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Meal Plan Monday

mushroomsSo late night Sunday watching the Grammys.  I think that Taylor Swifts dress was awesome.  I loved Phrells performance with Stevie Wonder.   I loved this years prefromances because of the mix of music and the respect for thoes who trail blazed before them.   I always love the glitz of  Grammys makes me want to get a fancy dress and go out.

Meal Menu Plan  Monday:

Monday: Taco LasagnaTaco Lasagna

Tuesday : Pork chops and Apple sauce

Wednesday: Mini Picadillo Empanadas

Thursday: Broccoli Cheese soup Broccoli_Cheese_Soup_3309

Friday: Grill Cheese and Egg recipe form I am Food Blog .. talk about mouth watering

Be sure to check out my post on Healthy Snacks Salt and Sweet

I am linking up to Organizing Junkie Menu Planning Monday

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Meal Planning Monday

mushroomsAn week and other Meal Plan.  This plan is different this week because I am only cooking for me and the kids.  My husband is doing a juice fast,  but that is another blog post for a different day. So when meal planing this week I took a few things into account.  1- I can make thing my husband does not enjoy like tomato sauce.  2. I can do sandwiches  where my husband does not request I make more complex meal I do when he is eating,  so simple is my thing this week.

Monday: Spaghetti and meat sauce and salad

Tuesday: Grill Cheese and Tomato Soup

Wednesday: Frozen Lasagna with cucumber side

Thursday: Homemade chicken fingers, tater tots and salad

Friday: Homemade Pizzas

Be sure to check out my post on Healthy Snacks Salt and Sweet

I am linking up to Organizing Junkie Menu Planning Monday

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Menu planning Monday

mushroomsMenu Planning Monday: This week I am with out a car.  So I have to walk for a grocery store  or try to eat through some of my pantry.  I feel like a new year so I want a new start to my kichen.  So I am going to eat through my pantry.

Monday: Goulash  ground beef, cans of beans, carrots and potatoes

Tuesday: Eggs quiche with ham and spinach

Wednesday : My Easy Seafood Soup

Thursday:  Pulled Pork

Friday:  Meatball Hoagies

I am linking up to Organizing Junkie Menu Planning Monday

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Have a great week.

 

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Menu Plan Monday

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So this week is a very busy week,  with  Christmas around the corner BabyPop Superhero capes my company,  I am very busy sewing non stop.  I found that last week me not recipe planning it was almost impossible to get dinner on the table.  So this week I am back doing my weekly recipe meal Planning.  So my family does not starve.

I have to tell you I am on an easy recipe kick.. One Pot or casserole creation are my thing for the next 2 weeks. For easy and quickness.  Check out the Casserole Pinterest boards for some Ideas.

I found this Pork Chop Casserole from Kraft.Canada recipe this weekend and made it last night.  I did add Sweet Potatoes,  because I had them and it was Yummy.  I would use thick cut Pork chops if you will cook it for the 1 1/2 .. I only cooked it for 1 hour,   My pork chops were thin.

Menu Plan:

Monday:  Hearty Homestyle Chicken Casserole  From Moms Who think   I like it because to pan fry the hashbrown 1st

Tuesday:  My Pulled Pork

Wednesday: My Husband Night

Thursday: Chilli Night  My award winning blue Ribbon Holiday  Chilli

Friday: My Chipolte  knock off night,  Use left over Pulled pork, add Rice, Beans on Tortillas.

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Chicken Spinach Quiche Cooking with Seaweed

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quicheCooking with Seaweed: Chicken Spinach Quiche Crust-less my family loves it and I love that it is a great make ahead meal.  My kids love it as well. This a great pack in the nutritional meal.  I go an extra step and add a super food : seaweed.  I know you are like ewe.. but you can tasted it and it ads so much to your daily needs.  Dr. Oz  talked about how it is an seaweed food. As a family we have enjoyed it for years.  It has a sea smell to it when eated plain but once placed in other foods,  you will never know,  You can find it in Asia Markets, some grocery store and Trader Joes.  Mixing it in with spinach is a great way to introduce seaweed into your diet.   You can’t taste the seaweed but it pack the nutritional punch.

I found this from  Best Healthy living mag  … Seaweed packs super-high amounts of calcium—higher than broccoli—and in terms of protein, it’s almost as rich as legumes. There’s also a good amount of vitamins B-12 and A and it’s a great source of fibre. But not just any old fibre. Seaweed is mostly soluble fibre, the kind that turns into a gel, slowing down the digestive process, thus inhibiting the absorption of sugars and cholesterol.

