Quick and easy recipe list...

When the Little Miss came along last year I am ashamed to say I was very much unprepared when it came to our food stocks...we survived the first few weeks of her life living on Reeses Peanut Butter Cups and the occasional take out meal. Not good, not good at all.

This time around I am determined to not do that. However, we don't have *any* room in our freezer to pre-make any meals sooooo I am making a list as I go along of the quick, easy, (mostly) non nutrient sapping recipes that we liked so I have them close at hand when the time comes!

Pineapple Porkchops

French Lasagne

Hot Chicken Salad Sandwiches

chicken and vegetable gravy over puff toast

Tatertot Hot Dish

Sour Cream Noodle Bake

Beef and Bean Burritos

Pasta with Tomato Cream Sauce

then there are the usual...

Grilled Cheese/Tomato Soup

Chicken Apple Pie

Sheppard's Pie

And more to come...anyone have some suggestions?? Want to keep things interesting :)

There's a party in my Tummy...

Okay, so finally a recipe review...I have a few waiting in the wings, but I want to get some pictures (of course!) before I actually do anything with them so I figured I would start with tonights meal since its fresh in my head!

Tonight for dinner I made The Pioneer Woman's Pasta with Cream Sauce...

Original Recipe can be found Here

And here is what mine turned out like!

As you can see from the picture above I used these lovely mini bow ties for the pasta :)

They work so much better for the Little Miss and her Little Fingers :) the only other thing I changed was that I added some chicken to the mix to give it a little more sustenance.

And the verdict??

Well the Little Miss thinks it's finger licking good :)

And so did the grown ups, except we didn't use our fingers to eat lol. This recipe was super super simple and makes a TON I used 1 1/2 boxes of the bowties figuring I would have some left over to make mac & cheese for lunch tomorrow, but nope there was enough sauce for all of it.

Will definitely make this recipe again!

Menu Planning

Sorry Sorry Sorry I was a major slacker with this this week...here is the plan for the rest of the week, hope to get back on track next week!!

Wednesday ~ Grilled Cheese/Tomato Soup (game night @ work is a possibility for Daddy so it may just be me and Grandma and the Little Miss...)

Thursday ~ Pioneer Woman's Pasta with Tomato Cream Sauce

Friday ~ Fish Fry and/or burgers @ Persico's (love to support this little local place, especially since its right at the end of our road!)

Saturday ~ Turkey (never got to it a couple of weeks ago so here is another try!

Menu Planning

Well it looks like Saturday's are going to be our new shopping day so...can't really do Menu Planning Monday anymore as it wouldn't really work out :)

Saturday ~ Sour Cream Noodle Bake (Grandma Peggy is coming over so hope this turns out good!)

Sunday ~ Turkey (yes a whole one...Matt wants to try out the perfect Turkey option on the new stove :) )

Monday ~ Beef and Bean Burritos

Tuesday ~ Stuffed Shells

Wednesday ~ Left overs

Thursday ~ Breakfast for Dinner (Kindermusik and a Dr. Apt...not going to be getting to fancy for dinner...)

Friday ~ Soup and Grilled Cheese

A little secret

I am going to let you in on a little secret...I used to be scared to cook...

I still am sometimes, I definitely have a major aversion to touching raw meat, I am *slowly* getting over that but it's still something to work around. I do not however have an aversion to eating it though once I have cooked the heck out of it, though usually cooking the heck out of a piece of meat doesn't yield the best results taste wise.

So here I am separating this blog off of my normal family one bringing you all my successes (and failures) as I try to bring some variety to my family's table and *try* to be healthy and balanced while doing it.

I'll share the recipes I have found and what we thought of them (and where I found them!), hopefully I will learn how to use all my brand new and/or brand new to me even though it's been in my cabinet for years with out use, Kitchen gadgets, and hopefully I will inspire the little Miss to help me out in there one of these days once she is a bit older!