Category: dinners

This was an attempt to get Meg to eat with us. Peas, tiny shell pasta, bacon and a light cream-Parmesan sauce. She ate until she had a bite of bacon, then stopped and asked for a cookie.

Mini breakfast pizzas on whammy biscuits and orange-berry smoothies.
Also, between this meal and the last one I posted, we had three chicken noodle soup meals (plus one more for lunch). It was so delicious, I forgot to take a picture, though! That’s five meals from one chicken. Pretty good investment of $5, I’d say!

Pinterest to the rescue! More roasted chicken reheated (if you’re counting, that’s meal #2 for that chicken), green bean casserole, and potatoes with cheese, bacon, and green onions. Those Pinterest potatoes were really good. I sliced the potatoes into about half inch rounds, then baked them at 400 degrees for 15 minutes, turning once. Then, covered them with the cheese and bacon and broiled for just a minute more. If I had been thinking straight when I made my last gallon of yogurt, I would have not made the whole thing vanilla so we could have had a little dolloped on top of things like this in lieu of sour cream, but I’ve never been known for thinking ahead, so no dairy deliciousness for our potatoes. Oh well…

Roast chicken, rice, and California blend vegetables. I don’t know why I don’t roast a chicken more often. Less than $5 for at least 4 meals and not a ton of effort.

This meal looks pretty boring, but it was fried egg sandwiches, sweet potato fries, and applesauce. The sandwiches made me sad for not having fresh tomato, but soon enough!

Ham and veggie frittata, toast with homemade grape jelly, and grapefruit. January’s meal plan called for several soups, but it’s been so warm that we’re improvising with some of the soup ingredients to have warmer weather meals, because who wants soup when it’s 70 degrees outside??

Corn chowder and honey brown ale beer bread (don’t worry, the cheap beer wasn’t very good on its own). Word to the wise: don’t add a couple of grated potatoes to a big pot of soup if you don’t intend to let it cook for a good long while. The uncooked potato will turn what you had hoped to be two more nights’ dinner into stinky black mush.

Homemade Pad Thai. I was pretty impressed with myself for getting it pretty close! Also, the internet taught me that if you put the white part of a green onion in a cup of water, the green part will grow back given some time. No more buying green onions for us!!

Egg in a hole, more leftover Christmas ham, and pineapple. The pineapple was a dollar and tasted like it, so it made it’s final appearance New Year’s morning in a smoothie.

Tomato soup (even with nonstop canning in August and September, I’m still going to run out of tomatoes before summer), grilled cheese on homemade bread, and pineapple.