Silence ensued

Just FYI, fellow foodies, this blog will be silent for the next week or so. I'm headed north to Iowa for a nation-wide, Covenant Presbyterian shindig, the likes of which occurs nowhere else. I expect utter and complete awesomeness. So, laters!

Ting-a-lings

First of all, after receiving the money that the clothing envelope owed groceries, and after repaying myself (after having to supplement the grocery money from my own funds the other day), the grocery money is not in the hole! It has exactly $36.26 until a few days from now when, thankfully, I get paid again!

Breakfast: Baked basil-egg cup things

Lunch: Left-overs

Dinner: Soup and homemade crescent rolls

I made Ting-a-lings yesterday morning. I opted for those because I was hot, and the thought of doing cookies was less than delightful to me. Also, I love Ting-a-lings/haystacks, and they're incredibly easy.

• 1 bag of butterscotch chips
• 1/2 bag of chow mein noodles
• 1 to 1 1/2 cups peanuts

Melt the butterscotch chips. I did it in the microwave, but be careful. They do burn/scorch pretty easily. If you think they've already reached that point, but just barely, then add a little coconut oil, butter, or shortening. That should get it usable again, but that only works if you've not burned them too badly. Stir in the noodles and peanuts. Drop in whatever sized stacks you want on wax paper and let cool. Enjoy!

Grocery Shopping

Right now, I think the grocery budget is in the hole, but I believe the clothing envelope owes grocery enough to let it break even.

Breakfast: Get whatcha want

Lunch: Mama and I ate at Chuy's. We had the Chuychanga this time; it was really quite good. Between the two of us though, we were only able to eat half of it.

Dinner: Claire fixed nachos.

Monday's come and gone

Okay, I figured out the money confusion of this past week/weekend. We spent $118, leaving the grocery fund with $435.98, which will hopefully be enough to cover, with some cushion, the shopping trip we're planning for tomorrow.

Breakfast: Eggs, left-over hamburgers, toast

Lunch: Left-overs

Dinner: Popcorn and bacon and kielbasa

Remember when I posted about that brown sugar and balsamic glazed pork? Well, I finally got around to posting the recipe and my changes over HERE.

Another lovely weekend

Saturday:

Breakfast: Get whatcha want

Lunch: Left-over chicken alfredo. I personally thought we kids deserve something awesome at this point. Mama and Daddy had left early that morning to go pick up a chest freezer in Nashville (because really, the two we had weren't enough - yes, I'm being serious.). Claire and I had all of the Lord's Day food and dinner fixed by noon. Thank you. Thank you. Anyway...

Dinner: Enchiladas

Had some money exchange then too, but I haven't figured it all out quite yet. Will get back on that.


Sunday:

Breakfast: Get whatcha want

Lunch: Spaghetti, green beans, deviled eggs, angel food cake with strawberries, and frappes

Dinner/fellowship: Chicken and dressing and frappes

Menu of April 20

Breakfast: Get whatcha want

Lunch: Fettuccine alfredo (NOT left-over... Claire didn't realize some of us had just had it for dinner the night before.)

Dinner: Crock pot chicken and dressing with angel food cake for dessert

On a Thursday

Breakfast: Get whatcha want

Lunch: Left-overs

Dinner: Fettuccine alfredo with chicken and sun-dried tomatoes, asparagus on the side

Correction

Ahem, turns out, last time I got paid and totaled up everything, I forgot to mention and include the fact that another $20 was taken out. So, I've spent the past week or so holding onto $103.98. I got paid yesterday though, so now I'm holding onto $553.98.

Breakfast: Get whatcha want

Lunch: Spaghetti

Dinner: Roasted chicken, creamy scalloped potatoes, kiwi, panna cotta for dessert

We've been abandoned

Our guests left us yesterday morning. The house is too quiet. We miss them greatly, even though it's not yet been 24 hours. So, what do we eat when we're depressed? Well, I tend to go on a chocolate/latte binge; yesterday was no exception. But here's the list of actual meals.

Breakfast: Eggs, yogurt, etc. This was shortly before they left.

Lunch: Sandwiches, left-overs, etc. It was essentially a get whatcha want lunch.

Dinner: Some of our amazing friends blessed us beyond belief by inviting us over. We had a delectable meal of steaks, salad, quinoa salad, broccoli, and rolls; oh, my! it was delicious!

Be Back Later

Hello, hello, hello! We've had a truly wonderful time these past few, flew-by-far-too-quickly days! Our dear friends have abandoned us once again. Starting tomorrow, Lord-willing, I will be back to posting here regularly. This is just an FYI, I-haven't-fallen-off-the-face-of-the-world post.

