Belinda Moore

Last week’s menu went well, except we opted for take-away fish instead of the enchilada dish on Sunday as we were totally exhausted and home late. We moved that to tonight.

We missed our birthday outing and I didn’t get to make the Honey Oat Cookies. Immi made some Vanilla Biscuits to take to theatre though. Ab had a birthday cake after tea on her birthday, which Immi baked for her.

The chickpea patties last week weren’t as nice as other patties I’ve made, so I won’t use that recipe again, or post it here.

From local organic co-op we have onions, broccoli, carrots, apples and tomatoes. From friends we have bananas, limes and lemons. There’s still lots of potatoes from the roadside stall and a few vegies left from our Organics order.

From the garden we have beans, peas, broad beans, a little broccoli, lettuce, cherry tomatoes, kohl rabi, sugarloaf cabbages, bok choy, herbs, silverbeet, spinach, chokos, baby carrots, celery and herbs. And last week I harvested two huge sweet potatoes which we ate that night.

I borrowed a friends’ dehydrator and dried a box of bananas on the weekend. My kids love dried banana! They’ve also been making banana smoothies and eating them like monkeys of course. Gotta love a glut.

Ah, gluts - we still have dozens of eggs coming in, even with all the broody hens and new hatchings, so we’re trying to eat eggs a couple of times a week at least.

It’s the third week of the challenge so I’ll be trying more new recipes this week.

Monday: Sweet Corn & Bean Enchiladas (based on this recipe) steamed pumpkin & broccoli on the side

Tuesday: Spiral pasta with Creamy Broccoli Sauce and diced fresh tomato & herbs on the side and a sprinkle of cheddar or parmesan cheese

Wednesday: Vegetable soup & bread (most of us out or coming and going, so this is a flexible meal and will use up the odds and ends of vegetables of course!)

Thursday: Egg “burgers” - fried egg and salad on toasted bread (Four kids have a pizza party till 5.30pm, so only some of us will be hungry)

Friday: Mashed potato, eggs and salads (coleslaw with homegrown cabbage)

Saturday: Sweet Potato Rice Patties (based on this recipe) with salad or steamed vegies

Sunday: BBQ fish & salads (visitors)

Baking & Prep: Some honey oat cookies and perhaps some cheese biscuits for the Dad.

Check out others’ menus at orgjunkie.com!