What’s Cooking?
Mmmmm…you should smell my house! I’m cooking up a batch of crockpot granola using a recipe from one of my online Sonlight friends. Here’s the recipe from her blog.
I tried another new recipe today for lunch: pizza muffins. They were a BIG hit with the children. One thing I have found that helps my sanity and cuts down on the lunchtime complaints is to have specific lunches every day.
Monday: sandwiches
Tuesday: noodles
Wednesday: nachos
Thursday: corndogs
Friday: sandwiches
Now everyone knows what we’re having and when so there are no complaints. Last Wednesday, though, Boo reminded me that he had given up chips for Lent. I told him that was really chips as a snack, and since they are what nachos were made of, it was OK. I do want to encourage him in the practice of our faith, so I went in search of another lunch. I found the pizza muffins in my “someday I’ll make this” recipe file. So for now, pizza muffins on Wednesday. After Lent, they may make it onto the menu on Fridays. They were very easy to make since they use biscuit mix. I happened to use my own homemade biscuit mix and was very pleased with the results. Next time I make the muffins, I’m going to double the recipe and freeze the leftovers. (They were a hit with Phil, too. He took two back to work.)
I’ve used a similar system for dinner meal planning. I finally have 5 weeks of menus pre-planned out. In this season of my life I need to stick to meals that only take 30 minutes of prep time. The actually cooking time can be longer, I just can’t devote more than 30 minutes of my time to a meal. For now, some of our favorites will have to wait until my mom comes for a visit. She is always willing to make our favorites while she’s here. We can always count on her for Boo’s favorite lasagna and Nana’s Buttermilk Pancakes.
Tonight (Wed as I actually write this) we are trying yet another new recipe, this one for skillet mac and beef. It looks very easy. I’ve already got half of it done.