Saturday, March 3, 2007

This Week's Menu and Shopping List

Another week has passed, and it's March now! In my area, all the flowers are blossoming, and I feel the spring is coming!

Anyway, let's review this week's recipe.

Monday: Meat tofu (nikudofu), spinach with sesame sauce
Tuesday: (dinner at friend's)
Wednesday: Portabella mushroom and sundried tomato pasta
Thursday: Steamed pork with plum sauce
Friday: Chicken and bamboo shoot
Saturday: Beef wrapped asparagus, pork wrapped bamboo shoot with Japanese mint

Shopping list:
Pork butt (1/2 pound) - meat tofu, steamed pork with plum sauce
Chicken thigh (2 pieces) - chicken and bamboo shoot
Thinly sliced beef (6 pieces) - beef wrapped asparagus
Thinly sliced pork (6 pieces) - pork wrapped asparagus
Asparagus (9) - beef wrapped asparagus
Spinach (a bag or bunch) - spinach with sesame sauce
Onion (1) - meat tofu
Tofu - soft (1 pack) - meat tofu
Portabella mushrooms (2) - portabella and sundried pasta
Garlic (1) - portabella and sundried pasta
Fresh basil leaves
Umeboshi (picked plums) - steamed pork with plum sauce
Ooba leaves (1 bunch) - steamed pork with plum sauce, pork wrapped bamboo shoot with Japanese mint
Enoki mushroom - steamed pork with plum sauce
Bamboo shoot (1 whole) - chicken and bamboo shoot, pork wrapped bamboo shoot

Things you may or may not have in your pantry/fridge:
Salt
Pepper
Olive oil
Vegetable oil
Sesame
Soy sauce
Mirin
Dashi no moto
Cooking wine
Sugar
Your favorite dried pasta
Sundried tomatoes
Honey
Mayonnaise

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