June Meals

My love of meal planning continues.  Here's what we've got on the go for the next little while.  Our meals have been kind of meaty lately, but I can't resist meat sales at the grocery store.  If it's less than $2.00/lb, it comes home with me.  And I'm trying to limit my produce shopping to the farm stores and farmers' market, so we don't have a lot of vegetables in season yet. 

• Sausages with Mashed Potatoes and Green Beans (our freezer is getting out of control full, so I'm pulling lots of meals from there, including the venison sausages Steve's uncle made and gave us)
• Egg Masala
• Posole (Steve's parents are coming to town and are Mexican food lovers; I use a very loose recipe from chowhound; it uses up about 4 things from the freezer)
• Crock Pot Tamale Pie My only sort of spiritual goal for the year is to have restful Sabbaths, so we pretty much only eat from the slow cooker on Sundays.
• BLT Pasta Salad
• Ham and Scalloped Potatoes and Moroccan Carrot Salad
• Some kind of Leftover Ham Creation (probably soup) that Steve will be responsible for cooking

 Anybody have slow cooker recipes? 

Meal Planning

My ability to cook without being interrupted by the micronapper is quite low these days and my sink/kitchen is often unavailable to me when I'm doing laundry, so I've been meticulously meal planning the last few days.  And I suddenly realize that in addition to being the targeted audience of those commercials for hand-softening dish soap (I totally identify with the woman with the dishpan hands), I'm the audience for all those pins on Pinterest for '50 billion slow cooker recipes that take 20 seconds or less.'  We've downgraded our meals a bit so that I can actually do other things (like unpack all our worldly goods) in the day

On the rota for the next week:

• Pierogies (they come frozen, friends, and I use them when I want to accomplish more than one thing in a day) with farmer sausage (Steve, he is in love with the pork products) and chow (would buy in 10 gallon jugs to accommodate the spouse if possible)
• Slow cooker Vegetable and Chickpea Curry
• Fish Chowder and homemade bread (I started making bread every week when I discovered that each loaf costs $0.70 when I bake it myself)
• Rotisserie Chicken (we'll be down in the valley all day) and macaroni salad
• Black Bean Taco Salad (with leftover rotisserie chicken)
• Chicken Soup (with rotisserie chicken carcase) and homemade bread
• Gnocchi and salad
• Sloppy Joes with oven fries and vegetables

Anyone have any particularly quick and tasty recipes to suggest for upcoming menus?