Honestly, January has to be my least favorite month of the year. The letdown after the holidays settles in and life returns to a routine. Thankfully, we have had beautiful weather the last week (except for the foggy mornings!), so we've gotten outside almost every day. To get me out of my dinner making funk, I've decided to plan some fabulous meals for this week and wanted to share my meal plan with you:
Sunday: Chinese Take Out - I've been craving this for a week!
Monday: Pork Chops with country gravy, corn and salad. The pork chop recipe is "lightened" up and found on the Myrecipes website, via Sunset Magazine's (my favorite regional magazine!) website.
Tuesday: We joined a great wine club when we were in Paso Robles last October: Cass Winery! They have a cafe in their tasting room and encourage people to sit and taste at tables, which is apparently the way they taste wine in South Africa. In our wine shipment last November we received 7 bottles of wine, non-perishables, and recipes for wine and food pairing. I am making cornish game hens with stuffing bites and a wedge salad. Never made cornish game hens before so this will be interesting. Anyone want to come over for dinner?
Wednesday: Meatloaf from the tried and true Salem Cookbook (It's about as old as I am!). I was thumbing through that cook book a couple of weeks ago and marveling how somethings never change! We'll also be having some type of vegetable and rice with the meatloaf.
Thursday: BBQ ribs, roasted cauliflower and baked potatoes
My mouth is watering already!
A few other things....I am in the thick of planning for the Farm Show Ice Cream booth fundraiser for Lily's school. It's been a big committment, but I've enjoyed all the work so far. The Farm Show starts 3 weeks from Tuesday! If anyone that reads this wants to volunteer to work in a booth one day, please let me know! I am short about 17 volunteers. (Leave a comment after this post.)
I've started listening to country music again (blame it on the XM radio in my car). My current favorites are "International Harvester" by Craig T. Morgan and "Waitin' on Obama" by Cletus T. Judd. Both are hilarious and do much to lift my spirits during the drive to preschool!
Sorry, no pictures. I honestly haven't taken a picture in about a week!
1 comment:
Julie,
I remember thinking that about January in Visalia too! Hang in there. Thanks for inspiring me with your menus. I'm having a January birthday luncheon for some friends and could have used your culinary creativity!...Any last minute tips/ideas for me?!
Kristin
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