Week 8 Menu & Favorite Taco Soup

Happy Sunday! This week's menu was nice and easy to plan, since I don't have to worry about Friday through Sunday. It's nice to have a break from cooking every once in a while.

Here's my menu for the week:

Monday: my favorite taco soup (recipe below)

Tuesday: parmesan chicken and baked potatoes

Wednesday: chicken soup with lentils and barley, rolls or cornbread

Thursday: spaghetti with turkey meatballs

Fri -- Sun: not cookin', more about that later :)

My Favorite Taco Soup
Recipe from Cindy Burian

2 lbs ground beef (we like turkey better)
2-3 cloves garlic chopped
1 lg onion chopped
1 lg green bell pepper, seeded and chopped
1 can kidney beans with liquid
1 can pinto beans with liquid
1 can hominy or whole kernel corn with liquid
1 can stewed tomatoes (I get them with the Mexican seasonings)
1 small can green chilis
1 can Rotel
1 pkg dry taco seasoning
1 pkg ranch dressing mix
1-2 cups water (make as thick or thin as you like)
chili powder to taste

Toppings:
sour cream
crushed tortilla chips or frito chips
shredded cheddar cheese

In Dutch oven, brown meat, onion, bell pepper, and garlic. Add everything else. Simmer about 30 minutes. Serve with toppings.

**The full recipe makes a lot. I usually half it for our family.

One Hour Rolls

These rolls are amazing! I've been making these rolls since 2001 when I was a newlywed and my sister-in-law shared the recipe with me. The rolls are light, fluffy, easy to make and they only take one hour! And delicious too! I've made these rolls more times than I can count, so I've perfected the art of making them. Here are some step-by-step instructions with pictures for you. Here's what you'll need. I buy pretty much all of the ingredients in this recipe at Sam's club, thus the huge containers. You need warm water, yeast, oil, sugar, salt, egg and flour. In the mixer bowl, add warm water (not hot), oil, sugar and yeast. Mix together. After ten or fifteen minutes the yeast mixture should be puffed up like this. Time to add the salt and beaten egg. Then mix in the flour. (I've used a mixture of half wheat and half white flour successfully.) Keep adding flour until the dough is manageable. It will be a little sticky, b

Week 394 Menu

Hi there! This week is flying by! So excited that we've been having blue skies and warmer weather. Our snow is almost all melted and little bulbs are sprouting in the flower beds. However, we had our 10th snow/ice day last week!!! Hopefully it was the last one. Life has been busy, busy and I need to plan out the rest of our week's menus, even though it's already Thursday. Here's what we've eaten so far and what I'm planning: Monday: chicken stirfry, rice/quinoa Tuesday: breakfast for dinner Wednesday: flatbread pizzas Thursday: roasted butternut squash, pasta, chicken sausage Friday: tacos Saturday: leftovers Sunday: pot roast, mashed potatoes, one hour rolls Alrighty, that's what we're eating this week. How about you? What's on your menu this week? Feel free to share. I love it when you do! More from Jenny:

Don't like your house to smell like food? I've got a kitchen tip for that!

I have a smallish, one story house and if I cook food that is kind of smelly, like onions, the smell tends to linger in every room. This is a pet peeve of mine and (also my husband's). Over the years I've found a few ways to cook smelly food without smelling up the kitchen. Use your garage! I use my garage quite often to cook things in. I open the window and it airs out, especially when you open the garage door. I'm sure my neighbors wonder what I'm cooking. I've used two different kitchen appliances in the garage: my crockpot and my food dehydrator. Crockpot - I did this very thing today since I'm simmering chicken, onions, carrots and celery to make chicken noodle soup tonight. I don't want my house to smell like onions all day, so I plugged it in on my husband's workbench. Food dehydrator - when I make jerky, I plug the food dehydrator in in the garage. I don't really want my house to smell like meat for hours

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