Cooking for the Week - January 18th

Happy Civil Rights Day! Here in NH, it's a snowy day, and so I'm craving comfort foods. Sadly, I've got my monthly visitor as well, which means my tummy isn't too happy, so we're going with foods I know I can handle.

I got a great deal on pork chops yesterday, and since I'm cooking for the week, I opted to do an easy grill (love my indoor grill pan!) on them, with just some garlic pepper, so I can put various sauces on them. Hubby loves BBQ sauce, but I forgot to get the kind without HFCS, so no BBQ for me. I'll probably do hoisin on mine instead - very yummy. Four chops grilled - two for us tonight, two for tomorrow/Wednesday.

What I do every Sunday is that I cook for the week, and then I fill my freezer with meals. This week, I've roasted off an entire bag of frozen broccoli (I've found roasting veggies in my oven, with just some olive oil, breaks them down enough so they don't bother my stomach as much), and there's stuffing in the oven now. Four pork chops, and two HUGE chicken breasts (each breast is big enough for me and Hubby to split, so yay!) in a tequila lime marinade.

The one thing I can tell you is make friends with your butcher and/or specialty food market. We have a lovely Co-Op here in town, and a great, great butcher in Raymond called Freetown Yankee Market that I ADORE. The chicken breasts came from them - they make all their own marinades, WITHOUT HFCS, and I've found that unless I'm REALLY flaring, I can eat their stuff.

So, food for the week is almost done. Tonight's dinner is pork chops, stuffing, homemade applesauce from my landlady and roasted broccoli. For the rest of the week, I'll make up some rice in my rice cooker (very handy, as sometimes rice is the only thing I can handle, and the rice cooker means I don't have to watch things), and put everything in containers. Maybe some corn later this week, once my "friend" is gone, but we'll see. I have some sugar snap peas in the freezer too that might be good.

Have a good week, folks!