Tuesday night family dinner...swedish meatballs

I am trying hard to cook every night...it is not quite so hot here right now, in the higher 90's rather than 100+ and I can take this heat much better than the alternative...
but I have also been sick, I first caught this crazy bug going around from my 7 year old...with a cough and sore throat, but mine, wouldn't you know it went to something else and I was not sure what it was, but really achy (sometime stabby pain) ribs and it hurts to cough or laugh or sneeze or whatever...even hurt to raise my arms above my head...went to doctor and I have pleurisy...but a woman's work is never done and I am still trying...now if hubby had this, I have no doubt he would be in the hospital...but not me I just keep on ticking...

Tuesday night I made swedish meatballs, with noodles, maple glazed carrots and artisan bread...

no secret to my meatballs, I use the McCormicks seasoning mix...tried making them from scratch and my family prefers this brand better...who am I to mess with them?

weekly menu posts for the week of 9/15 through 9/19

once again I am late getting my weekly posts up...we were gone out of town all weekend and then once we got home, it was still pretty hot here, and I just did not feel like cooking at all...
so we will start with Tuesday of this week and end with Saturday and try to get back in the groove next week...

Tuesday 9/15..........swedish meatballs
                             noodles
                             green beans

Wednesday 9/16....slow cooker mac and cheese (carried over from last week)
                             maple glazed carrots
                             BBQ sausage
                             biscuits

Thursday 9/17........chicken lazone
                             spaghetti noodles
                             green salad
                             garlic bread

Friday 9/18............slow cooker meat loaf (carried over from last week)
                            mashed potatoes
                            corn pudding

Saturday 9/19........grilled chicken bacon sliders
                            tator tots
                            raw veggies

happy eating

weekly menus for the week of 9/6 through 9/13

sorry a day late again, and to think we had an extra day off with Labor Day too...

Sunday 9/6..........chicken and wild rice casserole slow cooker style

Monday 9/7........Labor day BBQ
                         short ribs, rib eye steaks, sausage foil packets
                         deviled eggs
                         baked beans

Tuesday.............chicken salad  (because it is supposed to be 105 here)
                         watermelon
                         veggies

Wednesday........slow cooker mac and cheese  (because I have been craving it)
                        green beans
                        mini sausage in BBQ sauce

Thursday..........slow cooker meatloaf
                       mashed potatoes
                       broccoli

Friday..............will be gone

Saturday.........will be gone


happy eating
                       

Labor Day BBQ

when grocery shopping, hubby buys the meat...he usually goes by a list I give him based on the menus for the month...in reality, he could spend hours looking over meat, thinking he will find a great bargain on something (never on the menus...LOL)...so what we end up with is bits and pieces of meat
packages that are really never enough for our whole family....but, they end up being a good thing when we do something like today and just throw on several different types of meat on the BBQ and let people choose what they want....

today's feast?

  rib eye steaks (it was a pkg of 3)
  short ribs
  sausage foil packets, which included diced potatoes, carrots, pea pods, kielbasa and onion...Sam made these and she tossed them all in a teriyaki based sauce...
  artisan bread
  deviled eggs

of course everyone was happy;;;

yum happy eating

Sunday night dinner, chicken and wild rice casserole

http://www.southernplate.com/?s=chicken+and+wild+rice+casserole

this is my all time favorite recipe ever and I cannot go very long at all without making it...still is pretty hot here. supposedly 96 today and that is definitely a do not turn my oven on kind of day...I still craved this dish and my little grandson loves this as much as I do...(he will be so happy that I made this...)

so this is the second time this summer that I have made it in the crock pot...and it turns out great in the slow cooker but not quite the same as in the oven...(the crackers on top do not get as crunchy) but still came out very good...

it is wonderful as leftovers...

yum happy eating

hamburger and vegetable soup, delicious

I have never made hamburger soup before, but a few years back had tasted it when someone had made it at the Elks Lodge and it was pretty good...for some reason this week I had been craving it and so I scoured the internet for a good recipe and I think I have found it...

http://www.food.com/recipe/hearty-hamburger-soup-211580

I did tweak things a bit for my family's tastes...though when I try a new recipe, I almost always follow the recipe exactly and think of ways I could make it better afterwards...tonight however I did not have one ingredient and did not want to go to the store just for that...it was a can of diced tomatoes and my family does not like tomatoes so I decided to do without it...I also added shredded carrots instead of diced, I added pearl onions and and I added peas...I happen to love peas in a soup...

this was absolutely delicious and I most definitely will make this again, everyone loved it...and it was fairly easy too...

yummy, so so good, you must try it...happy eating

meatball parmesan

so when I first saw this recipe floating around Facebook, I was intrigued...it sounded by the title to be easy and I love meatball recipes, where I can buy the frozen ones and some of the work is cut in half...LOL

so I did not read the whole recipe until today when I realized that was what I wanted to make...and once I read it, I realized that it is just a glorified spaghetti and meatballs dish...

but I went ahead and made it and it was really pretty good, different than the spaghetti I am used to making and my family loves...

so for this recipe, I used:

2 cans of spaghetti sauce
1 can of tomato soup
and I added one bag of premade frozen meatballs to the pan...

I brought to a boil and then simmered till meatballs were done (about 12 minutes)
then on top I added parmesan and mozzarella cheeses...put the lid on the pan and simmered till cheeses were melted...

menu:

spaghetti noodles
meatball parmesan
garlic bread
green beans

yes I would make this again

yum, happy eating...