December 12, 2011

MENU FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 12, 2011

Somehow it is hard to believe we are two weeks from Christmas.  Somehow, I haven’t caught the spirit.  A combination of warm weather and Thanksgiving fatigue, I guess.  So it’s hard to grab on to the Ho Ho mojo for the Christmas cards and stuff. But I guess I’ll get there….I am starting to think about the Christmas and New Year’s menus however.  Gotta have a prime rib in there.  Maybe a duck. Leg of lamb? Roast Goose? Crab???

Somehow, it’s gotta be rich and it always ends up expensive.  But it is all part of the holidays themselves and their celebration.  Southern fried chicken – as good as it is – won’t do!

And then we have the rest of the year (and the gym) to work it all off.  And to think of the fact that as a much younger (and thinner woman) I could eat whatever I wanted and never gain weight….it ain’t fair….

Mon. AM             White Bean, Escarole and Sausage Soup

Mon. PM              Cod in Black Olive & Sun Dried Tomato Sauce                                                       JPFFMW 82        in Tapanade

                             Pasta with Fresh Tomato Sauce

                             Baby Peas
                             Rosemount Chardonnay 

Tues. AM             Pasta with Blue Cheese Sauce

Tues. PM              Normandy Chicken Fricassee

                             Steamed Rice

                             Sautéed Apples
                             Rosemount Chardonnay

Weds. AM            Panini

Thurs .AM           Mu Shu Shrimp

Thurs.  PM           Pork Roast with Mustard and Current Sauce

                             Potatoes Savoyard

                             Steamed Broccoli
                              Penfold Shiraz

Fri. AM                Beef Barley Soup BWS 177

Fri. PM                 Broiled Tilapia with Orange Butter Sauce PFLCG 53

                             Steamed Rice

                             Sautéed Zucchini
                             Rosemount Chardonnay

Sat. AM               Panini
                            smoked turkey, muenster and pear

Sat. PM                Blue Cheese and Crackers                

                             Patricia Wells’ Daube of Breast of Veal with White Wine and

                                Green Olives AH IP 250

                             Creamy Semolina with Bay Leaves and                                            Parmesan AHIP 243

                             Tossed Salad
                              Wolf Blass Yellow Label Merlot

Sun. AM              Gumbo

Sun. PM               Chinese Chicken Wings CCII

                             Navaran of Lamb  ECWJP 117

                             Peasant Bread

                             Tossed Salad
                              Wolf Blass Yellow Label Shiraz