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Save-It-Forward Suppers: A Simple Strategy to Save Time, Money, and Sanity



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Author: Cyndi Kane and Ree Drummond

Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks

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Publish Date: March 1, 2022

ISBN-10: 0063042703

Pages: 304

File Type: Epub

Language: English

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Book Preface

Recently I had one of those unexpected blessings of motherhood, one that I could not have envisioned as I was slogging away in the gritty (but joyous!) muck of raising young kids. My daughter, newly married and budget-minded, was preparing lunches for her upcoming work week. It was hard for me to believe that the kid who had stood on a chair next to me stirring muffin batter was now the one bustling about in her own kitchen. But then she stumped me with a simple question. “Mom,” she asked, “do you like to cook?”

I was flummoxed. Hmm . . . do I like to cook? Do I? Like it? I finally concluded that the answer was “not really,” which shocked me a bit. As a homeschool mom of four who has religiously cooked three meals a day for decades now, I would have thought I could have managed a “By golly, I do, dear!”

I think I could have managed a yes if I had felt like a pro in the kitchen. Though my food is tasty, my kitchen is always a mess by the time I’ve cooked a meal, and my Fitbit registers like I’ve run a marathon.

However, here’s what I do like: the payoff. It is more than just the pleasure of eating yummy food. It is the joy found in providing the countless meals that have prompted my family to gather around the table to share a moment in our day. And around that table, a life has been built. A life that my daughter now wants to emulate. Wow, that’s beyond gratifying . . . I find myself a little teary as I write this. I didn’t know precisely what the result would be; I just knew that as a young mama, I had read that kids who had regular dinners with the family were happier, healthier, and more successful. I adopted meal prep as a sacred obligation, not allowing myself to think about whether I liked it or not. I just knew that I wanted that life for my kids.

But that commitment didn’t change the fact that I wasn’t terribly dexterous or efficient at cooking. I did have one advantage, though, as I was trying to get my family fed: my mother was a child of the Depression, and her mother was a widow with four kids to feed. My mother learned resourcefulness when stretching meals, and mercifully, I inherited this ability. This book is the culmination of watching my mom effortlessly create inventive meal plans, combined with my own modern spin on feeding my family for more than three decades (yikes—where have the years gone?!).

WHAT DO I MEAN BY “SAVE IT FORWARD”?

It’s exhausting to cook an entire meal from the ground up every night. Stop that! I have a better way—an efficient method of creating healthy, tasty family meals even if cooking is not your thing. For this book I’ve created fifteen separate weeks of meals in which every time you cook a dish, you’ll be saving ingredients forward—that is, preparing some of the components in a way that will let you use them to make an entirely different meal later in that week. I don’t know about you, but my family is not overly excited about warmed-up leftovers, and this method reimagines the components in ways that never seem like last night’s rehashed seconds. But, if thinking about an entire week of meals sounds too ambitious for you, no problem—each recipe can stand alone! That said, I hope I can persuade you to try my method, even if it might seem tricky at first. I’ll be with you every step of the way!

Though this book contains more than one hundred forty recipes in this book, it’s really more of a method—or a mindset, to be more precise. I’ve tried to think of the various moods and situations a family might encounter and provide a weekly game plan: summer grilling, winter comfort foods, pantry items, shortcuts, belt-tightening—I’ve got you! Your family will have its own quirks, but I believe that this save-it-forward method will give you some tools in your culinary toolbox to help solve your unique mealtime problems.

Here are my goals for feeding my family. Are you my culinary soulmate? Hope so!

  1. Delicious—well, of course! (Though some days, I’m just shooting for getting people fed.)
  2. Kid-friendly but adventuresome. My adult kids eat just about everything. When they were smaller, I didn’t insist that they clean their plates when I served them something new, but I asked them to try it. I purposefully cooked a variety of cuisines in order to broaden their palates. I will admit, though, that when I knew a dish would be a little weird for them, I’d try to make sure there was something in the meal that I knew they liked, like buttered bread or fruit.
  3. Healthy. I’m not the kind of gal who throws chia seeds into everything, but I slip in veggies when I can and keep simple carbs to a minimum throughout the week. My husband is a gluten-free guy, so I generally cook something that is either GF or can be made so with an easy modification. I’m often following one plan or another to lose a few pounds, so most of the meals can be modified to suit my current dietary shenanigans.
  4. Budget-friendly. As I mentioned, my mother was a child in the Depression, and that mindset is in our family DNA. In other words, I’m a cheapskate! I am conscious of our food budget, and if an ingredient is expensive, I stretch it with less costly components in that meal or later in the week.

