I hope to have a bunch of apples to use this week so our house should be full of the aroma of baking apples, slow cooked apple butter and the like all week! We also plan to visit our CSA farm and a neighbor with a pumpkin patch, so who knows what else we’ll end up with?
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I don’t usually list out my side dishes in my MPM post, but this week I am hoping to try a few recipes for using squash in hopes that I can find at least one my family likes. Butternut Squash Fries, Apple Stuffed Acorn Squash, and Butternut Squash, Apple and Onion Au Gratin are a few of the recipes I am considering.
MENU PLAN:
Monday -- Slow Cooker Chicken Curry with Quinoa, I have two cooked chickens and will be using the bones and some of the meat to make my soup on Tuesday and the rest of the meat for today. Obviously, my chicken will already be cooked, so I will be adapting the recipe and not using the slow cooker.
Tuesday – Soup for Soup’s On Saturday, the theme this week will be Family Favorites (“Just Like Grandma Used To Make” – Or the ones you make which your grandkids will one day say that about).
Wednesday –- Something yet-to-be-decided using the crockpot. I will decide after I go to Farmer’s Market on Tuesday and/or today (Wednesday).
Thursday – Sloppy Joe’s on homemade buns (I have to let mine rise for about 2 hours). We will probably make a quadruple batch as we love these. If we have leftovers, we enjoy toasting them at breakfast time and slathering them with real butter and honey or maple syrup.
Friday – Leftovers before I rush off to an evening wedding
Saturday – I will make a nice breakfast of Baked Blueberry Apple Oatmeal this morning since all or most of my kids will be home at breakfast and not at dinnertime. Baked Oatmeal is something I grew up with and I’ve experimented with different ways to make it. This recipe is different and sounds wonderful! We’ll eat light at dinner, probably bean and cheese burritos or sandwiches.
Sunday – Restaurant for Little Man’s 4th Birthday. Of his choosing, so likely to be McDonald’s or some other nutrition free zone which we do not frequent except for on very rare occasions such as these!
I'd love it if you'd pllleeeaaase share with me your recipes and ideas for making squash the whole family will love (and I do NOT mean in desserts!).
I am likely to be in bittersweet mode this week with my baby turning four. So many mothers in the world don’t even get to have their little ones to their first birthday, so I am exceedingly grateful for healthy children. But he is growing up so quickly, as they all are, and no more babies on the horizon.
This is quite a different side of life for me!
Be Blessed!
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