Check out my commentary on last week's meals! Hope you can find something you will enjoy!!

Here is this week's menu. Up a bit late but it is still Monday!! I would LOVE if you would take the time to make a comment or two! Let me know how you are liking the menus.

Monday

*Parmesan Chicken Bake

Roasted Potatoes

Broccoli w/Cheese sauce
                                                       The chicken was really delicious. Easy too!

                                                    Tuesday

                                                      Pulled BBQ Pork Sandwiches

                                                   Corn on the Cob

                                                 *Macaroni and Cheese

                                                 sliced cucumbers

                                                   *Toasted Pound Cake w/Strawberries and Peaches
Mac and Cheese was a bit floury tasting for me but the family loved it. I am still on a quest though to find another recipe for making this well-loved dish from scratch now that I am a SAHW.
Dessert was superb and a good one for just two people cause you make individual servings...I used Cool Whip though instead of ice cream as the recipe calls for.

                                                     Wednesday

                                                       *Salisbury Steak w/Onion Gravy

                                                      Mashed Potatoes

                                              Peas

                                             Rolls

                                          *Peach Cobbler
An absolute delicious meal!! The onion gravy was a bit time consuming to make though. Peach cobbler did not taste as good as the last one I made, I think this was due to the type of peaches, they were white flesh peaches and we did not care for them at all.

                                          Thursday

                                        Tacos

                                       Yellow Rice

                                        Friday

                                       Pizza

                                       Salad

                                        Saturday

                                      *Marinated London Broil

                                      *Fried Green Tomatoes

                                       Baked Potatoes

                                       Rolls

                                   *Lemon Delight
Oh my goodness shut the front door!!! This meal was absolutely the best of the week. The London Broil was cooked to perfection by my lovely husband....and those fried green tomatoes (I had never had them but hubby loves them) were just wonderful!! I also had 2 yellow squash and a zucchini I needed to use before they went bad so I sauteed them up with some onion. We were so stuffed that is why I crossed off that dessert.

                                  Sunday

                                      *Best Ever Burger Recipe (using ground chicken)

                                     Home Fries

                                  Salad
We had leftovers from Saturday....I added a tossed salad and made twice baked potatoes from the one leftover. Another great meal!

Menu Mondays:Critique/Recipe Update

Here is my update with recipe links posted and a critique of each night's meal. I will use a different color text below the days of the week for that day's critique. I hope this gives you some inspiration!! Please leave me some comments and feedback on what you like and would like to see in the future!

Well as promised here is the menu for this week! Now, since this is my first total week posting of the weekly menu I want to make a disclaimer...often times things do not go as planned here at the Russell household and  daily menus get bumped due to unforeseen events happening. Most of the time those things include either an unplanned going out to eat (which has seriously been cut back lately) or getting invited over to the kid's houses to eat...which does happen quite frequently!! So without further adieu here is what the Russell's are eating this week!

                                                                           Monday

*Teriyaki Pineapple Burgers

Ore Ida Grillers

*Pea Salad

Squash
The burgers were not as good as they could have been cause they were not cooked on the grill. I do believe cooking them on the grill they would have been fantastic! My hubby absolutely LOVED the pea salad. This is something I thought he might not have liked.

Tuesday

(not sure what the hubs is eating, cause, daughter and I and 2 of her kiddos are going to the Fireworks in the park and having a picnic supper) MEN! sometimes they are such party poopers!!

*Lady Marmelade Chicken Salad

*Summer Corn Salad

Brownies w/4th of July Sprinkles
*Raspberry Lime Rickey
Had a really nice time in the park. The fireworks were fantastic and the kids loved it. Chicken salad was just not to my liking, will not make that again. Summer Corn salad was fabulous!! And the beverage...lots of work, but well worth it!!

Wednesday: 4th of July

BBQ Chicken

Corn on the Cob

*Summer Macaroni Salad

Rolls

Red Velvet Cupcakes 4th of July Style

*Patriotic Pound Cake Trifle
The macaroni salad was the hit of the cookout!!! Everyone...well almost everyone...1 person picked out the celery...loved it. And my daughter made the pound cake trifle it was beautiful! Picture below!

Thursday

Chicken Caesar Salad

*Cheesy Bread
Bread was great!

Friday

*Sloppy Joes

*Parmesan French Fries

*Lemon Delight
First time ever making sloppy joes from scratch...wow...they were super!!! Will definitely use this recipe again. Second time I made the fries and not sure what I did wrong this time but they were so much better the first time I made them. Well worth your time though!

