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And a time to every carpool under Heaven

For every thing there is a season, and it is the season of Driving to Sporting Events and Other Kid Activities at our house. We spent most of the weekend dashing to and fro for Poppy’s soccer games, and today has been a whirlwind of co-op classes, orthodontist appointments and guitar lessons. And after all of the running, we still have to eat dinner.

Here’s what we’re having this week:

Monday: Pot roast
I didn’t want to make hamburgers and/or tacos for our Poppy’s Choice and Pete’s Choice nights this week, so I handed the kids a couple of issues of Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country magazines and asked them to choose something new. Not surprisingly, Pete chose something meaty: Pressure-Cooker Pot Roast. I usually do pot roast in the Crock Pot, but this recipe sounds like it’ll work just fine. We’ll also be having green beans and The Best Crunchy Roast Potatoes You’ll Ever Have.

Tuesday: Fettuccine with butter and cheese
It should come as no surprise that this was Poppy’s pick. It was the simplest thing she could find.

Wednesday: Pot roast pot pie
I’d planned to make chicken pot pie this week, but then Pete requested pot roast so that plan evolved. Pot roast pot pie is the best thing about making pot roast.

Thursday: Crispy Garlic Chicken
I have not actually purchased the chicken for this one yet, so we’ll see if it actually happens.

Friday: Pizza

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Hello, friends. Here is our menu plan this week.

Monday: Ravioli
We fell down the pumpkin-flavored hole that is Trader Joe’s this weekend, and I bought some honey-roasted pumpkin ravioli. I made a brown butter sauce with sage and shallots, and I thought I’d burnt the shallots but they were actually just perfectly crisp. I could’ve eaten them by themselves. They were like tiny, fancy Funyons, and the whole thing was delicious. The kids, of course, didn’t care for it.

Tuesday: Butter chicken
I like making things from scratch now and again, but I also very much like opening a jar of “simmer sauce” and having dinner 20-30 minutes later.

Wednesday: Pad Thai
The Marion’s Kitchens kits caught my eye a few months ago at the grocery store, but they were pretty pricey. They were on sale last week, though, so I finally bought one. I’m not sure whether the kids will eat it, but I am every hopeful.

Thursday: Tacos
I wonder how many consecutive weeks we could eat tacos? I think it might be infinite.

Friday: Pizza

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Another busy week, another menu plan

We had a beautifully busy Labor Day weekend filled with friends, family and tons of cake. Pete kicked things off with a birthday sleepover at a friend’s house on Friday night, then we went to my brother’s house to celebrate his son’s third birthday. We spent Saturday night there, and we ate delicious pastries and played a lot of “Super Mario World.” We came home on Sunday in time to have dinner with Rockford’s parents, and on Monday we went to their house for my sister-in-law’s birthday dinner. We also went for a hike on a new-to-us trail that we had literally all to ourselves.

It was a lovely weekend.

We won’t be doing as much driving this week as we did over the weekend, but it’s going to be busy-busy nonetheless. Here are the easy-peasy meals we’ll be having this week:

Monday: Shepherds pie
We went to my in-laws’ house to celebrate my sister-in-law’s birthday. She’d requested shepherds pie, which I’d never had before. It was a hearty meal.

Tuesday: Fish sticks and macaroni & cheese
My original plan called for “Frozens.” Then I checked the freezer and discovered a big bag of fish sticks, so that’s what’ll be on the table this evening. I may have a veggie burger.

Wednesday: Spaghetti
Our soccer carpool plan for tomorrow is a little up in the air right now, so this might turn into Pick Something Up On The Way Home from Soccer Practice if I end up driving.

Thursday: Tacos
This is the only meal I need to go to the grocery store to make this week!

Friday: ???
If we go to the fair we’ll probably have corn dogs and deep-fried Oreos for dinner. If we don’t go, we’ll have pizza. (We aren’t actually going to have deep-fried Oreos. Probably.)

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