Modern Gal

Menu Plan for Week of May 13, 2012

Elizabeth — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:09:34 +0000

The speedy red beans and rice was last week’s favorite meal, so I have it on this week’s menu as well. Some traveling this week, so most of the meals are really quick and easy (and still made with whole foods). Breakfasts: Breakfast rice, boiled eggs Lunches: Leftovers Dinners: Sunday: Poached salmon, rice salad, steamed [...]

Chicken and Egg Salad

Elizabeth — Tue, 08 May 2012 06:32:09 +0000

I often run out of idea for packed lunches. Although I have a number of standby dishes and things that travel reasonably well, I also find that I often am out of one or two ingredients for preparing the exact dish that I wanted. The following is a combination of chicken salad and egg salad [...]

Menu Plan for Week of May 6, 2012

Elizabeth — Sun, 06 May 2012 07:21:45 +0000

Indonesian spicy rice was the favorite dish of last week. I also like the fact that it’s very easy and uses up leftovers, yet tastes different than the previous meal. For this week, I’m roasting a chicken and making some standby’s including the speedy red beans and rice, a great one pot meal. Breakfasts: Healthy [...]

Modern Frugal Kitchen Tips

Elizabeth — Wed, 02 May 2012 05:38:09 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, I cooked meals while we were staying with friends for a few days. They seemed astonished that a) I often cooked without having a recipe in front of me or specifically measuring ingredients; b) I planned the meal based on what was available in the fridge; and c) I tried [...]

Menu Plan for Week of April 29, 2012

Elizabeth — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:09:24 +0000

This week, I will be baking a ham which will make for nice leftovers as well. Also, I’m serving the quick salmon teriyaki and whipping up a batch of individual chocolate custards. What’s on your menu? Breakfasts: Peanut butter baked oatmeal, boiled eggs Lunches: Tuna and white bean salad, leftovers Treats: Chocolate coconut custard Dinners: [...]

Simplifying Birthday Celebrations

Elizabeth — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:17:34 +0000

This is an edited repost of a previous article. If you’ve read my posts on simplifying Christmas and Easter, you might think that I’m a curmudgeon with respect to celebrations and holidays. On the contrary, I like special days a lot. What I find problematic is the arms-race style of competition to outdo things bigger [...]

Simple Salmon Teriyaki

Elizabeth — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:58:22 +0000

One of my favorite dishes at a Japanese restaurant is a well-made salmon teriyaki. I don’t like the sickly sweet kind that tastes like they dipped the salmon in candy, but rather the one made with a lighter teriyaki sauce that enhances, rather than masks the salmon. A restaurant that I went to recently steams [...]

Menu Plan for Week of April 22, 2012

Elizabeth — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:36:59 +0000

We enjoyed the simple lemon chicken last week, and instead of plain poached salmon, I made a modified teriyaki salmon where I steamed rather than grilled the salmon. It was quite good and I hope to have the recipe up later this week. For this week, lamb is on the menu. I like lamb a [...]

Simplified Record Keeping

Elizabeth — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:33:52 +0000

Tax Day (April 17th this year) is a great time to review organizing and record keeping techniques and a great time to get re-energized for year-round good record keeping that will make all kinds of planning, budgeting, and tax filing much easier next year. I find it useful to continually remind myself of this, since [...]

Menu Plan for Week of April 15, 2012

Elizabeth — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 07:35:37 +0000

I hope everyone is having a good week. This upcoming week is going to be rather busy, so I have some old standbys that I know can come together really quickly like poached salmon. I’m also trying out recipes for low sugar granola (less sweet, not using artificial sweeteners) if anyone has any good suggestions. [...]