Parmesan Chicken

Made by TMOTH - Internet recipes sometimes work out! More biscuits from a can, corn, and squash from the garden. Yummm.

Pork Chops or Ham

Broccoli, and biscuits from a can.

Lots of cooking tonight - a retirement brunch tomorrow, and I volunteered to bring muffins. I wound up making 4 different kinds of mini-muffins: blueberry, banana nut, donut, and chocolate. The chocolate muffins are wonderful (at least I think so - everybody else in the house is kind of "meh.")

The chocolate muffins are from a recipe from the Fall 1984 (!) Williams-Sonoma catalog:

1.5 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cups cocoa
1/4 tsp salt
1/3 cup sugar
3 tsp baking powder
2 eggs
3/4 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 tbs (1/2 stick) butter, melted

Butter the molds of a muffin pan. (I used canola oil spray in liners.) Sift together the flour, cocoa, salt, sugar and baking powder into a bowl. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs lightly then beat in the milk, vanilla extract, and melted butter. Add teh liquids to the dry ingredients and stir quickly. Spoon into the buttered molds about 3/4 full and bake in a 425º oven (I baked at about 375º) for 15-20 minutes until lightly browned. (I never pay ANY attention to how long something is cooking. It drives TMOTH crazy.) Remove from molds immediately and serve with fresh butter.
Makes 24 muffins. (I'm not sure it will make 24 muffins - maybe 18? I made 36 mini-muffins and 2 regular size muffins from this recipe.)

Omelettes

Cheese for the boys, plus mushrooms and bacon for me and TMOTH. The pre-teen is sick and didn't eat. Poor baby - I just hope the rest of us don't get it from her.

Tacos, quesadillas, and cantaloupe

Something easy after an afternoon at the movies. Harry Potter was loads of fun - hopefully the mid-kid won't have nightmares tonight. NOW that I've seen the movie, I can re-read the book.

Pita pizza

Poor neglected blog! And all I have to start up again with is pita pizza. Huh.

I do, however, need to start again. We eat better when I keep track of things.
Monday: Chicken sauteed in olive oil, mashed potatoes, carrot sticks, cucumber slices, homemade bread.
Sunday: Pork chops, corn, zucchini, biscuits.
Saturday: Mushroom omelettes

for tomorrow: probably tacos - something with the ground beef in the fridge.

Noticed today: 3 tiny (<1 cm) Monarch butterfly caterpillars on the milkweed. YAY!!!

Lamb Shanks

Yum. In the slow cooker with garlic and dried morels. Home-made bread as well - half/half white and wheat. TMOTH and the toddler had corn from the farmers market to go with it. The other kids had tomato soup - lamb apparently is too "cute" to eat.

Last night was steak for our anniversary, baked potato, and broccoli from the market.

So...we have enough lamb shanks for one leftover meal, possibly enough chicken if it's stretched for another meal, some leftover steak - I should only have to come up with 3 or 4 new ideas for next week.

Cheese & crackers

with ham, wine, cucumbers, and watermelon. It got late - I was a little late getting home 'cause I had to get an anniversary present for TMOTH. Our anniversary is tomorrow - 17 years!

Leftover roast beef and french bread

made for an early dinner, at least. Early dessert, too, to distract the toddler who was screaming for "bubbles." One too many sucking on the bubble wand incidents.+