Weekly Menu Plan 4-30 to 5-6, 2023

 

Oh, boy, I can't wait for May to get here tomorrow!  Even though our high temp is supposed to be only 49 degrees tomorrow, it warms back up to the 60's by the middle of the week.  I love all the flowers, and the birds chirping in the morning sunlight, and the gorgeous spring breezes.  The smell of the air is just amazing!  I had my kitchen windows open yesterday, and it was just so pretty.  

I got my new stove last week.  Nothing too fancy, but I'm treating it with kid gloves for awhile.  Until the newness wears off!  I'm cleaning it every time I use it.  So far so good!

Here is my menu plan for the coming week.  Recipe links are below.

Here are the links for the recipes for this week:

Sunday:

Blueberry Pie Baked Oatmeal is from Two Pink Peonies (don't you love that name!)

Gluten Free Lemon Bundt Cake is from Mama Gourmand

Monday:

Gluten Free Waffles are from Mama Knows Gluten Free

Tuesday:

Gluten Free Banana Muffins are from Gluten Free Baking

Chicken and Rice Soup is from Spend With Pennies

Gluten Free Cannoli Pie is from Gluten Free On A Shoestring

Wednesday:

Gluten Free Blueberry Pancakes are from The Loopy Whisk

Easy Beef Bowls are from Salt and Lavendar

Thursday:

Gluten Free Meatloaf is from Mama Gourmand

Gluten Free Chocolate Cake is from Hershey's

Friday:

Gluten Free Bacon Cheddar Quiche with Hash Brown Crust is from The Frayed Apron

Saturday:

Gluten Free German Apple Cake is from Fearless Dining

And that's a wrap!  I hope you have a blessed week, and enjoy your family meal times!  Hugs!

Weekly Menu Plan April 23-29, 2023

 

How are you all doing today?  We're having a cloudy, chilly spring day here in Indiana, but it will be hot before we know it!

I'm cooking from the freezer this week.  Honestly, I don't know how it gets filled up so quickly!  But I have an old chest freezer, and Heaven only knows what's at the bottom.  I need to work my way through a bunch of stuff to find out.  So, tonight, we're having corned beef and cabbage.  I know, St. Patrick's Day is over.  But I bought an extra corned beef (why?) and it was on top in the freezer.  So it smells like St. Patrick's Day in my house today.

It's so easy to make.  I just spray my crockpot with olive oil spray, then slice an onion and put it on the bottom.  Then I top it with the corned beef brisket, and sprinkle the top of the meat with the seasoning packet and some brown sugar.  Then I quarter some potatoes, sliced some carrots, slice some cabbage, and layer all that on top of the meat.

Here is the corned beef covered with potatoes and carrots.  We like a lot of carrots!

Here it is, covered up to the very top with the cabbage.  The crockpot is completely full!

I cook it on High for about 7 hours, then it's ready for dinner!

I also made some gluten free Irish Soda Bread.  I used my new Fat Daddio 10" baking pan.

I have no idea how it will be when I slice into it, but right now it's looking pretty good!  

I also made some Butterscotch Brownies (gluten free) that are still in the oven, so I'll post a picture of those when they are out of the oven.  They smell SO GOOD!

Well, enough of that!  Here is my menu plan for the week.  Notes for the links are below it.

Sunday:

Sweet Irish Soda Bread is from Souffle Bombay

Gluten Free Butterscotch Brownies are from Fearless Dining

Monday:

Blackberry and Strawberry Baked Oatmeal is from All Recipes

Tuesday:

Gluten Free Lemon Poppyseed Muffins are from Fearless Dining

Gluten Free Potato Soup is from Wheat by the Wayside

Wednesday:

Gluten Free Banana Oat Waffles are from Cookie + Kate

Gluten Free Key Lime Pie is from Meaningful Eats

Thursday:

Gluten Free Chicken Caesar Pasta Salad is from Mommy Hates Cooking

Friday:

Fathead Pizza is from The Kitchn - my whole family loves this pizza dough

Saturday:

Gluten Free Blueberry Coffee Cake is from King Arthur Baking

Gluten Free Vegetable Soup is from Living Freely Gluten Free

Gluten Free Apple Cobbler is from Mama Gourmand

And that's it for this week!  Have a wonderful, blessed week....and enjoy those family mealtimes!

Weekly Menu Plan 4-16 to 4-22, 2023

 

I love spring, and all the flowers and warm temperatures!  But today, it is rainy and temps are dropping quickly.  I guess winter isn't wanting to leave just yet!  Yesterday it was 80 degrees, tonight we are looking at wet snowflakes falling!  In a few days, though, it will be back in the 70's until we get another system that tanks the temps.  Mother's Day is on the way, though, and that means there's usually no more frost until fall.  At least here in Indiana!

Last week, I ditched a menu plan in favor of taking it easy for a week.  I cooked so much for Easter, I was kind of tired of it.  We had a lot of leftovers, but not as many as I thought.  Family members took home some of them, and we ate a lot for dinner that day.  Most everything turned out great!  The pork loins were fabulous!  The only thing that didn't turn out was my gluten free carrot cake.  It was so wet, even after baking, and so sticky, that it just crumbled in a heap of wet cake.  I threw it out.  I don't know if it was my flour, or what.  So I made another carrot cake using regular flour, and that one was very good, according to everyone else.  I was a little bummed, because I love carrot cake, and I have never had one not turn out.  But I think I had enough to eat without it!  I usually use Bob's Red Mill gluten free flour, but this time I used Pamela's.  Since gluten free flours differ so greatly, I think that was my problem.  Back to Bob's Red Mill next time I make that cake!

