As we all know Pinterest has an abundance of recipes!
Typically I don’t pin the recipes I find, I just go to the original site and save it in Plan to Eat recipe book. Lately I have felt in a cooking rut and needed some new recipes so I, of course, turned to Pinterest.
I thought about planning this weeks menu with nothing but new Pinterest recipes but it was too much chicken. So there are four out of the six cooking days that are recipes from Pinterest.
I don’t have that many recipes on there yet, in my defense it takes a long time to filter through all the dessert recipes.
I wasn’t able to eat Buffalo Sauce while I was pregnant, I got really bad heartburn, but then again I got heartburn from water….
I had something with Buffalo Sauce the other day and realized how much I missed it. No reason I can’t eat it now! So, yes there are two recipes that calls for Frank’s Red Hot Sauce!
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So the other week I was supposed to make Philly Cheese Steak Sloppy Joes, which are fantastic by the way! I don’t remember why, but I never did. I was looking on-line for some new recipes and came across this one for Bacon Cheeseburger Buns, and I thought it would be great to combine these two recipes! And I did last week.
Except to make it a little easier I thought about using the premade refrigerated pizza dough, you know the kind that comes in the tubes that pop when you open it. I got the idea from this recipe for Cheeseburger Flatbread Melts, which could be another version.
Philly Cheese Sloppy Joe Rolls
Ingredients:
1 medium onion chopped
1 medium bell pepper seeded and chopped; any color or combination
1/4 cup steak sauce
1 cup beef broth
salt and ground black pepper to taste
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon flour
1 cup milk
1 cup provolone cheese shredded
11 oz thin crust pizza dough (or other refrigerated dough)
1 lb ground beef
Directions:
Cook ground beef while breaking it up into chunks with a spatula or spoon until browned, over med-high heat. Add the bell pepper and onion and cook for 3-4 minutes, until the onions start to become tender. Drain an excess liquid. Stir in steak sauce and beef broth, season with salt and pepper. Bring to a boil and cook until the mixture is thickened and bubbly.
Melt butter in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Stir in flour and cook for 1 minute. Whisk in milk and cook until the mixture is thickened and bubbly. Remove from heat and stir in the cheese until it is melted and incorporated into the sauce.
Roll dough into an 12-in. x 8-in. rectangle; cut into 6-8 squares. I actually used biscuits because that is what I had in the fridge.
Place 1/4 cup meat mixture in the center of each square add cheese sauce. Bring corners together in the center and pinch to seal.
Place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Bake at 400° for 9-11 minutes or until lightly browned. Brush with butter. Serve with extra cheese sauce spooned over and enjoy.
Since my toddler has started talking he has been making me laugh, constantly.
I try to remember all the funny things he says, but it is hard. I tell myself to remember that one, and I will write it down later. But when later comes I can’t remember what he said.
Sometimes it is just that he says a phrase that I say, or someone else always says and it is so cute coming out of his mouth. Lately he says “hey, what’s da big idea?” from Donald Duck.
The way he interacts with Baby Sid is so cute that I wish we were filming him at all times!
Last night Ian was taking a bath (our house is very small) and Baby Sid was in the living room in his swing with Dad. Baby Sid hadn’t felt well and started crying. Ian yells from the bathroom “It’s OK Baby Sid, I just takin’ a bath….Don’t worry Baby Sid, Mama’s commin’…..Shhh, it’s OK Baby Sid, I almost der.” And other things of that nature, even though Baby Sid had stopped crying and was just making noises now.
I have been putting up a few of our conversations up on my Facebook page and I hope to put some up here as well.
He had us crackin’ up all weekend. It was really nice that my husband finally had a weekend off and the kids and I didn’t have any plans. We all spent the whole weekend at home. We did a lot of building with Legos.
Update: This morning after Ian came out of his room and this was our conversation
Ian: Mama, where your brudder at? (He calls Baby Sid ‘your brother’ because that I what I sometimes say)
Me: he is still sleeping
Ian: I go see him
Me: he is sleeping, please don’t wake him up
Ian: I be quiet, like dis (he then starts to whisper) I say ‘it’s OK, Baby Sid’
Me: ok, but don’t wake him please
Ian: (after coming out of the bedroom, with a panic in his voice) I can’t find him, Baby Sid not der
Me: yes, honey, Baby Sid is in our bed, sleeping
Ian: no Mama, he all gone, I can’t find him
Me: don’t worry honey, he is just sleeping (I pick him up to show him)
Ian: Baby Sid all gone (he is starting to cry) I can’t see him, I can’t find him!…..Oh, der he is, he sleeping, he so cute…..whew, dat was close
This past weekend my mother, my sister, her family, the boys and I stayed downtown in ‘the Big City’.
My sister got tickets to see The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at the Children’s Theater. So they decided to stay downtown using my Mom’s free hotel points. I kind of work downtown so on Friday my mom and sister brought the kids and my brother-in-law and I joined them after work.
The boys and I only stayed Friday night but everyone else stayed till Sunday.
By the time we all got there on Friday it was after five, but the kids wanted to go swimming right away.
So we put off dinner and headed down to the pool. I sat on the side with Baby Sid while everyone else swam and hung out in the hot tub.
We then went back to order some room service. We always allow ourselves one time during a hotel stay to order room service. The price is high but the convenience is so worth it! Plus, it makes you feel so fancy 🙂
After getting the kids all clean from the pool it was way too late to try to find a place to feed them. Baby Sid enjoyed his first hotel stay, taking a quick nap on the hid-a-bed where the kids watched a movie.
We spent Saturday wandering around and of course more swimming.
It was a nice little break from life.
This is my first week back to work ‘full’ time. This year our budget was cut and I am actually at 80% time, so I work four days a week now. I have decided to take Wednesdays off, contingent on work load.
Because I am still getting used to work again I am making some pretty easy meals during the week.
Menu Plan Jan. 21-27th
Mon: Beef Stew
Tue: Meatloaf and I am not sure yet what we will eat with it…
I Tri and Craft 