Last night was pizza night

So we picked up some Pizza Hut on the way home. NOT my favorite, but the kids like it, especially the middle kid who got stuffed crust pizza (a rare treat for him).

Menu planning for the week:

Tonight: Something chickenish/saucy over rice
Sunday: Pasta (alfredo?) with garlic breadsticks
Monday: Leftover beef stew, salad, french bread
Tuesday: Fish or seafood from the freezer; hush puppies
Wednesday: Soup from a can and grilled cheese sandwiches
Thursday: Waffles (FSQ Board meeting at 7)
Friday: Pigs in blankets

cheese and crackers

Man, I looove cheese and crackers. I know it's not the healthiest dinner in the world, especially when we don't manage to have much fruit or veg to go with it, but with flat champagne left over from New Year's, on an evening when I REALLY don't want to cook, it's heavenly.

Pork chops

with sauteed onions. Leftover dinner rolls from the weekend. Roasted potatoes. The Jolly Green Giant made the vegetables for me :)

Bean soup

Very good.
They didn't have ham hocks at the grocery this weekend, but they did have smoked pork neck bones. They worked quite well.
I also didn't have any onions for the initial cook, so just browned some tonight and added them while reheating. Also worked out well, there was more definition to the onions.

Spaghetti and meatballs

And still plenty of time left before Boy Scouts and Quilt guild!

Pancakes

And bacon. Giant brand bacon. Not awful, but not too bad either. Still, on the post-dinner grocery run, Smithfield bacon was on sale at the Safeway. So I bought 4 pounds.

Not sure why I didn't post last night - we did indeed have beef stew, and "the good rolls." Both were yummy.

New year, new resolve

Poor neglected blog.

One of the new year resolutions is menu planning. Again :)
Hopefully it will sink in this year.

For this week:

Weekend prep work: Grocery shopping
Make meatballs and garlic breadsticks for Monday
Soak beans and cook

Saturday: Hoppin' John for lunch for me, at least - nobody else likes black-eyed peas.
Dinner: beef stew with the "good" rolls

Sunday: Pancakes, breakfast meat, fruit

Monday: Pasta, breadsticks, maybe salad

Tuesday: Pork - depends on what's on sale; vegetables; roasted potatoes

Wednesday: Chicken in some sort of simmer sauce, rice, broccoli

Thursday: Bean soup

Friday: Pizza night

Chicken Rotini Alfredo

Just like Stouffer's, only better :)

4 T butter
2 T flour
1/2 t crushed garlic
2 c half-and-half
1/2 c Romano cheese
1 c Parmesan cheese
1 lb rotini pasta
1.5 c mozzarella cheese

Next time, I'll make a little more sauce and back off on the mozzarella. Maybe a little less butter as well.

A bit calorific for every day, but for an occasional treat, yum yum yum.
And garlic bread, of course.

Steaks

T-bones, which TMOTH doesn't especially like for some reason. (He likes rib-eyes, which I don't especially like because of the huge chunks of fat.) We had mushrooms, biscuits, cucumber, canteloupe, and strawberries.

The Lovely Daughter's rehearsal schedule is making dinnertime more hell than usual. She doesn't get out until close to 6 (they got released at 5:30 today, so we got home at 6).

No clue what to have tomorrow night. Maybe fish.

Lasagna Pong

What happens when the pan is too big for the microwave.

Leftover por roast

Cut into chunks, added to Korma simmer sauce from Trader Joe's, served over rice.

Last night was chicken alfredo pasta. We had strawberries, but they weren't all that great.

Cheese & Crackers

With a nice cheap Italian red wine. Ahh.

Scrambled eggs

The mid-kid has decided he wants to learn to cook, so tonight he did the scrambled eggs. There were only a few shells :) Bacon and sausage and toast, oh my.

Last night he heated up the soup and boiled the pasta for dinner.

Maybe tomorrow night I can get him to form hamburger patties!

Pizza Hut

We lost power tonight from about 5 minutes after I got home, just before 6, until after 8. The leftover gumbo that was on the menu wasn't gonna happen, so we went with Pizza Hut. The kidlets were happy they told me to order thick crust, and I was happy everybody got fed with a minimum of fuss and bother.

We can always have the gumbo tomorrow :)

Chicken shish-kababs and rice

Boys, of course, would have nothing to do with the chicken. The Small Man tasted a pieced and pronounced it "good" but wouldn't eat any more of it. Karate Boy had corndogs; they both had rice and bread. Small Man will probably be hungry later, although he's been eating pretty steadily all day long.

Menu planning has fallen off. Not much choice this weekend!

TMOTH has chili makings for one day - it will likely be Sunday for the SuperBowl, although he may make the chili tomorrow and then we'll have snacky bits on Sunday. Anyway, that's the weekend covered, one way or the other.

Monday, we're likely to still be snowed in. I have plenty of choices for soup, though. There's also lots of pasta in the house, and if we're snowed in on Monday I can make breadsticks to go with them. If we're not snowed in, and I have to go to work, it'll be garlic bread instead.

Eggs one night as well.

Aack - long time no post

Tonight - we had butterfly shrimp. Not something I would buy again - the breading was a little too thick and weird.

Last night was cheese and crackers; we'd stayed at home all day for a snow day. I had a beastly headache that didn't help matters any.

Tuesday night was the Small Man's birthday, and he chose pizza for dinner. It was snowing by then, so we chose to have Pizza Hut deliver :)

Monday night we had a Stouffer's chicken alfredo pasta bake that was actually pretty good. I think I could make a home-made version better, but the whole pick it up at the grocery/throw it in the oven thing is nearly irresistible some nights.

Grilled chicken

I marinated the chicken with some teriyaki marinade and lime juice, then grilled. Broccoli with cheese sauce and challah bread to go with it. AND I remembered to take the burgers out of the freezer for tomorrow!

Hot dogs!

I don't think I've kept up with menu planning very well the past couple of days. Today was very busy, and I've been fighting a headache pretty much since I woke up. So it was a stop for hot dog buns on the way home from taking The Lovely Daughter to a birthday party. She needs picked up at 10:00, and it's about half an hour from home.

Last night, we ordered pizza from Julliano's. Yum.

Beef and bell peppers over rice

With a spring roll from the freezer, even. The bell peppers were on sale for $1.00 a pound at Magruders, and the sirloin was also on sale yesterday at the Giant. AND it was quite tasty. Buying sirloin can be iffy sometimes - a good sirloin is really good, but there's the occasional dud out there.

Kids had pasta tonight, so we probably won't have the soup planned for tomorrow night. Maybe pizza instead?

Leftover Pork Loin

With crescent rolls from a can. Kids had chicken fingers or fish. (I got home late. It was the best I could do.)