Menu Plan Monday July 30

Last week we had to shift some things around a little.  The result is that I am carrying over two meals from last week.

I kinda like to carry over a meal or two.  Less to think about this week.

Here is the plan for this week.

Monday

Crock Pot Chicken and Noodle Soup
Sandwiches
Grapes

Tuesday
Chicken Pot Pie
Broccoli
Applesauce

Wednesday

Shrimp Burgers
French Fries
Garden Salad

Thursday

Coconut Chicken with Apricot Sauce
Rice
Broccoli

Friday
Pineapple Chicken Stir Fry
Rice

Weekend
Pizza using Beer Batter Pizza Crust
Corn
Fruit

I am linking up with Menu Plan Monday.  Go and check out what everyone else has planned. 

Friday Favorites

It is finally Friday!  Woot!  Woot!

I have looked high and low on the Internet for my favorite things.

Here are my top 5 favorites for this week.


Shrimp Burgers


Smoky Corn Chowder with Shrimp


Coconut Chicken with Apricot Sauce


Belgian Cookie Dough Waffles


Avalanche Cookies


I am linking up with Finding Joy in my Kitchen.  Go check out what everyone else has pinned this week.

The Best Pound Cake ~ Allergy options

You know you are an allergy mom when you figure out how to make a pound cake without milk/dairy!

Mr. Homegrown's brother came a few weekends ago to help us move, so I made a pound cake for dessert one night.  As a general rule, I do not make anything for our family that String Beane cannot eat.  So I substituted the milk ingredients in the recipe to make it safe for everyone.  The results were amazing!

This pound cake was delicious!  My favorite part of pound cake has always been the crust.  The crust on this pound cake was so good.  It was crunchy and delicious.

Everyone loved this cake.  String Beane ate A LOT of it!  That always makes me happy since he is so hard to please.

Here is the recipe I used and what I substituted to make it milk free.

Ingredients
2 sticks of butter, melted (I used Flieshman's unsalted margarine, it is milk free)
1/2 cup oil
3 cups flour (I used All Purpose)
3 cups sugar
6 eggs
1 cup of milk (I used almond milk)
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons of Vanilla extract

Directions
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.

Combine the flour and baking powder in a separate bowl.

In a mixer, cream the sugar and butter and oil until fluffy.
Add the well beaten eggs and beat until combined.
Add in the flour and milk, alternately, until well mixed.  Begin and end with the flour.

Add the Vanilla and give it one more mix.  

Spray a bundt pan with baking spray and pour in your batter.

Bake for 1-1 1/2 hours at 325 degrees.  Check with a cake tester.

Let the cake cool on a cooling rack and then turn out on a platter.

There is really no way to go wrong in eating this cake.  Slice it and eat it plain.  Serve it with strawberries and whipped cream.  Serve it with some berry compote drizzled on top.  Slice it and toast it for breakfast!

I am linking up with Metamorphosis Monday, Allergy Free Wednesday and these other Awesome Parties!

Menu Plan Monday July 23

Okay,  what happened to Summer?  It is the last week of July!  Pretty soon, my little Beanes will be in preschool and school. 

We have been busy moving and unpacking and cleaning up and getting ready to sell our old house. 

We have been living in our new house for a month now.  It is time to get back into full swing in the kitchen. 

String Beane has requested a chicken pot pie.  He will get it. 

We do have some night time ball games that we will have to work around but I think I can pull off a full week of meals at home without having to run to get some take out.

Here is the plan:

Monday

Shrimp Pad Thai

Tuesday
Pizza using Beer Batter Pizza Crust
Salad
Peaches

Wednesday
Chicken Pot Pie
Broccoli
Applesauce

Thursday

Teriyaki Chicken and Noodle Bowl

Friday

Steak Fingers
Potatoes
Fresh Fruit

Weekend

Crock Pot Chicken and Noodle Soup

What do you have planned for this week?  I am linking up with Menu Plan Monday.  Go by and check out all the meal plans. 

Friday Favorites

Well, this is another list of my favorite things I've found on Pinterest.

I can't decide about my true feelings of Pinterest.

I LOVE to see all the projects and recipes.  I have made some and I have like most of the results.

I HATE how Pinterest can make me feel like a big failure.  I see all the pretty houses that are decorated and organized so nicely.  All of the parenting tips and organizational ideas are inspiring, but make me feel like a hap hazard parent. 

I will go on looking at Pinterest and trying to balance what I love and what I hate about it. 

Here is my top 5 list of what I love on Pinterest this week.


Chicken Marsala


Chicken Pot Stickers


Lemon Garlic Shrimp and Grits


Neapolitan Rose Cake

Almost Homemade Buttercream

I am linking up with Finding Joy in my Kitchen.  Go check out what everyone else has picked to be their favorites. 

