Week 35 Menu and Kitchen Tip #3

Week 35 Menu and Kitchen Tip #3 - Cutting Melons

Hi everyone! We just got home from a nice week and half vacation visiting family and friends, shopping, going to my hubby's graduation, etc. etc. etc. We had a good time, but it's nice to be home. This morning as I stared at my empty fridge my mind was pretty empty too of ideas of what to make this week. We have a busy week, so this is what I came up with:

Monday: chicken chimichangas (or as today gets later, cereal starts sounding better and better, is that bad?)

Tuesday: spaghetti and turkey meatballs

Wednesday: I was going to make Swedish meatballs, but my grocery store didn't have any ground pork, so this day is TBD.

Thursday: breakfast

Friday: pizza of some kind

Saturday: easy night, maybe grill something

Sunday: white chili

So, what are you making this week? Post your menus in the comment area.

I bought a watermelon this morning on my grocery shopping trip. I don't buy watermelon very often since my hubby is allergic and my kids don't eat much of it. It sounded like a great healthy, light snack (which I need more of as I get bigger and bigger with my pregnancy). Last summer Sandi, my cousin-in-law (?) showed me this great way of cutting melons. So I thought I'd share. It works with cantaloupe or watermelon.

Step 1. Wash your watermelon. Get out your cutting board and knife.

Step 2. Cut watermelon in half. Set one half on cutting board cut side down.

Step 3. Cut off end of watermelon.

Step 4. Slice rind off starting at the top.

Step 5. Continue around melon cutting all the rind off.

Step 6. Slice.

Step 7. Cut into pieces and start snacking!

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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