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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
What's for dinner?
I hear that question at LEAST 4 times a day, sometimes more. Most of the time I have dinner planned in advance, but whoa, you should see what the reaction is if I decide that we'll just have leftovers, or (gasp!) cereal! You'd think I was trying to feed them this.
For FHE last night, Natalia decided to incorporate a Personal Progress goal, and we made up a 2-week menu plan.
I've been trying to get a lot of the cooking or prep work done on Mondays since the week just gets busier as we get further into it. This is the menu we decided on for this week:
Monday (yesterday!): Honey BBQ Chicken, Twice Baked Potatoes, Green Salad
*This is a big batch of chicken, but I'm using the leftovers on Friday for BBQ Chicken Pizza. I just pulled the meat off the bone, chopped into bite-sized pieces and packaged it into a freezer container to freeze until then.
*I also doubled the potatoes and made twelve, and packaged the other six up in the freezer for another meal.
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
For Sauce:
2 large onions, chopped
1 16 ounce can tomato sauce
1/2 cup cider vinegar
1/2 cup honey
1/4 cup Worcestershire
2 tsp. Paprika
1/2 tsp. hot pepper sauce (Tapatio or Tabasco)
Place chicken, skin side down in 2 prepared 9x13 pans. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Mix sauce ingredients and pour over the chicken, (makes about 4 cups of sauce) half for each pan. Bake uncovered at 375 degrees for 3 minutes. Turn chicken and bake 20 or so minutes longer, until done.
Tuesday: Green Pasta (pesto), Veggies, Garlic Bread, Salad
1 cup sour cream
1 cup shredded cheese
1 Tablespoon powdered Ranch dressing mix
pepper to taste
Slice the top off of the potato and use a tablespoon to scoop the cooked pulp into a bowl. Add the other ingredients and mix together. Stuff the potato mixture back into the potato skins using the tablespoon again. Bake on a cookie sheet or 9x13 pan for an additional 10 to 15 minutes at 350 degrees.
Wednesday: Hamburgers, Salad, French Fries
Thursday: Corned Beef and Cabbage, Irish Bread
Friday: BBQ Chicken Pizza
2 Tablespoons Olive oil
2 Tablespoons sugar
2 tsp. salt
2 Tablespoons dry milk
3 cups bread flour or all-purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
2 tsp. instant yeast
Add all ingredients into the bread pan of the machine in the order given. Use the dough setting and when it is done, punch dough down and let rest for 10 minutes. Form into a crust and top with pizza toppings.
Saturday: Leftovers Buffet with Caesar Salad and Breadsticks
(I'm making 2 pans of Enchiladas and stashing one in the freezer for a rainy day, you know, so my kids don't have to eat cereal for dinner EVER.)
I'm linking here!
Daily Organized Chaos
For FHE last night, Natalia decided to incorporate a Personal Progress goal, and we made up a 2-week menu plan.
I've been trying to get a lot of the cooking or prep work done on Mondays since the week just gets busier as we get further into it. This is the menu we decided on for this week:
Monday (yesterday!): Honey BBQ Chicken, Twice Baked Potatoes, Green Salad
*This is a big batch of chicken, but I'm using the leftovers on Friday for BBQ Chicken Pizza. I just pulled the meat off the bone, chopped into bite-sized pieces and packaged it into a freezer container to freeze until then.
*I also doubled the potatoes and made twelve, and packaged the other six up in the freezer for another meal.
- Honey BBQ Chicken
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
For Sauce:
2 large onions, chopped
1 16 ounce can tomato sauce
1/2 cup cider vinegar
1/2 cup honey
1/4 cup Worcestershire
2 tsp. Paprika
1/2 tsp. hot pepper sauce (Tapatio or Tabasco)
Place chicken, skin side down in 2 prepared 9x13 pans. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Mix sauce ingredients and pour over the chicken, (makes about 4 cups of sauce) half for each pan. Bake uncovered at 375 degrees for 3 minutes. Turn chicken and bake 20 or so minutes longer, until done.
Tuesday: Green Pasta (pesto), Veggies, Garlic Bread, Salad
- Twice-Baked Potatoes
1 cup sour cream
1 cup shredded cheese
1 Tablespoon powdered Ranch dressing mix
pepper to taste
Slice the top off of the potato and use a tablespoon to scoop the cooked pulp into a bowl. Add the other ingredients and mix together. Stuff the potato mixture back into the potato skins using the tablespoon again. Bake on a cookie sheet or 9x13 pan for an additional 10 to 15 minutes at 350 degrees.
