Thursday
hummus on homemade pita bread triangles
*Mediterranean cucumber-tomato-rice salad
*blackberry-rhubarb pie
Friday
*falafel
*pasta salad with pesto dressing
*Romano beans sauteed in bacon fat
carrot sticks
*leftover blackberry-rhubarb pie
Saturday
Spanish rice and black beans
*sauteed garden beans and summer squash in sausage fat
*homemade blackberry-cheesecake ice cream
Sunday
*open-faced burritos (the tortillas came out stiffer than usual), with refried beans, leftover Spanish rice, homemade yogurt, green onions, cilantro
oven-roasted, canned tomatoes
*leftover blackberry-cheesecake ice cream, with homemade "magic shell"
Monday
*chicken-pasta salad, with baked garlic chicken, tomatoes, cucumbers, leftover oven-roasted canned tomatoes, cooked green beans, garden carrot (first one!), Parmesan cheese, black olives and pasta
French bread
*blackberry cobbler topped with leftover blackberry ice cream
Tuesday
*leftovers soup -- basically I cleaned out the fridge and supplemented with garden veggies, combining leftover baked chicken, black beans, canned tomato juices, canned tomatoes, garden squash, waxed beans, Swiss chard, chili powder, cumin and garlic powder
French bread
*blackberry-rhubarb pie
Wednesday
barbequed pork sliders on homemade buns
*Romano beans sauteed in bacon fat
*fruit cup, using 1 ripe fig from garden (woo hoo -- a ripe fig!), free banana and some blackberries
*leftover blackberry pie*
Thursday
homemade pork and beans
brown rice, cooked in chicken stock
*oven-roasted root veggies (beets, shallots, new potatoes, carrots -- all from garden)
*fresh blackberries
chocolate-dipped frozen bananas
Friday
away in Poulsbo until after 8 PM, so when we walked in the door, we made pbj's. Not exciting, but it did the job!
Saturday
fried fish (cod fillets), with homemade tartar sauce
cheddar-bay biscuits
*green beans
*fresh blackberries
*indicates some items from each dish came from the garden
We've had fresh, wild blackberries with all but 3 of the last 17 dinners. That's a lot of blackberries!
I opened the very last #10 can of whole, peeled tomatoes last week, from my stock-up purchase last fall. I guessed the very amount that I needed for the year on the whole tomatoes. On the canned tomato paste, I overestimated how much we would use in one year by a full case (6 of the #10 cans). Whole, canned tomatoes went on sale this week at Cash & Carry, so I bought 3 cases, to get through 1 year. We really enjoy them oven-roasted. Probably one of the best canned veggie side dishes that I make.
At this point, almost all of our produce is coming from the garden or the wild. I am down to 1 lemon in the fridge, and a pound of corn in the freezer, some canned pumpkin and the canned tomato products, for purchased produce items. Not needing to buy fruits and veggies frees up a lot of our grocery money for stocking up on pantry items, right now.
