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What’s for Supper? 02.01.21

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What’s for supper at your house this week?

Hello friends!  I hope that you are doing well.  I completely missed last week.  I am sorry about that.  Every time that I think I’ve found my rhythm this year, I have to start from scratch and find a new one.  One thing that I’ve learned about myself after all of these years on earth is that I’m getting better at it.  Or at least today that’s my feeling.  Ask me if I feel the same later this week, when I’m sure something will be off kilter and I’ll need to realign myself.  Again.  Let’s go!

Here’s what we ate in the last two weeks in no particular order:

Chicken and yellow rice with cornbread muffins and coleslaw.  I’ll try to post this super simple and yummy recipe tomorrow.

BLT sandwiches with chips and fresh tomatoes and cucumbers.  Yum.

Hamburgers with chips and fresh tomatoes and onions.

Kielbasa with rice, fresh cucumbers and garlic bread.

Chinese!  It was my birthday and I got to choose, so this was it.  It was delicious too.

Homemade meatballs with spaghetti and buttered bread.  The meatballs were just okay in my opinion.  Firstly, I’m not a great meatball lover, so I’m already inclined to dislike them. Do you have a tried and true meatball recipe?  I would to have it!

Chicken and dumplings with cornbread muffins.  This looks pretty terrible, but it tasted amazing.  I got the recipe from my brother.  When I make them again, I’ll take photos so I can share it with you.

Soup beans, salmon, Mac and cheese with roasted potatoes, onions and broccoli.  

Burgers with Doritos, fresh onions, tomatoes and cucumbers.

When I spent my morning getting groceries Denton ASKED for Chinese food again.  We tried something new last time.  It was their steamed chicken dumplings, and he feel instantly in love with them.  So I got Chinese twice in two weeks.  Yay for me.  And the dumplings were amazing, again.  Also we have a new favorite to share, their black peppered chicken.  YUM.

That’s it for us.  I hope that you ate something delicious this past week.  If you did, let me know in the comments down below.  I am always looking for a tried and true recipe to spring on my family.

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What did you eat last week?  What are you planning to eat this week?  You can see all of my other What’s for supper? plans here.

ravioli bake

Easy and Delicious Baked Ravioli

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Easy and Delicious Baked Ravioli

If you need an easy and delicious, QUICK meal, this is it.  It’s also just different enough that I can get away with it being something new.  Yay!  Best of all, it’s only FOUR ingredients.

Here’s how I make it:

As always with all of my recipes, if you don’t have something, say ricotta cheese, substitute something else.  I like cottage cheese in bakes like this.  If you don’t have spinach and cheese ravioli, use what you have.  I like this though because it gets more veggies inside us without sacrificing the taste.  This was excellent and I’ll definitely keep it stocked in my freezer from now on.  I HIGHLY recommend the Rao’s marinara though.  Yes, it costs the earth for a spaghetti sauce, but it also tastes amazing, and it doesn’t give everyone in my house heartburn.  Which is worth a gold piece or two.  Right?  Right.

Pour about 1/3 of your spaghetti sauce in the baking pan….

Put down a layer of ravioli…..  Get out your handy dandy scooper….

Put down a layer of ricotta (or cottage cheese)……  The scooper just makes everything more tidy, which makes my heart happy….

Sprinkle over some shredded cheese….

Add another layer of spaghetti sauce….

More ravioli and ricotta…..

More shredded cheese……

And just keep doing that until you are happy or you run out of supplies, OR your pan is completely full.  You do you, boo.Baked Ravioli

Bake until golden brown and bubbly.  I don’t mind that the ricotta doesn’t spread much, but if you do, just smear it about with a rubber spatula.  But I don’t have time for that…. YUM.
Serve with my favorite garlic bread.  And a giant salad.  More salads Tracie……

ravioli bake

And voila!  Here’s the handy dandy printable.

