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A menu plan for when the sun finally makes an appearance

The weather this week is supposed to be warm and sunny, so I thought we might try out some fine-weather foods.

Monday: “Take-Out style Sesame Noodles“
These are super-simple, and tonight I tried to teach Poppy how to make them. She lost interest and wandered away before they were finished, but everyone ate the noodles even though they were on the spicy side.
Tuesday: Coconut curry chicken
I bought a jar of sauce for this, so it too shall be super-simple.
Wednesday: Blackened trout
My favorite restaurant in Columbia MO used to serve blackened redfish, and it was the greatest. I don’t think I’ve tried to blacken anything myself, and I’ve also never made trout. So much room for disaster!
Thursday: Cheeseburgers
I keep putting cheeseburgers on the menu, and then we keep not having them. Poor Petey.
Friday: ???
I think Poppy will be going out on the town with her Grandma on Friday, and Rockford will be at a basketball game. I’m not sure what Pete and I will be doing, but I know he’ll want cheeseburgers again.

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Menu Plan Monday: the I Need to Go to the Store edition

Did you have a Merry Christmas? I hope so. We drove 700 miles to spend the holiday with my dad, and it was frantic but nice. I wish he lived closer. We got home last night around 10, and I still haven’t made it to the grocery store. So the following is what we’ll be having if we don’t end up eating cheeseburgers at Wendy’s every night instead.

Monday: Chicken sausages and macaroni & cheese
I made the macaroni and cheese from Homeroom for Thanksgiving, and it was stupendous. I’d promised Poppy that we’d have mac and cheese one day this week, but I thought it would be nice to have something other than Kraft.

Tuesday: Tacos
Pete strongly suggested that he’d like tacos for dinner. And so we are having tacos.

Wednesday: Ham!
As I understand it, pork is a traditional New Year’s food. As are beans and greens. I’m not a fan of black-eyed peas and collard greens, though, so I’m trying to find a good-looking lentil salad recipe. Lemme know if you have one!

Thursday: Scalloped Ham and Potatoes
There’s a box of scalloped potatoes in the pantry, and I’m relatively certain there’ll be leftover ham from NYE.

Friday: Pizza
Oh yes it’s pizza night, oh what a night. (Oh what a night!)

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A menu plan in which I seek free food on my birthday

We had a delightful weekend.

Perry Mason, Mrs. Perry Mason and Perry Mason Jr. came over for trick-or-treating and other fun things all various and sundry. Pete was Darth Vader, so the Familia Mason decided to join his universe as Boba Fett, Obi Wan and Yoda. Rockford’s mother made Poppy a gorgeous Elsa dress, and I ordered a crocheted wig[ref]I wasn’t crazy about the quality, so I’m not going to link to it.[/ref] for her from Etsy. I’d expected to see a swarm of Elsi out there — the other family with whom we trick-or-treat had an Elsa, who roped her parents into being Anna and Kristof — but I only saw seven.

My favorite costume of the evening was the kid dressed as Weird Al Yankovich from the “Fat” video. I laughed loudly when he came strutting up the walk.

This is Birthday Week at our house. Rockford’s sister Mrs. Poppins celebrates today, mine is tomorrow, my dad’s is Wednesday and Pete’s is Friday. And yet there is a marked lack of cake on this week’s menu:

Monday: Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Some warm and gooey sandwiches sound just right after the blustery weekend we had.
Tuesday: Ordering in
I’ll be taking advantage of all of the Free Thing on Your Birthday offers in town. Or rather, one of them. Probably a sandwich.
Wednesday: Date night
The kids will be having pizza. I don’t know what Rockford and I will be having.
Thursday: Sandwiches
So many sandwiches this week!
Friday: Lasagna
Pete requested a Garfield party for his birthday, so we’ll be having lasagna, garlic bread and salad. I’m pretty sure Garfield wouldn’t approve of the salad, though.

How was your weekend? Did you trick-or-treat? Do you have any candy left? Poppy had big ideas about the “Candy Fairy” coming and leaving her a gift in exchange for all of her candy, but that went out the window as soon as she organized her loot on the dining room table.

I’m linking this up with OrgJunkie.com’s weekly Menu Plan Monday thing.