The Ghosts of Dinners Past

I love making up a weekly menu.
It makes me feel all wholesome, and creative and domestic.
Looking forward to a week of chopping and sifting, with all that extra time that I think I'll have, and the romantic imagined aromas wafting from the crockpot, while we discuss history and literature in the living room. Yeah, so then...

Looking back at the week, what I have done and what I have failed to do, nutritionally speaking,
is less than gratifying most of the time. I can't even remember to take a chunk of something frozen out of the freezer to thaw in time. Short term memory is failing me. I can see why my grandma would keep chickens. If you forget to take something out for dinner, some unfortunate fowl is going to walk by the kitchen window and nominate itself as the solution to the menopausal memory problem. But we don't have chickens, and so a quick trip to the grocery store for a broasted one is happening way too often.

Last week was another one of those weeks.
I didn't have all that much on the calendar. It looked like I might be home a few days.

Monday- The menu called for "Taco Soup" in the crockpot. Except I had Bible study in the morning, at my home, so I wasn't putting anything in the crockpot. So that was a Weis broasted chicken night.

Tuesday- This was a better day because I had leftover chicken. I made chicken tacos, added fruit and a salad, and .

Wednesday- I was making dinner for a friend who has just had a baby, so they got dinner, and we did too, after a fashion. This Bourbon Chicken recipe is fantastic! With rice and fruit salad, it was great! I had to deliver it, however, and it was a bit of a trip, so our dinner was way late and everyone was snacking by the time I got home.
Funny story. When I went to the liquor store to buy the bourbon I was standing at the counter next to a very large gentleman who had an assortment of bottles of various types, and whose breath smelled like this was not his first visit of the day. He looked at my little sample-sized bottle and said "You must be cookin' lady, 'cause nobody buys that much bourbon if they're drinkin'."

Thursday- Well, we had a mix of running kids to work, co-op, from work, and an evening appointment, so Chik-Fila... And they were happy.

Friday- This is always pizza night, but the boys had pizza for lunch, so I made some pork chops that had been thawing for a couple of days. I put in some potatoes to bake and used Shake and Bake for the chops, so I really can't claim that I did a whole lot.

Saturday- I love paninis and I will use any excuse at all to have them for dinner. I got Ciabata rolls and Swiss, chopped up some chives and used bacon pieces to finish it off. With apples and chips, it was so good!

The week ahead looks promising, but hubby is travelling for work, so it's likely going to be a pretty informal week, meals-wise.