Menu Plan Monday - 22nd November

So what's cooking at your house this week?  Last week's menu was completely jumbled up, because my brother and nephews and nieces came to visit, and we had some impromptu trips to places like Green Island, and Tinaroo Dam - lots of fun!  Now I need to knuckle down and start thinking of Christmas... it's getting closer, and I am NOT prepared!  Hopefully I'll get some Christmas recipes posted this week - for example my favourite Christmas Jelly Salad, which I meant to post the recipe for last year...

... and a Cherry Fruity Dream with Chocolate Swirls (no pic yet)... and some Christmassy breads and meat dishes... If you've got any great Christmas recipes, please share!  

I've also been experimenting with steamed, gluten free bread - it's more moist and less crumbly than the oven version, and quicker - so I'll be posting that soon too.

I often plan salads into the menu but don't specify what kind, because it really depends on which veges come in my vege box, which doesn't come until Tuesday.  And I don't usually include sweets/desserts in the menu - they're a now and then thing that we make when we have time.  My oldest daughter made a lovely pineapple and pear upside down cake today that was dairy free and gluten free - we'll have to post that one.  

So here's the basic plan for this week - check out Menu Plan Monday at "I'm an Organizing Junkie" for more menu plans and recipes, and of course Forum Thermomix for lots of Thermomix recipes!  Have a great week :)

[tmx = prepared and/or cooked in my Thermomix]

Monday:

(lunch) Chicken & vege pasta (one pot - tmx)

(dinner) Baked potatoes, veges & steamed fish with lemon-parsley sauce (cooked together in tmx)

Tuesday:

(lunch) Beef chop suey with rice (tmx)

(dinner) Dinner out - taking Jelly Salad (tmx), and making Cherry Fruity Dream with Chocolate Swirls in tmx for dessert (I quite often take my tmx with me when I'm invited somewhere for dinner - he gets lonely at home!)

Wednesday:

(lunch) Tuna salad wraps with spelt tortillas (tmx)

(dinner) Beef & bean chilli (tmx) with corn chips and dairy free sour cream (tmx) & salad

Thursday:

(lunch) Baked potatoes with leftover chilli & salad

(dinner) Salmon-rice casserole (made ahead - tmx) & salad

Friday:

(lunch) Sandwiches

(dinner) Steamed stuffed chicken breasts with steamed veges & creamy df sauce (tmx)

Saturday:

(lunch) out at demo

(dinner) Toasted quinoa vege curry (tmx)

Sunday:

(lunch) Roast with veges (gravy in tmx)

(dinner) Sandwiches on steamed gf bread (tmx)