What's on the menu this week

Saturday: Dinner with friends
Sunday brunch: Baked eggs, bacon, crostata, fruit
Sunday dinner: Big salad, salami, cheese, beet soup, rye bread
Monday: Just me and the kids: Freezer fun!
Tuesday: School carnival rescheduled
Wednesday: Quinoa salad, turkey burgers in lettuce wraps
Thursday: Sesame soba noodles with broccoli
Friday: Mac and cheese, veggies, challah

Further embarrassment -- warranted?

I last updated the "This weeks' menu" feature in the sidebar exactly a year ago. How do I know it was exactly one year ago? The menus are almost identical:

2007

Saturday: Birthday party
Sunday: Fish, grilled zucchini, lemon sherbet
Monday: Chicken fingers, cole slaw
Tuesday: Cheesy pasta
Wednesday: Fennel pasta
Thursday: School carnival
Friday: Taco night!

2008

Saturday: Birthday party
Sunday: Dinner with friends
Monday: Just me and the kids: hot dogs, zucchini cheese soup?
Tuesday: Chard, sausage, and white beans on polenta
Wednesday: Garlic scape pasta
Thursday: School carnival
Friday: Shabbat: pizza

So both menus are for the third week in July--our friend M's birthday, the school carnival, and zucchini in the CSA box. In fact, originally I was going to grill this year's zucchini on Sunday, with some flank steak, until we got the invitation to eat with friends.

Pasta with pesto--fennel or garlic scape is a pretty typical CSA meal for us. And B must have been traveling this week in 2007, just like in 2008, because Monday and Tuesday look an awful lot like "just me and the kids meals." Also, our shabbat dinner rotations haven't changed much: still lots of taco night and pizza.

So, embarrassed I've decided to jump back in and keep this updated after a year? Embarrassed I'm still feeding my family exactly the same way? Nah. No time for that.

This week's menu

We've got a bunch of evening obligations again this week.

Saturday: A friend's birthday party
Sunday: Fish night! Probably halibut prepared a la Marcella, with grilled zucchini and fennel
Monday: Cheez-it chicken fingers (no laughing: It's from Gourmet)
Tuesday: (Babysitter) Cheesy pasta, with all that leftover cheese sauce I threw in the freezer
Wednesday: Fennel pasta
Thursday: School carnival
Friday: Taco night!

This week's menu

We won't be eating together as a family very much this week, so we're keeping things very simple.

Saturday: Butterflied chicken with pesto on the grill, salad
Sunday: At the Big Bean's request: "saucy spaghetti." Don't tell Martha or Mario: I bought a jar.
Monday: Thai ground turkey on a spinach salad. The recipe is for ground beef, but we're not big red meat eaters
Tuesday: French fries, hamburgers, and, if I'm lucky, fried walleye at an outdoor concert
Wednesday: Quesadillas (Papa Bean is cooking)
Thursday: Turkey burgers and whatever's in The Box, Week 4
Friday: Mac and cheese, also at the Big Bean's request. Her little friend is sleeping over
Also to make: Rye bread, turkey and broccoli bake from here, for a family at our synagogue

This week's menu

Saturday: We came home from our bucolic ramble hungry and without groceries. So strawberries with a side of grilled cheese for everyone!
Sunday: Taco night! Always gets an exclamation point at our house. Don't know why. These will be ground turkey tacos with tortillas and salsa verde from our favorite Mexican market. Thought of doing fish tacos. Then thought about all that deep frying in this hot muggy weather.
Monday: Papa Bean will be out of town, so the little beans will enjoy leftover tacos while Mama Bean gets an avocado/buttermilk soup treat. This will be my favorite night of the week.
Tuesday: We've got a babysitter. So I'll make some pizzas for her to cook.
Wednesday: Have to use up those collards, so we'll rely on the classic white bean/sausage/hearty green combination.
Thursday: I've got an evening meeting. Papa Bean will man the kitchen. Pasta, probably.
Friday: Butterflied chicken on the grill. A spicy rub?

I also need to restock the freezer with challah, pancakes, waffles, pizza dough, and rye bread. I may rethink that given the weather.