- Ravioli with sausage and peppers
- Quinoa Mac and Cheese
- Stuffed Chicken with Roasted Broccoli and Potatoes
- Burritos with black beans and turkey
- Chicken and wild rice casserole
Author: HungryDad
Meals for the week Feb 16-22
- Indonesian Pineapple, Chicken and Spicy [Sunflower Seed] Salad
- Skillet Strata with Cheddar and Thyme, adding sausage and spinach
- Waffle sandwiches with grilled chicken, bacon, tomatoes and lettuce, served with sweet potato fries
- Something along the lines of this Zucchini and sausage pizza
- Black bean and corn tacos
- Broccoli Cheddar Soup
Meals for the Week Feb 9-15
- Broccoli, Ham and Mozzarella Baked with Eggs
- Wild rice meatloaf and green beans
- Goat Cheese Polenta topped with onions, peppers and sausage
- Quick Fried Quinoa with Mixed Vegetables
- Slow cooker mushroom and barley soup
- Creamy Alfredo-Turkey Skillet Dinner (also p. 114 of Whole Grains cookbook)
Meals for the week Feb 3-8
- White Bean Stew with Spinach from Mark Bittman’s Kitchen Express, p. 119
- Pear, Bacon and, Goat Cheese Sandwiches (p. 126 of Kitchen Express) w/ salads
- Fondue (also from Kitchen Express, p. 129)
- Brown Arroz Con Pollo
- Easy crock pot canitas burritos with peppers and spinach
Meals for the Week Jan 26-Feb 1
- Korean Beef Tacos
- Chickpea Tangine with Chicken and Bulgur
- Orange Chicken and Vegetable Stir-Fry with brown rice
- Not my Mom’s Sloppy Joes with Zucchini Fritters
- Spaghetti Squash Casserole
- Chicken Enchiladas Verdes from the freezer
Italian Tortellini Soup
Florida doesn’t have much in the way of winter, but there are a few weeks when a nice, hearty soup makes a great dinner. This was fast to throw together and everyone ate it up. I adapted this from SparklePeople. You could use hot Italian Sausage for a spicier version.
Italian Tortellini Soup
Ingredients
- 1 package Sweet Italian Turkey Sausage casings removed
- 1 onion chopped
- 6 garlic cloves minced
- 4 cups reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 1 can 14-1/2 oz diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1 package cheese and meat tortellini
- 1 package 9 oz fresh baby spinach
- 2 tsp minced fresh basil or 3/4 tsp dried basil
- 1/4 tsp ground pepper
- Shredded Parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Crumble sausage into a Dutch oven over medium-high heat
- Add the onion.
- Cook stirring now and then until meat is no longer pink.
- Add garlic; cook and stir 2 minutes
- Add the broth and tomatoes.
- Bring to a boil.
- Stir in tortellini; return to a boil.
- Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 5-8 minutes or until pasta is tender, stirring occasionally.
- Add the spinach, basil, peppers.
- Cook 2-3 minutes longer or until spinach is wilted.
- Serve topped with Parmesan.
Meals for the Week Jan 18-25
Meals for the Week Jan 12-18
- Burritos: ground turkey, green pepper, corn, brown rice, on Trader Joe’s Habanero tortillas.
- Pasta with zucchini and ham
- Chicken Bulgur Skillet, adding spinach or kale
- Cheesy Zucchini and red onion flatbread with ham
- Mushroom and Poblano tart that never got made last week
- Chicken and Asparagus with Melted Gruyere
Mini Pumpkin Cranberry Bread
No photo…it was devoured too fast! Our son made these at school and brought home the recipe. We wanted to save it for next year, so here it is. Looks like it was adapted from this Cooks.com post.
Mini Pumpkin Cranberry Bread
Ingredients
- 3 c all-purpose flour
- 1 Tbs plus 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 3 c sugar
- 1 can 15 ounces pumpkin
- 4 eggs
- 1 c vegetable oil
- 1/2 c orange juice
- 1 c fresh cranberries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Grease and flour 5-6 mini (5X3-inch) loaf pans.
- Combine flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda and salt in large bowl.
- Combine sugar, pumpkin, eggs, oil and juice in large mixer bowl
- Beat until just blended.
- Add pumpkin mixture to flour mixture
- Stir just until moistened.
- Fold in cranberries.
- Spoon batter into prepared loaf pans.
- Bake for 50to 55 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes
- Move to wire racks to cool completely.