 

Chicken Spinach Quiche

  • 2 chicken breast
  • 1 onion diced small
  • 1 page for frozen spinach thawed and water pressed out
  • 8 eggs
  • 2 cups of milk
  • 1 2 cup package of sharp Cheddar cheese
  • 2 tablespoons of hot sauce
  • Salt Pepper
  • 1/2 bread crumbs (optional) or gluten free bread crumbs
  • 1/2 cup of dried nori roasted seaweedseaweed_013_001-3
  1. Take diced onions in a fry pan cook until tender ans sweet
  2. Add dice chicken w/ salt and pepper to onions and cook
  3. removed and set in large bowl
  4. Place spinach in fry pan cook to removed any excess moisture
  5. To onion/chicken bowl add eggs,  milk, hot sauce.
  6. Add cooked spinach to bold and cheese (add Nori seaweed) stir until all ingredients are wet
  7. In a large 9×13″ pan spray with cooking spray
  8. Then Sprinkle with bread crumbs on the bottom of the dish (optional)
  9. Then pour in the egg mixture in pan
  10. Cook in oven for 45 minutes at 375
  11. Allow to cool and enjoy.
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Meal Planning:

Monday : Spinach Quiche

Tuesday: Pork Chops in apple sauce sweet potato gratin

Wednesday : Chicken from Inspireddreamer.com  with Brussels sprouts and mash potatoes

Thursday : Gnocchi and crispy sausage

Friday : Taco Night

 I am linking up with Organizing Junkie  Meal Plan Monday

 

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Easy Seafood Chowder and Meal Planning

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easy_seafood_chowder_013_001-1-2Easy Seafood Chowder  creamy seafood soup is my favorite soup.  You know what I love about cooking.  Is the discover of recipes that are passed from person to person.  Some times the recipe is written down some times it is this is so easy. This sea food chowder recipe I discovered when my sister made it for several parties.  I loved it,  she said it was her veterinarian mother in laws recipe and it is so easy.   I have discover over the years that he mother in law despite of being a vegan can really cook meats.

So before my pumpkin carving part I texted my sister and she told me the ingredients.. I did a few changes my self and served the soup it was a hit at my party.  Everyone loved it and asked for the recipe.  So I am going to share with you:

Tip buy the ingredients when on sale in the store –  this is a quick soup

Easy Seafood Chowder:

Makes 8-10 cups

Cook time 30-40 minutes stove top or 2-3 hours crock pot

  • 1 onion diced
  • 3-4 carrots diced
  • 2 stalks of celery
  • 1 brick of cream cheese softened
  • 6 cups of milk (more or less depending on soup thickness prefer ed)
  • 3 potatoes peeled and diced
  • 1 can of corn w/ juice 15.25 oz
  • 1 can Cream of Mushroom Soup, 10.75 oz
  • 1 can of can crab 6.5  oz(you can buy the expensive lumped meat or the simple can on the shelf= your choice)
  • 1 can of clams  4.5 oz(chopped or whole –  then chop the whole again size depends on amount of clams- 10-13 oz can)
  • 1 bag of frozen shrimp  uncooked 12oz or 16 oz  (tails on or off – remove tails prior to cooking-  size your choice based on expense you might want to cut if large)
  • 1 bag of scallops optional
  • 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne pepper
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • Hot sauce to taste
  • Optional Garnish Bacon or green onions

 

How to make Seafood Chowder:

  1. In a large pan saute, onions, carrots and celery  making a Mirepoix (time saving tip use frozen mirepoix )
  2. Transfer your Mirepoix to a crock pot or large soup pot
  3. Add brick of cream cheese allow to melt (or melt in microwave for 30-1 minute till smooth) don’t burn
  4. Then dump mushroom soup, corn w/ juice, potatoes, milk in pot
  5. Add salt, cayenne pepper, pepper and hot sauce
  6. Cook till potatoes are soft (20 minutes on stove) (crock pot 2-3 hours)
  7. Then add sea food clams, crap, shrimp (tails removed and cut to bite size)
  8. Allow seafood to warm and serve.  Try it with a crusty bread
  9. Quick Crock pot you can do everything on stove and keep warm in a crock pot for a party.

Here is an printable version of Easy Seafood Chowderseafood chowder

Menu Planning:

  • Monday Easy Seafood Chowder
  • Tues: Easy Fish
  • Wednesday : Porkchops
  • Thursday: Chilli
  • Friday : Dinner out

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Have a great week .. are you making anything special this week?

