What We Ate Last Week

Check it out--week 2 of our meal plan sharing!

So...what did we eat last week???

Monday:  Red Beans & Rice with Corn Pudding*

Tuesday:  Homemade (and baked!) Beef Taquitos* with Guacamole, dirty rice and seasoned black beans

Wednesday:  BBQ at our friends' house!  It was the first of the farewell activities for a friend/former coworker that moves away this week :-(

Thursday:  So-Long-Saloon Style Tacos with spicy slaw and pico de gallo, leftover dirty rice and black beans

Friday:  Asian Lettuce Wraps* with steamed vegetable "fried" rice and egg rolls

Saturday:  Fish Fry following our float trip down the Republican River

Sunday:  Grilled Flat Iron Steak with guacamole-topped polenta rounds and caesar salad

The Learning Curve(s):

*I lucked out and found a corn pudding recipe that did not require any baking mix, Jiffy or flour--totally wheat free--and it ROCKED!  Even my husband who is reluctant to try "new" foods loved the corn pudding. 

*We had never before made taquitos and our only suggestion for the original recipe would have been the addition of tomatoes to the beef mixture for a bit of extra moisture & texture.  The taquitos were great smothered in Velveeta's Queso cheese sauce!
*Who knew it would be so hard to track down ground chicken?!  Apparently the turkey recall forced many of its consumers to switch to eating the other bird.  It took me 5 days of stalking 3 grocery stores to get my hands on ground chicken!  Ummm, we wait to make these again until after the recall is long gone.