It's been too long!

Hello out there to all our faithful followers! It has been too long! I have an excuse!! There is always a good excuse, right? I haven't been doing a lot of cooking/baking lately since my husband left. He was deployed to Iraq last month. So, since the “big eater” in our family is gone, I really struggle with what to cook!





So, I come to you, my friends, for help! What can I make that is healthy, fast and kid friendly? It is really hard to make dinner for myself and my 3 kids! I need your ideas and you recipes!





Also- here is another question for you! As I have said before, I am really into menu planning. My question for you is this- do you have a theme for each night of the week? Example; Taco Tuesday, Breakfast for dinner Wednesday, etc... I have been thinking about this lately and have been trying to figure out some good themes.





There you go! You now have two assignments! Let's see how you do! Thanks everybody!



~Sarah T.

This Week for Dinner!

There is an awesome blog that I totally love (not more than this blog, of course!) It is called
This Week for Dinner. It is a blog all about menu planning. Jane, the writter of the blog, posts her weekly menu and then all the readers also put up their menus. Jane will also add recipes and other helpful kitchen tips from time to time. It is so much fun and great for ideas when you have the menu planning blues! I already added my menu for this week but I will also post it here! Just this once ;)


M-Honey Lime Enchiladas
T-Baked Chicken and Pastina
W- tacos
TH- lasagna
F- eat out!


What are some of your favortie dinners?



~Sarah T.

Ideas? Anyone?

Wow! It has been a long time! Sorry for the break, we have just been enjoying our summer! And, we haven't done any real fancy cooking eithetr. But, we will be getting back into a normal schedule when school starts and I hope to have some more recipes to post!! Sarah R. and Angela are still working hard on there new adventures this summer. I hope that I can whip them into shape soon and get them posting more on here!! Love you guys ;P


So, here is my question- I need some help and some ideas. We feed the missionaries every Thursday night. Right now we have 4 Elders in our ward and they are all young growing boys. So, I need some meal ideas! I am quickly running out of ideas of what to feed them! Now, I need meals that are cost effective, filling and that are good for a large group. Because when we feed them, I am cooking for a total of 9 people! And my husband likes to eat a lot and so do the Elders. I have asked the Elders for their ideas and if there is anything they would like to eat. I don't think they really have any ideas or even care! So that makes it easy! Please send me your ideas!! I need them!



~Sarah T.

Birthday Bash Menu!

We celebrated my husband's birthday on Sunday. I made him a special birthday dinner that was very tasty and all of his favorite foods! He loves bacon and he loves shrimp. So I found a recipe for bacon wrapped shrimp! So here's the spread- we had the shrimp, steak (I hate seafood! Yuck!), twice baked potatoes, and strawberry-jello pretzel salad. To drink we had Raspberry-Lime Ricky's. And of course the star at any birthday party, the cake! It was his favorite Philabaum cake. It all turned out really good and I will be posting recipes for all the yummy food over the next few days! So be sure a check back for those! Happy Birthday to my Hunny!

~Sarah T.

Good Food+Great Friends=Priceless!

We had a really fun BBQ with our friends today! Here was our menu:

7up Chicken
Bacon and Cheese Brawts (you have to have brawts, we are in Germany after all!)
Ruffles Dip
Pasta Salad
Marinated and grilled yellow squash and zucchini
Strawberry Jello salad (made by one friend and it was very tasty!)
Anything but the kitchen sink cookies
Peanut Butter Cookies with Hershey Kisses (made by my other friend and they were also very tasty!)

It was an amazing Sunday afternoon! Couldn't ask for much better!

~Sarah T.

More Menus!

We are doing lots of grilling this week! Yay for no dishes to wash!


M- Chicken salad, green salad and fruit
T-out to eat for my daughter’s b-day
W-grilled ribs, grilled zucchini, pasta salad
TH- grilled chicken, leftover pasta salad, grilled corn on the cob
F-hopefully grilling again with friends! Yay!

~Sarah T.

Menu #3

Here is our menu for this week!

M- Enchiladas
refried beans
frozen vegetables

T- grilled pork chops
baked potatoes
salad

W- buttermilk waffles w/ coconut syrup
smoothies

TH- hot dogs
chips
BBQ baked beans
(I know that this has been on the menu now for 3 weeks but, we just haven’t gotten around to eating it!)

F- homemade pasta sauce
garlic bread

~Sarah T.

Menu #2

Menu time again! This is for the week of Mar 16-22. Last week turned out to be a little crazy so, we have a few repeats. But here is what it looks like:

M- grilled chicken Teriyaki kabobs with brown rice and grilled zucchini (I am so ready for summer and more grilling!!)

T- Corned Beef, mashed potatoes, and carrots (Happy St. Patrick's Day!)

W- I am at another RS Activity so the fam at home is having pancakes and smoothies

TH- We have the Elders over every Thursday. This week we are having hot dogs, chips and BBQ Beans with homemade Rocky Road ice cream

F- fettuccine Alfredo

~Sarah T.

What's on the Menu?

If you haven't already, you have to check out this site, This Week For Dinner. It is one of my favorites! I am all about menu planning and this site is awesome for that! I try and post my menu there every week but perhaps I will start doing it here too! So here is what's for dinner this week at our house!

M-Fettuccine Alfredo with chicken and peas, salad and carrot sticks
T-Ranch House Pork Chops with mashed potatoes
W-I am out to eat with some ladies from church, the fam at home will have pancakes and bacon
Th- taking the Missionaries out to eat
F-hamburgers and chips

Happy menu planning everyone!

~Sarah T.