Easy and Delicious Ravioli Bake

Print Recipe
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 (24 ounce) jar spaghetti sauce (we LOVE Rao's)
  • 1 (30 ounce) bag frozen ravioli
  • 1 (16 ounce) container ricotta cheese (or whatever yummy cheese you have on hand, like cottage cheese for instance)
  • 1 cup (or more) of shredded cheese

Instructions
 

  • Pour a thin layer of sauce in the bottom of your baking pan...
  • Add a layer of frozen ravioli
  • Then use a scooper to add a layer of ricotta cheese
  • Sprinkle with shredded cheese
  • Repeat the layers until you are happy or you run out of ingredients....
  • Ending with shredded cheese on the top.
  • Bake in a 400* oven until golden brown....
  • Serve with your favorite garlic bread and a giant salad! Enjoy!
Easy Green Bean Casserole

Easy Green Bean Casserole

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Easy Green Bean Casserole

Do you have a favorite easy green bean casserole recipe?  This is mine.  It’s super easy, fast and it tastes delicious.

Here’s how I make it:

Start with all of your ingredients:  I like the French style green beans, a can of cream of mushroom condensed soup, soy sauce, milk and French fried onions…..

Drain your green beans….

Add the can of soup…..

Then add a half of can of milk…..

A teaspoon of soy sauce….

As much black pepper as you can stand.  For me it’s a LOT.

Mix that all together…..

Add in half OR all of the French fried onions.  Just remember that you’ll want to add more to the top later.  So maybe you should buy two…..

Pour into a greased baking pan and bake for 20 minutes until its hot and bubbling.  Then put on the rest of your French fried onions and bake for another 10 minutes.

Or until it looks like this.  YUM.Easy Green Bean Casserole

And voila!  Here’s the handy dandy printable.

Easy Green Bean Casserole

Print Recipe
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cans french style green beans, drained
  • 1 (10.5 ounce can) cream of mushroom condensed soup
  • 1/2 can milk
  • 1 tsp soy sauce
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper, or more to your taste
  • 1 or 2 (6 ounce bags) french fried onions

Instructions
 

  • Mix everything EXCEPT your reserved french fried onions together and pour into a greased baking dish.
  • Bake at 350* for 20 minutes until hot and bubbly.
  • Sprinkle the reserved french fried onions over the top and bake for an additional 10 minutes.
  • If you can wait for it to slightly cool, do that. Then enjoy!

Easy Green Bean Casserole

 

Slow Cooker Little Smokies

Slow Cooker Little Smokies Recipe

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If you are looking for an effortless recipe that is very simple and easy to make, this is it.  Slow Cooker Little Smokies.  This is a great potluck recipe, a recipe you’ll want to have when anyone gathers at your house, or just to have as an easy supper to serve with rice or anything else that is quick and easy for you.

I remember the first the time I took this to one of our Eatin’ Meetin’s.  My Mamaw Sylvia and my Great Aunt Bay had an argument about who was going to get to take the leftovers home.  They split them, because they loved each other to pieces.  Food always has such tangible memories for me.

This is a great dump and walk away recipe that you don’t need to stand over the stove to babysit.  You could, but why would you?

Here’s how I make this:

You only need three ingredients:  Lit’l Smokies, grape jelly and BBQ sauce.  I use my small 3 1/2 quart Cuisinart for this because I want the sauce to cover the smokies so that they sit in a hot tub of sauce until they are eaten.

Drain your little smokies….

While that’s doing its thing, I put 2 cups of grape jelly in the bottom of my slow cooker.

Then, I pour over about the same amount of BBQ sauce.  I usually use the sweet n’ spicy version from Sweet Baby Rays, but I was out and I had Kraft Sweet Brown Sugar on hand, so I used that.  It tasted great.

I always whisk the grape jelly and bbq sauce together before I dump the little smokies on top and then stir them together.

Put the lid on and cook on low for at least an hour.  Basically you are just melting the grape jelly and bbq sauce together to coat the smokies with yummy deliciousness.  Stir and serve.

Everyone will thank you and fight over the leftovers.  If there are any…….Slow Cooker Little Smokies

Easy peasy.

