E is for Eats

Another busy week and another week of failing to follow our meal plan. It seems like I'm starting to get caught up in late hours at work and overextending myself again. It's time to review those resolutions I made and start taking better care of myself. So, with that in mind, below is what we plan on making this week. Meal 1 - Roasted Chicken, onions and potatoes Meal 2 - Stirfry with chinese broccoli and mushrooms Meal 3 - Roasted turnips, shredded carrots with tahini dressing, couscous Meal 4 - Veggie burgers, kohlrabi salad Meal 5 - Enchiladas!! We have some friends coming over for dinner on Thursday and Craig is making homemade enchiladas - complete with homemade tortillas and enchilada sauce. Hot damn! We have some posts planned for the week, so be sure to check back.

The combination of late nights at work and heading out of town to celebrate my Grandma's 80th birthday (that's her in the grainy picture above) wreaked havoc on our meal plan. We ended up making just two of the 4  planned meals , so no check in this week. Because we were in upstate NY this weekend, we missed our farmer's market. Thankfully, New York State Dept of Agriculture has a website that lists all of the farmer's markets. We stopped by the market in Rhinebeck and it was a good little market. They had a wider variety of vegetables than our local market has had recently, so finally we won't be eating cabbage salad every night! Craig also picked up some ground venison, but I think he's keeping that in the freezer until he has a chance to make chili. Without further ado, here's what we have planned this week: Meal 1 - Sweet and spicy turnips, spinach salad, orzo with butter Meal 2 - Curried rice noodles with veggies, black radish salad Meal 3...