A Week of No Cooking

I just spent a week teaching people to cook and heating up food that I cooked previously, but not cooking much from start to finish.  Kind of strange but I knew I'd need quick meals last week.

I taught cooking class at The Cook's Warehouse to 12 young adults last week.  Each day they cooked a meal and I enjoyed what they made for lunch.  And I enjoyed for dinner what I had stored in the freezer.

Menu planning is the best plan for me.  Monday night I planned a quick roast pork tenderloin with sauteed spinach and frozen macaroni and cheese from Trader Joe's.  Tuesday night was leftover chicken soup for just me.  Wednesday was pizza from the freezer,  one that I had made with sausage, pesto, roasted red pepper and mozzarella, also a salad.  Thursday night was chicken curry from the freezer with rice and sauteed zucchini. 

Friday I had planned to roast some chicken with stuffing from the freezer but didn't do well on thawing chicken so we went out for dinner last night.  Roast chicken and stuffing with fresh broccoli tonight with leftovers planned for tomorrow since I am working a couple hours Sunday night. 

I love to cook and I enjoy eating but I knew last week was busy for me and each day after class I had a couple hours of  work to do for the next day of class.  I also wanted to make sure I went to Jazzercise so I would feel good and I needed to keep up with laundry. 

The only way to get it all in without any stress was to plan my meals for the week.  Last week was great.  I did get to Jazzercise 3 times and we had good meals each night. 

Next week is not a cooking class week so I've planned my menu and will make some meals that take a little more time. Not too much more though, I have a good busy week ahead!