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Menu - Feb 6 to 13 - More Great Easy Meals

2012-02-07T18:33:16Z

I am having so much fun with this book :) so here come some more...

Tuesday

Chicken with Sundried Tomato, Eggplant & Basil (Food Network Great Easy Meals)

Served over mixed green

Wednesday

Dinner with Matt & Emily

Thursday

Pick n Mix Stir Fry with Steak, Mushrooms, Bell Peppers, Cabbage and Onions

Sauce: Sweet & Sour

Topping: Cashews

(Food Network Great Easy Meals)

Friday

Baja Fish Tacos (Food Network Great Easy Meals)

Saturday

Adventures with Renee and Shawn

Sunday

Roast Beef in the Cast Iron Pot (Roast from my favorite Dickson Farm)

Mashed Potatoes

Cabbage

Monday

Mojo Pork Salad (Food Network Great Easy Meals - for the pork/sauce)

Menu - Jan 24 to Feb 6 - Great Easy Meals

2012-02-02T13:33:20Z

These 2 weeks are brought to you by the latest Food network Magazine cookbook, Great Easy Meals.

Tuesday

Grilled Pork with Arugala and Grape Salad (Food Network Great Easy Meals Pg. 165)

Wednesday

Potato, Mushroom and Bacon Fritatta

Thursday

Dinner at Matt & Emily's

Emily made awesome pancakes with fresh fruit for us :)

Friday

Dinner out with The Elliott Family for my Birthday

Saturday

Visiting Paul's mom so dinner out

Sunday

Birthday Dinner cooked by Paul and planned by Grevy :)

Salad with Romaine, Baby Spinach, Green Apple, Dried Cranberries, Toasted Pine Nuts, Goat Cheese Crumbles and a Strawberry Pomegranate Dressing

Broccoli & Pesto Taglitelle (Jamie's Food Revolution Pg. 46)

Baked Carrots (Jamie's Food Revolution Pg. 214)

Sliced Orange and Malt with Chocolate Ice Cream (Jamie's Food Revolution Pg. 326)

Monday

Patty Melts (Food Network Great Easy Meals Pg. 72) - Made in the shape of Mickeys :)

Salad

Tuesday

Spinach & Goat Cheese Stuffed Chicken (Food Network Great Easy Meals Pg. 155)

Roasted Potatoes

Glazed Carrots

Wednesday

Mojo Pork Chops with Plantains (Food Network Great Easy Meals Pg. 162)

The grocery store didn't have plantains this week so we had this with Sweet Potato instead

Thursday

Foil Packet Fish with Basa, Red Peppers, Edamame, & Corn with Chipolte Sauce (Food Network Great Easy Meals Pg. 263)

Steamed Brown Rice

Friday

Dinner and Games with Jeff and Sarah

Saturday

Dinner out with the D&D Crew

Sunday

Lunch Sunday it was too pretty not to share :)

Spaghetti Carbonara (Food Network Great Easy Meals Pg. 301)

Changed this to Homemade Multigrain Pizza with Sauteed Garlic mushrooms, Prochutto and Provolone Cheese - Thank you Baristas for the awesome idea :)

Ceasar Salad

Monday

Leftover Pizza

Salad

Menu - Jan 17 to 23 - Meals in Minutes Adventures

2012-01-16T18:13:15Z

This weeks menu is brought to you by jamie Oliver's new book Meals in Minutes (Also called 30 Minute Meals in some palces) which is based on his new show 30 Minute Meals on Food Network. these recipes are all good food, prepared quickly making a well balanced meal. I am excited to try a few out.

Tuesday

Nutty bakers Lasagna - I forgot to leave this out for Monday so I made a swap and monday became Omlettes and Hashbrowns

Wednesday

Jamie's Meals in Minutes - Pg. 200

Steak Sarnie

Crispy Baby Potatoes

Cheesy Mushrooms

Beet Salad

Thursday

Jamie's Meals in Minutes - Pg. 70

Spinach & Feta Filo Pie

Cucumber & Tomato Salads

Friday

Leftovers from Thursday

Salad

Saturday

Dinner Out @ The Wildstone (at The Stone Willow Inn) to celebrate my birthday at little early

Sunday

Jamie's Meals in Minutes - Pg. 64

Oozy Mushroom Risotto

Spinach Salad

Quick Lemon Raspberry Cheesecake

Monday

Grandma's Meat Pies

Spinach Salad

Menu - Jan 9 to 16 - More Looneyspoons

2012-01-10T17:04:16Z

More Looneyspoons recipes for fun and exciting healthy dinners :) This is a really neat book... next week I will have to branch out to another of my new books.... just need to decide between Jamie Oliver and Food Network.... decisions, decisions :)

Monday

The Breakfast of Champions - Looneyspoons Collection

Wild Mushroom, Spinach and herb fritatta

Tuesday

Pan Fried Basa, Creamed Spinach and Streamed Broccoli

Wednesday

The Way We Stir - Looneyspoons Collection

Beef and Vegetable stir-fry with bell peppers and Broccoli

Thursday

Celine Dijon Chicken - Looneyspoons Collection

Mildly Flavored Dijon Check with Creamy Herb Sauce

Steamed Broccoli and Braised Red Cabbage

Friday

Lanky Noodle Dandy - Looneyspoons Collection

Chicken and Mushroom Cream Sauce serverd over egg noodles

Saturday

Lunch - Soup's On at the Stratford Rotary Complex

Dinner - Out with Adam and Mary

Sunday

Dinner - Out with the D&D Crew

Monday

Omelettes with hashbrowns

The First Menu of 2012 :)

2012-01-03T20:02:58Z

I will be testing out some recipes from my new cookbooks over the coming weeks and months I am sure. I got a bunch of new cooking "tools" that should lead to some interesting stories. I should have a post up soon about making my own pasta from scratch with my new Kitchen-Aid attachments and I will be breaking in my new cast iron pots with some stew and roasts.

