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the menu: week of december 7
the menu: week of december 7

Whoa! How did it get to be Monday already? Three days late on the old menu post and I totally blame it on the hockey. It may have also been the baking. To make it up to you, I will try to post a review of last night’s amazing Chicken (and zucchini for our resident vegetarian) Parmesan. So delicious. And so little parmesan, which I find rather odd. Perhaps this is because it was “Italian” food via a Cajun cookbook? Keep a look out for that one. I also owe you one about our post-Thanksgiving gumbo. Yep. It’s good.

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the menu: week of november 16
the menu: week of november 16

I’m pretty sure that just about everyone is planning their Thanksgiving menus this week. I can’t tell you how many “perfect sides” and roast turkey recipes I have seen on my various social media feeds over the past two weeks. I am almost sick of looking at Brussels sprouts recipes and I love Brussels sprouts. Lucky for you, there will not be a Thanksgiving menu posted here. I am not cooking for Thanksgiving. Thank you to my mother-in-law for hosting us this holiday. I had no idea how much I needed the break from my kitchen.

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the menu: week of september 28
the menu: week of september 28

My husband picked out this week's offerings with a two minute peruse of one of my pin boards. Like menu planning is no big deal, we’ll just have this. I may have found my new method to planning dinner. Here, Honey. Take the ipad. Rob also made dinner last night using a recipe that he picked because he couldn’t find the one that we had originally planned to use. I'm pretty sure that I had made it once before, but it was delicious. I highly recommend a trip over to Williams-Sonoma’s blog, Taste, for some inspiration if you are in a rut.

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the menu: week of september 7
the menu: week of september 7

I hope you will bear with me while I slowly try to get back on the horse. We've had some family schedule changes and the start of school for everyone which has just made it slightly more difficult to be a planner. You know I like to force a square peg into a round whole as much as the next gal, but even I give up from time to time. Anyway, for now, I'll be posting our menu plan for Monday through Friday only and I'm not going to be making that handy dandy pinnable menu because nobody pins it anyway. I will continue to pin what we are eating here. Shall we see how that works? Fantasitc.

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the menu: week of august 17
the menu: week of august 17

Have you ever seen the movie “What about Bob?” I think I’ve watched it at least fifty times. Anyway, what I really need is a vacation. Now, as any stay at home mom knows, it is really difficult to take a vacation from your problems when you stay at home with them every day or have to bring them with you on vacation. Do I need to spell this one out for you? As much as I love my children, sometimes, I dream of not having to be anywhere at a certain time, not having to cook dinner, not having to be finished with whatever it is that I’ve started by a certain time. Baby steps.

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the menu: week of august 10 updated
the menu: week of august 10 updated

People. I have a lot of fruit in my house right now. A lot. My husband picked up our basket from the co-op yesterday. We have a melon, a pineapple, seven yellow plums, six pears, a huge bag of grapes, and a bunch of bananas. We also ordered a box (nineteen pounds!) of peaches and a box (12 8-ounce containers) of black mission figs. Oh, and the veggies. We have a head of butter lettuce, two bunches celery, a fennel bulb, and two heads of cabbage. Plus, Sam was in charge of groceries yesterday so we have a plethora of white mushrooms. I’m pretty sure that my husband used a bunch of produce from the basket last night to make dinner but I missed what he used because he had already started cooking when I got home from family day at the symphony. Bless him. (If you are curious, we had Moroccan fish tagine from the Mayo Clinic cookbook. Pretty good.)

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the menu: week of august 3
the menu: week of august 3

Back to reality. We’ve had a pretty good week without getting too excited in the kitchen. After several days of not really cooking, Gus decided that we needed to have chicken pot pies for dinner last night. Yep. He helped with the vegetables and covered the pies with crust. Not surprisingly, the kids are more vegetables in one sitting last night than they have all week because they “made” dinner. Must remember to schedule one night per week as kids’ choice.

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