I'm enjoying trying things out in A Season of Family Meal Plans by Jordan Page. There's definitely some shelf cooking going on, too, which is the point. Use what you have. Make substitutions.
Definitely some new flavors, some of them so good. We made red beans and rice and hush puppies for the first time. Yumm. Definitely going to do that meal when it comes around again next year (and I want to make hush puppies again sooner than next year just because they tasted good).
I made Salsa Chicken in the Instant Pot. The other recipe with that meal was Cheesy Southwest Rice. How it turned out was I made tostadas out of corn tortillas in the oven. We had those and the rice and lettuce and the chicken topped with sour cream or whatever. Yumm.
Some of the meals were so so. We made Spring Minestrone and Garlic Bread Swirls.
Some of the dishes I couldn't stop picking at when they came out the oven. I made American Goulash and Garlic Parmesan Cauliflower and I don't know how much of the cauliflower I ate before it got to the dinner table.
Some I didn't get pictures of.
Some I don't want to talk about liking or not liking because I want to finish this blog post and go to sleep.
Ham and Cheese Sliders and Classic Cobb Salad.
Caribbean Pork Chops. We had leftover Cheesy Southwest Rice along with pineapple rounds, sliced tomatoes, and bread and butter.
And of course we celebrated with some of the meals. For National Garlic Day on April 19, we had Tomato Garlic Pizza. I liked it. I thought it would make a good base for a vegetarian pizza. Add some bell peppers and red onion on there? Mmmm mmm.
Sometimes I still can't believe I was such a picky eater when I was little.
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