Week 402 Menu: The Dr Says...

PHOTO: View from my sun-rise run along the canal the other morning.
The sun was amazingly bright. I shared more about it here on my OTHER instagram account @jennysharesjoy.)

Happy Monday! Nothing like a doctor appointment first thing on Monday to start the week out on a good foot. I switched doctors and had a great visit with my new one, actually she is a nurse practitioner, but she really knows her stuff. I loved that she listened to my whole health history (and my family's too) and answered all my questions and didn't make me feel rushed at all.

She gave me some more good guidelines of how to eat with high cholesterol. (Background...I have high cholesterol but haven't started taking meds (yet), so still experimenting with how my diet affects it. Darn genetics though...It's been an interesting two years since I found out I had it. You can read more of my thoughts here.

She recommended that I eat salmon once a week, which I haven't been doing. My family LOVES the cedar planked grilled teriyaki salmon that I make occasionally, but we haven't had much success with other recipes. I'm going to try to branch out and hopefully my family survives. I buy the frozen salmon from Costco so it's not as expensive as fresh.

Menu time...

Monday: fried chicken sausage, potatoes, peppers and onions, green salad, cara cara oranges

Tuesday: honey lime enchiladas, instant pot spanish rice, instant pot black beans, homemade quick salsa -- (I usually make my own little enchiladas with less meat, no cheese, sometimes add some quinoa or beans and using corn tortillas)

Wednesday: grilled pesto chicken & parmesan noodles, butternut squash

Thursday: clam-less clam chowder and french bread

Friday: try this sun-dried tomato cedar-planked salmon on the grill, orzo pilaf

Saturday: taco soup

Sunday: family's choice

That's what's we're having this week. What about you? What's on YOUR menu this week? 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

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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