August 2009

Menu Plan

August 23, 2009

Once again last week’s plan did not go as planned. I did get four meals out of my pork roast. But two of the other meals on the plan did not get made because I ended up needing to use up some meat that I had. I rearranged things and moved those two meals to this [...]

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One Problem With Having A Food Blog

August 22, 2009

One problem with having a food blog is that sometimes you can get so busy taking a picture of a loaf of bread that turned out really good, that you forget about the sauce you have cooking on the stove and you burn the sauce. Any guesses how I know?

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Fifteen Favorite Family Meals

August 20, 2009

Toni is doing a series on Menu Planning. She did a post today on coming up with your family’s favorite fifteen meals. I thought it would be fun to go ahead and post my family’s 15 favorite meals. I hope it gives you some ideas for your dinners. And I am curious do you menu [...]

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Making Meat Stretch Into Several Meals

August 20, 2009

Earlier this week when I posted my menu plan, I wrote about seeing how far I could make my pork roast stretch. Well, I was able to get four meals out of it and my family enjoyed all four meals. My goal in doing this was for time or my lack of time this week. [...]

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Raspberry Limeade Cake

August 20, 2009

My friend Susan recently brought this cake to a church picnic. It was so good and such a pretty cake. It is a great summertime dessert. I don’t think I would have thought to mix raspberries and limeade, but they worked really well in this cake. I took a picture of the cake at the picnic and [...]

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Cooking With Whole Wheat

August 18, 2009

I have received several questions lately about cooking with whole wheat. I decided to write a post about how whole wheat works for me in cooking. I hope this answers your questions and gives you few tips and ideas. My goal in cooking with whole wheat is not to eat only whole wheat. I am not strict about cooking [...]

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Pasta Measurements

August 18, 2009

For my birthday last year, my sister gave me a kitchen scale. I knew it would be useful for some of my bread and other recipes, but I did not know how useful it would be for other things. I buy a lot of my food items in bulk, especially things like pasta. A lot [...]

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Mexican Pizza

August 17, 2009

Two of my son’s favorite types of food are pizza and anything mexican. When we were on vacation in June we ate at Taco Bell. It had been a long time since we had eaten at a Taco Bell. Often when we eat out at fast food, we do not give our kids a choice of [...]

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Meal Plan

August 16, 2009

This week I am seeing how far I can stretch a pork roast. Well, not exactly, but it may work out that way. Saturday I cooked two pork roasts. I did this because I have a busy week with two Dr.’s appointment, both late in the day and a few other appointments I have to [...]