COOKING ON A BUDGET 05/09/19
Going to hope for some more sunny days and grill three meals next week!
HANNAFORD – SALE ENDS SATURDAY
Sea Scallops - $11.99lb!(I’m buying for the great deal and freezing)
Drumsticks, Thighs and Whole Chicken – 99 cents lb. (grilled lemon garlic chicken)
Mayonnaise - $2.99 (warm potato salad)
Parsley – 99 cents
ALDI – They have been slow on their weekly flyer!So these sales end on Saturday
Strawberries - $1.29 1lb
Chicken Breast - $1.89lb (3lb or larger)
Family pack Chicken Tenderloins - $1.99lb (3lb or larger)
Belmont Ice Cream - $1.95 (assorted varieties) (Have an ice cream sundae party!
SHAWS – Starts Friday
3 Day Sale Items
T-Bone or Porterhouse Steak - $4.99lb (Steak on the grill!)
Signature Select Pizza - $2.99 (Stock up the freezer)
Asparagus - $1.77lb (on the grill with your Steak dinner)
Canada Dry Seltzer 12 packs - 4 for $10
Regular Sales
Boneless Pork Tenderloin - $1.49lb (Rueben rolled pork)
Strawberries (2lbs) - $2.77 (Kids’ lunch bags) (if you don’t get to Aldi’s!)
Red Pastrami - $8.99lb (Rueben rolled pork)
Bunch of Green Onions – 79cents (warm potato salad)
Jumbo Artichoke Hearts – 2 for $6 (stuffed artichoke hearts)
Petite Sirloin Steak or Roast - $4.99lb (Italian Roast beef)
Just some good deals to take advantage of:
Thomas’ English Muffins – Buy 1 and get 2 free!
Perdue Chicken Nuggets - $1.99 (Kids go to) (Also on sale at Market Basket same price)
MARKET BASKET – Starts on Sunday
The Little Potato Company potatoes – 2 for $5 (warm potato salad)
Wishbone Salad Dressing (Italian and thousand Island) – 2 for $3 (Italian roast beef and Rueben stuffed pork)
Swiss cheese - $4.49lb (Rueben rolled pork)
Sweet Vidalia Onions – 89 cents lb. (use in all my cooking)
Boneless Chicken Thighs - $1.79lb (Honey Sriracha Grilled Chicken Thighs)
Minced Garlic (32 oz. jar) - $3.99 (I use this a lot!)
Athenos Crumbled Feta - $2.99 (lemon feta couscous)
Just some good deals to take advantage of:
24 pack crystal geyser spring water – 2 for $5
Large Brown Eggs – 99 cents (if you like white eggs 79 cents at Shaw’s)
Celiac Disease Awareness Month so a lot of deals on Gluten Free food at the MB this week! Grab a flyer and check it out!
RECIPES FOR THE WEEK
GRILLED LEMON GARLIC DRUMSTICKS WITH LEMON FETA COUSCOUS – Mix lemon juice and zest, minced garlic, salt, pepper, paprika, dried oregano and olive oil.Pour into a large freezer bag and add chicken and keep in the fridge overnight. For your couscous – I make a whole wheat couscous with some added fresh spinach.Once it’s done, mix in some roasted red pepper, drained and rinsed chickpeas, crumbled feta cheese and then squeeze lemon on all of it and serve with your chicken.(You can also serve this as a cold salad too)
RUEBEN STUFFED PORK TENDERLOINWITH WARM POTATO SALAD – Cut the pork tenderloin down the center (but don’t go all the way through) and open it and thin out with a mallet.Spread some Thousand Island dressing on the pork, put a layer of pastrami, layer of Swiss cheese and sauerkraut and then roll like a jelly roll.Tie up every couple of inches to keep together.Rub the outside of the pork with olive oil.Season with garlic powder, salt, pepper.Bake in a pan at 425 for 35 minutes.Cut strings and serve with the warm potato salad.I like the trio of little potatoes.Boil some water and add little potatoes, cook until soft but not mushy. Cut into quarters or halves whatever your preference is.In a bowl mix some mayonnaise, grated parm cheese, Dijon mustard, cayenne pepper, salt, pepper, paprika, apple cider vinegar and some green onions if you like them.Mix the sauce with your potatoes.
ITALIAN ROAST BEEF AND STUFFED ARTICHOKE HEARTS – Cut the top and bottom of your artichoke and remove the tough outer leaves. Peel away the middle of the artichoke.Scrape the middle of the artichoke to get rid of the fuzz.Sprinkle inside and outside with lemon juice.Steam the artichoke stem side up until it’s tender.While it’s steaming, cook some onions and garlic in butter, add some lemon juice and white wine, add Italian bread crumbs, parsley, salt, pepper, Italian seasoning and fresh grated parm.Take your artichokes out of steamer when soft and fill with your stuffing mix.Cook in the oven for about 20 minutes, add some more parm cheese and cook until browned on top. For your roast beef, mix minced garlic, Italian seasoning, salt and pepper, dried basil, dried oregano, red pepper flakes and rub your beef with oil and then this mix.In a large pan, add some beef broth, Italian salad dressing and a packet of au jus mix and large cut onions (quarters should be good)Put your beef in this and let cook for a couple hours.(Let it sit for 20 minutes or so before cutting in to it.)
GRILLED STEAK AND ASPARAGUS – nothing fancy, grill yourself some steak with your seasoning and grill some asparagus seasoned with olive oil, garlic powder, salt, pepper and sprinkle on some fresh parm.Pair it up with some rice pilaf and voila, easy yummy dinner!
GRILLED HONEY SRIRACHA CHICKEN THIGHS WITH ASIAN CABBAGE SLAW – In a sauce pan , heat up some butter, ginger and garlic, add paprika, cloves, soy sauce, honey, lime juice and sriracha whisk until combined and take off the heat after a few minutes.I separate some of it for extra sauce once it’s cooked...Season the chicken with salt and pepper and put on the grill, when it’s almost done start brushing on your sauce.Add an Asian side to stick with the theme . . .you could fry up some cabbage in some Asian oil, with shaved carrots, green onion, jalapenos (if you like spice), cilantro, a little lime juice, garlic, ginger and soy sauce!(Or buy a bag of trio cabbage slaw and add everything else to it to spruce it up.)