Category: dinners

Breakfast pizza and orange-banana smoothies. We thought the immersion blender was kaput, so the smoothies were a treat when we figured out how to fix it!

Mashed potatoes, Italian sausage, and green beans. An attempt at cheesemaking didn’t work out quite as planned last week, so I’m trying to think of ways to use the result up. The mashed potatoes were a perfect conduit for runny cheese!

Homemade pepperoni, onion, and red pepper pizza with whole wheat crust.

Even after several years of a photography project in 4-H, my picture taking skills are still lacking. I was always better at composition and not the technical aspects. This dinner was tilapia, pasta salad, and oranges. I had planned to grill the fish, but the weather didn’t cooperate, so it was pan-fried instead.

It was really hot last week, so we put our grill to good use to avoid heating up the house even more. Italian sausage, peppers and onions, and potatoes with fresh herbs that Mallory gave me for my birthday!

When Andy’s parents brought Meg back from her week at their house, we had shrimp kabobs, potatoes, and Andy’s mom’s Chinese salad. Also, homebrew and homemade margaritas!

Grilled chicken breasts, green beans (at this rate, we’ll still be eating last year’s green beans while I’m canning this year’s), and egg noodles. I’m looking forward to the day when I can make my own egg noodles with eggs from our chickens!

The last week of school, Meg at Grandma and Grandpa’s, and new chickens have kept me too busy to remember to post our dinners, so I’m a little behind! This was my birthday dinner of bacon-wrapped sirloin, fresh broccoli, and buttered new potatoes! Andy got out of making my birthday cake this year by taking me to Dairy Queen instead since my mom made Jello Poke Cake while we were at their house!

I thought we had some frozen ground turkey and beef, but we didn’t, so these were “mini chicken parmesan” with spaghetti. Really, they were the end of a bag of chicken nuggets covered with cheese, but I won’t tell if you don’t!

Breakfast casserole…

…Meg was EXCITED!! (but she still only ate the oranges)