It’s Wednesday! That means it is time to get our recipe listing going. Ready?
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| [Recipe Girl], [Skinny Taste], [Kalyn’s Kitchen], [Framed Cooks] |
Sunday: I love this adorable dish that uses zucchini as a “boat”
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WTCW #42
It’s time to check out some of the yummy {and ridiculously good looking} food circling the web this week. Feast your eyes on some of these dinner ideas for the coming week.
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| [Crepes of Wrath], [The Kitchn] |
Sunday: It is a rarity that I pull out the slow cooker for a Sunday but this week is an exception. It’s my favorite {non biological} child’s birthday so we will be spending time with them. Making slow cooker chicken adobo will give us something yummy to come home to.
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WTCW #41
Can you believe we are already at 41 weeks of the WTCW feature? Time flies by so quickly. Let’s see what great recipes are on the list this week.
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| [Rice and Wheat], [How Sweet Eats], [Good Life Eats] |
Sunday: I’ve been trying to keep our menus filled with diverse recipes. I think these pide turkish pizzas are perfect for that and look tasty to boot.
Monday: I’ve never really considered stuffing sweet potatoes like I would a regular potatoes. Seeing these bbq chicken stuffed sweet potato skins makes me rethink that though!
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WTCW #40
Whew! This week is flying by and I’m all thrown off since we had the holiday on Monday. Let’s talk about some yummy food though to help us get through hump day!
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| [BevCooks], [Cheeky Kitchen], [Reluctant Entertainer], [Taste and Tell] |
Sunday: Doesn’t this beef and lentil curry look delicious?! I can’t wait to give it a try.
Monday: Veggie night and we’re doing veggie pot pie soup. It is a great way to combine my soup “addiction” with meatless Monday.
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What to Cook Wednesday (WTCW) #39
It is Wednesday again! Isn’t it amazing how quickly a week goes by? I hope you have your paper and pencil {or maybe Pin It button*} ready to because we are about to get into another What to Cook Wednesday!
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| [Pioneer Woman], [Framed Cooks], [Cheeky Kitchen], [Recipe Girl] |
Sunday: I love hearty meals that remind me of Sunday dinner at home. Spicy stewed beef with creamy cheddar grits is a great example of just such a dish.
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What to Cook Wednesday (WTCW) #38
It is that time again! Grab your grocery list and let’s do this.
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| [Love and Olive Oil], [Erin’s Food Files], [Dish and Dine] |
Sunday: I love quinoa so I am always searching for new uses for it. Quinoa cakes with lemon, olive and parsley sound like a great option to try.
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WTCW #37
Happy Wednesday. Let’s get cooking (or at least drooling over recipes to make)!
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| [Erin’s Food Files], [Fake Ginger], [Sweet Basil] |
Sunday: It is Superbowl day! In addition to these 15 great Superbowl eats, I am thinking a bowl of chipotle black bean soup sounds great.
Monday: Meatless Monday gets some tex-mex flavor in butternut squash enchiladas.
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WTCW #35
Wednesday came fast this week thanks to a little holiday on Monday! I hope you are ready for some yummy meal ideas though.
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| [Framed Cooks], [Pioneer Woman], [Leites Culinaria] |
Sunday: Lets start a new week with a hearty meal like Chicken and Dumplings…with homemade dumplings!
Monday: We can’t skip our Mexican night and this week we are going to give beef enchilada casserole a try to take a break from chicken.
Tuesday: With temperatures topping out in the 30s these days, soup sounds better than ever. A tuscan bean soup with shrimp sounds like a great choice for this week’s second soup appearance.
Wednesday: I stumbled across this recipe for Gung Bao chicken and just had to add it to my list.
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| [Dessert Now, Dinner Later], [Skinny Taste], [The Kitchn] |
Thursday: Mathlete is a huge fan of anything peanut so peanut sauced linguine with broccoli sounds like a great option for our pasta night.
Friday: Our crockpot doesn’t get any rest this week because I’m going to give crockpot chicken la criolla a try.
Saturday: I love introducing new foods to the kids and this week I’m going to try rapini with orecchiette to introduce a new green.
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What to Cook Wednesday
It is hot! Have you noticed? If not, be thankful because we’ve been averaging around 100 degrees here most days. How weather makes me crave cool dishes like salads or things that I know won’t heat up the house while they cook.
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| 1-3 [The Kitchn], 4 [Kalyn’s Kitchen] |
Sunday: I’ve mentioned before that we try to have a big Sunday dinner with our closest friends and family. Slow Cooker Lemon Garlic Chicken combines my desire for a low heat cooking method with that Sunday family dinner feel.
