Fish tacos are a regular Monday night meal for us. Why? Well, because they’re delicious, healthy, and easy to make. Why Mondays? That boils down to the fact that our community waste collection is on Tuesdays, so I don’t have to have fishy smelling debris in the compost and garbage for more than one night. Seriously, keeping that stuff around makes for poor neighbours!
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Grilled Chicken Taco
Tacos are always great because you can really put anything you want in them. Traditionally in Mexico they keep them very simple, meat and one or two toppings depending on the filling. Cal-Mex has heavily influenced the way most people make tacos these days, lots of lettuce, tomatoes, and salsa added in. Grilled chicken breast makes for easy outdoor cooking, and summertime makes for availability of a lot of fresh veggies.
Meal Plan for the Week of June 2, 2018
I decided to plan a themed week once again, using a variety of flavours and ingredients. It’s fun to challenge myself to come up with the themes, but it can get old. If you have some fun theme days you use in your family, I’d love to hear about them so I can try to incorporate them into the blog. The fresh local produce is starting to appear as well, so that means salads, salsas, and fruity desserts–Oh my! Finally, I’m extending the Meal Plan to include a shopping list of meal-specific ingredients you would need to make each dish. It will not feature what I consider to be pantry staples, because, well, they’re staples so I would expect most kitchens to have them on hand.
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Meal Plan for the Week of April 28, 2018
This week Wednesday is McHappy Day at McDonald’s, which we always support because McDonald House Charities is a really worthy cause. So, in keeping with having a theme for Wednesday, I decided to make every night a Theme Night this week. In a departure from our normal habits, we will actually be dining out twice this week. We are big fans of superhero movies in our household, and Avengers: Infinity Wars was just released, so Movie Night Monday will probably be featuring popcorn for dinner! And remember to support #McHappyDay on Wednesday. Continue reading
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