Weekly Menu || Number Sixteen

My weekly menu, number sixteen ~ Summer edition. 

Up this week - Simple and easy; a scramble, mac and cheese with a delicious fruit board, and a fast any night pantry seasoned grilled chicken.

Four of my favorite baking tools!

America's Test Kitchen Browned Butter
Chocolate Chip Cookies, this is a regular in our house. 

I recently posted the above picture and had some inquires about the tiered cooling rack, so I thought I'd do a post on a few of my favorite baking things. 

Easy Peanut Butter Fudge Pie {no bake}

So delicious! 

I love this peanut butter and fudge pie recipe, no bake! Lovely, perfect for a hot summer day. I made two, one for us and one for the hubby to take to work, it was a hit ~ officially man approved. 

Weekly Menu || Number 15 {Summer Edition}

My weekly menu, number fifteen ~ Summer edition. 

Up this week - The rest of the homemade BBQ sauce in use, deli sandwiches, and individual cherry almond crisps!

Weekly Menu || Number Fourteen {Summer Edition}

My weekly menu, number fourteen ~ Summer edition. 

Up this week - Easy homemade BBQ sauce, bean burritos with a pocket of cheese, a delicious one skillet dinner, and the perfect summer dessert!

Weekly Menu || Number Thirteen

My weekly menu, number thirteen ~ Summer edition. 

Up this week - Grilled Corn, Jalapeño, Cream Cheese, and Bacon bites, and Coconut Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies!  

Weekly Menu || Number Thirteen 

Homemade Brown Sugar Caramel Sauce and Brownie Ice Cream Bars

Homemade Brown Sugar Caramel Sauce! Oh my goodness, it's the stuff sweet tooth dreams are made of! Once you try it, you'll daydream about everything you can pour it over. 

>> Must Make >> 

Weekly Menu || Number Twelve

My weekly menu, number twelve ~ Summer edition. 

Last week was awesome! We had a friend visit us from Colorado. She was going to be here for two and a half days. This is what I planned for her visit and how I use up all the leftovers when she departed. Also, a delicious local preserves and a brown sugar caramel sauce you have to try!

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>> Guest Menu >>

Weekly Menu || Number Eleven {Summer Edition}

My weekly menu, number eleven ~ Summer edition. 

This week BBQ Pineapple Quesadillas, a super quick dinner under a $1, and Salted Caramel Frosting!

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>> Weekly Menu >>

Weekly Menu || Number Eleven
{Summer Edition} 

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>> Monday >>

BBQ Chicken Quesadilla with Pineapple and Jalapeños

Weekly Menu || Number Nine ~ Summer

Happy June! 

We've been planting, weeding, mulching, and seeding for the last three weekends. Now it's time to keep up the watering and weeding and hopefully things grow! 

I'm trying a garden for the first time and am super excited! I'm doing a mini container garden to test it out. 

My beginner container garden 

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>> Weekly Menu >>

We eat light and easy during the warm weather months, I'll be featuring my favorite recipes and trying some new ones.  We also have a bunch of house projects we'd like to do, so I'm attempting to cut our food budget for June, July, and August from $300 to $200 a month; as close as I can get will be wonderful, all extra money will go to the home project fund! 

Here's my weekly menu for the first week in June.

Weekly Menu || Number Nine ~ Summer 

Weekly Menu || Number Eight

My weekly menu from the third week in May. 

I'm changing the name of my weekly plans to "Weekly Menu", I think meal plan sounds like a diet and if you've followed any of my posts you defiantly know we are not dieters. I like simple delicious foods, I do a lot homemade but will use boxed or other options if it tastes good! We have a monthly food budget of $300, so all my weekly menus fall within that dollar range. Majority of the recipes are not mine, I'm not a chef, I just love food and love to cook and bake; I'm an excellent recipe follower! I'll link to all recipe that are a must try, so you can make them too!

Weekly Menu || Number Eight 

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>> Monday >>

Veggie Rice Bowls 

Meal Plan || Number Seven

My Weekly Meal Plan 

Double header this week...here was my weekly meal plan for the second week in May. Wednesday I'll post for the third week. Two of my all time favorites roasted mini peppers and blueberry shortbread crisp. 

Weekly Meal Plan 

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Meal Plan || Number Six

My Weekly Meal Plan

Must make fajitas and a Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe taste off! 

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Meal Plan || Number Five

Hi Everyone! Here is my weekly meal plan from last week. Buffalo Pork Chops, Lasagna, Tacos, Black Bean Soup, and for dessert S'mores! 

Weekly Plan || Number Five 

Homemade Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting || A House Favorite

Homemade Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting 

Huge fan of carrot cake, I'm actually surprised how many people like carrot cake, but you never really see it served places...weird.
The man loves carrot cake, so part of begin the wonderful wife that I am (hehe) I was on a mission to find the best. 

Homemade Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting 

Meal Plan || Number One

Hi!!! It's been way too long, I've missed you all and am looking forward to getting back into this blogging thing. If this is your first time here, welcome!!! 

I love meal planning, yes this is true. Since I love it so much, it really never occurred to me how much others don't. I've wanted to share my meal plans for sometime now, then the months keep passing. The other day I was reading a blog and the girl stated how much she hated meal planning then there were three comments in the comment section also saying the same thing, I realized I needed to do this already! So this is my new adventure...I'll be posting my weekly meal plan here recipes or links to recipes will be included. I'll be posting the week after so I can comment on any changes I made. I'll also share favorite side ideas, favorite brands, and favorite regularly made items.

Microwave Smores || Perfect 10 Second Treat

I love S'mores and as much as I'd like to start a camp fire in my backyard to make this delicious treat...sometimes that just doesn't work.

So I make them in the microwave, perfect fast treat!

Yummy! Gooey S'more

Blackberry Cheesecake Mousse || Dessert

Happy Wednesday Everyone!

I started taking a Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University Class and tonight is session 4, very excited to share with you all the stuff I've learned. Keep your eyes open for the post. 

Over the weekend I made these beauties, Blackberry Cheesecake Mousse from Snixy Kitchen visit her for lots of great recipes and lovely food pics. Delicious, light, creamy, not too sweet, not too tart, and they look so pretty...and fast. They are the perfect treat, great for a summer BBQ.

Blackberry Cheesecake Mousse

Stuffed Cherry Blossom Sugar Cookies

Cookies

If you love almond sugar cookies, this is the perfect recipe for you! They are so delicious and really fun to make. This was my first attempt to make stuffed cookies, I'll definitely be making these again. They would make a great gift for the cherry, almond, or cookie lover in your life. How cute in a gift basket with teas! They have man approval too, my honey took some to work to share...they liked.

The recipe is from love & olive oil. You'll find lots of great recipes and she just came out with an new cookbook called Breakfast for Dinner it's going on my Amazon Wishlist for sure!
Happy baking! xoxojolleen

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Lemon Cookies || Pepperidge Farm

If you like lemon cookies, these are delicious! Pretty crispy, but sometimes a crispy cookie is exactly what you want. Would be great with tea. The Double Chocolate Milano are always my favorite!! The best part about Milano's is when you bring them somewhere and people's faces light up and they say "Mmmm Milanos".

xoxojolleen

Happy New Year!
2013 I will share more Milanos