This week I started looking through my new Looneyspoons cookbookand used some of the recipes I came across in the first half of the book.

Tuesday

Garlic Farmers Sausage and Ceaser Salad

Wednesday

Sataday Night Fever (Chicken Satay) - Looneyspoons Collection

I am converting this appitzer into a stir-fry, this might be served with rice or possibly noodles depending on my mood

Thursday

Chicken Fajitas

Friday

Love Me Tenderloin (made with butterfly chops) - Looneyspoons Collection

Mashed potatoes

Veggies (I shall go adventuring in the freezer)

Saturday

To Be Determined

I determined we would have Pork Schnitzel, Braised Red Cabbage and Cheesy Broccoli after our trip to the Stratford Farmers Market and Costco :)

Sunday

Southwest Beef Stew with Sweet Potato Dumplings - Thank you Check Michael Smith for inspiring me to try this after watching the Chef at Home marathon on Food Network over the holidays

O Cookie Tree, O Cookie Tree....

2011-12-26T16:24:44Z

Christmas Cookies Done

2011-12-17T18:05:15Z

Here is a sampling of all the cookies I made this year :)

Menu - Dec 12 to Dec 23 - Here comes Santa Claus :)

2011-12-12T17:07:02Z

Since things are getting busy I thought I would save myself some aggrevation and plan the next 2 weeks all at once...

Week 1

Monday

Bangers & Mash (Garlic Sausage and Mashed Potatoes)
Garlicy Beans

Tuesday

Pan Fried Glazed Pork Chops (Jamie's Food Revolution)
Disney Cheesy potatoes
Peas

Wednesday

Salad with Grilled Chicken

Thursday

Cheesy Beef & Pasta Skillet (made with ground turkey instead) - Kraft
Veg TBD

Friday

Dinner Out - its Double Date night with The Elliotts :)

Saturday

Double Potluck day... Family Christmas in the afternoon and Christmas Party with the High School gang in the evening :)

Sunday

It is our turn to host the D&D (instert your giggles here) at our house so i am going to make a simple homestyle meal:

Spaghetti with a choice of tomato or alfredo sauce
Garlic Bread
Salad

Week 2

Monday

Leftover Scallopped Potatoes
Disney Meatloaf
Salad

Tuesday

Dinner with Matt & Emily

Wednesday

Leftover Pasta and Sauce from Sunday

Thursday

Chicken Fingers
Christmas Kraft Dinner
Salad

Friday

Leftovers
Salad

Saturday - Christmas Eve

Christams Eve Dinner at The Clarke's (Pauls Folks)

Sunday - Christmas Day

Christmas Breakfast at our house with Scrambelled Eggs, Bacon, Sausage, Fresh Bread/toast, Disney Cheesy potatoes and maybe some pancakes
Christmas Day munchies and cookies for the rest of the day while we open presents and relax :)

Tis the season... for tasty cookies :)

2011-12-12T16:37:35Z

I have been a bit of a meal planning slacker over the past couple weeks because I have been busy planning and baking christmas cookies. I now have almost all of my baking done, I am having a video baking party with my pal richard in texas this week and that will finish off the baking.

The cookies I have baked so far are as follows... I have included a link to the recipe when I could.

Shortbread Cookies - made with my awesome new Norweigin Cast Aluminum Pan, I used the recie it came with

Cheerio Cereal Fun cookies - I made mine with an equal split of Chocolate and Banana Nut Cheerios

Peanut Butter Peanut Butter Chip Cookies - stamped with festive designs :)

Chocolate Chip Spritz cookies - I had a bit of an incident with the chocolate not being fine enough to go through the cookie press so I stamped them instead :)

Candy Cane Cookies - they even taste a little minty and i am happy to say my hands are no longer red from rolling out red dough :)

Sugar Cookies - to make little christmas trees - I will add photos when the trees are assembeled

Merangiues - I will add a photo of these soon, I was tired by the time they came out of the oven :)

Nov 23 to 29 - Back on the wagon :)

2011-11-23T14:06:05Z

The menu is back... sorry for the failure over the last 2 weeks its has been a little hectic...

Wednesday

Chicken Fingers
Perogies
Salad

Thursday

Grilled Portobello Mushrooms & Polenta (Disney Cookbook)

Friday

Grilled Vegetable & Beef Salad

Saturday

Dinner out with friends

Sunday

Shopping Adventure for Nancy
Frolic and Fun for Paul
Dinner TBD

Monday

Chicken & Leek Stroganoff (Jamie's Food Revolution)

Tuesday

Schnitzel
Veggies
Mashed Potatoes