Big Batch of Cooking

[calzephyr]

Well, $40 and 3 hours of cooking later, I have 1 L of meat sauce, 1 L of chili, 3 lunch portions of chili to freeze, 22 2.5" pork pies (uh...probably around 15 now since we ate a few and one fell on the floor :-D

I basically have to buy the ground beef (urgh - veggie ground round is not husband approved!) and fresh produce. It really helps to have a well stocked pantry of canned tomatoes in every cut and flavour and spices.


Sunday Night

Spaghetti Bolognese

Thanks Kraft Kitchens!, even though you're evil :-D

Monday Night

- Add kidney beans and chili powder to left over meat sauce from Sunday. I plan on adding red peppers and mushrooms too. The recipe can be found at the link above.

Tuesday Night:

Slow Cooker BBQ Pork Sandwiches

From Kraft again...

Chop and boil potatoes for Wednesday.

Wednesday Night:

Leftover pork with potatoes, whoo!

Lunches

Beef Tourtiere

This recipe comes from Robin Hood  It rates this recipe as "excellent" for freezing, so I'm going to take a shot at making meat pies. Instead of making one big pie, I'm going to make a bunch of little ones and freeze them. We sure do get sandwiched out! Maybe I can give that Simple Simon pie man a run for his money :-D His pies are tasty, but they do get expensive.

The recipe.

Comments

[mrs-dragon.livejournal.com]

My hubby and I replace ground beef with ground turkey in all recipes. Most people don't really notice unless we tell them. It's lighter, yummier, and healthier. Win!

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm so glad I caught your comment before I left :-) Thanks for the reminder! Our Safeway/Sobeys/Co-Op doesn't always have ground chicken or turkey unfortunately...but I was able to find some lean ground pork instead.

Ground turkey is so good...I have an awesome turkey burger recipe that calls for red onions and tarragon :-)