What's for Dinner? Family of 6 Meal Plan | Delicious Fall Recipes

Welcome to a new What's for Dinner on The Daily Connoisseur. I believe that meal planning is a homemaker must and in today's video I share the highlights from my meal plan for the past two weeks. We make homemade Subway sandwiches, Salmon en Croûte, New England Clam Chowder, BBQ crock pot ribs, cheeseburgers, and creamy mushroom chicken. I hope you enjoy these delicious fall meals.

I like to write down the meal plans for the week to keep me on task. This is the meal planning notebook I like to use.

Oh, how I love subway sandwiches! We enjoy making them at home and they are just as good, if not better, than the kind you can get from the deli or sub restaurants.

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Homemade Subway Sandwiches

Author: Jennifer L. Scott

Ingredients

• French Rolls
• shredded lettuce
• sliced tomatoes
• sliced pickles
• sliced pepperoncini
• red wine vinegar
• extra virgin olive oil
• salt and pepper
• Sliced provolone cheese (or cheese of your choice)
• selection of choice deli meats 
• mustard
• mayonnaise

Instructions

1. Toast your French Rolls for a few minutes in a hot oven (optional). Open the rolls and assemble the sandwiches. Place the lettuce, tomatoes, pickle, pepperoncini on the rolls. Drizzle with red wine vinegar and olive oil and season with salt and pepper. On the other half of the roll, layer your cheese and deli meats to your preference. Spread the mayonnaise and mustard on the meat and close the sandwiches. Slice in half and serve. 

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Salmon en Croûte is a decidedly fancy dish, but is so easy to make. I hope you enjoy this excellent recipe. The best time to make this is when you have leftover creamed spinach. If you do not have leftover creamed spinach, you can make a simple spinach mixture by combining the following: 

Creamed Spinach: 

Sauté 20 oz of spinach in a lightly oiled pan until fully cooked. Combine 4oz cream cheese, 1/4 cup heavy cream, 1/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese, and 1/8 cup shredded parmesan in the same pan the spinach was cooked in. Cook on low heat until the sauce is melted nicely. Once the sauce is warm and mixed together completely, add the cooked spinach and season with salt and pepper.

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Salmon en Croûte

Author: Jennifer L. Scott

An elegant, yet simple dish that will "wow" your family and guests.

Ingredients

• 1 salmon filet (around 1 1/2 - 2 lbs)
• 3-4 cups of prepared creamed spinach (leftovers work best here)
• 1 sheet of thawed puff pastry
• salt and pepper
• egg wash

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Roll out your thawed puff pastry on a floured surface. Remove the skin from your salmon filet, if necessary. Season both sides with salt and pepper. Spread around 1 1/2 cups of creamed spinach on the puff pastry. Use cold, leftover creamed spinach here as it will be thicker and will stay in place. Place your salmon filet on top and top with the remaining creamed spinach. Brush the margins of the puff pastry with egg wash. Pull the puff pastry over the salmon until it is wrapped like an envelope. Turn the salmon filet around so the puff pastry seam is facing down. Lightly score the top of the pastry with a knife. Brush remaining egg wash on top. Bake in the oven for 20 - 25 minutes, or until the salmon is cooked and the puff pastry is golden brown. 

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New England Clam Chowder is an elegant, yet hearty dish. This would be amazing served in a homemade bread bowl... I'll have to do that next time! I served this with a salmon, pomegranate, goat cheese salad. It was a knock-out meal. Ben and I loved it! 

