Week 171

Oh boy. Loads to do and I slept in, so less time to do it. I almost sound like Rabbit from Winnie the Pooh, however, I don't think Rabbit sleeps in...

Potroast with Apricots + Green Beans

Thai Beef + Cukes

Spanish Tortilla + Greens

Kerala Coconut Chicken + Rice + Yogurt

Orange Chicken + Edamame

Pinto Beans + Cornbread

Week 170

We are getting festive in here! Maybe it is a result of the cold, but I want to make some Christmas treats, at least I want to make them as I type this. Will I actually make them? I don't know! Probably not, but at least I had the intention, friends. And that's a thing.

Pot Roast with Apricots + Green Beans

Chili 

Burritos

Broccoli Soup + Bread

Orange chicken

Pho - in IP

Eggnog Squares

Sublime Pecan Bars

Lemon Bars

Buckeyes

Week 169

Soo behind. This week is pretty much the same as last week. Minus Harry Potter dinner, which was fantastico.

Orange Chicken + Cukes

Burritos

Potato Soup + Bread

Lemon Pasta + Broccoli

Thai Beef + Cukes

Spanish Tortilla + Greens

Pintos + Cornbread

Week 168

Finishing up Fall Break. It's been real. It's been wonderful. It's been really wonderful. Josh took the week off with us and the weather was fantastic. Hooray!

Sadly, we trudge back to normal life next week. But until then, we have a Harry Potter dinner to attend to and some Headless Horseman to visit.

So here goes:

Harry Potter Dinner-
Guinness meat pie - I know I make this every time, but it sooo good.
Tiny potatoes, roasted
Sticky Toffee Pudding

Orange Chicken + Edamame

Spanish Tortilla + Greens

Andean Chicken and Potato Soup + Bread

Pintos + Cornbread + Eggs

Lemon Pasta + Crack Broccoli

Thai Beef (didn't get to that last week)

Week 167

Fall break is a truly wonderful event. I may vote for Fall Break for president. The weather, the leaves, the lazing about. We are staying home this year, and it has been so nice. No complaints. Well, except one complaint - we are out of milk... so I need to go grocery shopping. Thus, the menu.

Thai Basil Beef + Rice

Slowcooker Beef and Broccoli + Edamame

Thai Butternut Squash + Bread

Gyoza + Cukes + Edamame

Burritos

Pumpkin pasta + Salad

Pear, Maple Syrup, and Ginger Hand Pies

Fried Cheesy Pickles (for snacks while carving pumpkins)

Week 166

This list took way too long to come together. I started it at age 35, finished at age 85. That is fifty years writing a grocery list.

BBQ beef Korean bowls + Cukes + Funfetti Cake (for seester's birthday)

Greek Chicken + Greek Salad + Pita Bread

Burritos

Baked Potato Bar + Salad

Orange Chicken + Cukes

Pizza

Sweet Potato Curry + Veggies

Week 165

I have taken way too long to make this menu. The boys are dreading going to the grocery store with the intensity of the sun. It will be a long day, friends.

Menu -

Salmon with lemon herb sauce + Asiago White Beans with Farro and Baby Kale

Chana Masala+ Roasted Cauliflower + Naan

Goat Cheese Asparagus Pasta + Crack Broccoli

Burritos

Slow-Roasted Chicken, Porchetta-Style + Roasted Carrots + Mashed Potatoes

Orange Chicken + Edamame

Week 164

I have not been great about getting my meals in the blog. So, trying again!  Lots of bowl interests this week!

Menu-

Korean Beef Yum Yum Bowls + Cukes

Rainbow Veggie Bowls + Naan

Burritos

Bread Board Dinner (such a fan of this on busy nights!)

Salmon + Coconut Pilaf

Pizza night

Week 162

After almost two weeks on the road and a quick party for a new 7yo, I feel like I am slowly getting all my wild ducks in a row. The row, however wobbly, is still very much a row! School has started off to a pretty good year, the boys seem happy and that's all I could ask for in the first week.

