Menu for June 9, 2013 through June 15, 2013

Mark and I had so much fun in the beautiful weather last weekend!  We spent some time on our neighbor's farm-- they have such a beautiful property!  And we even got to see baby ducklings that had just been born that morning AND baby turkeys.  The river that follows our road is at the back of their yard-- look at this view!

I also did the last test for a wedding dessert (my mom and I are making desserts for my cousin's wedding coming up on 6/22!).  These blueberry pie bars are delicious!   Also very easy to make and a great summer dessert.  I used frozen blueberries, but I'm excited to try them with fresh blueberries after we go blueberry picking this summer.  I'll be making these bars for the REAL EVENT in just about a week!  Can't wait!  Speaking of which, I will probably do a post at some point that details the planning process and all the desserts my mom and I ended up making.

The first dinner this week is my current favorite-- pearled barley salad with cherries and arugula.  I enjoyed every last bite of that salad last week.  I couldn't decide which element I liked the best- the pearled barley, the plump cherries, the cheese, the arugula?  It was all so good!  Also on the menu is high protein garlic mashed potatoes (because it's been too long and I have some potatoes I need to eat) and flavor packed lemon thyme chicken.  For the seventh dinner I recommend doing a clean out your fridge/freezer meal.  Look and see if you have any random leftovers or ingredients that haven't been used and throw something together.  Every once in a while I need to do that so I don't end up wasting food!

Dinners for the Week

Sunday:  Pearled Barley Salad with Cherries and Arugula

•  Make the full recipe and eat half tonight, have the leftovers on Tuesday.  Note that this makes four fairly LARGE servings!

Monday: Lemon Thyme Chicken with Garlicky Quinoa and salad/veggies of choice on the side

• Make the full recipe and eat half tonight, have leftovers on Wednesday.

Tuesday: Leftover Pearled Barley Salad

Wednesday: Leftover Lemon Thyme Chicken + sides

Thursday: High Protein Loaded Garlic Mashed Potatoes with toppings of choice

• Make the full recipe and eat half tonight, have leftovers on Saturday.  

Friday: Clean out the fridge/freezer!  Look and see if you have any random leftovers or ingredients that haven't been used and throw something together.   Maybe you have veggie burgers?

Saturday: Leftover High Protein Loaded Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Hope you have a delicious week :)