Mandy and Jace

We are still enjoying our vacation, so I will not be doing a meal plan for this week. Hope everyone had a great 4th and has a great rest of the week.

Happy eating!

After an exhausting but exciting weekend we are ready to relax. I am counting down the days to the weekend and it’s only Monday! Every year our shop closes for a week around the 4th of July and we look forward to it every year. It is our time to rest and recover. We will be heading out of town on Friday and we’re not sure when we are coming back.

Here’s this weeks meal plan.
Tonight: burgers and sweet potato fries
Tuesday: 5 spice beef stir fry
Wednesday: grilled lamb chops and couscous
Thursday: take out since we will be getting ready to leave
Friday: We’re outta here!!!

Happy eating!

This was a photo of my kitchen on Saturday. I set out to make an ordinary coffee cake. Now, I’ve made my share of coffee cakes before and had no problems, but this coffee cake had it out for me. I was using a different recipe than I normally use and this particular recipe called for beaten egg whites. My stand mixer was occupied so no problem, I have a handy dandy immersion blender with a whisk attachment. Don’t I? The attachment was no where to be found and, the only thing I could do was mix them by hand. If you’ve ever done this before you’ll know what a pain hand beating egg whites can be. I thought my arm was going to fall off! I finally got the batter mixed and put it in my pan. I wanted a thicker coffee cake so I put it in a smaller pan than what the recipe called for. Turns out the cake rose so much that it flopped all over the side of the pan and into the bottom of the oven. After a couple of tears and lots of throwing things around, I cleaned the oven, poured out the cake and started over. Thankfully my mystery solving husband found the attachment, and the second cake was much easier but no less annoying.

Here’s what we are eating this week. Hopefully it will go smoothly.
Tonight: King Ranch enchiladas
Tuesday: waffles, eggs and bacon
Wednesday: beans and Cornbread
Thursday: pork Loin and mac and cheese
Friday: date night!

Last weekend we moved our grill into our new back yard. The funny thing about this grill is it was given to us 2 1/2 years ago as a wedding gift to us from Jace’s parents and it has never been turned on. There was a no grill rule in the apartment we were in so it just sat in the garage for 2 1/2 years. Hopefully this week we are going to fire it up, and have our first BBQ in our new house.

Here’s this weeks plan.
Tonight: take out before youth praise and worship practice
Tuesday: grilled lamb chops and lemon thyme rice (hopefully grilled outside!)
Wednesday: haven’t decided yet. Probably paninis or leftover soup
Thursday: chicken and zucchini carbonara
Friday: date night!

Happy eating!

This photo has nothing to do with food but I love it so much I had to put it up.

Well, we are almost settled into our new house. All I have left to do are the office, guest room and put up decorations. I have to say, things are pretty good around our house right now. We are loving being in our own place. I don’t think I realized how much different is was going to be from being in the apartment. It actually feels like it is mine, and not something that is being loaned to me.

Since our kitchen is now put together, we can go back to our normal cooking schedule, which makes me a happy girl. Dinner time is my favorite time of the day. Not because of the food but because it is our time to catch up on the day and relax (the food’s not too bad either).

Here’s the plan.
Tonight: Teriyaki white rice with veggies
Tuesday: Beef fajitas with rice and refried beans
Wednesday: Cowboy soup (recipe courtesy of my wonderful mother-in-law)
Thursday: take out after practice
Friday: date night!

Happy eating!