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Meal Planning Monday - 22.09 to 28.09

9/22/2014

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A super-sparkly gold star for me last week: work did indeed overwhelm everything and so having a meal plan to take the thinking out of dinner meant I made every dish. Whoop!

The other feat I'm quite proud of is making non-instant polenta. I know. 40 minutes of stirring, wake up the next day with an arm that is too stiff to wash its own armpit, non-instant polenta. But it's worth it, because it was the only way we could have polenta taragna, a local Lombard speciality that includes buckwheat flour in the cornmeal, and which is really hard to find in instant form. The result was utterly creamy goodness on Saturday, and fried cubes from the leftovers on Sunday. Which neither toddler nor, in fact, mum could resist stacking.
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This week I shall be having another attempt at fresh porcini. I won't be letting them go to waste this time - tomorrow morning will be spent cleaning, slicing and freezing the best part of a kilo! Some of them have already found their way straight into tonight's beanotto (a risotto-inspired stew of white beans and mushrooms, finished off with lemon juice and mascarpone. It's is delicious, and by one of my biggest blog crushes, Green Kitchen Stories).
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beanotto
spinach gnocchi with tomato sauce & speck
lemon & herb pasta with courgette, tuna & mozzarella
broccoli, leek & chicken noodle soup
mushroom & feta quiche
aubergine & coconut curry with rice

Have a tasty week, and don't forget to have a look at the rest of the fabulous meal plans linked up to At Home With Mrs M for more family meal inspiration.

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Carie link
9/22/2014 04:45:25 pm

Is it really bad that I didn't even know that polenta came in a non-instant varietly - I thought that just was polenta! The ready made makes good polenta chips too so I might not go for the 40 minute stiring just yet!

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Eline @ Pasta & Patchwork link
9/23/2014 02:13:44 am

I really don't blame you! The non-instant tasted great and as a one-off it was fun to make (a bit like making your own pastry), but if I found the same blend in instant form I'd definitely go for that instead...

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