My Week in Meals - 10/20/08

After a few weeks off, due to an appendicitis, I'm back at it. I even got up this morning and fixed my kids breakfast. They were happy. More good things:

1. Pomegranates are in season in St. George. They are everywhere, falling into ditches and parking lots, in neighbor's yards. I've been collecting lots of recipes and ideas, but I haven't been able to try any yet because we just crack em' open and eat em' like candy.

2. My parents made an emergency visit to help me with my emergency appendix and brought with them loads of good stuff, all from their garden; tomatoes, zucchini, tomatillos, potatoes, japanese eggplant, peppers, carrots, apples, pears, onions, beets, cabbage, butternut squash. It's nearly all gone but I'm excited to use the rest of it for:

3. Fall cooking! Now that we are down to the cool low 80s outside, I'm ready to do some "fall" cooking; butternut squash, apples, homemade bread, pasta with sausage, yum, yum.

4. I met Andrea. She has 18 chickens in her backyard. I get two dozen eggs from her once a week for $2.00. They are excellent eggs.

	breakfast	lunch	dinner	snack
mon	apple-cinnamon oatmeal	cheese wheat crackers pears	black bean tostadas	snickerdoodles
tues	scrambled eggs toast	pb&j apple	smoked pork sandwiches with bbq sauce and cabbage slaw	yogurt
wed	frozen pancakes	chips, salsa, black beans (leftovers)	baked rigatoni salad	popcorn and apples
thurs	german pancakes	pb&j carrots celery	tin-foil dinners	cinnamon chips with pomegranate salsa
fri	cereal	pasta (leftover) pear	butternut squash soup fresh bread
sat	waffles bacon	kraft mac n' cheese	dinner out