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Menu Plan Monday

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

Welcome to the first Monday in August, everyone.  Wow, where did June and July go?  School started back in our county last Thursday, so C is hard at it again making sure all of the computers and other technology work for the teachers and students.  We may not have kids, but we still feel the crunch of back-to-school time just from a different perspective.

Today is a first for me…I work in the judicial branch of government in our local clerk’s office and, like all government agencies, the budget is TIGHT!!  So tight, in fact, that during the last six months of this year, all non-elected judicial employees are being forced to take three unpaid furlough days to help balance the budget and today is my first one.  I don’t mind having the time off, in fact, I love it.  The problem is we don’t get paid for them! It wouldn’t be so bad if waste in government wasn’t so obvious and it seems like it should be easier to find ways to trim the fat without furloughing lowly office workers like me.  Oh, well. 

I plan on spending this furlough day going to the grocery.  Doesn’t that sound like fun?  I haven’t been to Wal.-.mart in two months and we are running dangerously low on some household essentials so today is the day.  Last week, I sat down with a calendar and made a rough menu plan for the whole month, so hopefully I can get most of what I need except for some perishable items.  Here’s what is on the menu for this week…

Grilled pork tenderloin

Grilled steakburgers with oven fries

Baked ham slices with butter roasted potatoes and fresh cucumbers

Italian sausage bake with fresh cucumbers

Hot ham and cheese rolls with quick and easy veggie pasta salad

Pizza night

A-1 Swiss steak

Chocolate chip comfort cookies (new)

Orange fluff Jello salad

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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Menu Planning, tagged , , on July 30, 2012| 4 Comments »

Is it Monday again already?  Wow, where did the weekend go?  Oh, yeah, now I remember…I worked Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon, C & I went to another RC airplane show in nearby Bowling Green.  Sunday was spent going to church, attending a 10th birthday party for Chad’s cousin, and dinner at my Nanny’s.  Whew…I am tired just thinking about it.  I can’t complain though because we had a lot of fun and spent some good time with family and friends.

I am still working on cleaning out the fridge and freezer this week before heading to the grocery next week.  I will need to stop and get a few essentials, but I think most of our meals will be made with ingredients we have on hand.

Paula Deen’s tacos (new)

Grilled steaks with oven fries and fresh cucumbers

Grilled pork chops with grilled potato slices and fresh cucumbers

Pizza night (should have enough for leftovers the next night)

Easy shredded pork BBQ

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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Menu Planning, tagged , , on July 23, 2012| 2 Comments »

Good morning, my dear readers!  Did you miss me last Monday?  Sorry I was MIA with my menu plan, but we had a little computer problem.  Never fear though, C came to my rescue and now our PC is up and going again.  Gotta love having a tech-savvy hubby!

Since I didn’t have a chance to catch you up with our goings and doings from last weekend and week, I’ll do it now.  Saturday before last, we went to Jets Over Kentucky in nearby Springfield to watch some world-class (literally…there were pilots from Spain, Great Britain and Canada) pilots fly their very fancy and very expensive remote-controlled jets.  C loves RC planes and this show was a treat!  Admission was only $5 a person per day and it lasts several days.  I will have a Thoughtful Thursday post later with photos! 

Also, last week was my birthday and it was my last one in my thirties.  Yikes!!  That means I will be forty next year.  That just can’t be right!  It was a great day and I look forward to many, many more.

Here is this week’s menu plan.  It is close to the end of the month so I am trying to use ingredients I have on hand before going to the grocery.

Sausage Bake with fresh cucumbers

Baked ham slices with oven baked fries

Taco ring with cucumbers

Pizza night

Honey butter pork loin (new) with oven baked fries

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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Menu Planning, tagged , on July 9, 2012|

Here we are again at the beginning of another hot summer week, but hopefully we will see some rain around here.  (We had rain last night! Woo hoo!) The chance is greater this week than it has been in a long, long time so say a little prayer that South Central Kentucky gets a good slow soaking rain!

Last week’s menu went a little sideways with me because there were a few unexpected things that popped up. I made famous pork chops instead of the baked ziti.  C’s family decided to have an impromptu family reunion on Saturday so I made cheeseburgers bundles and lemonade cake for that.  The cake recipe was new so I will be posting about it in the next few weeks. C, my dad and his friend, and I celebrated Independence Day by watching the new Spiderman movie at the Imax movie theater at Opry Mills in Nashville, TN.  If you haven’t been to that theater, let me tell you…it is really nice!  It was re-done after the 2010 flooding and it is a wonderful place to catch a movie.  I ordered tickets online and was surprised to see that you can actually choose your exact seats just like in a big arena or auditorium.  We will definitely go back there again.  Oh, the movie was really good, too!

Here is what I plan on fixing this week:

Bubble Up Enchilada (new)

Cheesy steak sandwiches with oven fries (2 nights)

Sausage bake

Pizza night

Homemade sloppy Joes

I am having a big urge for some kind of pasta salad so I will probably throw one in somewhere.  Hope everyone has a wonderful and blessed week!

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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Menu Planning, tagged , , on July 2, 2012| 2 Comments »

Please join me over at I’m An Organizing Junkie for Menu Plan Monday, where I and many many other great bloggers, tell you what we are having for supper this week.  We are still in the throes of a major heat wave and dry spell here at home.  It has been weeks since the last time it rained and the yards and fields are brown and crunchy.  I am watering my little garden beds and planters so they are still doing fairly well despite multiple days with temperatures well over 100 degrees.  It’s just HOT, folks, there is no other way to say it!

This week our wonderful country will celebrate its birthday and I hope everyone has a happy and safe Independence Day.  Watch out for those fireworks…we don’t want any fires getting out of control.  C & I are planning on seeing the new Spiderman movie that day if all goes well.  We saw a preview of it at the Imax theater in Newport and it looked awesome!

