healthy and budget friendly family meals - October 1, 2008

Welcome to the October 1, 2008 edition of healthy and budget friendly family meals.

Mama Squirrel presents Menu Plan for this week (Low-Sodium) posted at Dewey's Treehouse

Healthy Family Meal

Matthew Stevenson presents Orange Baked Rainbow Trout posted at The Chef's Day Off.


NAOMI presents ROOT VEGETABLES MAKING A COMEBACK posted at Diary From England.

Woman Tribune presents Healthy Three-Pepper Pasta Topping posted at Woman Tribune.

Really Easy

Christy Jordan presents Southern Plate: Crock Pot Oatmeal ~Breakfast In Bed!~ posted at Southern Plate, saying, "Quick and easy way to have breakfast waiting on you and your family! With kid friendly stir ins, this is sure to be a family pleaser!"

Matthew Stevenson presents Slow roasted gammon, with port & garlic sauce posted at The Chef's Day Off.

Matthew Stevenson presents Broccoli, Potato & Onion Gratin posted at The Chef's Day Off.

Kelly Turner presents Foodie Friday: The Most Simple Soup Ever posted at Grounded Fitness, saying, "This three ingredient soup is cheap, healthy and delicious.

Kelly Turner
www.groundedfitness.com"

Batya presents Craving Techina, Easy To Make At Home posted at me-ander.

Something Everyone will love

Matthew Stevenson presents The Perfect Yorkshire Pudding... posted at The Chef's Day Off.

Matthew Stevenson presents Getting Cheesy! posted at The Chef's Day Off.

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Penne with Sausage, Artichokes and Sundried Tomatoes

Using olive oil from the Sun dried tomatoes added a nice flavor.

This is another recipe from "Giada's Family Dinners" (link below) and the only things I really changed up were that I used turkey sausage and my artichoke hearts were in a jar instead of frozen, because I already had them in the closet.

I started to cook the sausages whole so they were a little firmer and broke into bigger pieces
instead of removing case right off that bat and having little bits. I just broke it up in the pan when they had cooked a little.
After the sausage was brown I removed it and set it aside. I put it on a plate with a paper towel on it to absorb the oil.

Sauteed the artichokes and garlic (from the jar:) very briefly and then added the sun dried tomatoes, white wine and chicken broth and boiled till reduced.

Isn't this mozzarella beautiful. I'm sure that's my stomach talking.

I added the penne (I used Barilla whole grain), sausage and mozzarella and mixed. So easy and good.

My hubby doesn't eat cheese so this wasn't up his alley but I loved it and the kids ate it up, well, my picky one ate some of it:)

My Kids Ate It

Last night I served up a dish adapted from a recipe from Everyday FOOD. It was basically just chicken, sauteed with asparagus and portobello mushrooms, then mixed with pasta (whole grain).

The recipe called for button mushrooms but I found portabellos at ALDIs and was phsyched to use them. I also added a little white wine for flavor and to get up the bits on the bottom of the pan from sauteeing which added some nice flavor, a little salt and pepper and it was done.

Simple meal that every one of my kids ate, minus the mushrooms, though they each tasted them and my nine year old discovered he liked them. My five year old asked for seconds and my seven year old (the pickiest) cleared his bowl (minus mushrooms) with less complaining then usual and in record time!