Wednesday: Hamburgers, Salad, French Fries
Thursday: Corned Beef and Cabbage, Irish Bread
Friday: BBQ Chicken Pizza
- using leftover chicken from Monday, this pizza crust recipe, and BBQ sauce instead of pizza sauce
- Pizza dough in the Bread Machine
2 Tablespoons Olive oil
2 Tablespoons sugar
2 tsp. salt
2 Tablespoons dry milk
3 cups bread flour or all-purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
2 tsp. instant yeast
Add all ingredients into the bread pan of the machine in the order given. Use the dough setting and when it is done, punch dough down and let rest for 10 minutes. Form into a crust and top with pizza toppings.
Saturday: Leftovers Buffet with Caesar Salad and Breadsticks
- For Breadsticks, make another batch of the Pizza dough above, adding 1 Tablespoon of Italian seasoning to the dough.
(I'm making 2 pans of Enchiladas and stashing one in the freezer for a rainy day, you know, so my kids don't have to eat cereal for dinner EVER.)
I'm linking here!
Daily Organized Chaos
Monday, March 14, 2011
I Don't Know What to Title This So It is What it is:)
Yo Peeps:) It's me, Natalia. I am really bored here at home so I decided to do a post on my mom's blog while she is visiting with her Visiting Teachers. Anyways, I guess I'll tell about some of my recent uh, things I've done.
Okay, well first off, on March 9, I had a Medieval Feast at school. I had to dress up(yes:( dress up) as a Lady, since I was the Lady of my Manor. My history teacher, Mr. Scudder, split my history class into Manors and we had to have a name(ours was the Steed Riders, and don't worry, I didn't come up with that), make a banor, build a castle(the castle, by the way, did not have to be life size, hehe:) just big enough for people to see the different parts of it, and small enough so we could get it through the classroom door), AND write a story of at least 8 pages.
Doesn't seem too hard, right? Wrong. It was especially hard because it was hard to find days everybody in our Manor(we had 6 people) could meet to work on the stuff. Our story also had to have a whole bunch of facts, with end notes(end notes are little um things that we had to put after the facts we had so that my teacher knew we didn't plagiarize), and we had to do a Works Cited page. Oh, and if you don't know what that is, look it up on Google or something. Anywho, to make a long story short, it was a hard and long project. I have to say, I'm glad it's over with. You should see my dress.....
Let's see...what else have I done? Oh yeah, I'm playing softball this year. So we haven't had our first game yet but practices like 3 or 4 times a week. It's been pretty fun.
I like it here, if anybody was wondering. Its nice. I have friends lol:) I don't know why but, I felt like you should already know that. Hehe:)
Yesterday, we went to Santa Rosa. Sadly, we couldn't leave like, Friday or anything because Brian had to give a talk at church:( Ugh. Jimmy(my cousin) was at Nonni's(my grandma) house, back from Army training. And you know what?? We only got to see him for 3 hours!! 3 hours!! That's it! We hadn't seen him since Christmas and now when he comes home for a few days, we only got to see him for a whoppin' three hours. It's depressing. It really is.
He and Dani and Kaelin are leaving for Texas. And we had to say bye to them last night after only spending 3 hours with them when we aren't gonna see Jimmy for like a whole year. Hopefully Dani and Kaelin come visit this summer like Dani said they might. :'(Its sad to think about.
I can't wait til Auntie Tara and Auntie Emily come visit with Jeremiah and Ebers Lyn!!:) It's gonna be soooo fun! I hope I don't have to babysit alot though..haha. Anyways, I don't really want to write anymore so if you want to know anything else just like leave a comment or something.
Okay, well first off, on March 9, I had a Medieval Feast at school. I had to dress up(yes:( dress up) as a Lady, since I was the Lady of my Manor. My history teacher, Mr. Scudder, split my history class into Manors and we had to have a name(ours was the Steed Riders, and don't worry, I didn't come up with that), make a banor, build a castle(the castle, by the way, did not have to be life size, hehe:) just big enough for people to see the different parts of it, and small enough so we could get it through the classroom door), AND write a story of at least 8 pages.
Doesn't seem too hard, right? Wrong. It was especially hard because it was hard to find days everybody in our Manor(we had 6 people) could meet to work on the stuff. Our story also had to have a whole bunch of facts, with end notes(end notes are little um things that we had to put after the facts we had so that my teacher knew we didn't plagiarize), and we had to do a Works Cited page. Oh, and if you don't know what that is, look it up on Google or something. Anywho, to make a long story short, it was a hard and long project. I have to say, I'm glad it's over with. You should see my dress.....
Haha:) Sorry about the bad picture. I was talking apparently.
