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April 1, 2013
by Dawn Marie 2 Comments

Easter Rolls and Menu Plan Monday 4/1

Happy April’s Fools Day!

I wanted to play a prank on you, but I am not that witty and can’t think of anything that has not been done before, so this is just a boring food post.

You’re welcome.

I was, and usually am, in charge of rolls for Easter Dinner, or any dinner.

This year we, well my sister, decided we should have a full turkey dinner for Easter. During Thanksgiving time we ended up with 3 turkeys, two of them free.

I saw this pin on Pinterest

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and thought they were adorable!

The pin says just use a yeast roll recipe, pinch up the ears and poke holes for eyes.

Easy. Right?

Wrong….

So the link on the pin takes you to someone’s Flickr account and there is just a picture.

To find some directions I Googled ‘Easter bunny rolls’ and found a bread making blog, Artisan Bread in Five Minutes. What a perfect blog! I am going to have to go back and search through it, because there is nothing I love more than bread!

Back to the rolls. They wrote a post about these cute little bunnies, and they claim the above pin is really a COOKIE!

I know! I guess you can’t believe everything to see on the internet…

But I tried anyway, as they also did.

Nailed IT!

However, if you would like to attempt these rolls the people from Bread in 5 give some tips on how to accomplish them.

Menu Plan 4/1-4/7

Mon: Fresh Fish, my husband caught this past weekend, with pasta

Tue: We will be gone

Wed: One-Pot Chicken & Brown Rice

Thr: Sesame Beef

Fri: Pesto Chicken Tortellini Soup (but made with chicken in the soup and cheese tortellini instead)

Sat: Leftovers shall be consumed

Sun: Easy Pork Chops and Rice
Happy Cooking

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March 26, 2013
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Non-Meal Plan Non-Monday

Last Friday was Ian’s 3rd birthday!

I can’t believe three years have gone by already.

He decided to have a superhero birthday party, which was the day after his birthday.

So I spent all last week trying to get everything together.

About 12:30 am on Saturday morning, while gluing candy boxes together, my nose started running and my throat started to hurt.

Come Sunday I admitted I was sick. I have a cold.

So this week I have no plans to make dinner, I am just going to wing it.

The one thing I do know is I am going to ~~try to~~ make these rolls

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for Easter dinner on Sunday at my moms house.

As you can tell by this picture he had a great birthday. Which I need to thank my mom for all her help with.

Thanks Mom!

I wanted to get Ian’s birthday party pictures up by now, but this stupid cold has really got me sluggish.

Happy Health

March 18, 2013
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Meal Plan Monday 3/18 and what happened to six months?

Six months ago I was in the hospital crying and swearing and about ready to punch a nurse in the face.

I was giving birth to this bundle of joy.

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It was a labor intensive labor. yep I went there.

They say the second one is supposed to be a breeze but Baby Sid decided to make it difficult. However he has been a piece of cake ever since. Such an easy baby, always happy or sleeping.

I do have to start him on solid food soon, which means I will be starting to share my baby food recipes with you as well.

I have been putting it off because nursing him is so much easier! I know, what a lazy mom!

Menu Plan 3/18-3/14

Mon: Garlic Parmesan Chicken & Noodles (so easy!)

Tue: Country-Style Pork Loin with Arkansas Green Beans*

Wed: Wine Glazed Steak with couscous

Thr: Slow Cooker Chicken Alfredo Lasagna

Fri: Ian’s Birthday so we will be going out for dinner, but I will be making Cake Batter Pancakes for breakfast!

Sat: Ian’s birthday party, so no cooking dinner

Sun: Tacos with Mexican Green Rice

*Last Wed we ended up going out to eat, since I still had the pork roast I used the same recipe this week. I cut the amount of beans in this recipe, way too many for us.

Happy Cooking

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