Aug 17 - Aug 22

Monday - Aug 17 - Barbecue chicken, spaghetti squash, potato salad, peas
Tuesday - Aug 18 - leftovers
Wednesday - Aug 19 - Salmon burgers, creamy broccoli soup
Thursday - Aug 20 - Sour Cream Noodle Bake with ground beef, Brussels sprouts
Friday - Aug 21 - Pizza, salad
Saturday - Aug 22 - White beans and rice

Aug 10 - Aug 15

Aug 10, 2015 - Monday: leftovers
Aug 11 - Tuesday: Meatloaf
Aug 12 - Wednesday: Chicken nuggets
Aug 13 - Thursday: Meatballs in brown gravy with onions, Creamed cauliflower
Aug 14, Friday: Salsa Chicken
Aug 15, Saturday: leftovers

Menu for June 20 - 25th

June 20 - Beef and Broccoli Stir Fry with Brown rice - teaching Stephen to cook so he made dinner.

June 21 - Fried shrimp, Roasted potatoes, green beans

June 22 - Hot dogs, chili, pork and beans

June 23 - Sunday - I don't cook on Sunday

June 24 - Chicken in a Bag - McKormick seasoning, with lettuce, tomato, and cucumber salad

June 25 - Mesquite Barbecue pork roast, Carrots, baked beans

Menu Plan for June 13 - June 18

I am going to try to revitalize this blog with a new title. I really like to make lists: lists of things I have to do, grocery lists, menu for the week, lists of crochet and knitting projects I am currently working on, etc. Today I am going to write about my next  menu plan for the week. I am going to the grocery either today or tomorrow so My menu starts today, Thursday, and ends next Tuesday.

Thursday     Applesauce Chicken, peas and carrots, apple-celery salad

Friday      Jambalaya (from a Zataran's mix)with smoked sausage, asparagus, one more vegetable

Saturday     meatloaf, some kind of pasta side dish, vegetable

Sunday     we don't cook on Sunday

Monday     pork roast, white squash, one more vegetable

Tuesday     Beef and broccoli stir fry, brown rice, one more vegetable

We don't cook on Wednesday either. It's leftover night. I don't have the side dishes all planned but I try to limit pasta to once a week. The asparagus will be fresh (it is on sale right now) and the white squash will be fresh (it comes right out of the back yard.) Probably twice a week the fresh vegetable will be a salad of lettuce mixed with baby spinach, tomatoes (out of the garden), cucumbers, and anything else I feel like adding to it like a little bit of fresh fruit or dried fruit.
     On the day I do the meatloaf I will make an extra one and put it in the freezer so when I am in Alaska for 2 weeks mom will just have to defrost it and put it in the crock pot. I already have a beef stew mixed and in the freezer for the crock pot. Each week until I leave I will try to prepare one freezer meal so it will be easier for her during those 2 weeks.

May, June, and July books

In May the teen group discussed "I Robot" by Issac Asimov. It was nothing like the movie with Will Smith. Stephen says that the movie actually is based on the book "Caves of Steel," which is also by Asimov. We didn't meet in June because Stephen had to finish "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain for the last unit of his American Literature book. This Thursday, July 20th, we will meet to discuss "A Midsummer's Night Dream" by Shakespeare. It should be Stephen, Christopher, Jonathan, Jeremy, and Jessica. (Jessica is here for the next 3 weeks.) That night the library Great Books group is discussing the same play. I told Stephen I would like him to go with me to that meeting too.

I have also read "Garlic and Saphires." (Can't remembr the author's name.) It was pretty good. I gave it to Katherine to read on the plane on her trip back to California. I read "The Devil Wears Prada" by Lauren Weisberger. I read half of "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" by Gregory Maguire. I am having trouble finishing that one. And I am reading "Vanishing Acts" by Jodi Picoult. That is very good. It is the first book I have read by that author. I recommended another of her books, "My Sister's Keeper," to the Library Popular Fiction Book Group, but that won't be for a few months.

The Hobbit

The last teen book club meeting was for "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkein. It was only Cynthia, Christopher, Stephen, and I. But it was a good discussion. I told Cynthia I like having Christopher in the discussion group because he is never shy about expressing his opinion. The next book is "I Robot" by Issac Asimov. We thought it would be good to read and discuss a book of short stories.

Screwtape Letters

We had our discussion for Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. It was a really good book and a really good discussion. I think Stephen and Christopher got the most out of the book. Jeremy really had a hard time understanding it and Jonathan didn't read it at all. The next book is The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein. We will have one more boy at the next meeting. His name is Christopher and he is in 8th grade.