Category: dinners

Dinners recently have been mostly repeats, so not much to post. Last night’s dinner was also something we have frequently, and takes pretty much no effort: stir fry and egg rolls. But, I thought you might want to see something we ate for once!!

Fried egg sandwiches and mango-berry smoothies. The mango was from a can and was WAY easier to figure out than cutting up a fresh one, and just as good!

Chili dogs with leftover chili, homemade potato chips (that I sacrificed my thumb for), and coleslaw to use up some of the accidentally bought cabbage.

Chili, since it was still winter here in Iowa until yesterday!

Meg was a BIG fan of the chili. Good thing, since she doesn’t like much else that I make!

I had the day off on Monday and we found strawberries for 75 cents at Walmart over the weekend, so I made a whole bunch of jam and some bread to eat it on. Also, eggs and turkey bacon, so our whole meal wouldn’t be toast.

The perfect Sunday dinner: Grilled chicken, homegrown green beans and homemade applesauce, and noodles (from a packet, oh well!). I was trying to quickly defrost the chicken leg quarters, so just “marinated” them in a big bowl of seasoned water for about two hours. They ended up super moist on the inside and the skin was perfectly crispy. I don’t know if this was from the marinade or Andy’s grilling skills, or some combination of both, but it was delicious!

Tacos. Somehow, though, we ended up with a head of cabbage instead of lettuce. This is what happens when you try to buy a month’s worth of groceries on a Friday night after a long week when the weather’s nice and the store is super busy. Anyway, I went ahead and shredded the cabbage and gave it a little vinegar and salt so we could have some crunch in our tacos. Turned out ok, but I wouldn’t do it on purpose!

Along with two kinds of shredded cheese and cheese crackers she had for her dinner, Meg really enjoyed the cream cheese frosting on the banana bars we had for dessert!

Curry chicken and vegetables. The picture kind of makes it look gross, but it was really good!

Macaroni, cheese, and the end of our Easter ham. And peas. Meg actually ate more than the peas with this dinner!

Southwest casserole that we had in the freezer and cheddar cornbread. Somehow, I put cornstarch in the bread instead of baking powder, so they are a bit, ummm, dense. We ate them that night, but I didn’t keep the leftovers.