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Menu Plan Monday

mushroomsThis week is a Halloween.  I am done shipping for the the best costume day every,  there will be many superheros run out this Thursday wearing BabyPop Capes.   I also have a busy week because Tuesday I am hosting my new moms group.   So I am doing some new recipes a seafood chowder my sister does for her family parties.

 

Monday: Meat Loaf Muffins, green beans, and finger poatoes

Tuesday Debbie’s Seafood Chowder (recipe coming next week)

Wednesday: Breakfast for dinner- Pancakes

Thursday: Pizza

Friday Tacos

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Menu Plan Monday

mushroomsSo this week another busy back to sch0ol swimming week.  So quick meal are supper important.  So we ned meals this week I can start at 3:30pm so there are done and resting by 5pm.

So this weeks Meal Plan is as follows:

Monday: Chicken Marsala with egg noodles

Tuesday:  Mini Pizza

Wednesday: Pot Roast  with slow cooker mashpotatoes

Thursday: Easy Fish with couscous

Fridays: Tacos with re-fried beans and Rice

 

Be sure to check in with my blog tomorrow as I review Gold Emblem Rice crisps and My Olive Tempnade Recipe.

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Apple Picking and Meal Planning

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We spent the weekend apple picking.  So this week we will be eating apples.  My daughter said she never had my apple pie.. because I have not made one while my kids were alive.

apple pickingWhen my husband and I were 1st together we went apple picking on  his family land and I was so excited to make my 1st apple pie.  His family is a “family of bakers” they are  Pennsylvania Dutch ..so they can all bake and exceptional pastry people.  The first went to his home for Thanksgiving, there were  17 pies were on the table.. I am not joking, pies are a serious business, in the Aikens household.

I spent all day making dough.  I want to show I could do it.. my hands are warm= bad for dough.  I brought a very .. well ugly pie to my future Mother in law home. As  she returned the pie plate back to me,  there was a box of easy make pie crust.

She said “I was taught you never return a plate empty” .  Then  continuing  “Sherry, there is nothing wrong with using a ready made crust.”  with a wink

So I have not made a apple pie again 20 years later till this week. .. I feel victory  for me in on the pie horizon.  that and the frozen pie crust.

My son agrees .. he was happy when he could use the basket. apple pickingMy daughter loves pulling the empty cart in to the orchard.. my husband is a good sport and pulls it back out of the orchard

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Ok I let my kid eat the apples fresh off the treesapple pickingMeal Planning:

Monday: Perogies and Beef sausage

Tuesday: Baked chicken legs, green beans, butternut squash  and apple pie

Wednesday: spaghetti and meatballs

Thursday: Pork Chops and homemade apple sauce

Friday: Tacos, refried beans, rice

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Have a great week!

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Simple Easy Egg Burrito : Meal Planning September 23

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Meal Planning and  Simple Easy Egg Burrito

My son is headed back to school today ! So it is a lovely day.  This is my easy morning omelet wrap.  I love this because I get the taste I want with little mess. One pan clean up and i makes me feel like a splurge.

Easy Egg Burrito or Breakfast  Wrap

Ingredients:

  • 3 egg (toss 2 yokes) to make 3 whites, 1 yoke
  • 1 slice of cheese
  • hot sauce
  • 2 slices of lunch ham
  • 10″ tortilla
  • non stick cooking spray  or butter

 

  1. In a pan spray with non stick spray heat medium heat
  2. Put eggs in (1 yoke 3 whites ), add hot sauce if you want (I save the other yokes for the dogs)
  3. cover to spread up the cooking processegg cooking steps
  4. Uncover add the ham
  5. Then add the cheese
  6. Place tortilla right on top of the egg/ham/cheese
  7. Cover allow the steam to soften up the tortilla
  8. Carefully flip the egg tortilla on a platetortilla on pan and plate

Fold and eat !  This is how you fold so it does not all fall out. how to fold a burritoBe sure to check out my Pinterest board for more great Ideas  at  Sherry Aikens easy egg burritos

 My meal Planning for week 9/23

 

Monday : Crock Pot Creamy Italian Chicken & Rice Casserole (with Dairy Free option)   From Stacy makes cents

Tuesday : we: I crock pot night I am doing beef roast and potatoes

Wednesday: Perfect Cooked fish with couscous

Thursday: BBQ Pizza with Apples and Gouda- Revisit from last weeks post  I have more dough

Friday Taco Night (rice, re-fried beans, meat, and cheese)

Saturday up for grabs.

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