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It is time to get another week started so let’s make it a good one!  C & I had a nice lazy weekend at home so hopefully we are rearing to go today, maybe…hopefully.  These cool mornings sure make it hard to get up because all I want to do is stay in my nice, warm bed for just a little while longer. 

I have a couple of new recipes on the menu for this week and I hope they are both winners.  It has been years since I have made stuffed peppers so I am really excited to try this stuffed pepper soup.  I think I could eat soup every night right now. 

I hope everyone has a wonderful and blessed week!

Stuffed pepper soup (new)

Tacos with fresh fruit

Easy deep dish pizza with salad

Plain Chicken’s calzones with salad

Fall apart pork chops (new) with butter roasted potatoes

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Hello again!  Wow, these weeks just seem to go by faster and faster especially the weekends.  I blink and it is time to go back to work again.  This weekend C & I did something that I had not done in YEARS.  We went to a haunted house/woods/hayride called Skeleton’s Lair with a group of our cousins.  Of course, we had to eat first and we did eat at Shogun Bistro which is a hibachi grill restaurant.  That was the first time C or I had ever eat at a place like that and it was good, but pricey!!  We all had a great time though and that is all that matters.  Here’s a photo of the group that went to the haunted house:

I don’t have any new dishes this week.  I know, I am a bad food blogger, but I have a few house cleaning projects that I want to get done so cooking will take a back burner until I get they are finished.

Salsa sloppy Joes with oven baked fries

Grilled pork chops with butter roasted potatoes

Sausage bake

Cheesy steak sandwiches with oven fries (didn’t get made last week)

Pizza night

Shredded pork bbq with curly fries

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Please join me and many other menu planning bloggers over at I’m An Organizing Junkie for Menu Plan Monday.  You might just find a new favorite meal if the long list of plans.

This seems to be the summer/fall of never-ending yard work for us.  Usually we will have a few weeks in the summer when it gets hot and dry that we don’t have much to do.  That did not happen this year!  We are still mowing and trimming our little hearts out every week just to keep up.  C & I are going to try to finish pressure washing this week as well (I hope!!!!) so the menu is pretty simple.  We also have a couple of evenings out planned so that also makes the menu a little short.  It makes me a little tired just thinking about it, but it’s all good.

Famous pork chops with oven fries

Aunt Barbara’s beef stew (new-didn’t get made a couple of weeks ago)

Baked ham slices with oven fries

Pizza night

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Good morning and welcome to this week’s edition of Menu Plan Monday!  C & I had a lazy laidback weekend and enjoyed every minute of it.  I did almost no cooking the whole time and it was a nice little break, but now I am ready to get back in the kitchen at least a little.  I think we all need a break from things now and then.  I know it helps me regroup and actually want to get back at it again. 

This week is full of old favorites with one new recipe thrown in next weekend.  The weather is supposed to be gorgeous all week long so hopefully we can get a few more outside chores done and maybe just get out and enjoy it too!  Have a great week!

Chili

Hamburger stew

Taco ring (2 nights) with fresh fruit

Grilled pork chops with oven fries & salad

Pizza night

Honey apple pork loin with oven fries

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Who has been out enjoying this beautiful late summer/early fall weather?  We have!!!  This weekend has been so nice weather-wise that it has been hard to make myself go inside to get some chores done so I just didn’t.  I finally finished painting my hutch on Saturday, along with sowing a fall lettuce crop, setting out a fall display, and actually HAND-WASHING my car.  Woo hoo!  I also took a little time to watch most of the UK-U of L football, but we won’t talk about that right now.  Let’s just say it didn’t go my way.

This week is supposed to be nice temperature wise but with a little rain moving in.  Hopefully it won’t be a complete wash-out.  I still plan on getting outside as much as possible so this week’s menu will be on the simple side, but I still have a new recipe or two to throw in. Have a great week, everyone!

Salsa sloppy Joes with chips & fresh fruit

Pioneer Woman’s Easy Calzones with Marinara (new)

Deep dish pizza casserole with salad

Tomato soup & grilled cheese

Takeout night

Aunt Barbara’s Beef Stew (new-not my Aunt Barbara)

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I need to sing the blues a little bit today.  C & I were on vacation last week and today is our first day back at work.  Don’t get me wrong, I really like my job and I know I am blessed to have it.  We just got REALLY spoiled to not having an alarm go off in the morning and I got REALLY spoiled with not having to get ready every morning.  C might prefer that I am going back so I will fix my hair and put a little makeup on.  I can tell that did not happen much this last week and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

We did get a few chores accomplished while we were off.  Personally, I did a little freezer cooking, a lot of ironing, cleaned up the garden beds and emptied my flower pots.  C washed a lot of our vinyl siding, mowed our yard and his parent’s yard and weedeated everything!  We still have a few more little jobs to finish up but we made quite a bit of progress in just a few days.  Oh, we did manage to sneak in a little extra rest as well.  I DID say we were getting spoiled to being home.  We would make great hermits if there are any job openings for those!!

At first I said that I wasn’t going to cook at all while I was off, but that didn’t last long.  It was actually a pleasure since I could do it when I wanted and had time to keep things fairly clean as I went.  It was really, really nice.  This week is pretty simple so there probably won’t be anything new this time.  C & I still want to try to finish up a few little projects.

Bubble up pizza with fresh fruit

Grilled pork chops with oven fries & salad

Baked ham slices with baked potatoes

Tacos with salad

Pizza night

Basic meatloaf with curly fries & salad

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Happy Labor Day, folks!  I hope everyone is having a safe and fun holiday weekend.  It is not just a long weekend for us since we decided to go ahead and take this week off for our “summer vacation”.  Woo hoo!!!  C & I were both so in need of a little R & R so hopefully this week will be easy and laid back. 

We decided not to travel anywhere for this vacation so we are acting like hermits.  Hopefully, we will have some time for a  few small projects around the house that have gotten pushed aside.   So far I have managed to do some freezer cooking and cabinet/closet clean outs and it’s only Monday. 

I do have somewhat of a menu this week but it is shorter since we will probably be eating leftovers a few times.  Last week, I didn’t list the new recipe that I tried which was a Rustic Pot Roast that I made yesterday.  It will be on the blog very soon! 

Sausage cheese dip with nacho chips

Cheesy steak sandwiches with oven fries and salad

Baked ham slices with oven fries and corn on the cob

Honey butter pork loin (new) with baked potatoes

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