Let's see...what else have I done? Oh yeah, I'm playing softball this year. So we haven't had our first game yet but practices like 3 or 4 times a week. It's been pretty fun.
I like it here, if anybody was wondering. Its nice. I have friends lol:) I don't know why but, I felt like you should already know that. Hehe:)
Yesterday, we went to Santa Rosa. Sadly, we couldn't leave like, Friday or anything because Brian had to give a talk at church:( Ugh. Jimmy(my cousin) was at Nonni's(my grandma) house, back from Army training. And you know what?? We only got to see him for 3 hours!! 3 hours!! That's it! We hadn't seen him since Christmas and now when he comes home for a few days, we only got to see him for a whoppin' three hours. It's depressing. It really is.
He and Dani and Kaelin are leaving for Texas. And we had to say bye to them last night after only spending 3 hours with them when we aren't gonna see Jimmy for like a whole year. Hopefully Dani and Kaelin come visit this summer like Dani said they might. :'(Its sad to think about.
I can't wait til Auntie Tara and Auntie Emily come visit with Jeremiah and Ebers Lyn!!:) It's gonna be soooo fun! I hope I don't have to babysit alot though..haha. Anyways, I don't really want to write anymore so if you want to know anything else just like leave a comment or something.
Hapy Pi Day!
Today is 3.14, or pi day, for those of you who may have flunked math like I did.
Bake a pie, eat a pie!
That's how we're celebrating!
Here are some of our favorite pies.
Humble Peach Crumble Pie
Cherry Cream Pie tip: I like a little bit of almond extract mixed with the cherry pie filling.
And I am still missing my favorite Pie Maker at the Pie Hole, but, {Whoo-hoo!} I found full episodes here, so now I can watch them all again!
On another note, Project Simplify is working on paper clutter this week. Ugh. Wish me luck!
That's how we're celebrating!
Here are some of our favorite pies.
Humble Peach Crumble Pie
Cherry Cream Pie tip: I like a little bit of almond extract mixed with the cherry pie filling.
And I am still missing my favorite Pie Maker at the Pie Hole, but, {Whoo-hoo!} I found full episodes here, so now I can watch them all again!
On another note, Project Simplify is working on paper clutter this week. Ugh. Wish me luck!
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Seeking What's Good...
We've been listening to this song a lot lately. Natalia first heard it at a Young Women's meeting, and it's got a great message!
The song goes along with this year's theme for the Youth, the Thirteenth Article of Faith:
"We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul--We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things."
For Family Home Evening we worked on the 13th Article of Faith. Monkey THINKS that he is in charge of FHE every Monday. He wrote the agenda down on the bottom left hand corner of the board. I'll translate for you:
Artwork was provided by Natalia and Joe.
Here is a game on lds.org to reinforce and practice the Articles of Faith. There are three different levels, so it's fun for beginners or for those who already THINK they have them memorized! We have used the songs to help learn and reinforce the Articles of Faith, too. Joseph is memorizing them to sign off for the Faith in God program, too.
Most of the time, holding Family Home Evening is HARD! I am tired at the end of the day. I get up early, and by that time of night the house is a mess, the dishes need doing and the kids are all getting tired, too. We try to keep FHE short, and sometimes the kids are cooperative and helpful. Sometimes they are wrestling on the floor or pouting in the corner. There is no telling how it will go, but again, we do try. And I try NOT to pull my hair out.
The song goes along with this year's theme for the Youth, the Thirteenth Article of Faith:
"We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul--We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things."
For Family Home Evening we worked on the 13th Article of Faith. Monkey THINKS that he is in charge of FHE every Monday. He wrote the agenda down on the bottom left hand corner of the board. I'll translate for you:
- Oponing Prer = Opening Prayer
- Oponing Song = Opening Song (pretty obvious)
- Toke = Talk (lesson)
- Aktevt = Activity (he wanted to watch 101 Damsos {Dalmations}) it didn't happen.
- Kosing Prer (Closing Prayer)
Artwork was provided by Natalia and Joe.
Here is a game on lds.org to reinforce and practice the Articles of Faith. There are three different levels, so it's fun for beginners or for those who already THINK they have them memorized! We have used the songs to help learn and reinforce the Articles of Faith, too. Joseph is memorizing them to sign off for the Faith in God program, too.
Most of the time, holding Family Home Evening is HARD! I am tired at the end of the day. I get up early, and by that time of night the house is a mess, the dishes need doing and the kids are all getting tired, too. We try to keep FHE short, and sometimes the kids are cooperative and helpful. Sometimes they are wrestling on the floor or pouting in the corner. There is no telling how it will go, but again, we do try. And I try NOT to pull my hair out.
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