February 2021 Menus

I started watching Jamie Oliver’s 5 Ingredients: Quick and Easy Food show on television and am really enjoying it. So much so that I bought the cookbook near the end of the month! I’m not necessarily in a hurry when I’m cooking these days but it’s nice to have so many fast and easy recipes at hand. Also, many of these recipes are for 2 people which makes it easy for me to not have too many leftovers or have to do conversions while I cook.

1. Chicken piccata, mashed potatoes, leftover roast delicata squash. One of my favorite ways to cook chicken for myself.
2. Southwestern corn and cheese chowder from Cold Weather Cooking. This was quite good with sweet potato, corn, onion, green chiles and a combination of broth, beer and milk.
3. Baked ziti and radicchio and golden raisin salad, both from Lidia’s Italy in America.
4. Spaghetti and meatballs, skillet cauliflower, again both from Lidia’s Italy in America.
5. Stromboli from Sheet Pan Suppers, radicchio and golden raisin salad with blue cheese.
6. Leftover baked ziti and radicchio salad.
7. Leftover spaghetti and meatballs, salad.
8. Gallurese bread and cabbage soup, fennel and orange salad. The first from Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy and the second from Lidia’s Italy.
9. Leftover cabbage soup, escarole salad
10. Sausage and beans on polenta, from Lidia’s Italy.  This was fantastic even though I used canned beans.
11. Leftover sausage, beans and polenta
12. Homemade pizzas, mulberry coffee cake (homegrown mulberries from my freezer stash)
13. Our early Valentine’s dinner – Steak, leek and prosciutto gratin, Hasselback potatoes, creamed spinach
14. I took the last of the leftover beans and sauce (Sausage was all gone) and served it over ziti, Caesar salad, garlic bread
15. Chalupas (aka tostados) with beans, cheese, avocado, lettuce, salsa
16. Chopped egg and avocado sandwich from Mexican Today
17. Chicken piccata, mashed potatoes, cooked carrots
18. Chicken enchiladas verde, red rice
19. Chicken enchiladas verde, red rice, pinto beans from the freezer, salad with an avocado dressing from Mexican Everyday.
20. Spaghetti and meatballs, garlic bread, Caesar salad
21. Takeout pizza
22. Salmon with mustard sauce, mashed olive oil potatoes with escarole (both from Lidia Bastianich).
23. Chalupa / tostado with rajas and avocado
24. Orechiette with bacon and artichokes Really good! I made it with canned artichokes. (Not marinated just packed in water.)
25. Eggplant Parmesan, roast cauliflower
26. Peanut butter braised chicken. This was a big hit! Served with red cabbage and carrot slaw, rice. https://www.skinnytaste.com/peanut-br…
27. Sticky mango shrimp, leftover cabbage slaw. Fast and good! https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/s… From Jamie Oliver 5 Ingredients .
28. Farfalle with charred radicchio, pears, Gorgonzola and walnuts. Sounds strange but it was tasty! https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/p… Also from Jamie Oliver’s 5 Ingredients.