{"id":11486,"date":"2022-03-31T23:02:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T23:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calamariqueen.com\/?p=11486"},"modified":"2022-03-31T23:02:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T23:02:10","slug":"keeping-meals-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calamariqueen.com\/?p=11486","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Meals Simple!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hi Friends! Happy Thursday and last day of March:) I’ve been happy with my meal planning and preparations lately because I truly kept it simple and did not make a big deal out of it lately. I try to cook from scratch most of the time and enjoy takeout\/eat out at least once or twice a week. I also double (the portion) of what I cook so we can have left overs too. I don’t do elaborate meals because with young kids I just don’t have the desire and energy to do that:) I do get ready to eat\/frozen meals from the store too (Hello Trader Joes frozen meals!) when I don’t want to cook and when it’s just me and the kids and Hubs has a busy day at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The kids are used to eating Filipino\/America food so most of the time I don’t need to make separate meals for everybody. Our breakfasts are usually the same thing like eggs,toasts\/bread,cereal,oatmeal. Lunches are leftovers,sandwiches,”snacky” food like cheese,meat,vegetables,fruits. So for dinner we have some kind of meat\/seafood\/pasta and roasted veggies and rice. I look online (foodnetwork website most of the time) for simple recipes and my cookbooks for inspirations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some of the dinners we’ve had these past weeks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roast salmon,roast broccoli and rice!EASY meal for the win!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I made this Taiwanese Beef Noodle dish this month, and it was tasty:) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/tasty.co\/recipe\/taiwanese-beef-noodle-soup <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

One of my fave filipino dishes is Kare-Kare (Oxtail stew in peanut sauce). The kids don’t eat this so they had meatballs and pasta when Hubs and I devoured this!HA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roast broccoli\/broccolini and chicken curry <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Tacos for an easy weekday dinner<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Kimchi Pork ribs stew!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Corned Beef Hash<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Easy Pasta dinner, Ina Garten recipe<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Linguine with Shrimp scampi<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Another easy dinner! Steak and roast broccolini (we had rice too)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Potatoes and eggs that Matthew inhaled!HA<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Happy cooking friends! Stay safe and Take Care:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Friends! Happy Thursday and last day of March:) I’ve been happy with my meal planning and preparations lately because I truly kept it simple and did not make a big deal out of it lately. I try to cook from scratch most of the time and enjoy takeout\/eat out at least once or twice … Continue reading “Keeping Meals Simple!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calamariqueen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calamariqueen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calamariqueen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calamariqueen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calamariqueen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calamariqueen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11500,"href":"https:\/\/www.calamariqueen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11486\/revisions\/11500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calamariqueen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calamariqueen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calamariqueen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}