Saturday

Hawaiian Pizza

*Spinach Salad
Pecan Pie (store bought)
 mainly cause it was on sale and I could not make it for that price
Jamie has a great food blog! Love her recipes and this spinach salad is fabulous!!

Sunday

Meatloaf

Garlic Mashed Potatoes Rice w/gravy

Green Bean Casserole

Rolls

*Southern Peach Cobbler w/Vanilla Ice Cream
We needed some comfort food on this lazy Sunday afternoon and I needed a break from using so many recipes. LOL! We had leftover Pecan Pie so we will have peach cobbler later this week.

**Critiques with Recipe Links will always be posted the next Monday as an update to this same post.

**Starred Menu Items will have a recipe link.

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Friday, November 9th at 10AM till Sunday, November 11th at 5PM.

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Tonight's Dinner...a sneak peak at Menus and Recipes to come.

So I thought I would give you a little sneak peak at the recipes and tonight's dinner menu so you can have a hint of what is to come each week.

Critique of Recipes and Comments from the Fam!

The Italian Cream Chicken calls for Corn Flakes. Well at our house we don't eat plain corn flakes but we do eat Ritz Crackers so I substituted crushed Ritz Crackers for the coating on the chicken. Fabulous!! Okay...I struggle with making too much food for just my hubby and I. Tonight it so happened that my son came over for dinner due to his wifey being out of town. So, I fed 3 tonight. Well, I still took the sauce recipe and cut it in half and it was more than plenty for us + 2 servings left over...lunch for both hubby and I tomorrow. Comments: Everyone loved it!!!

The Zucchini Parm crisps could have been a bit crisper! The recipe said to bake them for 22-27 minutes and I took them out at 23 minutes...and the oven was set at the recipe instruction of 400. Well, I definitely would leave them in for the whole 27 min. and would amp up the temp of the oven to 425. Comments: I loved them although a bit crisper would have been nice. Son liked them okay. Hubby: "We have been married 37 years and when have you ever known me to eat zucchini?" So, he wasn't a fan of them.

Thursday Night Dinner

Italian Cream Chicken

Parmesan Zucchini Crisps

I love this blog...Jamie has so many wonderful recipes!!
Take a few minutes after viewing the recipe to take a look around!
Note: not my photo....taken from Jamie's blog. We did not have asparagus with dinner tonight!

Recipe Here
Note: Again, no my photo!

Tune in next Monday for next week's menu!

New Feature of My Blog Starting on Monday!

I plan to start a weekly menu post every Monday of the upcoming week's menu. Then the following Monday I will come back and critique the recipes and meals posted. I will try my best to post photos, although I am not the best food photographer. LOL! I will however post recipes with links and credits to where I obtained the recipe. So be on the lookout for Monday's menu post. Thanks for sticking with me and reading my posts. Please take a few minutes to "follow" my blog or leave a comment.

This is a test!

Trying to figure out the pages I have on my blog and how they can show up with labels!!!

WOW! What a Start to being a SAHW!

This has been a whirlwind last few weeks. I have been a cleaning monster for the past several weeks, then this week I kind of hit a wall and it has taken me all day to do my "chores." I hope to get back on track next week. We will have a much needed family break this weekend. Hubby and I are joining my daughter and her 3 children at the beach for a 3 day weekend. Could not believe I actually talked my hubby into taking tomorrow off work. So next week I am going to get on a schedule!!! I also have neglected my blog lately mainly because I was going to go back and reread some tips and hints that my blog designer over at Blog Designs by Sheila gave me. Well to no avail one of the things I accomplished first after school got out was to clean out my inbox in my email. I carefully labeled things and put them in folders that I wanted to keep...fast forward to today and low and behold that folder is empty! YIKES! So I guess I will email Sheila and beg for some assistance.

One reason for taking so long to complete chores this week is I have been taking this course over at Jessica Sprague's website. She offered a free Photoshop class for her 5th Birthday Celebration and I signed up. I have taken many classes over at her site and absolutely love them...so easy to follow. So if you have Photoshop or Photoshop Elements I would recommend some of her classes.

Another thing that I have neglected was to send out the prizes for the comments on My New Design post. Some of you I know how to get in contact with and some I do not. If you were someone who commented...no matter what # please send information of how I can send you a little surprise.

Hopefully, I will begin to update my blog and let all of you readers know how my adventure of being a SAHW is progressing. Please, please, please though do a favor for me...when you come to my blog and read the post please take the time to make a comment. I sooooo enjoy reading the comments and it encourages me and lifts my spirits. They just make my day!!

I will leave you today with a little something I made in my Jessica Sprague class that is going to hang on the wall of my newly decorated guest bathroom.