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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Menu Planning on November 8, 2010|

Hello again and welcome to this week’s meal list.  I am trying to use up a few things in the freezer and pantry so I can avoid the grocery. 🙂 I know I will have to break down and go before long since Thanksgiving is right around the corner and we are planning on having a small dinner party on that weekend, but I am going to put it off as long as possible!

Shredded pork bbq sandwiches

Tomato soup and grilled cheese

Sloppy Joe Stromboli

Grilled pork chops and roasted potatoes

Cheesy steak sandwiches and oven roasted fries (I did not make this last week as planned, so it gets added here.)

Pizza night

Caramel Apple Cake

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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Cooking, Menu Planning on November 1, 2010|

Happy November to everyone!  It is hard to believe that we are nearing the end of another year.  Time seems to go by so fast!  I apologize for missing last week, but we had some family medical issues. C’s grandmother fell and broke her hip about two weeks ago while we were off of work, and we have been helping C’s parents during this time.  She is recovering from surgery and receiving physical therapy at the local hospital, and hopefully she will get to come home in a couple of weeks.

There is not a lot I could do there, so I have been holding down the fort at home and keeping everyone fed.  Here is this week’s menu:

Sloppy joes with potato wedges

Taco ring with salad

Spicy beef vegetable soup

Cheesy steak sandwiches with oven baked fries

Chocolate no-bake cookies

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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Menu Planning on October 18, 2010|

Good morning to everyone on this beautiful Monday!  Yes, I know, I am a little too chipper today.  Why, do you ask?   I am on VACATION this week!!  Yay!!!  I guess I should say a staycation because I will be spending most of it in my own little piece of the world.  There is a big shopping day planned later in the week, but before that happens several closets need to be cleaned out and a lot of housecleaning done, but you know what?  I am actually looking forward to getting those things done and having a little de-cluttering party. 

This week’s menu contains a few good meals and a few easy ones as well.  Next Saturday, our church is having their annual chili supper/hay ride and we plan on attending so one of the meals will definitely be chili.  I also plan on taking a quick and easy caramel cake to that, too, but the recipe will be even easier than the first time since I will be using a yellow cake mix instead of making it from scratch.  I’m lazy, ok? The pineapple pork roast is back on this week’s menu since I decided to make the shredded pork bbq instead.

Pineapple pork roast with butter roasted potatoes

Sausage bake with fruit

Grilled hot dogs and chips

Baked ham slices with roasted potatoes and salad

Chili

Quick-and-easy caramel cake

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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Menu Planning on October 11, 2010|

Wow, another week as flown by already.  Where does the time go?  I guess mine goes to work, housekeeping, visiting family, and taking care of Miss Ellie.  And, of course, cooking and photography!  How could I forget those?

Here is this week’s plan. 

Easy Apple Cinnamon pancakes with sausage

Tacos

Pizza night

Pineapple pork loin

Yum-yum cake

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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Home, Menu Planning, Pets on October 4, 2010|

A week doesn’t seem like a long period of time, but a lot of change can happen in a week.  I wrote about losing our precious border collie a couple of weeks ago and we didn’t know if or when we would get another dog.  C & I both love dogs, but losing Patches hurt so much we weren’t sure if we wanted to go through that again.  Sometimes fate intervenes and it sure did this time.

A young lady that C works with had to move and could not take her dog with her.  She had rescued “Ellie”, a two year old Siberian Husky, and didn’t want to have to take her back to a shelter again.  C found out last Thursday about the dog, we got her on Friday, and she is now a permanent fixture in our home.  Meet Ellie…

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She LOVES long walks, even at 5:00am!  The only trouble we have had has been with Mama Cat.  She does not appreciate this new addition at all, especially since Ellie is inside and Mama C is not!

Anyway, below is my menu plan for the week.  Hopefully, we will have a wonderful first week with Ellie in our lives.

Grilled pork chops with roasted potatoes & salad

Sausage bake

Grilled steaks and potato wedges with salad

Pizza night

Chess Squares

Also, I thought I would share a view of the Little Barren River that flows past the farm we live on.  Check out my new header photo!

