What we ACTUALLY ate (Week 391 Menu)

This last week slipped away so fast. I started planning my menu on Monday and never finished. Guess what happened? We ended up eating Mexican food 5 out of 7 nights! Totally my favorite. Quick, easy and pretty healthy.

This is the ONLY picture I took this week and posted it on Instagram. We had a busy week with a little snow, ice and some SUNSHINE! We had plenty of basketball, piano lessons, homework and preschool teaching. My favorite day of the week is Wednesday when I get to go to the temple. Such a blessing.

This week's menu is a "what we actually ate" menu. So, here's what we actually ate this week.

Monday: crockpot chipotle honey lime chicken tacos, Instant Pot spanish rice, homemade salsa, guacamole

Tuesday: Costa Vida (my favorite!!!)

Wednesday: taco soup

Thursday: breakfast burritos (made it with turkey sausage instead of bacon and fried up some sweet potatoes for me)

Friday: eggs, fried ham, toast (or leftover breakfast burritos for some of us)

Saturday: sesame chicken salad

Sunday: pulled out some green chile tomatillo pork from the freezer and everyone made them into salad, nachos or tacos with our favorite salsa, guacamole and the works. My daughter made caramel brownies and my ten year old son made cookies for the first time all by himself (chocolate chip...they were good!).

What about you? What did you end up eating this week? I've started writing down what we ate each day in my calendar/planner. It's fun to look back and see what we ate in "real life". Feel free to share what you ate. 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

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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