Here is this week's menu plan.  I'm ready to start cooking again!  I've made tonight's dinner several times, and I love it.  So good!  I'm looking forward to a busy week ahead - I'm getting a new stove delivered on Wednesday, and can't wait!  I just hope the oven - which has an air fryer and convection oven which my current one does not - works well!  It will take some getting used to, I'm sure!

Notes are below.

Sunday:

Gluten Free Taco Spaghetti is from Good For You Gluten Free - I love this!  Easy, makes a big pot so we have lunch leftovers for a couple days, and it's delicious!

Monday:

Gluten Free Waffles are from Mama Knows Gluten Free - they're so good!

Gluten Free Chicken Pot Pie is from Mama Gourmand

Gluten Free Nutella Blondies is from Jackie Ourman - new recipe for me to try

Wednesday:

Maple Sausage Lentil Soup is from Haute Flavor - I love this soup!  It is so delicious.  I'm not usually a lentil fan, but I love them in this soup!

Crockpot Baked Apples are from Kleinworth - the first time I made these, I was so surprised at how delicious they are!

Thursday:

Gluten Free Peach Cobbler is from King Arthur Baking - another new dessert I'm trying this week

Friday:

Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Muffins are from The Loopy Whisk - one of my favorite places for gluten free recipes

Saturday:

Gluten Free Cinnamon Crisp Coffee Cake is from King Arthur Baking

Cobb Salad is from Taste of Home - salads are starting to start really good, especially if the temps stay warm!

That's it for another week!  Have a blessed week, y'all, and enjoy meals with your family!

Easter Menu

I'm so sorry this is late!  My granddaughter has been on spring break last week and this week, and I've been on grandma duty. She keeps me hopping, that's for sure!

I will post recipes for my Easter menu at a later date, because I am writing this from my tablet and I have no idea how to link from this app.  But I wanted to get this posted.  And, a bunch of these recipes are from cookbooks. But all are tried and true!  

Here it is:

Baked Spiral Cut Ham with Brown Sugar Glaze

Pork Tenderloin Roast

Deviled Eggs

Knorr Spinach Dip in a Bread Bowl

Dried Beef Cheese Ball, Crackers

Yeast Rolls

Macaroni and Cheese

Corn

Pyramid Mashed Potatoes

Scalloped Potatoes

Stick of Butter Rice

Arkansas Green Beans 

Cauliflower Salad

Strawberry Pretzel Salad

Peachy Keen Salad

Frozen Peach Salad

Ham and Pasta Salad

Grape Salad

Peeps Cake

Gluten Free Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Paula Deen's Banana Pudding

Mini Cherry Cheesecakes

German Chocolate Pie

My Blueberry Heaven Pie

I have everything prepped and ready to assemble tomorrow and Saturday.  

I wish you all a happy and blessed Easter!

See you with a new menu in a couple days!

Joansy

Weekly Menu Plan 4-2 to 4-28, 2023

 

Can you believe it's Palm Sunday already?  Next week Easter!  It seems like this year just got started, and here we are 1/4 of the way through 2023 already!  

I'm working on my Easter menu.  I should have had it done by now, I am such a procrastinator!  It seemed like Easter was so far off, and that I had so much time.  Just like Christmas, it just sneaks up until it's RIGHT NOW!  I hope to have my menu in place before I go to bed tonight.

I totally forgot to post last week's menu.  I just got busy, and spaced it.  If I don't post it on Sunday afternoon, I forget all about posting.  I'm a creature of habit, I guess!

Here is this week's menu.  I have a lot to do this week, so I hope I have the energy to get all of this done!  I have Easter baskets almost done, Easter groceries to shop for, and of course cleaning and cooking.  I better double up on the vitamins this week!

Notes with recipe links are below the menu.

Recipe links:

Sunday:

Carrot Cake Baked Oatmeal is from Vintage Mountain Homestead

Crockpot Swedish Meatballs is from The Country Cook

Gluten Free Banana Cake is from Gluten Free Baking

Tuesday:

Gluten Free Lemon Ricotta Muffins is from What The Fork

Crockpot Cowboy Soup is from Naturlifehouse (I will use gluten free tomato soup and maybe add some gluten free elbow macaroni to the soup)

Baked Apple Pie Rice Paper Rolls is from Officially Gluten Free ( I have a TON of these rice paper rolls I got at Meijer, so I am hoping these are good!)

Wednesday:

Gluten Free Pork Chops and Gravy are from Pinch of Gluten Free

Gluten Free Oatmeal Cream Pies are from This Vivacious Life

Thursday:

Gluten Free French Toast Casserole is from One Lovely Life

Friday:

Gluten Free Beef Chow Mein is from Beauty and the Bench Press

Gluten Free Peach Pie is from GF Jules

Saturday:

Gluten Free Coffee Cake is from Fearless Dining

That's it for this week!  Have a blessed week, while you try to bless others each day!  Be the blessing!