I've been making a serious effort for the past few months to cook with and eat as few processed foods as possible. Much of the ingredients for the menus below comes from items I have already canned or "Make Your Own" mixes that I have made in large quantities and store in jars. Unless noted, everything is made from scratch.
Friday
(found these on sale as a Manager's Special. Four beautiful beef shanks for $3.00!)
Braised Kale
Homemade macaroni and cheese
Homemade macaroni and cheese
Saturday
Tuna Noodle Casserole
Made with Make Your Own Cream of XXX Soup
Green Salad
Sunday
Scrambled Eggs
Bacon
Toast from homemade sourdough bread
(Link for making your own sourdough bread starter)
Fruit salad
Monday
Meatloaf (pre-made in freezer)
Leftover mac & cheese
Mixed Greens salad
Tuesday
Soup from pantry (home canned)
Grilled cheese (homemade sourdough bread)
Wednesday
Ham Steaks
Scalloped potatoes
Steamed green beans
Thursday
Fish tacos
Fish tacos
Assorted pickled/fermented vegetables
Desserts:
Apple Blueberry Crisp*
Homemade yogurt with homemade strawberry sauce
Apple Blueberry Crisp*
Homemade yogurt with homemade strawberry sauce
Homemade oatmeal cookies
Apple Blueberry Crisp: There is no exact recipe for this. I dump a pint jar of home canned apples into a 9 x 9 cake pan, and mix in some frozen blueberries, a tablespoon of flour and a tablespoon of brown sugar. In a bowl, I mix up about 1 1/2 cups oatmeal, a tablespoon of brown sugar, 2 tablespoons of flour, a pinch of salt, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, sprinkle of nutmeg, a bunch of walnuts chopped and sometimes some flaked coconut. To this mix I add 2 tbsp of butter and mush it all up real good with my fingers til the butter is evenly dispersed throughout. I spoon this oatmeal mixture over the apples and blueberries and bake in a 375 oven for about 30 minutes.
All measurements are approximate!
You can use 3 or 4 fresh apples, peeled and sliced, but you will want to cook for about 15 minutes longer.
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