What’s For Dinner?

Successful menu planning can sometimes present us with a problem.  We want our day–to-day meals to be tasty, healthy, attractive and at the same time, quick and easy to assemble and cook.  If one has some time in the evenings or over the weekend to cook and refrigerate and/or freeze, that can be very helpful.  For instance, all in one Sunday afternoon you could make two meatloaves, one to eat during the week and the other to freeze, several pounds of meatballs and make up raw hamburger patties, which you freeze on cookie sheets until hard and then slip into a plastic bag, to be defrosted and cooked when needed, At the same time that the meatloaves are cooking you can roast a chicken and marinate a flank steak.  A large vegetable Lasagna could be divided into a weekday main dish and a future meal. Right there, you have a week’s worth of meals and several for the future.

 Recipes for soups can be doubled, one part to be eaten during the week and the other half frozen. Blintzes freeze well and are always a welcome addition to a meal, be they cheese, potato or fruit.  Stews also freeze well and of course, it is always nice to be able to pull a homemade cake, cookies, mandelbrot or rugeleh out of the freezer for company.  Remember to always seal your frozen foods tightly and date and rotate them so that nothing gets tucked away in a corner and forgotten.

Assuming you have the necessary ingredients at hand, here are a few quick and easy meal ideas:

Cold store-bought Borsht with a dollop of Sour Cream
Broiled Salmon Steaks with Mayonnaise/ Relish dressing
Boiled new Potatoes with Parsley
Steamed Broccoli
Whole Wheat Rolls
Lemon Cake

Beef Stew
Tossed Salad with Oil and Vinegar dressing
Pumpernickel Bread
Applesauce
Oatmeal Cookies/Sherbert

Persian Chicken
Rice
Pita Bread
Creamed Spinach
Honey Cake


Fried Flounder
Corn Pudding
String Beans
Cole Slaw
Brownies

Tomato Juice
Meatballs
Noodle Ring
Cucumber Salad
Fruit Pie

Vegetable Soup
Broiled Hamburgers on Toasted Buns
Lettuce, Tomato, Onion slices
Frozen French Fries
Peanut Butter Cookies

Cold Roast Chicken
Cranberry Sauce
Mashed Potatoes
Vegetable Stir-Fry
  (Carrots and zucchini
    diagonally sliced and
    stir-fried in veg. oil,
    orange juice, salt and
    pepper until crisp/tender)
Strudel

Broiled Lamb Chops with Mint Jelly
Sweet Potatoes (Microwaved)
Brussels Sprouts
Frozen Onion Rings
Fruit Salad
 
    

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