Dinner Tonight

melodyrae67

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/lentil-soup-with-spicy-italian-sausage-356711

We use turkey sausage.
Sometimes we add a can of diced tomatoes. Sometimes sweet potato or additional veggies...

melodyrae67

We added this salad to it, which we'll use again.
http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1013732-kale-salad-with-apples-and-cheddar

melodyrae67

For Tuesday:

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/bill-phillips-back-to-fit-recipes-baked-chicken-parmesan.html

We use a LOT of Bill Phillip's Eating for Life recipes.

LindsayGGray

Ooh these both sound yummy! Love the recipes. Thank you!

melodyrae67

For Wednesday, cheater chili: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/easy-chili-233249
Can't help but to use the leanest grain fed beef or bison we can find. Sometimes we use the Organics 3-bean mix or add extra beans. Sometimes the particular frozen veggie combo they list is not available and we use a southwestern mix that adds corn & black beans or find them individually. Heat based on heat of salsa used.

melodyrae67

Earlier this year we traded our morning pancake combos for "special drink" combos. My 4-yr old daughter LOVES them. While they vary, our default (shared between 2-3 people) includes:
1 cup frozen blueberries
2 cups fresh kale or spinach
1 Tbs chia seeds
1 Tbs flax seeds
1 serving protein powder
1 cup unsweetened almond milk
1/2 banana
honey or splenda if kale variety is still overpowering
I can usually sneak probiotics in too

melodyrae67

http://paleomg.com/leftovers-brazilian-curry-chicken/

Made this for the first time yesterday. My whole house smelled like curry all day & I couldn't wait to eat it. My husband expected it to have heat - no, but easy to add. We served w/cauliflower rice & a Brazilian kale & mango salad.

melodyrae67

I guess this has remained my own personal list of dinner recipes. I just love to get new recipes and find fast dinners that are good for the family and keep my preschooler permanently off the 'kids menu' and eating a variety of flavors with the whole family. Here's a couple from the last week or planned for this coming week:

Getting rid of leftover guac and salsa from a holiday party --and a can of corn someone opened by mistake-- I made taco salad (sans taco shells) with grass fed beef for Monday night. Lettuce, tomato, corn, black beans, bell pepper, black olives. To each his own if adding sour cream or cheese or dressing or my preference: guac & lots of fresh salsa.

Sunday, I intended to make one of the roast chicken recipes from the MyFitnessPal blog but alas my grocery store was SOLD OUT OF CHICKEN! I don't understand how that can happen. Turkey at Thanksgiving, yes, but chicken on a Sunday?! We modified the recipe with various chicken pieces we found in the freezer. Other mods were that I had on hand sweet potato and scallions instead of russet potato & white onion. Came out good anyway.
http://www.cooksmarts.com/cs-blog/2012/10/orange-and-rosemary-skillet-roasted-chicken/

Tonight we're making paleo hamburger sliders
http://stupideasypaleo.com/2014/05/22/paleo-avocado-bacon-sliders/

This will be a first for us. I love hamburgers and have thus far avoided making "fake" (aka bunless) hamburgers since giving up refined starches. What I've LOVED instead is hamburger salad.
Ours falls somewhere between this one: http://kellythekitchenkop.com/bunless-burger-ideas/
and the Pioneer Woman's: http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/cheeseburger-salad/
(We don't bother with the carmelized onion bit--or croutons!-- but do season the meat while cooking, add extra pickles, and like ketchup & mustard as dressing for the salad.)

We haven't been eating enough fish lately - even though we have a freezer of our own fresh-caught vacuum-sealed mahi-mahi, tuna, snapper and wahoo! So tomorrow is fish night:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/grilled-mahi-mahi-with-thai-coconut-sauce-359709