Monday
Macaroni Cheesy Ham Bake
Cucumber Salad
Rolls

Tuesday
French Bread Pizzas
Salad
Smores Bake


Wednesday
Tacos

Thursday
Herb Crusted Pork Chops
Broccoli Casserole
Rolls
Cherry Cheese Cakes

Friday
Meatloaf
Corn Casserole
Mashed Potatoes/Gravy
Rolls

Saturday
Retirement Dinner

Sunday: 
Chicken Tamale Pie
Fried Mozzarella Sticks (Homemade)
Layered Spinach Salad

Baking 101

Well our baking bread is going so so. We discovered after talking to each other that the bread eating is kind of one-sided. So for most of this morning we had a planning session instead of baking. Wish I had thought to take pictures of us planning. We made quite a long list both baking and crafting projects. We decided it was more than baking bread,  it was all about spending the time together. So, that is one of the reasons the title change and another reason well just because. This week's post is all about pumpkin bread and AmishWhite bread. And for the life of me I cannot find those pictures...so I will leave you with a link and the recipes used.

*neither of these are my pictures...mine are hopelessly lost where ever I saved them!

Monday Menus 9/10-9/16

Time for another weekly menu post! I am loving sharing these with you. Please take time to leave a comment and let me know if you are interested in seeing anything specific on my blog...either menu wise, craft wise, or otherwise!!









Monday
Country Fried Steak
Mashed Potatoes
Sauteed Squash and Onions

Tuesday
Meatball Subs
Chips

Wednesday
*Glazed Pork Chops
*Smashed Sweet Potatoes
Salad
*Yeast Dinner Rolls
This was the best meal by far all week!! Those glazed pork chops were absolutely delicious...and the sweet potatoes were wonderful! The yeast roll recipe is at my daughter's house. I will post it next week when I get it this week.

Thursday
Due to a grandchild sporting event we will be eating out tonight!

Friday
*Deep Dish Pizza Casserole
I was totally wiped out today after the events of the day. So we ordered pizza.

Saturday
Birthday dinner for Granddaughter

Sunday
*Honey Teriyaki Chicken Legs
I used Ken's Honey Teriyaki marinade sauce to marinate the chicken legs for about 30 minutes. Then, I baked them for about 40 minutes. Sadly, the legs did not have much of a teriyaki flavor.
*Roasted Potatoes
Cut up red potatoes in chunks, sprinkle on some salt and pepper and some garlic seasoning salt. Then, put in oven along with the chicken legs and bake for about 40 minutes. Both of these were on 400 degrees.
Salad
*Lemon Brownies we had leftover birthday cake instead...look for these next week!

Monday Menu 9/3-9/9

So sorry about this being late...with yesterday being a holiday I just totally forgot until I got in the bed and just decided I would put it up this morning.

Here is what is up for this week's menus.
Reminder: *=a menu item that I will come back next week and link up to the recipe and critique
New Feature ^=a menu item that I will feature in my new weekly post on Cost Saving Ideas

And remember some things are subject to change...had quite a few changes from last week's post. Check out my critique of last week's menu here.



Monday

Ate a wonderfully yummy dinner at my daughter's house.

Tuesday
*Shrimp Fettucini...really not a recipe...I sauteed the shrimp in some oil and butter, used a jar of Alfredo sauce and cooked some noodles...simple!!
Garlic Toast

Wednesday
Bacon Cheddar Grilled Cheese: these were sooooo yummy
*Tomato Basil Soup I thought this soup was missing a flavor but could not put my finger on what...my hubby thought it was delicious
*Molten Chocolate Lava Cakes w/Raspberry sauce...Cause I did not end up making them last week.: these were just so so...not even good enough to type out the recipe

Thursday
*Crock Pot Taco Soup: oh so so good!!! Delish!
*Sweet Corn Bread Muffins

Friday
*Cowboy Dogs: of course I did not use Bison hot dogs...just regular dogs from the grocery store
*Parmesan Fries
*Macaroni Salad

Saturday
*Wine and Noodle Bake w/Chicken Thighs: this was surprisingly very tasty cause we don't typically eat just thighs
Cucumber Slices
French Bread

Sunday
*Chicken Pastry: OMG!!! this was delicious!!! Taste just like my mama used to make!
Fried Cornbread: had to call my cousin for this recipe...it was sooo good! will post next time I make it as a photo recipe.
Yellow Cupcakes w/Chocolate Frosting

Monday Menu 8/28-9/2

Whew! Back to normal around here....so happy to be posting my weekly menu and be back in my daily routines.

