Tag: cooking/brewing

Oh, how I’m looking forward to having our own eggs again…. In preparation, my version of an Egg McMuffin: egg, bacon, cheddar cheese, and green peppers. We also had smoothies, but they didn’t get in the picture. Meg put her smoothie on her table in the kitchen, walked to the other side of the room, sat down and said, “Watch smoo-wee, Mama?” Apparently, “smoothie” and “movie” are the same to an almost-two-year-old.

I made caramel corn. Andy wanted to take pictures….

Breakfast casserole with sausage, mushrooms, onion, and spinach. I thought the extra veggies upped the class a little!

I forgot to take a picture of our actual Valentine’s Day dinner, but six of us had pasta, salad, and bread for our “usual” Tuesday night dinner. Then, we had this cake.

A Pinterest recipe: chicken breasts, cream cheese, salsa, corn, and black beans cooked all day in the crock pot. It looked kind of gross, but served with cheese, spinach, and more salsa on tortillas, it was pretty good! I made the leftovers of the meat concoction into a casserole with some rice and tortillas crunched up on top.

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!