Week 373 Menu: I love the PNW!

Hi everyone! Happy Thursday again! I guess I should just change my menu planning day to Thursday, since I seem to be posting on Thursdays instead of Mondays pretty consistently throughout the summer. Ha!

We have 26 more days until school starts. I'm not looking forward to summer being over. We had family come visit this last week and it was so fun to have them stay with us and be able to act like we're on vacation with them. We spent lots of time at the river, at the pool, finding waterfalls, eating good food and just enjoying their company. I love living in the Pacific Northwest. There are so many amazing things to see, mostly two hours away from our home. The above picture is taken from Punchbowl Falls in Oregon.

I'm excited that we get to have another round of family come tomorrow. I really love having family come visit us! I've got menus planned out and need to hit the store before they arrive. I have a few extra menus planned for next week that I will shop for since it's nice to have options.

All righty...here's our menu for this week, even though it's halfway over.

Monday; we had honey garlic chicken, angel hair pasta, fresh whole wheat bread and garden veggies

Tuesday: easy night

Wednesday: grilled teriyaki salmon, quinoa and rice, garden salad

Thursday: taco soup

Friday: pulled pork sandwiches on toasted pretzel buns topped with coleslaw

Saturday: grilled Greek chicken, grilled veggies and rosemary/garlic grilled flatbread

Sunday: roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, one hour rolls

What's on your menu for this weekend? Or what did you eat this week? When does your summer end (kids back in school)? Feel free to share. I love it when you do!

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

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

Chicken Angelo

Don't forget to enter the Whirley Pop giveaway . It ends tomorrow! Am I the only person that asks their friends what they're making for dinner all the time? That's kind of why I started this blog, because I want to know what my friends are making for dinner. The other day I asked my friend, Juli (who is great cook), what she was making for dinner. She told me she was making Chicken Angelo. Then she told me what's in it. I knew I had to try it too because she has some picky eaters at her house like I do. I figured if they'll eat it then maybe it was worth a try at my house. This Chicken Angelo pasta has my favorite things, artichoke hearts and mushrooms in it. But don't be fooled into thinking that my family likes these things too. Because they don't. They won't touch an artichoke or mushroom with a ten foot pole. That being said, my family loved this pasta dish. They even gave me the go ahead to make it again. They loved the ch

What is on your menu this week?

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