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New England Clam Chowder

Author: Jennifer L. Scott

Ingredients

• 4 strips of bacon
• 3 carrots, chopped (or 3 ribs of celery... or both!)
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 2 medium potatoes, cubed 
• 1 cup water
• 8 oz clam juice
• 3 tsp chicken bouillon 
• 1/2 tsp chopped thyme (fresh or dried)
• 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 cups of half and half (divided)
• 1 can of clam sauce or 2 smaller cans of chopped clams
• pepper for taste

Instructions

1. Brown the bacon until crisp in a large stock pot. Remove the bacon and reserve the fat. Brown the chopped onion and garlic in the bacon fat for 2 minutes. Add the sliced carrot or celery and continue to cook for 5 minutes. Add the potatoes, water, clam juice, bouillon, thyme. Simmer until the potatoes are tender, around 15 to 20 minutes. Stir the flour into one cup of the half and half to create a thickener. Pour into the soup. Pour the remaining half and half in as well as the clam sauce or clams. If you do not have half and half, use one cup of cream and one cup of whole milk. Crumble bacon on top of each individual serving. 

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We have either cheeseburgers or hot dogs once a week in our home. They are easy, crowd-pleasing meals and never really get old. Our cheeseburger recipes vary, but usually Ben grills the hamburger patties on the grill and tops them with cheddar cheese. I then lay out an assortment of toppings on a tray (I'm using this beautiful recycled marble slab from John Robshaw) and everyone can assemble their own burger to their tastes. This time we are using Hawaiian Sweet Roll buns, which were delightful. The toppings we used this time were the following: sliced beefsteak tomatoes, sliced onions, romaine lettuce, and sliced pickles. 

I made slow cooker BBQ ribs, which couldn't be easier... so there will be no recipe card for this one. I placed about 3 lbs of baby back pork ribs in the slow cooker and topped with 2 cups of bottled BBQ sauce (we like Sweet Baby Ray's). Then I cooked the ribs on low for 8 hours. For side dishes, I made baked potatoes. I rubbed the cleaned potatoes with olive oil and sprinkled the skin with Moton's Season All. Then I baked them for one hour at 350 degrees F. I topped the potatoes with butter, sour cream, and chopped chives. Cornbread and mixed veggies were also served. This was easy, hearty, and delicious! 

I created this creamy mushroom chicken inspired by the delightful Marry-Me Chicken a few weeks ago. This was delicious and a wonderful fall meal. I served the chicken with roasted acorn squash. To roast, cut the squash in half and take out the seeds. Place in a Bain Marie, top with butter and maple syrup, and place in the oven and roast for 1 hour at 400 degrees. 

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Creamy Mushroom Chicken

Author: Jennifer L. Scott

Ingredients

• 4 -5 chicken breasts 
• lemon pepper seasoning (enough to season your chicken breasts)
• 1 Tbs olive oil
• 1 Tbs butter
• 1 packet of baby Bella mushrooms, sliced
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 tbs thyme, chopped
• 1/2 cup chicken broth
• 1/2 cup heavy cream

Instructions

1. Season the chicken on both sides with lemon pepper. Fry in a hot  oven-proof pan with the butter and olive oil until both sides are brown... 3 - 4 minutes per side. Remove the chicken from the pan and cover with aluminum foil. Place the mushrooms in the same pan and cook until they are brown and soft, around 10 minutes. Add the minced garlic and cook for an additional minute. Add the chicken broth, cream, and thyme and continue to cook until the sauce thickens. Add the chicken breasts back to the skillet. Place in a preheated oven (350 degrees F) for 10 to 15 minutes, or until the chicken is fully cooked through. Serve the chicken with extra sauce on top. 

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Loved this morning’s tea time. More and more often these are unplanned. Someone will ask “Hey, it’s muffins, can we have poetry tea time?” And we quickly grab what we have around to make the table beautiful and a few good books to complete the set-up! It helps me to know if we are running a bit late I can incorporate our normal morning time activities like scripture memory and read alouds. #poetryteatime #fallteatime#homeschoollife#simplepleasures #eclectichomeschool#thelittleredteapot

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Mary M. writes, "All I keep thinking, every time you said "puffed sleeves" is Anne of Green Gables 😄"

Mary... me too! I have always loved puffed sleeves because of Anne! :) 

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