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Menu Plan Monday Week 8

Posted in Menu Planning, tagged , on February 20, 2012|

We have arrived at the beginning of another week, so it is time for another menu plan.  Do you menu plan and do you find that it helps save time and energy by knowing what you will fix that week?  I know it helps me tremendously!  After working all day, the thought of coming home and having to wrack my brain for something to fix for supper is just a pain.  By planning a week’s worth of dinners, I know I have options. 

I don’t list my meals by the day of the week on here, but on my kitchen calendar I do.  That doesn’t mean I stick with it exactly, but at least I know what I can make and that makes life a lot easier!

Taco Soup (new) with cheesy bread

Grilled hamburgers and oven fries

Sausage bake (2 nights)

Hamburger Stew

Pizza or Eat Out Night

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Menu Plan Monday Week 7

Posted in Menu Planning, tagged on February 13, 2012|

Hello, again!  Don’t look now, but February will be half over this week which means it is time for Valentine’s Day.  C & I aren’t doing anything big and extravagant this year.  We went out to eat last Saturday evening and did a little shopping for fun and I plan on making his favorite steak and cheese sandwiches for dinner on Valentine’s Day itself, but other than that we usually keep V Day low key.

I also will have a couple of new recipes to try this week.  C’s cousin is having a game night at her new apartment next weekend so I am going to experiment with a new cookie recipe that I found, of course, on Pinterest. 

Sloppy Joe Bake

Cheesy Steak Sandwiches with Oven Baked Fries

Pizza Night

Country Ham & Biscuits with Oven Fries

Cheeseburger Bundles (for the cousin get-together)

Apple Braised Pork Loin (new)

Cinnamon Roll Cookies (new)

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Menu Plan Monday Week 6

Posted in Menu Planning, tagged on February 6, 2012|

We have been lucky weather-wise so far this winter, and February has started out nice as well.  This warm weather makes me want to go out and dig in the dirt, but I have restrained myself so far.  It is still winter after all and we are probably still due some cold weather.  I did make my seed order for this spring and got the package this week. 

Hopefully, C & I will get at least one more raised bed built in the next month or two to be ready for early spring planting.  I decided to try something different this year so I ordered heirloom seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company, and I can’t wait to try them! 

We have court a lot this week so this menu is full of easy and delicious meals that I know we like.  I do plan on making a new dessert this week and it promises to be so rich and decadent.

Bubble Up Pizza

Grilled Pork Chops with Oven Fries

Chili with Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

Pizza Night

Slow Cooker Sloppy Joes

Tacos

Turtle Cake

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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Menu Planning, tagged on January 30, 2012|

Does anyone know what is happening this weekend?  That’s right…it is Super Bowl Sunday!  It doesn’t matter is you like football or not (I do), a lot of people watch the Super Bowl for the awesome commercials.  I know my husband does.  He likes football, but he loves the funny ads.  We are celebrating with some family and friends so that night is all about party food.  Yum!!

My dad’s birthday is also this week on Groundhog Day (Happy birthday, Dad!), so I am treating him to grilled steaks and oven fries for his big day.  I hope everyone has a blessed and fabulous week!

Lasagna Soup with Quick Peppery Cheese Bread (both new recipes)

Cheeseburger bundles (new)

Grilled Steaks with Oven Roasted Fries

Country ham biscuits with oven roasted fries (I still didn’t get this made last week, so they move again to this week.)

Pizza night

Super bowl night: sausage balls and taco dip (new)

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Menu Plan Monday Week 4

Posted in Menu Planning, tagged on January 23, 2012|

Boy, where does the time go?  It just seems like a few hours ago I was writing about last week’s menu plan and now it is time for another one.  One thing is certainly true…the weekends are never ever long enough!  I was able to work on my furniture re-do project a little and the two pieces are now ready for priming next weekend.  Yay!! 

I definitely have to hit the grocery store this week though.  I have time to do it this week and since it is this close to February, I am counting this as my big grocery shopping trip for February.  I had noticed that in the last few months of 2011, our grocery bill was way too high, so I started investigating why.  The holidays were one reason.  I was cooking a LOT of goodies for special occasions, but I also notice another trend.  I was overbuying quite a bit, too.  That revelation led me to the decision that instead of doing a weekly menu plan on my calendar, I would do a monthly one as well so it would be easier to do my grocery shopping.  I still have to stop once a week or so for milk and fresh fruits and veggies but I am trying to only buy staples once a month.  It worked in January.  Our grocery bill was down by about one hundred dollars from November and December and I hope this trend continues.

Deep Dish Pizza Casserole

Sausage Bake with fruit

Country ham & biscuits with oven baked fries (This didn’t get made last week.)

Grocery night

Pizza night

Shredded Pork BBQ with oven baked fries

Italian Cream Cake (my dad’s birthday cake)

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Menu Plan Monday Week 3

Posted in Cooking, Menu Planning, tagged on January 16, 2012|

Well, it finally happened.  We got some measurable snow at the end of last week.  Thankfully it was not much, but, let me tell you, it brought back some bad memories for me.  C & I had a car accident last February during a snowstorm and this is the first time this winter that we have had to deal with it.  C was fine.  I was a little nervous, but, thankfully again, we had no problems.  I even had to make  Wal-mart run over to the next city to grab a new hairdryer since mine decided to give up the ghost when I was getting ready for work Friday morning.  I have an old old spare that I keep for “emergencies” like this, but I knew that I wanted a new one before long so we made it a long lunch so I could pick one up.

