Started last week with some jeans / cookie monster blue cupcakes. I don’t know what I was aiming for, but obviously used way too much blue. Last week was about running down the meat in the freezer and I think we did well.
Rissoles is ALWAYS a good fallback. And I did booked enough for two nights, but they got eaten up for lunches so I had to do something else for Tuesday night. As I was getting out the sausages, Bruce informed me that he found them really gristly and would rather not have them, so Tuesday was chicken balls. Well they were called “Kiev” balls with pesto that I got free from the community centre. And i did them in the air frier, and served with the usual Mash and Peas. Or beans for the stepson since he doesn’t eat peas. I personally find frozen beans gross and cannot have them lol.
Wednesday I defrosted the last of the beef mince and made a jar sauce Bolognese. Added some onion and garlic, and served it with Aldi garlic bread and $1 food pantry pasta – Harris Farm penne this time.
Thursday I defrosted a tray of “butter chicken” marinated chicken thigh (another freebie) and cooked that up and served with rice and with beans and carrots I got from Coles that morning when I wasn’t intending to leave the house at all but ended up doing the recycling and a few other things. It went down pretty well actually.
We’ve been getting a lot of ants lately. I think there might be a nest in the ceiling in the lounge room, but who knows. They got into a container of fruit and nut mix so I cracked it and cleaned out the pantries over two days, did a chuck out, wiped them down and Bruce poisoned everything. Good time for a stock take and all too. Updated my Amazon list of some pantry items that’d be treats or really helpful if you’re keen. Probably pushed myself a bit far Friday and ended up tripping over the down and have pulled up sore – knee, foot, elbow, hand still giving my a bit of ow-ness when I use them wrong.
Had another freebie tray to defrost Friday night – 500g of pork steaks. They were small bois so we had two each with the rest of the beans and some mash.
Saturday was the rest of the beef that I’d served up a couple weeks before after the ozharvest drop. Still not great at cooking it but whatever, was definitely over cooking by then.
Yesterday we got some BBQ chickens from Woolies and Bruce made Caesar salad rolls for us 🙂
It was nice to have an easy one.
Spent Saturday and Sunday watching the weather keenly with all that rain we got.
And Maxi tried some Doggo ice cream from Aldi and to say he loved it was an understatement! He even scoffed the pea one and he’s rather picky about greens usually.
This week I’ve gotten EveryPlate which was a relief when it arrived! Also was able to get some free breads since the local community food pantry reopened today.
What’s on your plate this week?