Slow Cooker Little Smokies

Slow Cooker Little Smokies

Print Recipe Pin Recipe
Prep Time 6 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Course Appetizer, Main Course, Side Dish, Snack

Equipment

  • Slow Cooker

Ingredients
  

  • 2 pkgs Little Smokies
  • 2 cups grape jelly
  • 2 cups bbq sauce

Instructions
 

  • Drain the little smokies.
  • Pour grape jelly and bbq sauce in the bottom of the slow cooker.
  • Whisk the jelly and bbq sauce together.
  • Place the little smokies in the sauce.
  • Cook on low for at least an hour.
  • Enjoy!
What's for Supper 10.21.19

What’s for Supper? 10.22.19

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What’s for supper at your house?   Here’s a peek into my weekly meal plan.

Hello!  It’s been TWO months since I’ve updated the What’s for Supper part of my week.  But, I promise that no one has starved at my house.  We have been eating, I just have been terrible at documenting it.  Which is a bad, bad thing at my house.  Because when I don’t keep a detailed list of what we are consuming on a day to day basis, we end up eating the same thing again and again.  That’s not necessarily a travesty, but it also let’s me slide when we eat out more than once a week, which is unfortunate for the budget.  If it’s not written down in black and white, it didn’t happen, right?

I went through my photos and cobbled together the few that I had of what we ate during the last couple of months and hopefully this will spark my memory to write it all down in the future.  Here’s what we have been eating:

Soup beans with salmon, mac and cheese and all the roasted veggies.  My happy place.

Taco Pie.  Sometimes I just crave this stuff….

Burgers, chips and pickles with raw onions and tomatoes.   Yum.

A giant salad.  My favorite.

Fried kielbasa with buttered potatoes, roasted onions, and steamed veggie medley.

Hot dogs, chips and coleslaw.  I didn’t take the time to make my homemade chili and it was a sad day.Popcorn shrimp, mashed potatoes, steamed veggie medley and hush puppies.

Pan fried chicken with buttered rice and garlic bread.

Roast with potatoes, carrots and onions, and green beans with roasted broccoli and corn muffins.

Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green beans, roasted carrots and onions with biscuits.Pork chops, mashed potatoes, with roasted asparagus, yellow tomatoes and biscuits.Pan fried chicken, baked potatoes, mac and cheese, roasted onions and cucumbers. Puff pastry pizza and baby roasted potatoes.  We love this. Pigs in the blanket, fried potatoes and mac and cheese.And last but not least, pasta bake or “Fake Lasagna” with garlic bread.

What’s for supper at your house?  What are you going to eat this week?

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What’s for Supper? 08.28.19

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What’s for supper at your house?   Here’s a peek into my weekly meal plan.

Hey guys, I feel like I am finally getting back into my “normal” groove.  It’s one of my happy places, routines.  Everyone is sleeping through the night again, Denton is healing and resting, and I’m not clenching all of my muscles in terror that something terrible would go wrong with his surgery. Now I can focus on setting my world back to it’s proper place.  Yes, I know very well that I’m a control freak.  Thanks for noticing.

I had to look back to see how long it’s been since I updated my What’s for Supper posts.  It’s been almost a month!  And since we’ve had such a crazy month, I checked and sure enough, I was hit and miss on whether or not I wrote down each day what we were actually eating for the entire month of August.  So I am going to give you a rundown of what I actually KNOW we ate since I have photographic proof.

Pigs in the blanket, fried potatoes and mac & cheese.  Pure comfort food.

Roast, potatoes, carrots, onions, green beans, roasted onions and broccoli, coleslaw and cornbread muffins.

Pan fried chicken, baked potatoes, mac & cheese, roasted onions and cucumbers.

Pork chops, mashed potatoes, roasted asparagus with biscuits and yellow tomatoes.

Sometimes you just want what you want, right?  Yellow tomatoes, pistatios, crackers, strawberries and cold leftover roasted asparagus.  YUM.

Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green beans, roasted carrots and onions, and biscuits.

Obviously, we ate a lot more than those things, but that’s it for my photographic evidence.  We also ate a lot of soups, sandwiches, taco pie, quesadillas, hamburgers, alfredo with garlic bread and spaghetti, and my favorite soup beans and everything that goes with that.

I hope to be back to absolute normal next week!

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What’s for Supper? Weekly Meal Plan 07.29.19

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Hey guys.  What’s for supper at your house?  I am constantly on the lookout for yummy looking recipes.  But, then we so often eat the same things week in and week out.   I need to seriously step it up and get out of my comfort zone.  It didn’t happen this past week, but I have high hopes that I can accomplish it by this fall.

