Monday, April 9, 2018

Monday Kitchen Management

Kitchen Management is a tool that frees up some time during that hectic dinner hour.   It not only preps some food for the week, but it also keeps the kitchen clean as you along.

Recap of meals :

  • Sweet and sour chicken 
  • Pizza 
  • Lemon pepper chicken pasta 
  • Chicken chimichangas  , salad (lettuce and tomato ) 
  • Meatball subs , oven fries, peppers 
  • Salmon,seasoned rice, broccolli 
  • Breakfast for dinner. 
Kitchen tasks 

  1. Saturday I already cooked and de-fatted hamburger.   Five pounds of 80/20 hamburger game us 3.6 pounds of meat and a full cup of fat rendered that I put in a used bag for the garbage.
  2. I also cleaned and cut red and yellow pepper strips and chopped the tops and bottoms of th peppers for the pizza.  
  3. Make a batch of rice for the salmon and sweet and sour chicken dinners. 
  4. Cook chicken cubes for the three chicken recipes.   
  5. Pull the lemon pepper chicken recipe off the printer. 
  6. Wash lettuce, potatoes, broccolli, and tomatoes. 
  7. Wash kitchen floor 
  8. Clean out refrigerator and dump anything dead 💀. (The iPad has this sentence memorized.   LOL)
  9. Wash refrigerator and line drawers. 
  10. Clean and disinfect the counters, sinks, and drains. 
  11. Organize pantry. 


Notes:   
Precooking meat saves a lot of time.   When meal planning, if you have a standard list of menues or a template ( protein based) it only takes a few minutes.   Add a few more minutes to prewash veggies and cook rice 🍚 and you save a lot of time.   Cook once, eat twice or more.   With the salmon menu, all I have to do is put the salmon in the oven to cook, reheat the rice in the microwave, and toss the broccolli  with olive oil and salt and pepper and put in the oven with the salmon.   Very little hands on time.   

Washing all the veggies takes a lot less time than doing it piece meal.   
Start cooking the thing that takes the most time, so that you can work while it’s is cooking.   The object is to get in and out of the kitchen fast.   

Its a nice day here, I want to go walk the beach.   






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