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April 15, 2013
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Meal Plan Monday April 15

Happy Tax Day!

Did you mail yours off?

I kept asking my husband if he was sure we didn’t need to go pick our taxes up and sign something. He kept telling me that it was all electronic this year (this is the first year we don’t have a bunch of stuff that makes e-filing impossible). I got a call on Sat, “this is a reminder you need to mail your state taxes in on Monday, so come by this weekend and pick them up”….

Once again it was a very busy weekend for us. While I never made it to the store, I was able to make a meal plan for the next couple weeks. Which includes a day for making baby food.

Meal Plan 4/15-4/21

Mon: Lemon Chicken Romano with Lemon Risotto

Tue: Parmesan Crusted Pesto Grilled Cheese Sandwich with Crockpot Tomato Basil Soup

Wed: Hubby’s Birthday so we are going OUT to dinner!

Thr: Pepperjack Pulled Pork Ciabatta Sandwich with some kinda veggie on the side

Fri: Crockpot Pesto Ranch Chicken with pasta

Sat: Baby Food Making Time!

Sun: Beer Marinated Pork Chops with Cheese Topping and Roasted Ranch Potatoes with Bacon and Cheese and Southern Biscuits

Happy Cooking

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April 8, 2013
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Meal Plan Monday April 8

Baby Sid has graduated to a highchair. I am not as pleased about this as I should be, simply because we have no space in our dinning room for our highchair. It has these folding legs that form a very large triangle. It takes up SO much space.

But he is super cute in it. And Ian is happy to have him at the table.

It is nice that he can sit with us at restaurants now

even if he does want to use the table as a chew toy…

Sometimes when I cook I don’t really use recipes. This is gonna be that kinda week. So my plan might help you with some ideas, but not so much with actual recipes. Oh, and we are using a lot of hamburger meat…

Menu Plan 4/8-4/14

Mon: Spaghetti, no not the kind from a jar, but the kind I don’t have a recipe for

Tue: Beef Stew

Wed: Tacos

Thr: Sage Pork Chops with Parmesan Rice

Fri: Sloppy Joes (yes, I am singing the Adam Sandler song when I type it)

Sat: come on, you know I don’t make dinner on Sat…

Sun: Helping to host a baby shower so all my kitchen time will be devoted to that!
Happy Cooking

Need something to help plan your meals? I use the Plan to Eat online meal planner. Try it free for 30 days

Find more recipes at I’m an Organizing Junkie or Erin Brans.com

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

Source: flickr.com viaDawn Marie on Pinterest

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.