We have settled into an uncomfortable routine here at our house.  Basically we are just in a holding pattern, waiting for Denton’s surgery, so that he can have some relief.  For all of you out there who are dealing with debilitating, unrelenting, ongoing pain – you have my prayers and compassion.  It is unbearable to watch someone be in pain and not be able to do anything about it.  Am I repeating myself?  It bears repeating and I’m too weary at this point to go back and look it up for myself.  Please be patient with me for the next few weeks, if you will.

Now onto the food – Let’s see what we ate last week:

Subway/Wendy’s.  Surprise, but not a surprise.  I’ve taken the easy way out more than I want to think about right now.  But I do love a good subway sandwich.

Soup and sandwiches.  It’s comforting to eat canned soup for me.  It doesn’t take any time at all to grill a cheese sandwich, and they go so well with chicken noodle, potato or tomato!

Hamburgers, chips and pickles.  One of Hayden’s favorites.  He is always up for burgers.  Too bad that I’ve run out propane for the grill and have no idea where to go get it filled.  Do they still do this at Walmart?  We have four of the tanks in our garage, because every time it’s gotten low our grill has died and the new one came with a tank, so we’ve never had to fill one.  I need to check into this in my tiny town…..

Soup beans, salmon, roasted veggies, and mac and cheese.  The ultimate comfort food.  The only thing that would make this meal better, would be if my Mama made it.

Chinese!  More comfort food.  For me anyway.

Leftovers.  Yay!

Soup and sandwiches.  Again.  No-one at my house minded at all.  I’m so glad!

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What’s for Supper? Weekly Meal Plan 07.22.19

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What’s for supper at your house?

Hello again!  Another week has flown by.  Can you believe that we are almost into August?  I don’t want to wish time away, but I will be so glad to see summer end this year.  It has been unbearable on some days.  Taking Oreo out for his regular walks has been a challenge.  Every time we would open our front door for the past two weeks, it was quite literally like walking into an oven.  Poor Oreo would just stagger and look back at me like – Are you kidding me?

It has cooled off slightly here, and I am so, so thankful.  Waking up at 7:00 AM with temps already well into the 80’s and topping out at 101* was seriously not fun.

Tuesday’s low is going to be 55*!!!  Yay!  I can’t wait.  We may even jog around the neighborhood in celebration.  Hahaha, you know I’m just joking.  That’s not going to happen with me or Oreo.  Poor guy.  He is definitely showing his age in this heat.  When we finally trudge our way home from our very, very abbreviated walks, we are lucky to have a lovely home with cool AC and soft fluffy beds.  He is loving his golden years…..

Now onto the food – Let’s see what we ate last week:

Polish sausage dogs with chips and pickles.  I was craving a hot dog and much to my surprise when I opened my giant friend in the garage, I had NO hot dogs.  So I improvised and used a package of polish sausages that I had and they turned out delicious!

Taco Pie/Quesadillas. If you haven’t tried my taco pie recipe you need to!  It’s a different take on taco’s and I love it.

Soup beans, roasted veggies, Mac and cheese, and salmon

Chili and grits.  Yum.  I’m already missing it and want to make it again.  IMG_0008

Papa Johns pizza.  Denton and I had to go into the city to see his Neurosurgeon, and we have to drive by a Papa Johns to get home…….And we don’t have a Papa Johns any where near our tiny town…….We ate Papa Johns for supper.

Pulled pork sandwiches, chips and pickles. The Boston butt that I bought from the clearance section at Food Lion was absolutely delicious.  Hayden asked for leftovers multiple times until it was all gone.  That is something I will put on repeat!

Leftovers, Yay!

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What’s for Supper? Weekly Meal Plan 07.15.19

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Hello again!  It’s a good thing I’m a control freak who writes everything down.  It’s been a long two weeks and I just sat down and ate supper; but I couldn’t remember what we ate until I actually sat and thought about it.  But never fear!  I am a control freak and I do write everything down, so I don’t have to have total recall to tell you all about what we ate for the last two weeks.  Did any of that make any sense to anyone but me?

