Family Favorite is Christmas dinner with Family

Sunday- I was supposed to make a ham and fixings but instead I went with Deer steaks fried in onions and butter with seasonings, homemade potato wedges, and broccoli with cheese. It was a great dinner.

Monday- C.O.R.N. so we can have room for holiday goodies.

Tuesday- Hot dogs, mac and cheese, and baked beans. Easy peasy for dinner so clean up is a sinch before the holidays.

Wednesday- Christmas eve with Mr. Bear's Grandma. Ham, Turkey, mashed and sweet potatoes, sloppy joes, green bean casserole, gravy, corn..stuffing.. goodies..

Thursday- Dinner with my Dad in the afternoon, then snacks in the evening with Mr. Bear's Mother. I'll take cocktail weeners.

Friday- Leftovers or something good I hope. We might still be visiting family, we're pulled every direction because both of our parents are divorced, and we still have grandparents.

Saturday- Soups On!! Tomato soup and Grilled cheese.

Sunday- ? Take out maybe or something I need to scheme up!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Menu Plan Monday

So I'm early this week :)

Monday- Chicken and biscuits (this will be left over chicken from Sunday)

Tuesday- Spaghetti and garlic bread

Wednesday- Community dinner, Beef stew

Thursday- Pancakes, sasuage, and fruit

Friday- Roast beef sammies, fries or noodles and green beans

Saturday- SOUPS ON! Chicken noodle soup with grilled cheese

Sunday- Baked ham, scalloped potatoes, stuffing, and peas

Recipe Review from last week:

Cola Chicken- I used a half of a can of chicken, 3 breast, a handful of brown sugar, some ketch up and bbq sauce. Cut the breast into strip and simmered them in the sauce. We all ate it and thought it was good, just fancy bbq flavored chicken. We'll have it again, rating *** 3 stars.

Veggie beef soup- Good, and great leftovers. Next time I won't add diced tomatoes, instead just tomato juice. *** 3 stars too.

Sticky Chicken is up for review tonight, I'll update later on it :)

This is what I want for Christmas

I must say I've been a good girl this year :)
This is what I want Santa to leave me..
Pyrex dishes with lids and a calico kitten. I know the kitten will likely come after Christmas.

What's on your list?

Menu Plan Monday

Ok so it is Tuesday.. but I've got it all done for the whole month, that has to count for something right?

So here goes-

Monday- Soft and Crunchy Tacos with the fixin's

Tuesday- Cheese burgers with lettuce and tomatoes, with homemade pasta salad.

Wednesday- French Toast with bacon and fruit cocktail

Thursday- Cola Chicken (new recipe), with mac and cheese, and baked beans

Friday-pan fried kielbasa with bbq sauce, and baked potato casserole (new recipe)

Saturday- I decided to hop on the Soup's on Saturday wagon so we can eat the soup all week for lunch too, so we're having Veggie beef soup with crackers (new recipe)

Sunday- Mimi's Sticky Chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, and corn. (new recipe also, but I will be cooking this chicken at 350* instead of the suggested 250*)

I have the rest of the month, but you'll just have to come back next monday to see it :)

Likely I'll make some fudge and chocolate chip cookies this week.

Merry Christmas 2008

Here is my little man with Santa.
Happy Holidays everyone.

Menu Plan Monday

Sunday- Hot roast beef sammies, french fries, gravy, and peas. Pumpkin cake with cream cheese icing for dessert.

Monday- We'll have left over roast beef over noodles and/or some sausage, egg, and cheese muffins. Kinda like McMuffins, but home made. Leftover pumpkin cake.

Tuesday- Cheese stuffed ravioli, meaty sauce, green beans, and rolls. SO and DS love this. I will likely make Peanut butter blossoms too.

Wednesday- Bubble pizza, I hope this turns out well. I will also make some candid yams, and deviled eggs for Thursday.

Thursday- Thanksgiving Dinner with my family, we might stop in to the MIL's too. Pretty traditional dinner fare.

Friday- I hope we score some leftovers and we'll eat at those, or salmon cakes, fried taters, and baked beans. I keep planning this and we skip it because SO whines, but I love it.

Saturday- Community Thanksgiving dinner with SO's grandparents. Leftovers.

Sunday- Country Chicken bake, with biscuits. * new recipe, if it is good I'll post the recipe later*

Monday- Chinese beef and broccoli with rice *also new, and I'll rate later*

Tuesday- Beef Pasta Hamburger helper, veggies, and bread. I'll likely go shopping this day if I can get out.

Snacks- oranges, bananas, yogurt, carrots & celery with homemade ranch dip, and baked goodies.
Hope you all have great weeks! Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving.

Easy as pie Pumpkin Cake

This was a method recipe that I altered for us.

It was simply a yellow box cake mix, and 15 oz. of solid pack pumpkin. I got the cake mix for a buck and the pumpkin for about 1.60. Your to just mix them together and make muffins, but I wanted a cake, so I mixed it and as the one recipe I saw suggested I added one egg, and a few splashes of orange juice.

Now that it is cooled I will make a simple cream cheese icing. The cream cheese was a buck too, and I have the other stuff on hand, I suppose the recipe if you already have orange juice could cost around 5 bucks! My kinda dessert if you ask me, and my 3 year old got to help. Will post some pictures later.

I love simple desserts since groceries already cost so much. Take care.