Week 305 Menu: Christmas Week!

Hi guys! Well, we made to Utah where we'll be until we move to Washington after the holidays. We're enjoying the snow that we got last night. (Our first snow to play in of the year.)

This is our third temporary place to stay on our moving adventure. (I blogged about staying at our first stop, our friend's house here and here. Then our second stop was Disneyland, which I blogged about this morning.)

We're enjoying our vacations and are inching closer to being in a home of our own. Only four more weeks and we'll hopefully be settled and maybe unpacked in our new house.

Like I posted about a few weeks ago, I'm so grateful for the many people that have helped us and that we've gotten to spend time with since we started this moving adventure a month ago.

Now that Christmas is in three days and we're not at Disneyland anymore, I've got to get cracking on Christmas. I bought some gifts on amazon, but now it's time to hit the stores. Wish me luck!

We're staying at my in-laws house in Utah for the next two weeks, so I told my sweet mother-in-law that she could have time off from cooking. I haven't cooked much in a while, so it's nice to be back in a kitchen. And a big bonus is that my mother-in-law is great at cleaning up my messes while I'm still cooking.

Menu time...

Monday: tacos, quick salsa

Tuesday: chicken tortellini soup, rosemary bread

Wednesday: orange chicken, jasmine rice, steamed broccoli
- Christmas Eve: making cinnamon rolls to stick in the fridge overnight and back while we open presents Christmas Morning!

Thursday: ham, funeral potatoes, cloud light crescent rolls, salad, cheesecake or chocolate bundt cake

Friday: leftovers

Saturday: easy

Sunday: to be determined

What are you making this week? What are your plans for Christmas dinner? I'd love to hear! Thanks for reading, friends!

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

What is on your menu this week?

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