Henry's birthday is this week and he is obsessed with Greek mythology. While I would love to bake some incredible edible Parthenon cake, we decided to scale it back, and are doing an orange curd cake with whipped cream frosting. Sounds pretty dreamy. I will need it as my oldest is turning ten my brain is having a tough time accepting that. I may in fact be eating that cake in the bathroom while I am crying. I kid, I kid.

Menu:

Bread board dinner - salami, yummy cheese, good bread, and some fruit and veg

Henry's birthday dinner request: Chicken Enchiladas + Greek Salad (which he confirms is an odd combo), birthday cake - Lemon Cake, subbed with Orange Curd

Miso-Glazed Salmon with Coconut Milk Pilaf and Spinach

Burritos

Warm Sweet Potato Salad + Wild Rice

BLATs + Miso Lime Coleslaw (I think I am the only who likes this, but hey, that's the perk of being the chef!)

Week 161

I have a bummer of  a headache.

Here we go -

Chana Masala + Cukes + Naan

Grilled Greek Chicken + Salad

Miso Salmon + Spinach + Rice

Thai Spring Curry + Roasted Asparagus

Salmon Burgers + Raw Broccoli Salad

Miso-Lime Coleslaw + Hot Dogs

Week 160

We are back from Utah - 12 days of Utah and driving to Utah. Quite a journey! There was the moment that Ari almost lost his Stripey, a blanket that I knitted for him while he was in utero, we were able to locate it after turning around and going back to the gas station we were at 20 minutes before. It is now known as the 40-minute blanket. Also, the time when Elliott cried for 40 long minutes because he did not have a Lego game on his kindle, and there was nothing any of us could do about it. So eventful and non-eventful as most road trips go.

So I am back. I have spent about 2 hours making a grocery list, not that this list is that precious, but rather that I can't seem to focus on it. Really, 90 degree weather makes me totally unmotivated. Blah. So here it be:

Cod and Fennel + Asparagus

Sausage Frittata + Salad and Biscuits

Burritos

Hotdogs + Melon + Shrimp Pasta Salad

Grilled Chicken Gyro Salad + Pitas

Chana Masala + Naan + Cukes

And - Strawberry Milk!!!

Week 159

Bugger. Still cold. Still gray, what the heck and the holy crap, May?!?!  Anyway, school is almost out, so excited! We have a few trips planned, even though every year we say we are not going anywhere. Such is the gypsy life.  Just kidding, our lives are nothing like the gypsy...

Chickpea, Kale, and Sausage soup + Bread

Hamburgers (whenever it is actually warm enough to grill) + Sweet Potato Fries + Melon

Burritos

Goat Cheese and Asparagus Pasta + Veg

Potstickers + Edamame

Slowcooker Chicken Tikka Masala + Cukes + Naan

Week 158

Gray, boring day.  But we are about to hop like bunnies to the grocery which will invariably add some plunk to our day. Really not at all. But one has to be optimistic.

Menu-

Thai Beef + Broccoli

Broccoli Coconut Soup + Bread

Tuscan Bean + Eggs

Potstickers + Edamame

Cold, Rice Noodle Salad + Cukes

Burritos

Stirfry Cabbage + Fried Eggs

Week 157

I just took a pencil box full of pens away from Elliott, which has made him very sad. So this will be very fast.

Spaghetti and Meatballs + Cesar Salad

Coconut Lentils + Zucchini

Baked Potatoes + Salad

BBQ Pork Sliders + Sweet Potato Fries

Crispy Thai Salad + Rice

Tortilla Pizza + Salad

Week 156

Spring Break is coming to a close. It's been real. It's been fun. And it's been really fun! We were in Memphis last week and got to see some actual sun. This was life affirming! Hopefully Mr. Sun decides to hang out here in Indy!