Here is what is up for this week's menus.
Reminder: *=a menu item that I will come back next week and link up to the recipe and critique
New Feature ^=a menu item that I will feature in my new weekly post on Cost Saving Ideas




Monday

BBQ Chicken Legs
Potato Salad
Green Beans
Biscuits

Tuesday

*Spaghetti/Meatballs this was the first time I have ever made meatballs from scratch and they were pretty yummy!
*French/Garlic Bread  did not end up making cause I forgot to buy yeast at the grocery store

Wednesday
*Chicken Broccoli Bake this was just ok
Biscuits

Thursday

*French Dip delicious!!
*au jus for French Dip Sandwiches
^Use rest of French Bread for the sandwiches
*Molten Chocolate Lava Cake w/Raspberry Sauce: a recipe I already have also did not have cause I was going to go back out and get chocolate but did not go anywhere last week :)

Friday
*Smothered Pork Chops these were good but not a fast meal to make
Garlic Mashed Potatoes I just added a couple cloves of garlic into the potatoes while they were cooking
*Glazed Carrots

Saturday
*Macaroni Beef w/Cheese this would have been better to have mixed in some cheese within the casserole rather than just on top
Salad
Garlic Toast

Sunday
*Chicken Pastry
Cornbread
Yellow Cupcakes w/Chocolate Frosting

Hubby wanted just plain Burgers and Home Fries so that is what we had!

Menu Monday: July 16-22

Well I have to apologize for the lateness of my menu posting. We went out to eat last night totally unexpected and I have been super busy today.  I also want you to know this is certainly not a typical type of menu for me...I am trying to use up everything that I have on hand. Please keep me in your thoughts...I had an MRI this morning on my right knee and it seems there is a torn meniscus...seeing the ortho doctor on July 31. Not sure what will happen but it is in God's hands. Now on to this week's menu

Monday

Olive Garden Yummy

Hubby had: Lobster Cannelloni with Shrimp

I had: Crispy Parmesan Shrimp: DELICIOUS!! 

Tuesday

Chicken Caesar Salad

Cheesy Bread

*Cherry Crumble

Wednesday

*Pigs in a Blanket

*Macaroni Salad

Thursday

Spaghetti and Meatballs

Salad

Friday

Hawaiian Pizza

Spinach Salad

Saturday

*Smooth Chicken Salad (this will be my own creation)

Sesame Crackers

Tomato/Cucumber Salad

Sunday

*Taco Casserole

*Fruit Salad with Honey Lime Dressing

 

Menu Mondays: July 9-15

                                    

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.

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.

I Don't Pin these Recipes for Nothing!

Well, we had another winner recipe for dinner thanks to my Pinterest Obsession. I have spent lots of time on Pinterest pinning recipes and categorizing them for various boards. I like to be able to find EXACTLY what I am looking for so my boards on Pinterest are very specific...Entrees, Side Dishes, Desserts, Cupcakes (they get their own board), breakfast, I even have a soup board. I even like to make notes as to when I plan to use the recipe in the comment section when I pin it. If you would like to check out my Pinterest boards just click on the P on the flag banner over on the left side.  Anyway I digress...sorry.

Tonight we had two of the recipes I had pinned recently. I had planned to have these for Sunday dinner a couple weeks ago but for some reason or another we never had it so tonight was the night for it. I was off work today and had the energy to cook up some yummy food for us tonight.

I cooked Shrimp and Grits and this great little salad (Tomato/Cucumber Salad) I thought would be a good choice for a side. Well unless you have a super picky hubby it would be fabulous. His comment was...."I would rather have just plain cucumbers sliced in vinegar and sliced tomatoes....without all that onion." Sometimes I just wish I could make whatever I want without having to think about will he like it. But really I would not have it any other way. I love pleasing my husband with food and 99% of the time do think about him and what he would like or not like.

I browse lots of different sites looking for recipes and am usually not original myself at creating recipes. So, I always want to give credit where I get them from. The Shrimp and Grits came from here. And the tomato/cucumber salad from this site. Have fun browsing and I hope I have inspired you to cook up something yummy for your hubby.

All was really delicious!