I love it when I can go “shopping” in my garden before I plan my meals for the week! We are getting a regular supply of tomatoes and peppers right now and our green beans are just starting to come in. I also harvested our first butternut squash and want to try it in …
Meal Plans
We are enjoying the end of our family vacation here in MA. We are going out for seafood tonight with the whole family (party of eleven, please) and I am really excited. It’s best to eat seafood looking out over the ocean, right? Here’s the plan for when we get home. I have been missing …
This will be such a fun week! My sister is visiting us this weekend and we are having some good friends over for dinner on Sunday. I think I’m going to grill a bunch of pizzas with my favorite homemade pizza dough. Then on Wednesday, the whole crew will fly to Massachusetts for a 4th …
My husband finally decided on his Father’s Day meal-of-choice today… grilled chicken with mashed potatoes and green beans. I think he would eat this every day if I offered it. He is definitely a meat and potatoes kind of man. We are starting to get tomatoes from our garden and I already have a …
When it gets hot here (it’s going to be in the 90’s every day this week) I try to minimize how much I use my oven. I might actually modify some recipes during the week to either make them on the stovetop, in the crockpot, or on the grill. I run my crockpot in …
I’ve been using the free site Say Mmm for my meal planning up to this point in conjunction with my Pinterest What’s For Dinner page and it is working out pretty well. My friend Robyn asked me about saving recipes in Say Mmm and I realized it was pretty clunky. Maybe there is a better …
I found some great recipes to share with y’all this week from some of my favorite food bloggers. I’m also using the waffle iron again for something unusual – hash browns. I’ve imagined them turning out nice and crispy so hopefully the waffle iron doesn’t fail me. I’ve been harvesting a bunch of salad from …
I am going to work on a post on slow-cooked baked beans this week. I have made them several times before with varying degrees of success! I wanted a step-by-step tutorial on how to make them from dried beans and couldn’t find a good one, so I’m going to try to do one myself. I’m …
I am excited to try out a few new things this week… mainly cornbread waffles! Two of my favorite things put together… why didn’t I think of this before now!?! I’m going to document how this goes and share it on the blog. I’m also going to try to feed my husband some Indian …
I have stuck with meal planning for over a month now and I plan to continue for the foreseeable future. SO much less stress during the week when I know I already have everything I need to cook dinner that night! Another benefit is because of the meal plan my husband has had leftovers to take …