Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Cooking Habits

I read recently that most families have about eleven dinner meals in regular rotation. Hoping that I do NOT fit in to this statistic, I hereby list our "regular" menu items in no particular order:
  1. beef stroganoff (on noodles or potatoes)
  2. apricot chicken
  3. Wingers chicken fingers, mashed potatoes, wedge salad
  4. chicken coconut kurma
  5. chinese chicken salad
  6. tomato soup and cheese sandwiches
  7. spaghetti with marinara and mizithra (thank you Spaghetti Factory)
  8. Irish pasta (with cream, ham and peas)
  9. steak, bearnaise and asparagus (on special occasions)
  10. lettuce wraps (of various kinds)
  11. boboli pizzas of various kinds
  12. taco soup
  13. Pasta parma rosa
  14. chicken and rice soup
  15. potato soup
  16. ranch (hamburger) stew
  17. tacos
  18. chicken spinach salad wraps
  19. blackened mahi mahi with coconut rice and mango salsa
  20. chicken and spinach couscous
  21. PF changs orange chicken
  22. pad thai (does it count that these last two are store-bought? pad thai is totally my comfort food)
  23. homemade mac n cheese
  24. dinner for breakfast (turkey bacon, hootnanny pancakes or crepes, smoothies)
  25. rice crispy chicken
  26. Nanny's Swedish meatballs
  27. stuffed zucchini
  28. "green" (tomatillo) enchiladas
  29. Italian crock pot chicken
  30. BBQ chicken drumsticks
And there we go, a whole month of "regular" recipes I use all the time, not to mention the hits (and misses) with which I frequently experiment. There's a lot of room for improvement, and it's a lot of chicken, I grant you, but since pork and red meat are slipping slowly out of our eating habits, and I don't know many ways to make fish, that's how it goes.

1 comment:

  1. looks like you need to make a new cookbook (hint, hint). -Gretel

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