A Meal Planning Concept


Celebration Meal Plans: 29 and Holding

Dates with Goat Cheese | Melon and Ham | Porkerschnitzle | Twice Baked Potatoes | Gingered Carrots | Walter Raymond's Sweet and Sour Cucumbers | Heritage Tomato Salad | Peach Tart

Dates with Goat Cheese

Recipe Summary
Complexity:Easy
Serves:6
Category:Appetizer
Meal:29 and Holding (Celebration Meal Plans)
1cupdates, whole
2Tbcheese, goat
1tsphoney
 

Cut dates in half and remove the pit. Place a small dollop of the goat cheese in each half and drip a drop or two of honey on the top. Serve at room temperature.

Melon and Ham

Recipe Summary
Complexity:Easy
Serves:6
Category:Appetizer
Meal:29 and Holding (Celebration Meal Plans)
0.25smallcantaloupe
2slicesprosciutto, sliced
 

Cut melon into small chunks. Wrap a small piece of the prosciutto around the melon, secure with a toothpick and serve.

Note: You may use any ham you have available.

Porkerschnitzle

Recipe Summary
Complexity:Easy
Serves:4
Category:The Other Meat Entrée
Meal:29 and Holding (Celebration Meal Plans)
4mediumpork chops, boneless center cut
3Tbflour
1pinchsalt and pepper to taste
2Tboil, olive
110.5 oz canbeef consommé
0.5cupwine, dry white
0.25cupcranberries, dried
1Tbcornstarch
 

Place chops in a plastic bag and pound until ½ as thick. Mix flour, salt and pepper and cover chops with mixture. Heat oil in a pan, brown chops on both sides and remove to a plate. Add the consommé and white wine. Stir; be sure to get all the brown specs in the bottom of the pan. Mix the cornstarch with 2 Tb spoons of water, add to sauce and cook until thickened. Add the cranberries and add the chops back in to warm. Serve over spaetzle noodles, rice or mashed potatoes.

Twice Baked Potatoes

Recipe Summary
Complexity:Easy
Serves:6
Category:Starch / Pasta
Meal:29 and Holding (Celebration Meal Plans)
6mediumpotatoes, baked
0.75cupsour cream
4Tbbutter, salted
1pinchsalt and pepper to taste
0.125tsppaprika, sweet
 

Baked potatoes until fork tender. Cool slightly and cut in half. Carefully scoop the potato out of the skins, keeping the skins whole. Mash potatoes in a bowl, adding the butter and sour cream. Add salt and pepper to taste, fill potato skins with the mashed potatoes and sprinkle the top with paprika. May be made in advance then heated in warm oven.

Gingered Carrots

Recipe Summary
Complexity:Easy
Serves:6
Category:Vegetables
Meal:29 and Holding (Celebration Meal Plans)
1lbcarrots, fresh, baby
1Tboil, olive
1Tbginger, fresh, minced
1pinchsalt and pepper to taste
 

Slice carrots into thin chips diagonally. Heat oil in a pan and saute the carrots for 4 minutes; add ginger and saute for 4 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Walter Raymond's Sweet and Sour Cucumbers

Recipe Summary
Complexity:Easy
Serves:6
Category:Salad
Meal:29 and Holding (Celebration Meal Plans)
2largecucumbers, sliced
1.5cupsugar, granulated
1.5cupvinegar, cider
2Tbonions, sliced
1pinchsalt and pepper to taste
 

Cut cucumbers into thin slices. Dissolve sugar in vinegar on low heat. Thinly slice red onion. Add cucumbers, onions and liquid in a bowl and let marinate for 1 hour. Salt and Pepper to taste.

Heritage Tomato Salad

Recipe Summary
Complexity:Easy
Serves:4
Category:Salad
Meal:29 and Holding (Celebration Meal Plans)
1lbheritage tomato
2Tbcilantro
2Tboil, olive
0.5mediumlemon, juice of
0.25cupcheese, feta, crumbled
1clovesgarlic, minced
0.5tsppepper, fresh cracked
1tspsalt, kosher
 

Cut tomatoes into bite size wedges. Place in bowl, add remaining ingredients, toss, let rest for 10 minutes and serve.

Peach Tart

Recipe Summary
Complexity:Easy
Serves:10
Category:Dessert
Meal:29 and Holding (Celebration Meal Plans)
2Tbbutter, salted
1recipetart shell
5largepeaches, sliced
0.5cupsugar, brown
1Tbvanilla
1Tblemon, juice of
0.5tspsugar, finishing
 

Prepare tart shell according to the recipe. Peal peaches and cut into 8 wedges each. Add butter to a sauté pan and heat until melted. Place peaches in pan and sauté for 4 minutes. Add the brown sugar, vanilla and lemon juice and cook until the peaches are just tender but not mushy. Remove peaches from pan and cook. Return the pan to the heat and cook juices down until thick and caramelly. Place peaches in the baked tart shell; pour reduced juice over the peaches. Sprinkle finishing sugar (course) over top. Serve with a dollop of whipped cream.