Meatballs con Zoloft

Ladies & Gentlemen, in an effort to stave off disease, I am going into kitchen detox this week before my major meal cooking. (I swear it's only my oven that looks that bad, but still... like a person... if the outside is pretty but the inside looks like crap, nothing is going to work.)

However, I present to you a meal plan for next week with the ingredients. Directions to follow on another post so you don't land face first with drool coming out of your mouth, your head permanently attached to the F10 key.

I am also thinking that, rather than being flaky, I am being creatively open to suggestions before I meal shop. Fire away with menus, tips and perhaps a joke here and there. But do it by Saturday, because by Sunday I might never enter a supermarket again.

Going along with my weekly theme, let me introduce:

Meat Monday – Hamburgers

Ingredients

Use either pre-sliced patties for total quick meal prep, or 1 pound of ground beef (or turkey… you can get it in the frozen section for 1.99)
I package of Lipton onion mix for flavoring
1 package of buns
Fresh tomatos
4 potatoes
Green salad
Brocalli
1 oinion

Taco Tuesday

Ingredients and prep together as I do it super simple

4 Roma tomatoes chopped
1 onion chopped
2 cups mozzarella cheese shredded
1 avocado (stick in blender or with spoon mush it with a pinch of salt)
Left over meat from yesterday with taco seasoning added or salsa
1 pack of taco shells (or for fancier tacos, you can put some olive oil in a pan and grill some corn tortillas)
1 can refried beans (My tip: I stick them in the cusinart which makes them super fluffy, but not necessary)
I small can sliced olives
1 cup of salsa

If you choose to, put some rice on the side and half a can of corn.

Whatever Wednesday

Some sort of casserole involving turkey meat and noodles. Any suggestions?

Tomato Thursday – Meatballs Con Zoloft

(Originally penned by Stella as “My Mom’s Italian Meatballs – the best ever.” This can also be referred to as Testy Balls as the directions make me laugh. "Make sure the balls are firm, but not too hard." Yes, I really am that juvenile.

Ingredients

2 pounds ground beef
1 pound ground pork (not sausage)
2 eggs, fork beaten
1 ½ pack of Saltine Crackers (they come 4 packs/box)
¾ cup evaporated milk
¾ cup grated Parmesan cheese
½ cup fresh chopped parsley, finely cut
1 clove minced garlic or teaspoon garlic powder
½ tsp dried oregano
1 level tsp dried basil
1 can Ragu

Frozen Friday - Pizza (or anything you want to buy premade)

Cardboard with mozzarella? Works for the day, keeps the scurvy away… proceed.

Sandwich Saturday – Meatball sandwiches

(if you have any left… otherwise grilled cheese with leftover shredded mozzarella from Taco Tuesday)

Add sliced Roma tomatoes and cook up some frozen veggies of your choice

Stew or Soup Sunday – Stella’s Lentil soup.

If you hate lentil soup, then this week you get to use a can of whatever. Or post a soup you like. But I promise, this is the best lentil I have ever tried. And that’s with me cooking it. (Some people use a crock pot for lentils but I don’t have a recipe and am too lazy to search it. I like it this way.)

If your kids won’t go for it, make eggs and throw in some broccoli, or get some canned character soup and sneak in some carrots.

* I like the idea of breakfast for dinner one night a week, too. I forget who suggested it, but it's a good one. And since Stink can make his own eggs now, he'd dig that.

Well, I'm off to sleep. Not only did I bust my tail bone a few weeks back bumper bowling (apparently when the sign says "Do not cross dotted line" you're actually supposed to follow it) but today I stubbed my toe. This combined with getting up at 5am to write queries that seem to be landing in cyberspace black holes, I have a lot of rejections to prepare for.

Pleasant dreams. May the smells of zoloft meatballs bring you great joy.