Menu Plan Monday - 9th November

How did your menu plan go last week? Mine was a bit mixed up - we made almost everything on the plan, just not always on the 'right' days! Our favourite meal of the week was the Fish in Tomato Sauce with Potato, from the Varoma cookbook, "Full Steam Ahead" (Thermomix) - it was sooo yummy! (The original recipe uses salt cod, but I used Spanish Mackeral.) It consisted of a tomato sauce simmered in the bowl, the fish fillets placed in two layers in the Varoma and cooked for 6 minutes at the end of the sauce's cooking time (cooked with the steam of the simmering sauce), then potatoes and capsicum in thin slices cooked in olive oil and water in the bowl, then an eggless mayonnaise made in the bowl... and you put it altogether in a casserole dish: sauce, then potatoes & capsicum, then fish, then mayonnaise drizzled over; then baked for five mins in a hot oven - YUM! (Sorry, forgot to take a photo - I was too hungry!) I was so pleased the mayonnaise worked, as I'd tried a recipe for eggless mayo before that hadn't worked, and I'd thought it was because I used rice-almond milk instead of cow's milk. This recipe actually cooks the mayo, and it worked fine with rice-almond milk. I'll post the recipe for those of you who'd like it.

Lamb & Lima Bean Stew

And the second favourite (for me anyway!) was the Lamb & Lima Bean Stew - a very simple crockpot meal that I made up on the spur of the moment that worked really well!! (Must post that one too!)

I also managed to get my raw buckwheat granola made - finally! Yum - great for breakfast or snacks. Only problem is the dehydrators kind of get in the way in my new kitchen - there's not a whole lot of counter space left!

But at least it doesn't take me long to clean up in here! Doesn't really matter if my kitchen's small - I have a Thermomix!! I don't NEED twenty appliances cluttering up my cupboards and countertops! :)

So here's my plan for this week... if you'd like some ideas for planning your week's menus, check out Menu Plan Monday at orgjunkie.com! Or have a look at all the recipes on the Thermomix forum and blogs. (I've got a recipe in the Monthly Mouthful competition on the Thermomix blog - come have a look and vote!) Have a great week! (Note: we have our main meal at lunch time when my dh is shift working, if you're wondering why things look back to front!)

Monday: (lunch) Chicken pasta (for the family - thrown into the Thermomix as I ran out the door for a meeting!); (dinner) Fast Chicken Curry (TMX)

Tuesday: (lunch) Stuffed tomatoes (steamed in TMX) & pumpkin soup & spelt bread rolls; (dinner) Fish fillets, steamed in TMX with veges & a tomato sauce.

Wednesday: (lunch) Turkey with bacon and potatoes (from Varoma cookbook) with veges steamed in steamer basket; (dinner) leftovers & spelt bread rolls.

Thursday: (lunch) Turkey mince sausages (homemade, TMX) in spelt tortillas (TMX) with salad; (dinner) Russian potato salad (TMX).

Friday: (lunch) Lamb chops, baked potatoes & sweet potatoes, salad (TMX); (dinner) Tuna pasta (TMX).

Saturday: (lunch) Stir fry veges (TMX) & rice; (dinner) Salmon fish cakes & mashed potatoes & salad.

Sunday: (lunch) Crockpot turkey mini drumsticks with this seasoning, & salad; (dinner) Spelt garlic-herb pull apart bread, and leftover salad.