Me So Hungry || This Week's Meals (TWM)

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I was stahving today, dahling.  

Super hungry.

And, as mentioned previously, I had grocery shopping to do today.  

It was a bad combination.

But before I get into the thrilling tale of how I chose my delicious meals for the week, let me tell you about my latest notch in my crunchy belt.  You know, like, cloth diapers, notch, trying out homemade deodorant, notch, etc.  This week?  I bought food from an co-op, Clemson Area Food Exchange.  Buying direct from farmers, makes my toes curl.  I then realized that I can't actually pick up my food until tomorrow around 3.  So no happy chicken eggs, no hydroponically grown butter lettuce, no locally pollinating sweet bees' honey until tomorrow.  But whatever.  I basically combined two of my favorite things - shopping online, and being crunchy.  Swoon!

Anyhow, after eating my way through the entire store, I've got the fixin's for some delicious looking meals this week.  Wanna come over?  Wanna break some bread with me?  I'm looking for some table-sharers this week, can't enjoy this food all on my own...

I've wrangled all of these meal ideas on a pinterest board, aptly named "This Week's Meals".  Because I'm clever like that.  I do this, I pin and pin and then change and decide and then pare down, until I've got everything I plan to make squared away.  Then I link to the recipes and make my grocery shopping list.  That's my magic, works every time.

This week, I've got meals with my long lost love, chicken.  WOOHOO!  Thanks to handsome's hunting prowress this year, we've been eating a lot of venison.  Mostly ground.  A lot.  Like, mucho.  And while I don't mind it and there are a lot of options out there for ground beef, I've been missing chicken in the worst way.  But tomorrow, I'm picking up 73 pounds of it, thanks to my local supplier*, and I'm going to eat chicken until venison starts sounding appealing again.

So without further ado...  February 17th edition of  TWM

• Cheesy Quinoa Lasagna Bake.  Which is mis-named.  It is nothing like lasagna.  I know, because I ate it tonight.  It is yummy, but please don't think lasagna if you're going to eat it, you'll be sad.  Unless you dislike lasagna, in which case you might be pleasantly surprised.  Honestly, I think I would have liked it more with the addition of chicken, but it seemed foolish to buy chicken when I have 73#'s of it coming home with me tomorrow.

• Chicken Bruschetta Galette.  D. E. Licious.  SO good.  I use a cream cheese pie crust from some cookbook that Handsome got for me a few moons ago.  It is so good.  I'm craving it right now.  Except for, well, you know, no chicken.  I feel like we're beating a sleeping horse over spilt milk, here.

• Chicken Tortilla Bake. Mexican + me = love.  I wonder, sometimes, if I would like the food in Mexico.  I like fake Mexican food, but I feel like its probably as close to authentic as General Tso's is to China.

• Pancetta Fried Rice. I will not be adding a fried egg.  I'm more the scrambled variety.  Again, totally not authentic.  But it better be delicious, because it took me about 23 minutes & two stores to track down "pancetta" which sounds so foreign to say.  Perhaps I should go to Italy, as well, to see if this pig meat is authentic...

• Honey Parmesan Pulled Pork.  Rave reviews.  And the roast I picked up had a sticker on it that said "Great for the Crockpot!" so I'm thinking its a match made in ma belly.  Serving this sucker up with oven roasted brocolli which is basically candy dressed in vegetable clothing.

• Healthy Sesame Chicken.  Handsome is hoping to be healthier, and Tony wouldn't like it if I was pounding the fried food after my 30 minutes with him each day (which I did do today, for at least 10 minutes today, so it's a win so far!).  This meal looked scrumptious and healthy.  Plus, I love any excuse to buy spices that I'll never use again.  Dear Sesame Seeds and Freeze-Dried Ginger, please make yourselves at home among your spice-mates.  You're gonna be here a while.

You'll notice, there's not a single ground-meat meal up there.  I'm so excited.  Except that I plan to make tacos, which do use ground meat.  Because that deer isn't gonna eat itself, and remember the .0365 tons of chicken that is moving in with me - it needs some space in the freezer.  So ya know, I'm mixing things up.  

Got any food suggestions for me, dahlings?  I'm always on the lookout for new good eats!

<3 M.