Menu Plan Monday - 31 March 2008
I’m back into my 4 week menu plan this week. Last week worked well and I am working on building a weeks menu plan of pantry meals that I can keep on hand. If you have any great pantry meals I’d love to hear them! But on to this week:
Monday: Tomato Macaroni Cheese
Tuesay: Creamy Chicken Curry
Wednesday: Bacon and Eggs
Thursday: Sweet & Sour Beef
Friday: Cottage Pie
Saturday: Pad Thai
Sunday: Garlic Prawns
The recipe I’m sharing this week is an old family favourite from when I was a girl. My mother, and then my father, were not the most creative of cooks, but this was a classic in our house. It originally comes from the NMAA (Nursing Mother’s) cookbook, my version is from 1975, but I have made some adjustments as time goes on.
Tomato Macaroni Cheese
250g macaroni
4 rashes bacon, chopped
30g butter
1 onion, diced
2 tbsp flour
1 can tomato soup
1/2 cup of milk
250g grated cheese
1. Cook macaroni according to packet directions and drain well
2. Fry bacon until crisp, and remove from pan
3. Add butter and saute onion
4. Add flour, then soup and milk, stirring until the mixture boils and thickens
5. Add 3/4 of the cheese and stir until it melts.
6. Stir through macaroni and pour into an ovenproof dish and back at about 180 for 20mins.
The original recipe calls for salt at almost every stage of cooking, which I ignore, and find the end result still very salty. Hubby is not keen on plain Macaroni Cheese, but the Tomato soup adds a lovely flavour to a fairly cheap, kid friendly recipe.
To read what everyone else is eating this week, head on over to I’m an Organizing Junkie.
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The macaroni sounds like and easy to cook family friendly meal. I will have to give it a try.
My NMAA cookbook is so battered half the pages are falling out. Wonder where it is…….?
River I have my mother’s NMAA cookbook, and it fell apart about 20 years ago and is in plastic sleves in a ring binder. I still have it out every week for something or other.
Yum, everything looks so good. Thanks for sharing.
Mine is up too
Sandra♥
Oh my goodness! Why didn’t I think of that! I have numerous plastic binders full of sleeves with all kinds of other stuff in them. Including one with recipes cut from magazines. Rushes off to find the book……………