Light Dish for us & Sweets for the Girls

Last night I made a yummy dish for the boys (their favorite Mexican) and then I had my women’s group at church and I wasn’t sure someone was signed up for snacks so I whipped up a little something.

I started a new board in Pinterest for my Weekly Meal Plan Menu.  I found this Crockpot Chicken Bake.  I was late getting my meal together so I baked the chicken in the oven, shredded it and then put the recipe together but then put it in the oven.

Then when I was getting the kids ready to go to church for my women’s group.  We haven’t meet with the holidays for a few weeks so I thought why not bring something since I didn’t think anyone was signed up for snacks.  So I was trying to find something healthy but then I entered what I had in the pantry and out popped a yummy but not healthy treat … lol!  I found Anne Burrell’s Oatmeal Cream Cheese Butterscotch Bars but I didn’t have the butterscotch chips like I thought so I threw in milk chocolate & white chocolate!

Tonight is Tuesday Dinner friends on our menu is Bubble Up Enchiladas.  What is our your menu for tonight?

Keeping it Warm

It’s chili time around here again!  The boys LOVE chili, if Cole could have his way we’d eat it EVERY day!  I try to find a new recipe to make every few weeks.  I found this recipe on Nutmeg Notebook, which a great site with Weight Watcher points!

Enjoy, hope this warms your belly like it did ours .   On our meal plan for tonight is Crockpot Chicken Bake on my Pinterest Board (No More Fluffy Girl Meals).

What is on your menu tonight?

A Sad Good-Bye

As many of you know we got a puppy last Christmas for the boys.  Cole named him Jake.  He was such a sweet pup and the two of got along great.  I get up around 5:30am and he would hang and sit with me while I worked.  Then I would get Cole up around 7:30am.  In his cage he would go since he was a little hyper still and would knock the boys over.  Poor Caden was so scared of him.  We hoped it would get better but a year later no go and poor Jake spent most of his time in the cage our outside barking and annoying the neighbors … UGH. 

I finally had to put him up for sale .  I felt bad that he would spend his day in a cage due to Caden home and the tears that Jake was scaring him.  A very nice lady with her daughter (who was visiting from college) came to meet Jake.  Earlier that day Jake had jumped and accidently scratched his face and was having a melt down for HOURS over it hurting … UGH.  He got himself so worked up he got a fever and couldn’t stop crying.  But it was good since Jake was very attached to me for me not to be there when he meet his new mommy.  I was sad to see him go, Cole was a little bit. 

I’m sorry Jake I really wish this worked out, but I’m glad we found you a new loving home.

Feeding the Troops

For Christmas I used my bonus to buy Rick a new garage door with an opener.  Tonight he had some buddies come over to help him install and my Tuesday night dinner friend came over tonight instead of last night so I switched my meal plan up at the last minute.  I was pretty darn excited with what I came up with.

First off I saw this on my new obsession Pinterest and found a recipe for Cheesy Artichoke Bread.

Then I saw this Scooters Spaghetti that looked easy to do and how can I go wrong with friend onions on top?

And I had a bag of cranberries that I had to use up so my friend Google lead me to Apple-Cranberry crisp.

In a way I can’t wait for next week then I might be back on track.  For now some more recipes .  Hope you might enjoy one of them!

Anything special on your menu tonight?

Another Belly Filling Dinner

I love Pork Chops and Apple sauce (yes the Brady Bunch show comes to mind when I say that … if you don’t know what I’m talking about you so need to youtube it).

I started with the Crock Pot Applesauce that was so simple to make from Skinnytaste.com.

Then I went to the recipe that lead me to the applesauce, the Pork Chops and Applesauce.  The pork was the best I’ve had in a long time.

I’ve been hearing about using cauliflower for a mash potato substitute.  So I went to Spark Recipes for Mashed Cauliflower with Beans.  I think I was the only one who enjoyed this one.

Happy Wednesday everyone, I’m still all out of whack with the holidays etc and can’t believe it’s Wednesday but happy for a good week to come!

So what is on your menu for tonight?

Ringing in the New Year in Style!

Well Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012 and we can say we’re going to do a lot of things but right now I’ve decided to just do one day at a time and be better then I was before!  Well it’s what I’m going with right now, stop giggling and just let me live in a little bliss for today .. hehe!

My friend had us over to her house for a little get together for the count down and I made a few things to share.  I can never go to a party empty handed.

I took this Apple Pie Cucake and tweaked it a bit to include Sparkling Apple Cider.  I thought it was perfect for the new year!

Then I had to make some dips. The first dip was a Weight Watcher Feta & Spinach Dip.

And the hit of the party was the Weight Watcher Hot Artichoke Dip. 

Happy New Year!  Hope you all had a wonderful year and many more blessings to come this new year!  What did you do for the New Year?  Did you make anything yummy?