I am hopeful that this book will make your family deliriously happy, and that you’ll be building family memories as you gather around the table—with less stress and effort on your part. Let’s do this thing!

Love,

Cyndi

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Foreword by Ree Drummond

Introduction

Week 1

Simple Meats and Veggies Week

Week 1, Day 1: Roasted Everything—Chicken, Broccoli, Onions, and Potatoes

Week 1, Day 2: Roasted Salmon, Green Beans, and Crusty Bread

Week 1, Day 2: Brown Rice Pilaf

Week 1, Day 3: Great Northern Beans

Week 1, Day 3: Sautéed Spinach

Week 1, Day 4: Hearty Chicken Stew

Week 1, Day 5: Almost Niçoise Salmon Salad

Week 1, Day 6: “Easy Like Friday Evening” Personal Pizzas

Week 2

Surf ’n’ Turf ’n’ More Week

Week 2, Day 1: London Broil

Week 2, Day 1: Oven-Roasted Potatoes and Onions

Week 2, Day 2: Shrimp Packet Dinner

Week 2, Day 3: Beef Fried Rice, Two Ways—Fancy or Simple

Week 2, Day 4: Cajun Chowder

Week 2, Day 5: Shakshuka

Week 3

Big Ol’ Honkin’ Ham Week!

Week 3, Day 1: Baked Sunday Ham

Week 3, Day 1: Scalloped Potatoes

Week 3, Day 2: Chicken Salad Board

Week 3, Day 2: Roasted Asparagus

Week 3, Day 2: Roasted Grapes

Week 3, Day 3: Scalloped Potato Soup

Week 3, Day 4: Breakfast-for-Dinner Eggs Benedict

Week 3, Day 5: Jambalaya

Week 3, Day 6: Dude Ranch Beans

Week 4

No Time to Spare Week!

Week 4, Day 1: Chipotle Chicken

Week 4, Day 2: Cheater’s Posole

Week 4, Day 2: Jalapeño Poppers (or Mini Pepper Poppers)

Week 4, Day 3: Open-Faced Bacon, Tomato, and Cheese Sandwiches

Week 4, Day 3: Cucumber Salad

Week 4, Day 4: Skillet Smoked Sausage, Cabbage, and Potatoes

Week 4, Day 5: Breakfast-for-Dinner Burritos

Week 5

Get a Grip Week

Week 5, Day 1: Grilled Turkey Burgers with Grilled Veggies

Week 5, Day 2: Italian Meatball Soup

Week 5, Day 3: Asian Lettuce Wraps

Week 5, Day 3: Garlicky Bok Choy

Week 5, Day 4: Thai Basil Chicken

Week 5, Day 5: Sweet Sriracha Salmon

Week 5, Day 5: Yellow Rice

Week 5, Bonus Appetizer!: Sriracha Salmon Spread

Week 6

Ancient Grains Week

Week 6, Day 1: Chicken Milanese

Week 6, Day 1: Lemony Arugula

Week 6, Day 2: Chipotle Beef Tacos

Week 6, Day 3: Chicken Parmesan over Creamy Polenta

Week 6, Day 3: Creamy Polenta

Week 6, Day 4: Beef, Black Bean, and Quinoa Enchiladas

Week 6, Day 5: Italian Sausage Marinara over Pasta

Week 6, Day 6: Sheet Pan Tilapia, Browned Butter Corn Cakes, and Roasted Veggies

Week 7

Effortless Party Week

Week 7, Day 1: Chicken Nachos with a Twist

Week 7, Day 2: Buffalo Chicken Taquitos

Week 7, Day 3: Open-Faced Pimiento Cheese Sandwiches

Week 7, Day 4: Grilled Kebabs

Week 7, Day 5: Effortless Summer Party

Week 8

Grill Week!

