Week 352 Menu: Making up for dinnertime fails

Happy Monday! I was so happy to see that it was kind of light before my daughter left the house at 6:30 this morning. (I miss the days of everyone leaving the house at 8 am. Those days are gone...) I even made muffins for breakfast for my 3 year old (everyone else opted for cereal, weirdos).

I have been slacking at dinnertime and I think my family has noticed. I did make dinner a few times last week, but we've had a dinner fail (so we ate cereal instead) and some bad planning on my part. I've decided that I don't care who complains about what I've made, at least there are some options. And for my cholesterol problem, I'm going to load up on veggies and eat less meat and more veggies. Sometimes it's hard for me to plan dinner because I try to please everyone and make it healthy and then I just don't make anything. Lovely. I'll figure this out...

Monday: I made some applesauce muffins for breakfast. Have chicken tortellini soup and whole wheat bread for dinner (I cooked the soup this morning to hang out in the fridge until dinnertime...it's better when it's been chilled for a while).

Tuesday: chicken fajita salad with quesadillas on the side

Wednesday: pulled pork (from freezer) tacos, homemade salsa

Thursday: make your own sandwiches (chicken salad or ham/cheese or peanut butter for the picky eaters)

Friday: baked potato soup, cornbread muffins, big green salad

Saturday: breakfast burritos

Sunday: orange chicken, rice/quinoa, stirfried veggies

What are you making this week? I love it when you share! Have a good day! And, I really am going to have a giveaway soon, so stay tuned!

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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