Re: Menu Plan

Yeah, re: the menu plan? It went pretty down hill after Tuesday when we RAN OUT OF GAS!! So I pretty well have all of those meals on the menu to still make this week! To fill in the week we enjoyed a night out, and some take-away Thai Frenzy (mm… thai frenzy….) oh, and did I mention that on Wednesday morning when we realised we were out of gas, we still had PEOPLE COMING OVER FOR DINNER THAT NIGHT?! Crazy. They still came, and I conquered the electrical cooking thing!

I did a bit of modifying of Zoey’s risotto in the rice cooker, and also did some pre-cooking at M&D’s. I wasn’t 100% sure how this risotto would turn out, considering when I put in the 1.25L of stock, my rice cooker was full and yeah, it was like twice as much liquid as I normally put in….

But it turned out AMAZINGLY! Like, I will probably never make risotto the regular way again! If anything I put the vegies (pumpkin and sweet potato) in a little too early and they were too squishy, but it was seriously yum anyway! PERFECT rice from this little trick! Have a bit of a try. I used 1 cup of rice and it served 4 people. It was enough for me, and hopefully enough for everyone else too!

Also, on another note, This is a link to an a pretty cool conversion chart for recipes that aren’t designed for the slow cooker. So now you don’t have to wonder how long to cook it for!

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Menu Plan

Yep, you read right- a menu plan, on this blog, not the blogger one! I’ve decided to somewhat boycott the other one, and just keep everything here. It seems easier. Particularly because Luke and I do our restaurant reviews there too- it’s probably best to keep all the reviews on a separate blog to my recipes and menus!

So here we are. So far we’ve stuck to the plan for Monday and Tuesday. I can’t wait to show you the recipes, because the sweet potato ravioli we had last night was TO DIE FOR. SO good. Even if I do say so myself.

Photo by http://www.cafenilson.com

M: Chicken Pie
T: Sweet Potato Ravioli
W: Pumpkin & Feta Pasta Bake
Th: Chicken Marsala with Banana & Caramel Pudding for dessert (guests are coming over)
F: Date
S: Mac & Cheese- Gibson style
S: Nothing/Something
M: Fish & Chips
T: Indian Dosas
W: Breakie Burger- I’m going to test out vegetarian bacon!
Th: Simple pasta
F: date
S: Something I inevitably didn’t make in these two weeks!
S: Something/Nothing

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