Menu Week of May 11

Menu Week of May 11

Snow on Mother’s Day! Yep.  It wasn’t enough to stick around but it did snow off and on all day and was cold. Definitely a day to stay inside. Joe and I worked on our permaculture class and had a fairly quiet day. Overnight, the snow continued and we did...

Lentils: Menu Week of March 6

Week 10 of my 13 Week Rotating Menu Plan. This week features Lentils as our Stretchy Bean. I do my lentils a bit different than most of the other Stretchy Beans. After soaking the lentils instead of cooking them, I let them begin to sprout (click here for sprouting...

Pinto Beans: Menu Week of March 13

This is week 11 of my 13 Week Rotating Menu Plan. This week’s Stretchy Bean is Pinto. To shake things up a bit, the pintos will become Baked Beans from day 1 with day 2 and 3 recipes also using baked beans as the base. This idea comes from The Complete Tightwad...

Black Beans: Menu Week of March 20

Week 12 of my 13 Week Menu Plan. This is black bean week. Our third time during the 13 weeks to have black beans. I tried to put some time between bean repeats but we still had them week 6 and week 9 and now week 12. I think I’ll adjust my menu plan a bit to...

Kidney Beans: Menu Week of March 27

  Week 13 of my 13 Week Rotating Menu Plan. I have to say that I have very much enjoyed this menu plan. It did take some time to get it set up in the beginning and we did discover a few recipes that need a bit of work but overall it has been great. And the real...

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