Menus and a recipe

Monday
Barbeque chicken
GF Mac and cheese
Caesar salad
Grapes

Tuesday
Gluten Free Penne with Sausage in Cream sauce

• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 medium onion, thinly sliced
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 pound sweet Italian sausage
• 2/3 cup dry white wine
• 1 14 1/2-ounce can mini diced peeled tomatoes with juices
• 1 cup whipping cream
• 2 tsp Italian seasoning

• 1 pound Gluten free(Ronzoni) penne pasta

• 1 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese

Preparation

Melt butter with oil in heavy large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic and sauté until golden brown and tender, about 7 minutes. Add sausage and sauté until golden brown and cooked through, breaking up with back of spoon, about 7 minutes. Drain any excess drippings from skillet. Add wine to skillet and boil until almost all liquid evaporates, about 2 minutes. Add tomatoes with juices and simmer
3 minutes. Add cream and simmer until sauce thickens slightly, about 5 minutes. Stir in Italian seasoning. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Remove from heat. (Sauce can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate.)
Cook GF pasta in large pot of boiling salted water until tender but still firm to bite. Drain pasta; transfer to large bowl.
Bring sauce to simmer. Pour sauce over pasta. Add 3/4 cup cheese and toss to coat. Sprinkle with remaining 1/4 cup cheese.
I freeze half of this and just thaw and warm in the oven.  Delicious.

Wednesday
Beans and rice in the crock pot

Thursday
Tacos with leftover Beans and rice.

Friday
Potato soup and chili in the crock pot.

Here I am again...

It's been awhile.
Life gets busy, so I keep trying to scale back and make it easier.
Starting over with menus:

Monday:
Ginger beef stir fry with broccoli and rice

Tuesday:
Baked Ziti(freezer meal)

Wednesday:New tradition- every Wednesday is beans and rice day
Beans and rice burrito bowls

Thursday:
Potato soup

Friday: left overs or out to eat.

Saturday: Day trip to Lafayette for Aaron's game and to see Amy
Hopefully Pizza since Aaron won't be with us :)

Sunday: Small group

Menus

I am sitting here thinking about how tired I am and how I have no idea what I am making for meals this week.                        hmmmm, I need to get on it!


Monday- staff meeting, hopefully I have time to make the meatballs!
Spaghetti and meatballs
garlic bread

Tuesday
Orange chicken- freezer meal
rice

Wednesday
chili in the crock pot - old stand by for fall and winter.  Since it willbe raining for days on end, Why not !?

 Thursday- Still not sure how this night will work out.  Joe is gone and I have 2 awards events to go to.
Leftovers

Friday-
Pizza

This is the printable I am using for Teacher Appreciation week gifts!

Menus and Smiles

Monday
Free Pizza from Papa Johns

Tuesday
Fish
Asparagus and brussel sprouts
(our house will smell great!)

Wednesday
Lazy cooks BBQ chicken
Broccoli cheese rice

Thursday
Hamburgers on the grill
mac and cheese
salad

 Friday
Chicken caesar salad

This pup makes me smile everyday!

This picture just makes me smile for so many reasons.  This is little Davidson from Haiti.  He was a year old when I was there and malnourished, with red ends to his hair.  He snuggled up to me and fell asleep, I fell in love.  I prayed as I held each of the kiddos, but he took my heart.  Now today he is 2 and has made it through the malnutrition program.  He is as ornery as ever here, walking his uncles dog! It makes my heart happy!

Menus

Ann Voskamp is one of my favorite writers.  Her Holy week devotionals this week are just what I needed.  My favorite quote today is "If my thanksgiving is fickle, then my faith is fickle."  Ouch!  especially after writing my tax checks today and draining our savings account.  I'm just  thankful we have enough to cover it.

Monday
Amy cooks
Spaghetti with meat sauce
garlic breadsticks

Tuesday
Ann cooks
Pigs in a blanket
mac and cheese
caesar salad

Wednesday
Crock pot chicken and dumplings
fruit

Thursday
Crock pot Chili

Friday
Free papa johns pizza

Menus

Monday
Chicken Parmesan Meatballs
New recipe(here)
Garlic bread
salad

Tuesday
Spaghetti and meat sauce
leftover garlic bread

Wednesday
Tacos

Thursday
Chili in crock pot

Friday
Pizza

Menus and a recipe

Monday
Chicken Pot pie
Rolls
Orange jello with mandarin oranges.
Chocolate peanut butter chip cookies

Tuesday
Tortellini casserole
Salad

Wednesday
Chicken quesedillas

Thursday
Spaghetti with meat sauce
garlic bread

Friday
Left overs

I am taking a meal to a friend tonight and thought I would just make 2 and we would eat one tonight too.  It's chicken pot pie, one of our family's favorites.  I started making this recipe before we had kids.  My husband had lived on his own for just one year before we were married.  He survived on Dinty Moore Beef Stew, ramen noodles, banquet pot pies and chunky soups. He still loves all of those meals too.  I'm lucky, I don't have a picky husband.
I thought that since he loved his banquet pot pies so much I would just make some homemade.  It took quite a few recipes to finally come up with this version that is his favorite.

Chicken Pot Pie

2 cans Cream of Potato soup
1 can of mixed vegetables
1/4 cup milk
2 cups cooked, chopped chicken breast
1/2 tsp of each: salt, pepper, thyme
Pastry for a double crust
Mix first 5 ingredients and set aside.  Place one crust in a pie pan, pour the filling in and top with other pie crust. Crimp edges, and cut slits in the top.
Bake for 40 minutes at 350.  Let sit for 10 minutes and serve.