February

Fish with peas and cornbread
Bouef Shuee (French) with cream corn
Western Bean Bake with beets
Chinese style beef stead
Pork Chops with mixed veggies
Frankfurter Crown with cole slaw
Chicken Oriental with egg rolls
Lox and bagels
Baked Chuck Roast with potatoes and carrots
Swordfish with green beans
Turkey soup with grilled cheese
Chicken goulash with peas and spiced peaches

Meals for a year - January

It was somewhere around 1978 in Chicago when Nita and I began talking about putting more variety into our meals and still staying within our budget. We did so by making sure we never duplicated a recipe for an entire year.

Here are our meals for January (recognize that we no longer eat pork products, but we did back then and that the larger meats were used for leftovers):

Duck with wild rice dressing
Ham with lima beans and potatoes
Ham ala king
Chop Suey with egg rolls
Veal Elegante
Chicken parisienne crepes
Chicken soup and childen salad
Grinders
Corned Beef with zuchinni and cucumbers
Lasagna Roma with garlic bread

Meat Loaf - Onion, Lamb and GB style

Ingredients:

• 1 lb. ground beef
• 1 lb. ground lamb
• 3/4 cup bread crumbs
• 1 envelope Lipton Dry Onion Soup
• 3/4 cup ketchup
• 2 eggs
• 3/4 cup water

Directions:

1. shape into loaf onto baking sheet or loaf pan (actually, I prefer to shape into 4 equal loaves of 1/4 pound each - easier to serve, to bake evenly and to freeze leftovers)
2. thickly dice 1/4 large onion and layer on top - poking into the loaf
3. cook in slow cooker on high 4 hours.
4. thickly dice 1/4 large onion and layer on top - poking into the loaf

Remove from slow cooker and serve. May add ketchup or BBQ sauce over the top of each loaf if you like.

Garlic Chicken

Easy Garlic Chicken:

Ingredients:

• 3 chicken breasts
• 1 cup of chicken broth
• one thickly sliced onion
• 7 red new potatoes
• 3 tsps of freeze dried garlic
• garlic pepper to taste
• garlic salt to taste

All cooked together in the slow cooker for 4 hrs. on high

We love garlic, if you only "like" it, you may need to cut back on some of it. Just make sure to get enough salt and pepper on the potatoes.

Oven Eggs

I enjoy a variety of ways to cook eggs. It amazes me how cooking them differently gives them slightly different tastes. That is why I have several egg cooking items like egg coddlers and poachers. I even use the waffle iron at times.

The size of the skillet and the number of eggs can vary to fit how much you need.

Directions:

1. Spray a cast iron skillet or melt butter to cover the bottom
2. Crack 4 eggs into skillet 
3. Add sea salt and pepper
4. Add a mixture of cheeses on top - any cheese you like
5. Preheat oven to 350 
6. Bake for 10 minutes

Chuck Roast

Ingredients:

• One or two Yukon Gold Potatoes sliced thick.
• One or two Red Potatoes sliced thick.
• One or two Idaho Potatoes sliced thick.
• One large white onion sliced thick.
• Two stalks celery sliced thick.
• One can Pinto Beans.
• One container of sauerkraut

Directions:

1. Place all veggies in bottom of slow cooker and place chuck roast on top. 
2. Sprinkle with garlic pepper and garlic salt. 
3. Add a thin layer of sauerkraut on top of the roast.

Cook on high or low for maximum time if you like it well done; less time if you want it less well.

Bean Soup

I didn't use a recipe but Nita liked it anyway.

One package of dry navy beans and one package of purple hull beans - follow preparation instructions. Season to taste.

First day was just the beans as a side dish.

Second day, I added about 1/4 lb. cooked ground beef.

Third day, I added water, a can of Great Northern Beans, celery and onion and made it into a soup that lasted 2 more meals.