What is on your menu this week?

My family loves french dip sandwiches.  We often have perfect pot roast for Sunday dinner, since my dad has keeps us supplied with beef from his "hobby" farm.  I've made a few variations over the years.   French dip rolls that have the meat baked inside the rolls, which are perfect for kids to eat, and also Quick French dip sandwiches . However, since I discovered this way to make french dip pitas, it's the only way we've been eating them for the last year.  They can be made start to finish in 10 minutes, which is perfect for busy school nights.  They also travel well and can be eaten on the sidelines of soccer games. Pita pockets are split open and stuffed with roast beef, a slice of cheese and a sprinkle of green chiles.  While the pita pockets are warming under the broiler, I mix up a quick au jus (or juice as my family calls it).  The pita pockets get kind of crispy and perfect to dip in the juice.  The cheese melts over the roast bee...

Today I did three things that I've been wanting to do for a long time... 1.  Buy freshly roasted green chile from the farmer's market. 2.  Enjoy tomatoes from my garden. 3.  Can my own salsa. I had six ripe tomatoes sitting on my counter this morning that I picked from my garden.  I'd been hoping that my garden would have produced a lot of tomatoes.  It was doing a great job until a deer hopped the fence and munched on a few big tomatoes and ate quite a few little tomatoes.  (This made me a little mad and sad.)  We've been enjoying tomatoes in our salads and sandwiches, but I didn't want to waste those big beautiful tomatoes that we had sitting in our "tomato" bowl.  So, I decided to make salsa out of them, even though I didn't have enough to make a full batch of the recipe that I used.  I grilled the tomatoes for a few minutes, so I could skin them. It was a lot of chopping and peeling, but it was worth it. I went to the farmer'...