Our lives are in a holding pattern.  Denton is still in pain, we are still waiting to see the neurosurgeon so that someone more qualified than we are can tell us what we are going to do, but life still has to go about its normal routines.  People need to grocery shop, go to the DMV, find a UPS drop-off, go to work, return items that aren’t what you thought they were, deal with insurance companies, and still remember to feed people – all while trying to remember what normal felt like.  But things.are.not.normal……

In the meantime, the staff in radiology has started recognizing me by sight.

Let’s see what we ate for the last two weeks, since I wrote it down:

Monday, July 1 –  Roast with potatoes, carrots, and onions; green beans, cornbread and roasted asparagus

Tuesday, July 2 – Roast beef sandwiches on garlic bread with pickles and chips

Wednesday, July 3 – Spaghetti, Fettuccine Alfredo, and garlic bread

Thursday, July 4 – Wendy’s

Friday, July 5 – Chicken wings, cauliflower “wings” with a giant salad

Saturday, July 6 – Grilled hot dogs, chips and giant salads

Sunday, July 7 – Soup beans, roasted veggies, salmon and Mac and cheese

Monday, July 8 – Leftovers

Tuesday, July 9 – Hamburgers, chips and raw veggies

Wednesday, July 10 – Tuna sandwiches for me and Denton and frozen pizza for the kids

Thursday, July 11 – Shrimp, baked potatoes, giant salad, and butter bread

Friday, July 12 – Sausage, biscuits, gravy, hash browns and eggs over easy

Saturday, July 13 – Chinese!

Sunday, July 14 – Leftovers, YUM

That’s how the last two weeks have played out at our house.  What’s for supper at your house?  What are you going to eat this week?

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What’s for Supper? Weekly Meal Plan 07.01.19

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Hello again!  How is it JULY already?

This week has been a mishmash of trying to get back into the normal routine of life after vacation, trying to manage Denton’s pain on a day to day basis – which has been horrendous- and sitting and looking at my planner and having no idea where to start.

I have so many projects and tasks that need to be dealt with.  I just need to do a major brain dump; get everything down on paper and then list things out in some haphazard fashion.  Maybe then my brain will stop feeling like it’s going to implode.  Or explode.  I don’t know which.

I miss the beach.  I thought you might need to know this information.  I have a screensaver on my computer that switches from beach scene to mountains to waving grains to…. you get the point.  And every time it shows the beach, I long to just go and sit at the edge of the surf and let the waves wash over my feet.

Maybe I need to move to the beach.  It’s a conundrum.  My Mama does not share this longing for the waves like I do, but I already have it worked out in my mind.  She has the perfect place to live in the mountains, and I will live at the beach and we can just go back and forth from each others houses and we will all be content.  Easy peasy, right?

Okay, I’ll stop whining about the beach for now and talk about food.  The real reason you are here right?  Right.

Let’s see what we ate last week:

Monday, June 23 –  Hamburgers, chips and pickles

Tuesday, June 25 – Denton’s parents were still with us and it was their Anniversary so we took them to our favorite French restaurant.  This is a once or twice a year place for us, but it is SO worth it.  Denton’s Mama said it was the best steak she can remember eating.  She’s exactly right.  Denton told the owner/chef that he could kiss the cook and he let him!   He is so fun.  Hahahaha!  We LOVE that place.

Wednesday, June 26 – Frozen pizza.  Which Denton declared was the worst he had ever eaten.  Maybe it was because we had just had the best steaks on planet earth, though.

Thursday, June 27 – Taco’s, salsa and chips and quesadillas.  YUM

Friday, June 28 – Soup beans, roasted veggies, Mac and cheese with cornbread and salmon.  I had been craving this for a couple of weeks.  I can only go so long without it you know.

Saturday, June 29 –  Chinese, my favorite!  Liva and I did grocery shopping which makes me question humanity in general, so takeout it was.  I had already used up all of my brain power trying to resist murdering all the people who were wandering around in Walmart like zombies blocking all of the aisles.  Why?!

Sunday, June 30 – Leftovers, my other favorite!

That’s how our week played out.  What’s for supper at your house?  What are you going to eat this week?  Desperate, beach deprived people need to know…..

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