Cheap & Cheerful Suppers for Mid-October

Friday

Friday
homemade pepperoni pizza

roasted garden beets

tossed garden salad

spiced fig-applesauce (pureed sweet preserved unripe figs blended with applesauce, cinnamon, and ginger)

Saturday

Saturday
eggs

pan-seared garlic green beans

rice

tossed garden salad

Sunday

Sunday cookout and movie (we watched ET)
hot dogs (buns optional)
tossed garden salad
garden summer squash
scratch apple pie (using our apples -- the apples that squirrels and raccoons knocked off the trees, I picked up, cut off blemishes/bruises, chopped and froze for pies and crisps)

Monday

Monday
beefy chili soup
cornbread, garlic sticks, crackers
fall garden salad -- radish greens and roots, roasted carrots and beets
blackberry cobbler

Tuesday

Tuesday
roast whole chicken and gravy
oven-roasted root vegetables
pan-seared garlic green beans
cornbread stuffing (using the last of cornbread made last week)
blackberry cobbler (leftover from last week)

Wednesday

Wednesday

leftover chicken used in stir fry with green beans

rice

fruit salad of apples and fall raspberries

leftover apple pie

Thursday

Thursday

hot chicken sandwiches (chicken in gravy over a slice of bread)

roasted purple potatoes

baked apples

carrot leaf soup (pureed carrot leaves, a couple of small garden carrots, diced onion, instant mashed potatoes, chicken bouillon -- I used the whole stems of the carrot leaves, some of which were fibrous. After pureeing the soup, it still seemed like there were fibers, so I pressed the soup through a mesh sieve. The end result was an absolutely delicious soup.)

Our Friday movie nights have shifted to Sunday movie nights for October. One daughter has a role in a theater production and performances are Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees throughout October. Since she's the big film enthusiast, we wouldn't want to do a movie night without her. But I still made pizza on Friday because I couldn't wait until Sunday to have pizza again. LOL!

I had some pumpkin eggnog that I bought on markdown 2 weeks ago. I froze some, but still we didn't drink the rest. So I made a batch of eggnog scones, using this recipe. The batch was large, so I froze some of the scones to bring out later. We've had scones for breakfasts and snacks the last couple of days.

I decanted the first jar of blackberry vinegar this week. The finished vinegar has a mild blackberry aroma. I've been using this vinegar in salad dressing this week.

Our garden is still producing enough for our meals, thankfully. In addition to what's listed here, we also made a pot of cream of sorrel and squash blossom soup, multiple tomato sandwiches, a few tossed salads, and ate fresh apples and frozen blackberries for our fruit. 

As you can see, our meals are turning more and more autumnal with each week, lots of root veggies, hearty dishes, and soups. I have hated saying goodbye to summer (foods and weather), but at least autumn has some really great foods to enjoy.

That's what was on my menu. What did you eat this past week?