Menu:

Thai Beef with Basil + Cauli

Chicken Enchiladas + Salad

Garlicky Lentil Soup + Bread

Asparagus Goat Cheese Pasta + Kale Salad

Creamy Beans + Eggs + Broccoli

Orange Chicken + Edamae

Baked Potato Bar + Cauli + Bnut Squash

Peanut Butter Chocolate Tart (just because)

Week 155

I just got back from a quick trip to Utah. I have an antsy toddler so this is going to be fast, fast, fast (which is the slowest way to write that).

Andean Chicken Potato Soup + Bread

Warm Sweet Potato Salad + Wild Rice

Tortilla Pizzas + Salad

Cabbage + Rice + Roasted Asparagus

It's a short one, will update again in a few days on my normal shopping day!

Week 154

Two meals this week -

Warm Sweet Potato Salad

Tortilla Pizzas

Week 153

A beautiful Saturday! I went on my first run in a century, really since December. It was painful and glorious and slow, but it's A. OK.

We are trying to save money and pay off our van fast, sooo I am incorporating the poor man's food, such as lentils and beans. My husband will be even more stinky. But so it goes.

Chicken Curry Shepherd's Pie + Roasted Asparagus

Creamy Beans and Eggs + Roasted Parm Cauliflower

Garlicky Lentil Soup + Bread

Stir-fry Cabbage + Brussels

Chicken and Rice + Broccoli

Orange Chicken + Edamame

Tortilla Pizzas + Fruit and veg

and Kimchi, you guys, seriously!

Week 152

It's sunny! Yesterday was gross. February is such a slogging-through kind of month. But it's nice to have a bit of blue out there. Right now, as I type, Elliott is insisting on pealing orange after orange, not interested in eating any of the fruit itself. He's a mad man!

So it took me forever to pull all this together. While making my list I had to do the following: fix a car track, find and talk about hex bugs, get a pasta play area set up, clean up pasta, set up kinetic sand (still not cleaned up) and try to encourage E to watch PBS! So I could actually get this done! Life with a BBE is fast-paced, everyone.

So here goes:

Mexican haystacks, a Bjork family lovestory + Salad

Chana Masala + Cukes

Baked Potato Bar + Goat Cheese Lentil Salad

BLATs + veggies

JO Chicken and Milk + Mashed Potatoes + Bok Choy

Rice and Cabbage Smothered Soup + Bread

Spaghetti and Meatballs (the old standy)

Week 151

Hallo. It's snowy, but doable snowy, so no complaints. Josh has worked all but 1.5 of the last 14 days. I have complaints. BBE is sitting next to me, Dinosaur Train is playing, I have to pee, and I took a little morning nap after the big boys got on the bus. I am trying to find some new, interesting recipes that don't make me curse and allow me to serve dinner before 7:30. We decided, as a farmily (keeping that typo) that we need to have some chill out time before bed, which means an earlier dinnertime. I am so bad at that. So I will try, indeed.

Menu:

Chicken Dumpling soup - Mad Hungry

Cauli and Brussels (from last week)

Chicken Enchiladas + Green Salad

Stir-fried Cabbage + Cukes

Broccoli Soup + Bread

Chana Masala + Naan

Week 150

Food, glorious food!! My kids are super excited to go shopping on a Saturday, nope. Not at all. Actually, E is pretty happy about it, because shopping = cookie time!

Menu:

Gyoza + Edamame

Crockpot Chicken Wild Rice Soup + Bread

Maple Glazed Brussels + Creamy Garlic Cauliflower Rice

White Cheddar Squash Macaroni and Cheese + Roasted Cabbage

Orange Chicken + Edamame

Burritos

Warm Sweet Potato Salad and Greens

Week 149

I have a very sad Elliott on the floor right now, crying because I told him that he could not hit the laptop. I know. How horrible.

Anyway, back to school. Back to work. Blah.

Here is our menu this week:

Salmon + Kale Salad

Gyoza + Edamame

Sushi + Cukes

Slowcooker chicken + Roasted Green Beans

Lunch - Carrot tahini salad