Steak, it's what's for dinner

We actually had three pretty organized meals yesterday!

Breakfast: Not sure what they were called... it was like omelets in bread boats. It was really a pretty tolerable way to eat eggs!

Lunch: Guacamole and chips

Dinner: Mama and Daddy had some friends over for dinner, so we kids (and new puppy) were sent to the guest house for the evening. Thankfully we did get to pick up our dinner from them though, so we had grilled fillets, steamed asparagus (butter-y, garlic-y goodness), roasted potatoes, and bread. I think the parents had salad and cheesecake with their dinner as well. We kids had made no bakes, brownies, and a pot of coffee (we had access to caramel sauce, chocolate sauce, and milk as well). Kyle ended up drinking all the coffee by himself. Yes, it was regular.

Here, There, and Everywhere

Mama and I went grocery shopping yesterday. We hadn't been for a real shopping trip in quite a while, so this one was ginormous (and expensive!). Our first stop was to Nashville Cash and Carry, which, by the way, is definitely a good place to go if you're looking for cheap, but reusable, plastic containers! Then we were on to a slightly frustrating experience at Hobby Lobby (not for groceries though). Insert lunch intermission here. From there we went to Walmart where we spent forever, then we hit Sam's and managed to do that in about a half hour (even though we forgot to use the order-everything-online-first thing!), and then back to Hobby Lobby for a rather less frustrating experience (but again, not grocery-related). After all that, we were finally homeward bound! And exhausted. We ended up spending, between this trip and the quick trip Daddy made Friday, $638.84. Ouch. That brings the total to a rather uncomfortable $94.66. Hopefully we won't need anything for quite a while now though.

Here's what I know that we ate yesterday:

Breakfast: Blueberry muffins

Lunch: Thanks to an endorsement by a friend, Mama and I went to McDougal's Chicken Fingers & Wings for lunch. We got the cheapest batch of wings, and they were really quite good. We got them tossed in the original buffalo sauce and the gold sauce. I liked them both, and the buffalo ones reminded me a lot of Daddy's hot wing sauce - only a bit milder. The gold isn't what to get if you're wanting normal hot wings, but it was surprisingly good, and a nice change of pace. We want to go back and try out some of the other sauces. Mama's intrigued by the lime chipotle sauce's description, whereas I'm curious to see why the honey bee sauce is their best seller. So, yeah, we'll be going back!

Dinner: Beef hash

Weekend food

Saturday:

Breakfast: Dutch baby

Lunch: Didn't really have an official, organized lunch. Guess that means it was get whatcha want.

Dinner: Beef hash


Sunday:

Breakfast: Get whatcha want

Lunch: Daddy made a ground beef and tomato dish (I think), apples, and saltine candy.

Dinner/fellowship: Daddy used the rest of the ground beef to make sweet and sour meat balls with rice.

Headed out in just a minute to go grocery shopping. It's already promising to be huge.

It's finally Friday! Or... It's already Friday?

I can't decide if this week's gone by fast or slow; I guess that means it's been more or less normal.

Breakfast: Mama made baked eggs with cheese and basil sauce. I actually really like eggs prepared that way!

Lunch: Left-over chicken noodle soup and fresh bread

Dinner: Chuck roast with potatoes, onions, carrots, and peppers. Apples as the main side.

Pizza, aka Soup

Breakfast: Quinoa pudding and sticky buns

Lunch: Get whatcha want

Dinner: Chicken noodle soup (after running out of time to make bacon chicken pizza).

Mid-week menu

Breakfast: Get whatcha want, I think.

Lunch: Left-overs (We're doing really good cleaning out the left-overs this week!)

Dinner: Sticky rice and orange beef

Another day in the life of us

Not much went on...

Breakfast: Get whatcha want

Lunch: Left-overs from last night

Dinner: Crock pot whole chicken, roasted potatoes, green peas

And, I made Crusty Pound Cake for dessert. The recipe is from Southern Living's Cooking Across the South (p. 214 in our version), and it's SO good! It has this tendency to fall, which, actually, just enhances the goodness!

Once more, I can't come up with a decent title

And I don't want to spend much time trying, so moving on...

Yesterday a friend of ours was heading to our favorite place to get bacon, so we sent some money with him. He picked up 10lbs for us, for a total of $38.86. Daddy also picked up a few things for us from Sam's: $19.88. That all brings the grocery total to: $733.50. And now for the menu:

Breakfast: Get whatcha want

Lunch: Left-overs

Dinner: Mama made a bacon, mushroom, cream sauce for spaghetti.

Weekend time

Time for the weekend recap of every meal we had since Thursday's dinner. I'll see if I can remember...

Friday:

Breakfast: ... Nope, don't remember. Probably get whatcha want.

Lunch: Not sure about this one either. Very probably left-overs.

Dinner: Tomato soup and over-cooked bacon. Oops.


Saturday:

Breakfast: Waffles, I think.

Lunch: Salad, left-over tomato soup, and the rest of the Mexican cornbread toasted with cheese.

Dinner: We didn't really have an organized dinner. I had pita, not sure what the others had.


Sunday:

Breakfast: Get whatcha want.

Lunch: Roast, green bean casserole, and the mini-cheesecake bites left-over from Tuesday.

Fellowship: Pita chips and hummus.

Guacamole!

