I'll have to do a different juice since dh is allergic to oranges. I might just do more lime

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I think that would be just fine. When I reheat the pork I normally add more lime juice.

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You don't have any problem getting it up to pressure? (I thought you needed at least 1 cup of liquid.)

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I don't normally do it in my instapot because I am doing larger cuts, so I don't know of that would affect things.

With the citrus juice I have more than a cup of liquid.

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