Good morning!
That was a rather quiet weekend with the girls away from home!
As from Friday and for the next ten days or so we shall have C's parents staying with us. Since both my in-laws are meat eaters, we are going to follow a menu of both meat, dairy and vegetable dishes.
We shall have meat on Tuesday and Thursday, vegetables on Wednesday and Friday, as these are days of fasting for the Greek Orthodox, though we shall be eating olive oil, and dairy the rest of the week.
Monday-the girls will be back from their school trip. We shall make spaghetti bolognaise, using spam-type corned beef.
Here is how I cook it:
Saute onion in a little olive oil until tender. Add the corned beef and turn until light brown. Then a little cup of wine. Let it evaporate. Add tomato sauce, salt and pepper, a couple of cinnamon and pink sticks. Let the sauce simmer and serve on spaghetti with grated parmesan cheese.
Tuesday-I shall stay at home to clean up the in-laws quarters, so I shall make something fast, I shall make a salad nicoise with two kinds of lettuce, onion in circles, tuna, gouda cubes, tomato and capers.
Wednesday-I shall again stay at home to cook and freeze food for the week ahead. I am making a pastitsio (pasta with mince meat and bechamel cream sauce baked in the oven) and a cheese pie to freeze and stuffed tomatoes and peppers that I shall put in the fridge and bake on Thursday evening.
Thursday-the most busy day of the week. We shall probably order a pizza!
Friday-In-laws arrive. Rice stuffed veggies.
Saturday-Fish in the oven served with Greek salad (tomatoes, onion, green pepper, olives and olive oil)
Sunday-BBQ and green salad.
As for dessert...hmm! I am sharing with you the photos of some italian sweets, photographed in Rome during our trip for Easter.
In this lovely little cafe we had these little sweets and a coffee that said Happy Easter. How cute is that?
Also linking for the first time to
which focuses on healthy, real food.
Also linked to Dinner Dilemmas. The question this week is:
What is Your Favorite Easy Meal to Make?
This is close between spaghetti and omelette. But to pick one, it will have to be spaghetti. We like our spaghetti al dente.After boiling in plenty of water and sea salt, we heat some olive oil in a pan and turn in the pasta for a whilen so that oile goes everywhere. Serve hot, draining most of the extra olive oil. Add grated parmesan. Hmm, pasta for the soul!