Chocolate Butterscotch Crescents

Sometimes it is the simple ideas that are the best. 

And this is a simple and easy dessert/breakfast idea. 

We have been in the middle of a move.  It has been so much more difficult than I had imagined.  Horrible really.  I needed some easy and simple in my life. 

So, here is the easy and simple dessert.

Ingredients
One tube of Pilsbury Crescent Rolls
Semi sweet chocolate chips, I used Gharidelli because they are milk free
Butterscotch chips, I used Food Lion brand because they are milk free
Powdered sugar

Directions
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
Unroll the crescent rolls and separate into triangles.
Place a tablespoon of semi sweet chocolate chips and a tablespoon of butterscotch chips on the crescent roll.
Roll them up and place them on the baking sheet.
Bake for 11-13 minutes.

Mix up some simple icing glaze.  This is sort of an 'eye ball it' situation.  Put about a 1/4 cup of powdered sugar in a bowl.  Add 1 teaspoon of water at a time and give it a stir until it is the consistency you want. 

When the crescents come out of the oven, let them cool for a few minutes, or as long as you can stand it.  Drizzle the powdered sugar glaze over the tops of them. 

They sort of have doughnutty taste to them.  This is totally worth the very little effort that they took. 

My little Beanes ate them up.  I ate two of them up. 

These totally hit the spot with a cup of coffee!

Feel free to adjust the ingredients to your tastes.  I think these would be good with some peanut butter and chocolate chips.  I used all ingredients that were milk free so my String Beane could eat them. 

I am linking up at Metamorphosis Monday, Allergy Free Wednesday and these other Awesome Parties!







Menu Plan Monday July 9

This is Bible School Week.  So this menu plan should be considered "a loose guide" for the week. 

VBS is so much fun but it is so tiring.  I sort of wish I could just dress everyone in their pajamas to go.  I feel like they all just crash on the way home.  The trick is to keep Jelly beane awake until we get home or her 15 minute car nap will somehow keep her awake for hours! 

So here is the "plan" for this week.

Monday
Left overs

Tuesday

Simple Tuna Noodle Casserole
Salad

Wednesday
Sausage Pancakes
Watermelon

Thursday

Beef and Routini Skillet

Friday

Pork Chops with Pineapple Fried Rice

Weekend
Pizza using Beer Batter Pizza Dough

I am linking up with Organized Junkie.  Go check out what everyone else has planned for this week.

Friday Favorites!

We have been in our new house now for almost two weeks.  All the boxes are slowly getting unpacked and put away.

 I love our new house!  The little Beanes love it too.  They love all the space and their new rooms.  They have yet to sleep upstairs though.  The boys still are piling in Jelly Beane's room at night to sleep.  My brother in law is coming this weekend to help Mr. Homegrown get the heavy stuff we have not moved yet.  They will be bringing over the bunk beds.  Maybe String Beane and Butter Beane will start sleeping in their room when the bunk beds get there.

We finally got  internet today.  I feel like I am back in the world again!  It is shocking how internet dependant I am.  Shameful really.

Any the who, here are my top 5 favorites for this week.  All curtesy of Pinterest.


Cookie Dough Ice Pops
I don't know why someone didn't think of this sooner!  I can't wait to give this a try.


Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Sandwich Cookies
I have cookie dough on the brain, apparently.


Butter Pecan Cake
If this cake tastes any thing like butter pecan ice cream, I am in!


Homemade Nutty Buddy's
I have always loved Nutty Buddy's.  These look great.


Virgin Pina Colada


Okay, so apparantly, I have a sweet tooth this week.  I am linking up at Finding Joy in My Kitchen.  Go check out what has made the top of everyone else's list. 

Menu Plan Monday July 2

We are slowly, but surely getting settled in our new house!  It has been some kind of work. 

I am now convinced that trying to paint a house and move with three little children should be how they punish convicts.  It was so hard to keep the little Beanes busy while trying to paint and move.  I am glad that the hard part is over and we can see the light at the end of the tunnel now.

I am still trying to "find" some of my kitchen items so I am going to keep the menu simple and easy. 

Here is what I have planned this week:

Monday
Spaghetti with Meat Sauce
Garlic Bread

Tuesday

Simple Tuna Noodle Casserole

Wednesday
Fried Chicken

Picnic Potato Salad
Deviled Eggs
Asparagus

Thursday
















Brown Sugar and Balsamic Glazed Pork Loin
Rice
Broccoli

Friday
Sweet and Sour Chicken Thighs (new recipe)
Rice
Veggie

Weekend
Breakfast for Supper

I am linking up with Menu Plan Monday.  What do you have planned this week?