We're huge fans of gaucamole around here, but we each like it somewhat differently - though we eat whatever type we have made up! For example, Daddy like his guacamole chunky, with plenty of salsa. I like mine more akin to the guacamole they serve a Chuy's, more smooth than chunky, more creamy than salsa-y, and all about the avocado. Daddy made his guacamole Tuesday evening to go with the gyros, but, lucky for me, there were still 2 avocadoes left yesterday morning. They definitely needed to be used, so I made my kind of guacamole and had that for breakfast! :)

MY Guacamole:

• Avocadoes, peeled, pitted, and mashed fairly well
• Lemon or lime juice, but not too much
• Salt
• Salsa, but not too much
• Sour cream, enough to make the gauc. light green, but not to distract from the flavor of the avocado.

Mash it all together, taste, and adjust as necessary. Daddy calls my style "guacamole dip," but I love it anyway!

Breakfast: Get whatcha want

Lunch: Left-overs

Dinner: Daddy and I made pitas/tortillas, so those of us who were home had those hot out of the oven and topped with butter. SO good!

Oh, and I got paid yesterday, bringing the grocery total up to $792.24.

Can't. Think. Of. A. Good. Title...

But here is yesterday's menu anyway:

Breakfast: Get whatcha want

Lunch: Bean, smoked sausage, and rice

Dinner: A variation of what we had for lunch

***Edit: Forgot to mention that Daddy made a quick Sam's run for us the other day. He picked up $29 worth of stuff, bringing the grocery total to $342.24.***

A Valentine's Menu

Breakfast: Get whatcha want

Lunch: Left-overs

Dinner: Gyros (with homemade tortillas/pitas!)

Desserts: Mini raspberry cheesecake cupcakes, flourless chocolate cake, snickerdoodles, brownies, hot chocolate (with many mix-ins), various candies, chocolate-dipped candied orange slices, chocolate-dipped marshmallows, and biscotti. I think that might have accounted for everything... It was fun. :)

Busy Monday

We spend most of yesterday preparing delectables for a sort of party we're hosting this evening, so we didn't spend a whole lot of time on meals yesterday.

Breakfast: Most of us slept in really late (that happens when you don't get to bed until nearly 1:30am), so I don't really think we had breakfast. If some did, it was definitely get whatcha want.

Lunch: Claire made a macaron and chicken dish.

Dinner: Gyros!

Weekend

We had a lovely weekend, and I hope y'all did as well. We spent $197.37 on recent groceries (BTW, don't go to Harris Teeter when looking for decent prices. We knew that already, but, unfortunately, it was the most convenient the other day...). Now the grocery total is $371.24.

Saturday's menu:

Breakfast: Waffles

Lunch: Tacos

Dinner: Ham and bean soup

Sunday's menu:

Breakfast: Get whatcha want

Lunch: Ham and bean soup, sliced oranges, pound cake

Fellowship: More sliced oranges

What we eat when we go to the dentist

Yep, we went to the dentist yesterday. We live 1.5hrs away from our dentist, so we generally have at least one meal in town. Which we did. We also got quite a few groceries (for some hospitality things we're hoping to do in the next few days), but I haven't figured all the receipts out yet, so that part will have to wait.

Breakfast: Get whatcha want, and get it fast. We left at 8:30am (not a good day to have gotten to bed late the night before... oops. Oh, and the cows had to be milked...).

Lunch: Harris Teeter sushi with Sam's pretzels/pizza/ice cream to supplement. We can recommend the Spicy Mango sushi from Harris Teeter; it we really quite good. The avocado one wasn't bad, but it had carrots in it. I find that I prefer my sushi to be carrot-less; the carrots sort of throw off the texture of things, in my opinion.

Dinner: Daddy made dinner! Cubed steaks in a tomato-y sauce, fried okra (from okra we'd frozen a couple years ago!), and rice.

Another Thursday Menu

Breakfast: Left-over French toast casserole and/or get whatcha want

Lunch: Left-overs

Dinner: Pinto beans and cornbread

Middle of the week menu

Daddy went grocery shopping for us yesterday. BTW, Sam's has this great thing where you can order all your stuff online, submit it, and they'll gather everything. Then somebody just has to go to the service desk, pick up the stuff, pay, and leave! HUGE time saver! I'm looking forward to using it some more in the future. Anyway, Daddy picked up $60.40 worth of groceries for us, which brings the total to $568.61.

Breakfast: French toast casserole

Lunch: Claire made some sort of creamy sauce with chicken and mushrooms for over pasta.

Dinner: Artichoke, chicken, sun-dried tomatoes, creamy cheesy sauce, lasagna. Thing. Don't know the name.

What then?

Breakfast: Get whatcha want

Lunch: Kinda get whatcha want... I really don't know what everybody had. Left-overs maybe.

Dinner: Potato soup and bacon.

Monday

Breakfast: Daddy was home, and he made omelets!

Lunch: Bread and butter, plus whatever else you wanted.

Dinner: Claire made that Greek avgolemono soup.

Home again, home again

After a whirlwind, but delightful, trip up to Illinois. I was away from Thursday morning to Saturday evening.

Yesterday:

Breakfast: Get whatcha want

Lunch: (Kyle was good enough to make all our Lord's Day food!) Roast with potatoes and carrots, green beans, and blonde brownies

Dinner/Fellowship: Pizza

And they're off!

We're about to head out the door to visit some good friends up in IL, but I thought I'd pop on here real quick and give yesterday's menu as well as a heads up that this'll be silent for a few days. Be back to regular posting Monday morning, Lord willing! Anyway, here's what we had yesterday, as far as I can remember:

Breakfast: I think most of us had chocolate cherry cake, left-over from the night before. That cake is SO good!

Lunch: Left-overs/get whatcha want.

Dinner: Sausage balls, biscuits and apples, and baked sweet potatoes.