Monday: I foresee my slow cooker getting a workout because Hoisin Pork Wraps with Peanut Slaw sounds too good to resist. I’ll probably have to half the recipe though or invite people over to share.
Tuesday: Although I will have to boil water for it, Soba Noodle Salad with Bok Choy sounds like a refreshing summer dish.
Wednesday: Salads with grains are a great way to make a main course out of ingredients that would typically be use for a side dish. Whole wheat orzo and grilled vegetables accomplishes this while staying true to that summery feel of a salad.
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| 1-2 [Food Network], 3 [Williams-Sonoma] |
Thursday: A week of summer meals isn’t complete without Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad.
Friday: Hopefully Mathlete will have done all of the dishes by now because I’m going to need the crockpot insert to make Smoke House Short Ribs.
Saturday: Time to fire up the grill and throw on some Chimichurri Steaks.
© 2012 Just Us Four. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
What to Cook Wednesdays
Do you hear trumpets sounding? Or lots of celebratory music playing? How about a few cheers? Nothing…hmmm, I was just sure that it come with the accomplishment of getting my stuff back together and making a real What to Cook Wednesday menu (although, technically, I made this whole WTCW thing up so I guess I can really determine what makes it real)!
Want more reason for some boogey down music? This one comes with bonuses. Bonus 1: It’s an actual weekly menu with a (loose) theme added in (more on that in a sec). Bonus 2: I was so excited with this whole menu planning stuff that I threw in a What to Cook on Wednesday item…meaning, today.
Get your pens/paper (do people use those anymore?) ready to write out that grocery list…here we go!
A good friend of mine is planning a milestone birthday trip to a sunny locale for next year. I’m currently pleading with them to allow me to go even though I’m technically the youngest in the group by several years. I still go to bed earlier than most of these people though…counts for something, right? Anyhoo, I made an “agreement” with Mathlete that we would only go if I reached my weight/fitness goal by then. It’s a monster of a goal which means I have a lot to do. Since we’ve been so busy recently, I’ve been eating some really tasty but definitely NOT healthy food. I had joined Weight Watchers but slacked off and stopped paying attention to what was going in our mouth. All the accomplishments I had made reversed and pounds started going on and not off. So, the first step to get to this trip: Eat better!
If you’ve ever been on Weight Watchers (or read through some of their online content), you’re probably no stranger to Gina’s Skinny Taste. Gina takes recipes and lightens them up while still keeping all the taste. For WW folks, she even posts points! While I am not (currently) planning to start up WW again, I have been reading a lot of her recipes. Caught onto the theme, yet? It’s WTCW: Skinny Taste Edition**. All of the main dish recipes for this week come from Gina’s site. If you click on over to her site, I guarantee you will leave hungry!
Sunday: I love the taste of cumin! I stumbled upon the recipe for Ground Turkey with Potatoes and Peas and it sounded absolutely divine! If you’re low on time (not that this is really time intensive), you could probably brown the turkey and then put all the other ingredients in the crockpot to finish cooking. Monday: Mathlete is blessed with a tape worm fast metabolism. He also loves to have homey, simple stuff a lot too. I’m going to try Skinny Sloppy Joes to try and please us both.
Tuesday: Our local grocery store has frozen the price on their boneless pork chops for 2011 so we tend to keep a pack around the house for dinners. Garlic Lime Marinated Pork Chops sound like a tasty way to make them.
Wednesday: Both of our kids are huge pasta fans. I think probably almost all kids are. I always like to do a little something more than just pasta with sauce for our pasta night. Pasta with Italian Chicken Sausage fulfills both the pasta and “adult” elements for pasta night.
Thursday: Summer is in full swing here which means hot days! I try to make things that don’t require the use of the oven/stove a lot such as Crock Pot Santa Fe Chicken to limit the heat in the house.
Friday: I plan to thrown these Filipino BBQ Skewers on the grill with beef (on sale!) versus pork as shown in the recipe. Yummy!
Saturday: It is rare that we go a week without at least one Asian flavored meal. Asian Grilled Chicken is going to fill our Asian craving for this week.
And now, it is time for the bonus I mentioned. What to cook on Wednesday! For this, I chose a favorite in our household that Gina lightened up but kept super tasty: Macaroni and Cheese. Enjoy the yummy, cheesy goodness!
**Just as a note: I did contact Gina to let her know I was a fan and would be featuring her recipes for this WTCW. However, she did not request, pay for or in any way suggest that I include her as a feature of WTCW. I just love her recipes and have had great success in making them.**
© 2012 Just Us Four. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.