Week 8, Day 1: Pork Spiedies

Week 8, Day 1: Garlicky Lemony Grilled Shrimp

Week 8, Day 1: Grilled Corn Salad

Week 8, Day 1: Grilled Pork Tenderloin

Week 8, Day 1: Asian Flank Steak

Week 8, Day 2: Garlicky Lemony Grilled Shrimp and Quinoa Bowls

Week 8, Day 3: Cuban Sliders

Week 8, Day 3: Watermelon, Feta, and Arugula Salad

Week 8, Day 4: Asian Flank Steak and Quinoa Summer Rolls with Peanutty Dipping Sauce

Week 8, Day 5: Barbecue Pork Sandwiches and Oklahoma Slaw

Week 8, Day 5: Oklahoma Slaw

Week 9

Comfort Foods from Across the Pond Week

Week 9, Day 1: Sunday Gravy and Pasta

Week 9, Day 2: Lentil Soup

Week 9, Day 2: Easy Cheesy Spaghetti Squash

Week 9, Day 3: Irish Corned Beef, Cabbage, and Potatoes

Week 9, Day 4: Shepherd’s Pie with Browned Butter Mashed Potatoes

Week 9, Day 5: Reubens Your Way

Week 10

Pantry Item Week

Week 10, Day 1: Salmon Patties

Week 10, Day 1: Marinated Artichoke Salad

Week 10, Day 2: Chop Mein or Chow Suey

Week 10, Day 3: Hoppin’ John

Week 10, Day 4: Tuna Melt

Week 10, Day 5: Pantry Minestrone

Week 11

Shortcut Week

Week 11, Day 1: Italian Beef Tips over Rice

Week 11, Day 2: Stromboli

Week 11, Day 3: Mexican Beef Stew

Week 11, Day 4: Creamy Chicken and Wild Rice Soup

Week 11, Day 4: Toasty Pinwheels

Week 11, Day 5: Seared Scallops with Basil Pesto Cream Sauce and Orzo

Week 12

Veggie-Forward Week, Spring-Summer Edition

Week 12, Day 1: Summer Salad Supper

Week 12, Day 2: Impossible Zucchini Pie

Week 12, Day 3: Farro Fried Rice

Week 12, Day 4: Vegetarian or Omnivore Wraps

Week 12, Day 4: Nancy’s Roasted Carrot Salad

Week 12, Day 5: Tomato Tart, Two Ways (and a Salad Challenge)

Week 12, Bonus: Roasted Carrot, Coconut, and Raisin Muffins (with a Little Zucchini)

Week 13

Mediterranean Week

Week 13, Day 1: Mediterranean Platter with Roasted Veggies, Halloumi, Hummus, and Pita Bread

Week 13, Day 2: Pressed Italian Sandwich

Week 13, Day 3: Pasta with Ricotta, Peas, and Bacon

Week 13, Day 4: Shrimp BLT (or BLJ) with Bacon-Tomato Jam and Basil Aioli

Week 13, Day 5: Mediterranean Pasta Salad

Week 13, Day 5: Caramelized Onion and Bacon Tart

Week 14

Veggie-Forward Week, Fall-Winter Edition

Week 14, Day 1: Mujadara (Lentils, Rice, and Caramelized Onions)

Week 14, Day 1: Feta Turnovers

Week 14, Day 2: Two Potato and Chickpea Curry

Week 14, Day 3: Brandi’s Veggie-Forward Hash with Balsamic Reduction

Week 14, Day 3: Butternut Squash Dutch Baby

Week 14, Day 4: Black Bean and Butternut Squash Tostadas

Week 14, Day 4: Spanish Rice

Week 14, Day 5: French Onion and Lentil Soup

Week 14, Day 5: Veggie Paninis

Week 15

Mad Skills Week

Week 15, Day 1: Grilled Pork Loin and Tangy Potato and Green Bean Salad

Week 15, Day 2: Chicken Quesadillas

Week 15, Day 3: Stuffed Peppers over Pasta with the Simplest Tomato Sauce

Week 15, Day 4: Asian Pulled Pork Sandwiches

Week 15, Day 4: Asian Cabbage and Noodle Salad

Week 15, Day 5: Italian Frittata

Week 15, Day 6: Chili with a Twist or Two

Essentials and Extras

Acknowledgments

Universal Conversion Chart

Index

About the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher


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