What’s for dinner? 30 minute menus for 2009 – 21st edition
wow! This is Memorial Day weekend. Can you believe it? I hope you have a great weekend planned.
I’ll be hosting a Memorial Day BBQ at our local park. The Mixed Grill BBQ will be perfect because I can whip it up and take it to the park in (you guessed it) 30 minutes, totally! The food is very portable, so you can also take it with you wherever you go.
For our appetizer course while people gather, we will have an At-The-Cheese-Ball appetizer course. This will be the perfect accompaniment for our informal barbecue. The course includes cheddar cheese balls; summer sausage with roasted garlic mustard; vegetable platter with pear slices and spicy tomato sauce; tortilla chips, herb crackers, and honey-roasted almonds.
You will find that I use various cooking methods, mix and match, to get dinner on the table fast! (Ingredients in parentheses show some of my quick prep steps.) You can always substitute your favorite made-from-scratch recipes when you have more time.
Hope you have a great week!
Sunday:
Chicken breast en croute (boneless skinless chicken breasts, crescent rolls)
Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Pearl Onions (Frozen Pearl Onions)
Egg and Tomato Salad with Pink Mayonnaise
Special pears (canned pears)
Monday (Memorial Day):
Mixed grill BBQ Party
3 Bean Salad (3 Bean Jar Salad)
Cole Slaw (bagged salad mix, jarred salad dressing)
corn on the cob
Chips
Baked beans (canned beans)
Grilled Fruit Skewers with Lemon Sauce (purchased yogurt)
Tuesday:
Broccoli Cream (vegetarian)
Artichoke crostini (jarred artichokes)
Caramelized Peaches
Wednesday:
Fiesta Chicken (boneless skinless chicken breasts, Ro*Tel canned tomatoes)
Yellow rice (boxed rice mix)
Mexi corn (canned corn)
Pear salad (canned pears)
Banana Pudding (purchased vanilla wafers, instant pudding mix)
Thursday:
Meatball stew (frozen meatballs)
Bread bowls (chilled cookies)
Fruit salad (canned fruit)
Buckeye Chocolate Chippers (prepared cookie dough, canned chocolate glaze)
Friday:
Tuna salad not your mom’s
rolls
Lemon Puff Cups (puff cups, lemon pudding mix)
Saturday:
French Burgers with White Wine Sauce
Egg noodles (store bought noodles)
Asparagus
Melba Melba Parfaits (store bought ice cream, canned peaches, jarred raspberry jam)
I sincerely hope you have fun planning and preparing your meals.
Elizabeth Randall and family