Grilled pork chops with oven fries and apple coleslaw (new)

Philly cheesesteak sloppy Joes (new) with oven fries

Country ham and biscuits with roasted potatoes and fresh veggies

Pizza night

Baked ziti

Peanut butter bars (new)

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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Menu Planning, tagged , on June 25, 2012|

Good Monday morning, everyone!  We are starting the last week of June and July is right around the corner.  You can tell summertime is here and in full swing because it has been HOT and DRY!!!  Please join me and say a little (or big) prayer for some rain here in South Central Kentucky.  I don’t know if we are officially in the drought zone yet, but we have got to be close.  Our yard has dried up and my four rain barrels are almost empty for the first time in the three years that I have had them.  I am trying to conserve by only watering every other day, but I am still literally scraping the bottom of the barrels.  I really don’t want to use “city” water on them because of all of the chlorine, but I may have to.

I will say, even though we are dry, the little water I am putting on my garden beds is making a big difference.  The cucumbers are producing like crazy, the pepper and tomato plants are loaded down, and there are several baby watermelons out there along with plenty of blooms for more to come.  Yay!  I can’t wait to harvest my first watermelon.

Since it is the end of the month, it is time to clean out the freezer before grocery shopping.  You will see that I am repeating the deep dish pizza casserole from last week.  I was cleaning out my kitchen junk drawer and found three Cracker Barrel gift cards.  I thought that there just must be a few dollars left on each one or that they were empty, but I had better check before I threw them away.  There was $55 still left on the three of them so we had Cracker Barrel the night I was going to fix the pizza casserole.  Yum!  We love Cracker Barrel!

Deep dish pizza casserole with salad

Tacos with fruit salad

Grilled pork chops with oven baked fries

Sausage bake with salad

Pizza night

Grilled hamburgers with fries

Homemade nutter butter cookies (new)

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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Menu Planning, tagged , on June 18, 2012|

Good morning, everyone!  I took last week off from menu planning since C & I were officially on vacation.  I ended up cooking more than I thought I would, but it was actually fun to do.  We stayed home most of the time so I could just cook when I wanted to without having to worry about having been worn out from working all day.  It was NICE!  At the end of the week, we went to Newport, Kentucky to celebrate our 11th anniversary.  If you have never been to the complex, Newport On The Levee and you live nearby, you definitely need to go.  Check back this Thursday and I will have lots more details and photos.

Back to this week’s menu…it is still a little off-kilter.  I am taking an extra few days off from work to catch up on a little housecleaning so I will probably be cooking those days and we have a wedding to attend on Saturday night so that will probably be supper out.  The other days will just have to work themselves out! 🙂

Deep Dish Pizza Casserole

Tacos

Cheesy steak sandwiches with oven baked fries (2 nights)

Grilled pork loin with grilled potato slices (new)

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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Cooking, Menu Planning, tagged , on May 28, 2012|

Good morning, folks!  It is Memorial Day here in the good ol’ USA so we are off work today.  Yay!  It’s been a scorcher this weekend so we have spent plenty of time under the air conditioning keeping cool, but we did manage to get the yard mowed and trimmed and looking good for the holiday.  I also managed to do just a little more garage clean-up early in the morning Saturday before it got too hot so progress was made there as well.

It is the end of the month so that means it is time to clean out the fridge, freezer and pantry before grocery shopping again.  This week’s menu has all old favorites on it and it is just a little short since we have a couple of outings planned.  Enjoy your holiday (if you are celebrating) and have a happy and blessed week!

Taco ring (2 nights)

Grilled hamburgers with oven baked fries

Baked ziti

Hot ham & cheese rolls with curly fries

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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Menu Planning, tagged , on May 21, 2012| 2 Comments »

Even though it is not officially summer yet, we are starting to feel the heat around here and I’m not talking just about the physical heat.  Between work, housework, yard work and a little extra organizing, I am pooped!  That means that last week’s menu plan went out the proverbial window and I just made do with what I could.  Hopefully these next few weeks will start to get a little easier since we will have a holiday weekend and then our vacation in just a couple of weeks after that.  Yay!!!  Can’t wait!

C & I aren’t taking any big trips this year, but we will take a short one night get-away to have some fun.  I will tell you all about it when we get back.  Other than that, I hope we get to make great use of our deck, grill and air conditioning! Smile

Here is this week’s plan and I hope to have the energy to stick with it.  I’m kind of tired of take out pizza.

Honey BBQ meatloaf with oven baked fries

Tacos

Grilled pork chops with oven baked fries

Cheesy steak sandwiches with fries (2 nights)

Grilled pork tenderloin with grilled potatoes

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Menu Plan Monday

Posted in Menu Planning, tagged , on May 14, 2012| 3 Comments »

Good morning and welcome to today’s edition of Menu Plan Monday!  Please join me and many other wonderful bloggers over at I’m An Organizing Junkie for their menus as well. 

Shew, you can sure tell warm weather is here because C & I have been busy in the yard, landscaping and garden beds for the last few Saturdays.  I think we are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel of spring cleanup so hopefully now we can start enjoying the fruits of our labor.  That means more time sitting on the deck taking in the view instead of working on said view. 

This week promises to be another busy one, but, not to worry, I still have a few new recipes up my sleeve to try.  I hope everyone has a blessed and wonderful week.  Over and out!

Paula Deen’s Tacos (new)

Sausage Bake

Easy Skillet Pork Chops (new) and oven baked fries

Pizza Night (We usually have enough for 2 nights.)

French Dip Sandwiches and oven baked fries (This didn’t get made last week.)

Egg Muffins for Breakfast (These didn’t get made last week. Can you tell that it was a crazy week around here?)

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