February no repeat challenge (the meal version)

Runcarla

Last year I challenged myself to a creative food project - different dinners throughout the month of February, without repeating! It was well received by the family, who asked if I would be doing it again this year! Some of you shared your favourite recipes with me, and some of those recipes have become favourites and are in regular rotation.

I’m going to do it! Anyone care to join me?

3 months ago

Off Topic

24 replies

Latest reply was from Runcarla

Staysfit

Veteran

That sounds like fun. I admire your effort as it is more challenging and time consuming to prepare new recipes than something familiar. When my children lived with us, we picked a weekly theme…a city, country, time in history or maybe a book someone was reading and then we prepared a meal based on that theme. What sort of recipes/foods are you planning to make? Currently hubby and I follow a WFPB diet. I would be happy to share some recipes if you let me know what sort you would like? Do you like pasta dishes, salads, casseroles, a specific type of cuisine? Do you have a favorite vegetable? A favorite spice or flavor profile? I can offer suggestions of a few resources where you can find tasty WFPB recipes your family might like. If you have access to a Library with cookbooks, I suggest both Isa Does It by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Forks Over Knives the cookbook by Del Sroufe. Everything we have made from these two cookbooks has been excellent, and we have used them often and for many years. Another nice cookbook is The First Mess by Laura Wright. It’s newer to me and I find her recipes a little more complex to prepare but so far, always worth the effort. A website we return to frequently is the minimalist baker. Hubby and I started using the Forks over Knives meal planner in late December 2024, which includes a generous number of recipes for the week. It’s behind a paywall. I did it to add variety to our weekly menus, which it has, although we don’t set up the menus to give us something different every single night. We make use of leftovers a couple days a week due to time constraints. It’s already a challenge to add more variety using the meal planner because we are making more entrees than before and most of the recipes are new to us, so that is where we will join you….maintaining our current effort so we don’t slip back into making only 2 or 3 entrees on the weekend and repeating them all week!

3 months ago

ChristelJ

Veteran

I will follow with interest, although this is a chaotic month for me so I cannot join. Disrupting the dinner rut is such a worthy challenge! I just want to add to what Stays fit said and say that Isa Does It is my very favorite cookbook and I am not vegan. It has added a lot of variety and deliciousness to my life. The problem is that the recipes are so good I'm prone to repeating them now!

3 months ago

JAileen

Veteran

My family loves this Tortilla Soup. This is the basic recipe, I change it up, cooking chicken in the broth and then shredding, and topping with sour cream, cilantro, crushed tortilla chips, and avocado. I use the refrigerated salsas.

This post has 1 photo. Photos uploaded by this member are only visible to other logged in members.

If you aren't a member, but would like to participate, please consider signing up. It only takes a minute and we'd love to have you.

Category