Menu Monday Week 39

Heather says:

Fall is finally here, according to the calendar. I’m shaking off this year’s late summer funk and last Sunday I spent the afternoon reshooting some old recipes that need a little photographic love. I’m putting together an ebook of quick, budget-friendly weeknight dinners.  Since we have a wheat allergy in the house, everything was made with GF pasta and GF flour. I didn’t hold out a lot of hope for these meals to reheat very well, but I didn’t want to waste the food. I just wanted to knock out this project and hoped that maybe Ray would have some easy, if less than wonderful, dinners for the kids when I travel, which happens a bit this time of year.

It turns out, the skillet dinners froze and reheated without a problem. I was happy to have a couple of easy meals ready to go when I got home. I think my favorite of the batch is the Philly Skillet and yes, that is the same salad as in the picture below. The biggest hit for everyone else? The Taco Skillet.

Another bonus is each of these recipes is simple enough for my newly-minted teenager to cook. 

Now all I have to do is find time to shoot the next six. (Tentatively slated for Sunday)

Do you menu plan? Do you need a simple printable to help? 

What’s on the menu this week? 

Monday – Macaroni and cheese, broccoli (My serving of mac and cheese gets some blue cheese and Frank’s Hot Sauce, the kids prefer to keep it just to the roasted and seeded jalapenos) 
Tuesday – Grilled Chicken over Caesar Salad (We’ve started making our own Caesar and it’s probably a good thing we both work from home, it’s got quite the garlic kick.)
Wednesday Sue Polinsky’s No Tomato Chili, Cornbread or I’m kind of kicking around a street corn fritter idea. (I had some amazing street corn in San Diego last week and it made me want to experiment) The chili is also something I should reshoot and soon.
Thursday – Sausage Peppers and Onions



Friday – It could be a falafel Friday -another recipe I’m happily experimenting with. Here’s the starting point or if it cools off a little I’m in the mood for etouffee. 



Saturday – Leftovers or the start of Skillet Fest Part Deux 
Sunday – Leftovers or the start of Skillet Fest Part Deux

Before I sign off and get this week started. I received a concerning email from a reader last week. She had mixed bleach and vinegar while cleaning her closet to get rid of mold.

Do not mix bleach with other chemicals.
Dilute bleach properly
Do not depend on email for emergency answers to questions like this, call Poison Control. 


1 (800) 222-1222

She’s lucky, she ended up with only a bit of a sore throat from the fumes. Please be careful out there.

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