Weekly Menu

Another week has gone by.  This was a little crazy, hence the ZERO updating to the blog.  I did a Beauty Society Party,  check out my web site if you are curious.  www.mybeautysociety.com/gabrielle and on Thursday I accompanied Nikki on a mini road trip for her work to Fresno Ca.   It was a long day, 3 hours each way, but a lot of fun. 

Below are some pictures of what was on last weeks menu. 

This week we are changing it up some and straying from our normal routine.  Doing a few more "sandwich" type meals.

Sunday:  Roasted Chicken Breasts with homemade Gnocchi, (1st try for me so crossing fingers.) and grilled asparagus.
Monday: Croissant Sandwiches with Avocado and Tomato, Yum!
Tuesday: Philly Cheese Steak with grilled garlic potato wedges, see the recipe posted on http://www.food.com/recipe/garlic-potato-wedges-475132  (Just need to post a pic!)
Wednesday: Homemade Pizza

Thursday: Oven fried Chicken with Pasta
Friday: FEND, woo hoo!  Love the day off.

Last week I made Orange Chicken.  Used a recipe I found on Plain Chicken Blog and they came out really good.  Elijah loved them and ate the leftovers that I hadn't mixed into the sauce.  The sauce was a combo of homemade spice, sweet and sour with a little of Trader Joe's General Chicken sauce added in.

Also last week, I originally had homemade french bread set and opted to make these pull apart (Monkey bread style) Garlic rolls that I had pinned from http://life-as-a-lofthouse.blogspot.com/2012/02/mini-garlic-monkey-breads.html instead.  They came out so good, garlic and buttery heaven, definitely a family hit and will make them again soon. 

I am off to try my hat at Gnocchi.  Wish me luck and have a great week.

Weekly Menu

I have finally come up with what I am going to make this week.  We have changed our shopping time to Friday nights instead of Sunday mornings to open up the weekend and it is wrecking havoc on my brain.  Totally changed the schedule so when we shopped I had no idea what we were going to eat.  Needless to say, we probably bought more "junk" food than we needed and a mishmash of items that I was hoping I could piece together with things from the pantry and freezer.

Today I went through what I had bought and what I had on hand and came up with this weeks menu.  (It helped that 2 of the nights were "Guys Nights" since I will be gone.)

Awhile back I pinned on how we "organize" our weekly meals so we maintain specific themes each night and change up the meal.  This makes is a little easier to create the menu instead of starting from scratch each week.  Also helps with the teenage son who, even though the menu is on the fridge, he still asks "Whats for dinner?" But at least he has an idea of what may be coming.

This weeks menu:
Sunday: Homemade Orange Chicken with steamed rice, pot stickers and broccoli  (I found a recipe from the Plain Chicken blog for Tempura Chicken which I think will work well with this.
Monday (Soup/Salad and Sandwich Night): BLT Sandwiches and Albondigas (Meatball) Soup
Tuesday (Mexican):  Sausage Ravioli w/red sauce, grilled asparagus and homemade french bread (Normally it is mexican night but Saturday Steve made Chicken Enchiladas so we are changing it up.

Wed and Thur is Guy's Night, WooHoo!!!

Today was also spent sitting outside and enjoying the Southern California weather, which I am doing right now. 

I made a few items I had previously pinned on Pinterest and will post those tomorrow.