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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Cooking, Menu Planning on September 27, 2010|

Happy fall to everyone!  We can certainly tell a difference in the weather after the autumnal equinox last week.  Hopefully we have seen the end of all of the extremely hot weather that we have endured this summer.

C and I finished the upstairs painting on Saturday except for just some very small touch-up work, but that shouldn’t take over a couple of hours to finish.  Then I can start the really fun part of decorating and putting the finishing touches on the rooms.  I have “visions” for both bedrooms, so I just need to go do a little shopping!  There will be photos on here when I get them done.

I hope this week to pick up some mums and pumpkins for fall decorations.  I am running a little late with that, but I hope to get everything fixed this weekend if possible.  I guess I might spare a little time to fix supper for C & I as well this week!

Tuesday: baked ham slices with roasted potatoes

Wednesday: taco salads with fruit salad

Thursday: spicy beef vegetable soup (new recipe coming soon)

Friday: cheesy steak sandwiches with oven baked fries

Dessert: Apple Dumplings

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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Menu Planning on September 20, 2010|

Good Monday Morning!  I must admit that last week’s supper menu went down the drain.  Work was wild last week and I was worn out every night.  C and I also had a major loss in our lives…our best four-legged furry friend in the world, Patches, passed away on Tuesday.  He had lived a long life at thirteen and a half years old, but we miss him terribly.  Every time we were outside this weekend, we looked for him to join us.  Every time we pulled out of the garage or came home, we looked for him.  He was such a blessing to all of us with his wonderful doggy personality and intelligence. 

 

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Hopefully this week will be better!  We will need to go to the grocery one night this week (GROAN!), so my menu is one meal shorter.

Grilled pork chops with grilled potatoes and salad

Salisbury steaks with roasted potatoes

Pizza night

Pecan pie

C & I did manage to complete the pressure washing on our vinyl siding this weekend.  Yay!!  I am hoping to finish the upstairs painting next Saturday if everything goes well.  I hope that everyone has a great week!

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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Menu Planning on September 13, 2010|

Good Monday morning to everyone!  I trust that you all had a great weekend and are ready to start the week off going strong.  I hope to get a few more things accomplished this week on the upstairs re-do.  There is still some touch-up painting in the purple bedroom and trim/door painting that needs to be done, not to mention a little more outdoor pressure washing to do, too. Whew, talking about all of that makes me a little tired already!

Here is this week’s menu:

Seasoned cubed steak with roasted potatoes

Baked ham slices with twice-baked potatoes

Grilled pork chops with grilled potatoes and salad

BBQ ribs

Peanut Butter Brownies.

Hope all of y’all have a wonderful and blessed week!

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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Cooking, Menu Planning on September 6, 2010|

Happy Labor Day to everyone!  It is hard to believe, but September is in full swing and so are the fall home improvement projects around here.  C & I are in the process of pressure washing the vinyl siding on our house and there seems to be a lot of it!  I doubt that we will get completely finished this long weekend, but we will hopefully make a big dent in it (not literally, of course).

This week promises to be another full week of real work, home work and some fun thrown in for good measure, so without further ado here is this week’s food list:

Cheesy steak sandwiches with oven-baked fries-(makes enough for 2 nights-Yay!)

BBQ meatballs with roasted potatoes

Taco salads

Chocolate trifle-recipe coming soon!

I do have a quick note about last week’s menu.  I did not get to fix the Italian pot-roasted steaks because there was not a round steak in the freezer like I thought there was, so that recipe will have to wait for another week. 

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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Cooking, Menu Planning on August 30, 2010|

Where does the time go?  This week it has went to work, cooking, cleaning, laundry, gardening, and painting.  Whew!  I get tired just thinking about it, but it has been a very productive week for us.  This week looks no different, but hopefully it will be filled with productive and enjoyable days!

Here is this week’s meal plan:

Sausage bake and salad

Italian pot-roasted steaks with roasted potatoes-new recipe

Grilled hot dogs with chips and fruit

Shredded pork bbq sandwiches

Apple Dapple Cake-new recipe

Also, I was looking at my posts list on WordPress and realized that this is my 200th post!  WOW!  That is hard to believe!  I really enjoy doing this and am proud of my little project.  Hopefully, I have improved in my writing and content in the last year and a half and I hope to keep growing!  Thank you to my readers!

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