I don’t know about you, but I never spend more than fifteen or twenty dollars on hair appliances.  I see this hairdryers and flat irons for a hundred or more and think, “Why?”  A hairdryer blows hot air and that’s pretty much it.  I guess I had better confess that I have fine, thin hair so I don’t need a lot of heat.  If I had a thick headful of curls, it would probably be different.  Wait, how in the world did I get off on this subject?  Oh, well, back on track.

No new recipes for me this week…just some good ol’ home cooked favorites!

Famous pork chops with oven roasted fries

Buttermilk pancakes with bacon

Country ham/biscuits with oven roasted fries

Tacos

Pizza

A1 Swiss Steak with roasted potatoes

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Menu Plan Monday Week 2

Posted in Cooking, Menu Planning, tagged , on January 9, 2012|

Good morning, my wonderful readers!  Here it is…Monday again and time for this year’s Menu Plan Monday Week Two.  I hope you all had a great start to the new year, because mine has been really good so far.  C & I made it to church two Sundays in a row.  Woo hoo!  Now we just have to keep it up.  We also managed to move two pieces of furniture from my great-grandmother’s house to our on Saturday.

What furniture?  Well, as my regular readers know, I have been slowly finishing our upstairs in the last few months and I am now down to just needing a few pieces of furniture to fill in the rooms.  I mentioned to my Nanny and Aunt M that I was on the look-out for a couple of inexpensive wooden dressers and I didn’t care what shape they were in because I wanted to refinish them.  Unbeknownst to me, they started discussing some old family pieces that were being stored in what was my great-grandparents house.  Talk about serendipity!  I am now in possession of a three drawer dresser with the cutest scalloped top and shelves and also a chiffarobe with three drawers and a door that are just screaming for a little TLC. They both belonged to my great-great grandmother which makes them very special to me! I can’t wait to start on them, which I hope to do this coming long holiday weekend. 

Before I can get to the weekend, I have to decide what to fix this week.  Here goes:

Chili with Cheddar Bacon Ranch Pull Apart Bread (new)

Taco Ring with fruit (2 nights)

Grilled pork chops with oven baked fries

Basic meatloaf with oven baked fries

Pizza night

Dessert chosen by my father-in-law for his birthday.  Happy birthday, FIL!

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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Cooking, Menu Planning, tagged , on January 2, 2012|

I’m BACK!  Did you miss me?  Well, I guess I wasn’t really gone exactly, just not posting my weekly menus, but I am back today with a vengeance.  Woo hoo!  C & I both took off from our jobs the week between Christmas and New Year’s and it was so needed for both of us.  C did do quite a bit of work from home, but the main thing was that he actually got to stay home.  A full week with no alarm clock blaring in the morning, just the sound of our four-legged, fuzzy alarm clock to “gently” wake us up.  Believe me, Ellie made sure that we weren’t too lazy in the mornings. 

Last Monday, I started cleaning house and I don’t think I actually finished until Saturday.  It was nice to be able to do a few jobs each day and not have to cram it all in to one or two days.  We had a wonderful Christmas with our families, but when that last dinner was over, I went to work.  The decorations came down and this house was scrubbed top to bottom.  Whew, I was tired but so satisfied with what I accomplished. 

Wow, this post is getting a little wordy, isn’t it?  Let’s save the rest of these thoughts for Thoughtful Thursday.  Here’s the food scoop for this week:

Grilled hamburgers and oven baked fries

Cheesy Steak Sandwiches with oven fries (Hopefully this will cover 2 nights.)

Pizza Pancakes with Dipping Sauce (new)

Baked Ziti with garlic bread (new)

Pizza night

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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Menu Planning, tagged on December 5, 2011|

It’s another rainy Monday here in South Central Kentucky with another one to three inches expected in just a couple of days.  This kind of weather makes me want comfort food so bad, but I am trying to behave a little better diet wise before the holiday dinners crank up.   C & I stopped by the grocery store on Saturday afternoon and I stocked up on fresh fruits and veggies for healthy snacks so I will stay away from extra sugar, but it is so hard when there are so many delicious goodies around.  Oh, well, I must pace myself.

Sloppy Joe Squares (new)

Grilled hamburgers with oven baked fries

Cheesy Steak Sandwiches with oven baked fries (2 nights)

Pizza night

Famous pork chops with butter roasted potatoes

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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Cooking, Menu Planning, tagged , on November 28, 2011|

Good morning to y’all!  I hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and holiday weekend.  We sure did.  C & I celebrated with family every night this weekend and we even had time to do some Christmas decorating and online shopping as well.  I spent my Black Friday shopping the easy way…in my comfy clothes in front of my computer monitor eating leftovers for breakfast.  Aahhh, no fighting crowds or getting up before the crack of dawn for me.

This week we will have a bit of traveling to do so my list is a little short, but I still found room for a couple of new recipes that I plan on trying. 

Hamburger Stew

Banana Chocolate Chip Pancakes with Peanut Butter Syrup (2 new recipes)

Grilled pork chops with oven baked fries

Sloppy Joes with oven baked fries

I need to update my oven baked fries recipe for you all.  I have tweaked it a little since I posted it with the steak sandwiches.  In fact, I updated the sandwich recipe, too. 

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