We Bought A Zoo

Breakfast: Egg boats

Lunch: Baked potatoes/sweet potatoes

Dinner: Pizza over at friends' house before we watched "We Bought A Zoo." (Quick review: I went in with pretty low expectations, and came away thinking it was much better than I expected. So, while I thought it was good, if you're going to see it, I'd recommend going in with low expectations. That way there's almost no way you'll come away disappointed. I've decided to make that my movie-watching mindset from here on out.)

GUESTS!

We love guests!

Breakfast: Graham crackers and peanut butter

Lunch: Left-overs

Dinner: Pork roast (really awesome - perhaps I'll post the recipe sometime), brown sugar and balsamic glaze (which we forgot to use as a glaze, and used more like a gravy), creamed potatoes, and steamed asparagus

More Groceries

Yesterday morning was spent menu planning for the coming week. We have guests coming in this afternoon, and we prefer to treat our guests better than we do ourselves. In the midst of the planning however, it became obvious that we would need to go grocery shopping pretty soon. Mama and I decided to do it ASAP, so we headed out the door around 2:00pm. We were done shopping and home in roughly 4 hours, which is amazing since we live at least an hour away from where we chose to shop this time. Anyway, here's the money matters: I got paid yesterday. Finally. Which means that I finally get to take out my "earnings," but I decided to wait until after this trip to see how things were looking. I get paid $450. We spent $326.02, leaving the grocery total (if I start from scratch as of this pay period) $123.98. I'm going to say that's good enough; I think I should get paid again in the next week or so anyway. So, this quarter my earnings are $60.48 - if I add in all the change, otherwise it's $55 and some change.

Breakfast: Egg... stuff.

Lunch: Get whatcha want

Dinner: Stew

Monday - or, I finished Dracula!

Yeah, my day yesterday was primarily directed at finishing listening to Dracula. Thankfully it ended fairly well, but I won't be reading it again. It's creepy. How on earth did vampires become popular and portrayed as benevolent creatures?! How did voluptuousness come to be seen as desirable? *shivers* Well, those are thoughts rather more for my other blog...

Breakfast: Smoothie

Lunch: Left-overs

Dinner: Ham and bean soup

Easter Weekend

Saturday:

Breakfast: Daddy and I went to the Franklin area to help some friends move, so we grabbed rolls and sausage at the Franklin Farmers' Market.

Lunch: Chick-Fil-A

Dinner: Beans and cornbread


Sunday:

Breakfast: Bacon, get whatcha want

Lunch: Macaroni and cheese, deviled eggs, dessert

Dinner/Fellowship: Buffalo chicken dip and corn chips

Friday

Breakfast: Claire and Kyle brought home cheesecake from their band rehearsal, so of course we had that.

Lunch: It being the day after Kyle's birthday, Mama's side of the family came over and celebrated his birthday as well as Easter. We had ham, deviled eggs, fried apples, green beans, and homemade yellow cake with brown butter frosting.

Dinner: We used some or all of the left-over ham for creamed ham over toast.

Cleaning out the fridge

Breakfast: Left-overs

Lunch: Left-overs/get whatcha want

Dinner: Left-overs

Yeah, we're kind of desperate to get rid of some of these left-overs! I think we emptied a couple of containers yesterday...

Another day

Breakfast: More left-overs

Lunch: Left-overs and strawberry shortcake

Dinner: We had a delicious dinner with friends.

And here we go again

Breakfast: Left-overs

Lunch: Smoothies and pineapple

Dinner: Grilled chicken, pineapple, and steamed asparagus

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner for Monday, April 2, 2012

Breakfast: We call them egg boats. It's egg and pretty much whatever you want with egg (think omelet) in the center of a cut out, boat-shaped roll. Yesterday's combination was eggs, bacon (already cooked), asparagus (pre-cooked as well), and cheeses.

Lunch: I don't know that there was really an organized lunch, but I think some had ham sandwiches, using the ham left-over from Sunday's lunch. I had a piece of ham and a smoothie.

Dinner: We had guests over last night, and they're not from around here. So, we treated them to an all-Southern meal of country ham, grits and greens, biscuits, and stewed/fried apples. I'm afraid we gave them culture shock. They were good sports though, and ate everything!

After dinner we went over to our neighbors' house for ice cream! Oh, and to sign a petition for someone running for county commissioner. :) It was a wonderful ending to a good day.

End of March, Beginning of April

Can y'all believe it's already April?! I can't! My brother's birthday's in 3 days! I need to wrap his gift...

Saturday:

Breakfast: Sausage spoon bread, I think.

Lunch: I don't really remember an organized lunch. It was probably get what you want, more or less.

Dinner: Ham and rolls


Sunday:

Breakfast: Get whatcha want.

Lunch: Ham, green beans, chocolate-caramel thumbprint cookies.

Fellowship: Summer sausage, crackers, and caramelized onion dip.