Week 15 Menu and lots of Turkey!

Hi everyone! Thanksgiving is creeping up on us. I can't believe it's almost here! I need to finish my grocery shopping! This week should be a fun week, since Grandma and Grandpa are coming to visit! We're really excited to have some visitors!

Last week was a low key, since Dave was gone almost all week on work travel. It was a nice break from cooking dinner everyday. The kids are happy with waffles (which are yummy -- sometime I'll post the recipe) and spaghetti.

Now on to this week's set of menus:

Monday: clam chowder, rolls/or bread

Tuesday: white chili

Wednesday: sweet and sour chicken with rice

Thursday: turkey, mashed pototatoes, Great Grandma's stuffing, gravy, rolls, and who knows what else we'll have (I still need to plan a little more)

Friday: turkey noodle soup (it's a tradition!)

Saturday: rich and creamy pasta bake (taking dinner to a gal in our ward who is having a baby)

Sunday: leftovers

This will be my third year in a row that I get to cook the turkey. I think it's really fun. Hopefully it goes pretty well. This is the only time a year that I buy lots of fresh herbs to cook with. I love cooking with fresh herbs! Sometime I'll have a herb garden. Anyway...Just wanted to share links to my favorite turkey recipes.

For the brine recipe, I use Emeril's recipe found here. To actually cook the turkey, I use Giada's recipe found here.

Just because every post is better with a picture, so here is a picture of my first turkey in 2006. Just focus on the beautiful turkey and not so much on me. Happy Thanksgiving! And don't forget to post your menus for this week.

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

The Best French Bread I've Ever Made

This is the best french bread I've ever made. I got this recipe from my friend, Nikki, who gave us some of this bread as a thank you for my hubby helping them move a piano. I remember it being delicious and we gobbled it up fast. I was intimidated for some reason by the recipe and waited a few years before I made it. We needed some bread for to make some turkey, provolone, avocado sandwiches, so I made some of this bread and it was perfect! We sliced one loaf like they do at Subway. Then later I made normal shaped sandwiches with the rest of the bread. Delicious... light and fluffy and yummy! Update 2/22/12: This is still my favorite bread after making it for a year! It turns out perfect every time and it's gone in a flash! printable recipe French Bread recipe from my friend, Nikki Yield: 2 loaves Ingredients 2 c. warm water 1 pkg (or 1 heaping Tbsp.) yeast 1/4 c. granulated sugar 1 T. olive oil

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

What is on your menu this week?

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